Boschmanbrian wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
We started a deck repair today. the deck is probably 55 years old and built with standard lumber, I am not sure they even had treated back in the mid 60’s.

The old 4 x 4 posts were split at the bolts and the old 1/2″ bolts were rusted away to almost nothing.

Some of the posts support the roo…

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Doobie wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
We started a deck repair today. the deck is probably 55 years old and built with standard lumber, I am not sure they even had treated back in the mid 60’s.

Thanks for sharing that Kurt. Shockingly amazing it lasted this long, but back then they had more readily available tight ring structural lumbers a…

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We started a deck repair today. the deck is probably 55 years old and built with standard lumber, I am not sure they even had treated back in the mid 60’s.

The old 4 x 4 posts were split at the bolts and the old 1/2″ bolts were rusted away to almost nothing.

Some of the posts support the roof, so we had to shore the deck and the roof of the…[Read more]

Sorpa wrote:How about this one

Best handle ever

It gives it a proper lever function, How could they say that is not Accessible?

Sprokitz wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
I will have to say, I have never had an easy-out work so well. I typically get bolts so stuck that the easy out breaks before the bolt comes out.

Have you ever used left-hand drill bits ? “Sometimes” they will bite and spin the bolt out

I have not tried them, I did read about them when I was loo…[Read more]

So Saturday I ended up fixing a track on my Skid loader and sheared off three bolts on one of the bogey wheels.

Yesterday I ended up drilling them out and pulling them with an easy-out and replacing them. They are grade 8 bolts so I thought that if they sheared, I would be in a world of hurt to get them out and replace them.

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Miamicuse wrote:hmmm…they are moving out of the second floor and wanted to load the furniture directly?

OK I found the video that showed exactly how the truck landed in that position. Someone caught it on a dash cam as it happened.

<figure class=”oe-video-container”><iframe name=”fitvid0″ title=”Truck collides with hydro pole, lands on house r…

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I don’t think there are words for this. Is it raining Penske trucks?

Miamicuse wrote:How about this for a crazy dangerous attempt by someone to stop a breaker from tripping?

My guess is that the breaker would still trip. I have seen small metal clips to install on breakers to keep them from being shut off. Breakers for critical items such as alarm panels or computer systems. They pop off easily, but are there…[Read more]

58 here today, very cold for this time of year. It has been a real cool spring so far.

I was trying to get some grading work done Saturday before the rain hit. I got the first job done and moved to the second. I had bene at the second project for about 10 minutes or less when the skid loader threw a track. It also tore up two of the bogey wheels on the undercarriage. Luckily I had two extra at the shop.

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Doobie wrote:For $30 instead of $65-70 everywhere else, I’ll give this drilling accessory dust capture thingy a try.

https://www.boschtools.com/ca/en/boschtools-ocs/hammer-hammer-drill-attachments-hdc200-50896-p/

I have two sizes of that dust collector attachment. It works great and we use it a fair bit when working in gyms and things like that.

Miamicuse wrote:Bought a new hole saw arbor.

I have never seen the pins that long in an arbor. are they to use to push out a plug stuck in the hole saw?

Doobie wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
I picked up this breaker w few weeks ago for some concrete we needed to remove. My bigger one was stolen a couple years ago. It seems to work well, except that the mechanism to hold the bit is not correct. It was a reconditioned unit. I had the same problem with the first on they sent and they…

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I picked up this breaker w few weeks ago for some concrete we needed to remove. My bigger one was stolen a couple years ago. It seems to work well, except that the mechanism to hold the bit is not correct. It was a reconditioned unit. I had the same problem with the first on they sent and they exchanged it but this one is wrong also.

When you…[Read more]

Miamicuse wrote:Serve the hogs Jenny Craig meals so they go on diet and stop gaining weight or even lose weight, then you don’t have to kill them because they won’t fit into the pig slaughter machines.

They are feeding them reduced calories to slow the growth and smaller rations. but they can only do that for to long before they are to big. 300…[Read more]

Sorpa wrote:I talked to a neighbor who’s working in a meat processing plant: every morning all workers have their temperature checked.

Meat processing plants around here are a real problem, Several have been shut down. There about 100,000 or more hogs a week that are ready for market. If plants do not open soon, the hogs will be just killed b…[Read more]

I think I replaced the blade in my Makita Track saw with a Freud, I have been happy with that blade.

I believe that I have just seen the cutters available so that would mean that the arbor would be detachable / replaceable.

Clev08 wrote:

Clev08 wrote:
Saw this custom basketball hoop in an old elementary school parking lot. Not bad being made from a bunch of scraps.

Just realized the picture didn’t post last time.

we replace of lot of those old fan backboards. I have tried to sell them but you can’t give them away. They are heavy however but still only worth a c…[Read more]