bought a house from 1910

[ConwayMuddy]

Use this method to post pics of your homo rape shack...
Or at least choose full size and not thumbnail

 

[ConwayMuddy]

Have you considered cutting the top and bottom off the plastic ibc totes, slitting a corner and using them as mats to keep from sinking stuff?

 

[[486]]

click the thumbnails, they expand out to full size
if I posted them full size it would make a scrolling nightmare

is this some sort of thing you can't do on a phone?

I haven't tried using totes as mats, I'd imagine them to want to pop up, and generally lack rigidity. also, I'm getting paid $2 a tire to haul these off, so...

 

[ConwayMuddy]

click the thumbnails, they expand out to full size
if I posted them full size it would make a scrolling nightmare

is this some sort of thing you can't do on a phone?

I haven't tried using totes as mats, I'd imagine them to want to pop up, and generally lack rigidity. also, I'm getting paid $2 a tire to haul these off, so...

No problem scrolling full size images on a phone. Only reason I mentioned mats being I saw some plastic type for sale on c.l. while looking for clapped out equipment. Looked like an interesting idea

 

[[486]]

I have an ethical objection to cluttering screens with garbage that only gets looked at once, then scrolled past a thousand times.
also, the page jumps around as pictures load and that pisses me off

 

[bdkw1]

Page jumping is your shitty internets. The rest of us don't have that problem. But we are to lazy to click on thumbnails apparently.

 

[[486]]

Page jumping is your shitty internets. The rest of us don't have that problem. But we are to lazy to click on thumbnails apparently.

well yeah I'm just considerate of others with similar handicaps
I had dialup into the late 2000s
flashy modern high bandwidth site design pisses me off enough that I will stop going places that have shit like travelling toolbars that take up half of the screen

 

[[486]]

wow I ain't updated this shit in a while
the tires are doing great, it rained enough that they're currently halfway underwater but the fill within them is still rock solid

I made a curb for the shed doors, because fuck trying to keep the ground flat enough to keep squirrels out of the house while skidsteering through the door a thousand times

protip, use the heavy metal snow shovel that you'd never use for snow to direct the flow of concrete from the mixer

doors are made of garbage plywood doors from the barn that fell down, probably be able to sell them to hipsters when I'm done with them

 

[[486]]

put a post under the beam toward the center of the house
yeah that's a tree, you gonna buy me square wood? Square wood is expensive, round wood is not.

Knocked the first section of wall out, then the second
Last pic: I found the vaccine! anyone wanna come by and shoot up? lol
used to be a farm so it could be anyfuckin thing. In the trash now though.

 

[[486]]

started chain drilling the "foundation" that went two whole feet under the surface, that's a whole foot more than I expected

knocked them loose and bobcatted them out

 

[[486]]

and finally today, the beam I put in was a little light for the corner of the house, it was deflecting about 3/8" to 1/2" or so by eye in the middle of a 16' span, so I stacked another under it and tacked them together

tried battery welding for the first time, I will never recommend it to anyone ever again lol
two group 31s is enough to instantly turn an entire 3/32 6011 bright red
use a 1/8 and it sorta works okay though the arc voltage is extremely low so it's hard to keep an arc lit. Three smaller batteries might work better with 36v and reasonable amps instead of about a thousand amps and probably less than 18 arc volts.

third pic is how you tighten chains that are too short to use a binder. Grandpa's old malleable iron felling wedges.

fourth it's done for now. Left a chain in the middle in case any of the shitty welds fail, then it'll at least keep it off my head maybe

now I've gotta put more beams up to support the rest of the roof along that wall so I can dig it all out and start putting a footer and stem wall in. Then I'll brace the roof on the stem wall and move the beams around to get the next section of footer in.

 

[vetteboy79]

tried battery welding for the first time, I will never recommend it to anyone ever again lol
two group 31s is enough to instantly turn an entire 3/32 6011 bright red
use a 1/8 and it sorta works okay though the arc voltage is extremely low so it's hard to keep an arc lit. Three smaller batteries might work better with 36v and reasonable amps instead of about a thousand amps and probably less than 18 arc volts.

When I had to do that on a trail to repair my XJ trans crossmember that got ripped off, we only had one set of jumper cables. I ripped off the little spring that held up the parking brake cable, stretched it out, and wound it around the +/- terminals to put the batteries in series. We found that by adjusting the number of wraps I could go from sticking the rod every time to blowing holes in the unibody.

Point being, a hacked together attenuator of some kind in there seemed to work well, even if we found it by accident.

 

[[486]]

When I had to do that on a trail to repair my XJ trans crossmember that got ripped off, we only had one set of jumper cables. I ripped off the little spring that held up the parking brake cable, stretched it out, and wound it around the +/- terminals to put the batteries in series. We found that by adjusting the number of wraps I could go from sticking the rod every time to blowing holes in the unibody.

Point being, a hacked together attenuator of some kind in there seemed to work well, even if we found it by accident.

I've got the 200A potentiometer (yes they did make them that big) from an old motor-generator welder somewhere around here
also got an engine drive welder a few miles away
just got lazy

 

[subybaja]

No problem scrolling full size images on a phone.

This. ScrollScrollScrollHuh, that's interesting!Scroll

My threshold of interest is rarely high enough for Click-Popup-zoom with thumbs-scroll all over looking for 'X'.

Click here for more info!

 

[[486]]

Guess I shouldn't bother then.
Ya'll really seem to prefer pics of rubber dicks anyways. The numbers don't lie.

 

[Provience]

Guess I shouldn't bother then.
Ya'll really seem to prefer pics of rubber dicks anyways. The numbers don't lie.

no, this thread is worthwhile to have pictures. for as much shit as you talk about it, seems to be coming out pretty damn decent.

still looks like a bitch and a half working down under there though.

 

[M92PV4U]

wow I ain't updated this shit in a while
the tires are doing great, it rained enough that they're currently halfway underwater but the fill within them is still rock solid

I made a curb for the shed doors, because fuck trying to keep the ground flat enough to keep squirrels out of the house while skidsteering through the door a thousand times

protip, use the heavy metal snow shovel that you'd never use for snow to direct the flow of concrete from the mixer

doors are made of garbage plywood doors from the barn that fell down, probably be able to sell them to hipsters when I'm done with them

I use a sheet of tin to direct the flow of concrete from the mixer.

 

[arse_sidewards]

I use a sheet of tin to direct the flow of concrete from the mixer.

Old yellow plastic swingset slide works even better.

 

[M92PV4U]

Old yellow plastic swingset slide works even better.

That's a good idea. I know where one is but the owners don't exactly look like the kind of people that I want to stop and talk to.

 

[ConwayMuddy]

Guess I shouldn't bother then.
Ya'll really seem to prefer pics of rubber dicks anyways. The numbers don't lie.

You post from a phone, or the trusty commodore 64 you got? I just keep binoculars handy for your threads, except rubber dicks, those are big enough to see without

Had I known you needed posts I'd have gave you some 4x4's when you were here. Plenty of them from deliveries and most are better than trees

 

[ConwayMuddy]

That's a good idea. I know where one is but the owners don't exactly look like the kind of people that I want to stop and talk to.

Yeah, I'd avoid talking to kids if i were you too

 

[[486]]

I use a sheet of tin to direct the flow of concrete from the mixer.

Old yellow plastic swingset slide works even better.

you guys got more hands than me :p
one hand directing the shovel, one hand dumping the mixer

You post from a phone, or the trusty commodore 64 you got? I just keep binoculars handy for your threads, except rubber dicks, those are big enough to see without

Had I known you needed posts I'd have gave you some 4x4's when you were here. Plenty of them from deliveries and most are better than trees

desktop computer, as gahwduh intended
with a name like mine you really think I wouldn't be a luddite nerd?

I dunno how spindly 10' 4x4s would be, I suppose there are plenty of decks out there perched atop them, but there's also plenty of video of fat people collapsing decks

tree is 6-8" dia and its doing pretty well

 

[M92PV4U]

you guys got more hands than me :p
one hand directing the shovel, one hand dumping the mixer
desktop computer, as gahwduh intended
with a name like mine you really think I wouldn't be a luddite nerd?

I dunno how spindly 10' 4x4s would be, I suppose there are plenty of decks out there perched atop them, but there's also plenty of video of fat people collapsing decks

tree is 6-8" dia and its doing pretty well

What does [486] mean/ stand for?

 

[[486]]

What does [486] mean/ stand for?

it's an old processor, from 1993 ish
the brackets are a meme from an old computer forum that I haven't visited in prolly 15 years

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

it's an old processor, from 1993 ish
the brackets are a meme from an old computer forum that I haven't visited in prolly 15 years

I had a 486dx in a computer back in the day lol.

 

[[486]]

I had a 486dx in a computer back in the day lol.

way back when you could confuse people by informing them that the dx-50 was actually faster than the dx2-66
its all in the front side bus, breh

 

[vetteboy79]

way back when you could confuse people by informing them that the dx-50 was actually faster than the dx2-66
its all in the front side bus, breh

Turbo button ftw

 

[ConwayMuddy]

 

[[486]]

Time for another update.
You know you want it, just hold your ankles and bite the pillow.

Spoiler: lets try this solution to the pics, you whiny bitches

Knocked some floor joists out, took some more floor boards out too

Added some bracing to this wall, because it'll be used to support the roof while I'm fucking around under it

Does it count as a 'velvet elvis' if the fuzz on it is mold?

extended the outdoor indoor shed and/or high falootin' addition to the parlor
that's my grandpa's wheelbarrow, it predates electric welding being cheap and economical. Everything on it is either bolted or riveted.

 

[[486]]

Spoiler: aaaand another one

that gave me enough room to start getting the skidsteer inside the building proper

Progress comes so much quicker when there's diesel doing the digging for you
iirc that tape measure's reading 14' at the bottom, haven't decided how deep I'm going quite yet.

one day stupid jacks will kill me
but not yesterday

and the post is in, the higher post is underneath where the future concrete wall will be, the new low post is where the old wall was. I'll be gaining some eaves and losing some interior room.

Gotta figure out how deep I want to go. I figure putting the footer 15' down or thereabouts gives me enough room for a 7' ceiling in the basement, a 6" thick poured ground floor on steel decking, and a 7.5' upper floor ceiling height that I can jack up pretty easily by adding another course of block after I've got a full perimeter foundation. Jacking the roof up will be easy once there's something to jack on.

Er maybe those numbers are wrong because the basement floor will have a thickness to it, and I'm not gonna put it below the footings...
Maybe make the ground floor 7' or whatever for now, then fix it later when jacking the roof up.

oh and that clay is indeed 6' straight vertical. It seems to be holding itself up under its own weight pretty well, gotta use a pickaxe to pull it down. Being fairly careful around it anyways, seen videos of guys having trenches collapse on them and that don't look like a good time