So what did you do today?

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Yup! Lol! And you know the expression...lol

All too well

 

[Tor R]

Saw a link to an Ebay ad for nice one on Facebook the other day... Guy wants $650 for it!

wow, that is insane!!
That said, its a hard fight for those 242's, special if they are in nice shape.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

I thought so too...Despite all the things that make them cool, I could never bring myself to lay down that kind of coin for one. I could see myself spending about $250 on one that's mechanically sound but maybe not pretty, $350 tops for a clean one. But that's just me

 

[Four Paws]

Changed oil in my truck.

 

[blsnelling]

It was a tough evening in the shop. I re-programmed the universal garage door openers in the vehicles. I'm shot!

 

[bigbadbob]

It was a tough evening in the shop. I re-programmed the universal garage door openers in the vehicles. I'm shot!

Now try adding a remote!!

 

[Wilhelm]

Noodled some knotty oak rounds with my Dolmar PS-6400.
Got payed in beer, cake and cookies.
It was my uncle's firewood.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

The county sent one of their guys to grind a couple of big old stumps for us (town) today... I got picked to assist.

 

[TreeLife]

Got soaked at work...

 

[Tor R]

Used most of my day to split wood, its the most boring work I know about.
Went home and nailed one 2xx serie saw on ebay

 

[merc_man]

Ran the string lines for where the deck is going. Squared it all up and now digging the holes by hand. We got too much rain to bring the skid steer of BIL to put holes in. Guess this manual labor will.were off my wintwr fat.lol
Did 2 holes today of 8. Gonna try to finish up tomorrow. Hope to start building saturday if weather will let me.

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[fearofpavement]

Yeah, speaking of manual labor, my "light work" today was sanding sheetrock, my "heavy work" was busting concrete and rocks with a 16lb sledge hammer.

 

[merc_man]

Working on my deck post holes

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[Wilhelm]

Went to work early in the AM, came from work in the PM - now after having had lunch reluctantly trying to convince myself to move my a$$ and get some work done that noone is doing for me.

Working on my deck post holes

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I've seen that contraption in a couple movies.

I don't think that thing would work in the rock infested soil that I am digging posts or poles in.
I use a self made manual drill, I made holes with it that are over 1 meter (40") deep - still quite a workout pulling the soil stuck drill out every turn or two of the handle.

I have to dig in a couple acacia/locust poles, another job noone is trying to take away from me.

 

[Wilhelm]

Yeah, speaking of manual labor, my "light work" today was sanding sheetrock, my "heavy work" was busting concrete and rocks with a 16lb sledge hammer.

Don't know about rocks, but I found it fastest and least tiring to bust up concrete with a pick.
If the concrete isn't too thick I'll cut it up into square sections with a large angle grinder and a diamond disk.

A 16lb sledgehammer will excert a lot of force, but it is blunt so I imagine a lot of energy goes wasted - just guessing as I don't own a sledgehammer that heavy.

 

[Rob Stafari]

Had a friend decide he wanted to remove a small wall between his kitchen and family room... Nice easy retrofit with LVL header...

 

[merc_man]

Went to work early in the AM, came from work in the PM - now after having had lunch reluctantly trying to convince myself to move my a$$ and get some work done that noone is doing for me.


I've seen that contraption in a couple movies.

I don't think that thing would work in the rock infested soil that I am digging posts or poles in.
I use a self made manual drill, I made holes with it that are over 1 meter (40") deep - still quite a workout pulling the soil stuck drill out every turn or two of the handle.

I have to dig in a couple acacia/locust poles, another job noone is trying to take away from me.

Where i an is mainly clay. Heavy crap. If its small grael it works good bit rocks suck. I was finding bricks and fencing wire in the one hole. Bricks ya gotta dig out by hand.

A hand turn auger is a huge pain in this clay. The one i got is called a jab auger or at least thats what my gramps calls it. I think i inherited it this time. He told me to keep it when im done with it.lol

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[Wilhelm]

My drill:


My concrete buster:


Forgot to take pictures of my angle grinder with diamond disk.

In the PM I treated future acacia/locust poles with mineral oil. I'll let it soak in and repeat.

 

[fearofpavement]

Well, the concrete I am busting up is over a meter thick. No, not a WWII bunker but it was a set of steps going to a school that was built many years ago. It's about 7' wide and probably 4.5' thick and then thins down to about 2'. I estimate it weighs about 11,000 lbs. I hauled some of it away yesterday and am now filling the dump trailer again. Oh, just to make it more fun, the aggregate used wasn't gravel but granite rocks varying from softball size to basketball size. It's a vendetta. It's been laying in the yard of this property for 25 years and I'm determined to make it go away. I'm also busting up footers and a thin concrete floor that was also from the school site.

 

[Rob Stafari]

So then they decided that since the leaky windows upstairs needed to be replaced, why not just turn the two into one, should be just as easy right? Time for more LVL's, some creative precision sawzalling, and a good back workout which my healing sprained back really appreciated. It did end up being quite the smooth retrofit and now they have a less interrupted view of the golf course from the guest bedroom.