I have a Everlast 200i, or something like that, multi volt. Stick/Mig. I am so shit a stick welding, can lay beautiful beads with the Mig.
What a fucking day. Hardest I’ve worked in 3+ years. Moved thousands of pounds of rough lumber, twice. I am so burnt out tonight. That being said, between my heart meds and cpap, no way I could have done this otherwise.
My back hurts looking at that. I mean, it hurts from God knows what I did yesterday, but also from this pic. What are your plans, @Nettdata ?
Just like all proper home reno projects, I’m picking back up something I started over 3 years ago… my home office reno. I initially made my own hardwood floors out of rough sawn hickory, and I painted and prepped the office for wood paneling that I was going to make. One wall black walnut, two walls mahogany, another wall birds eye maple. Custom hardwood door and frame, same for a new window jam/sill. Needless to say I thought I got long covid and it paused/stopped the project, but then cpap and heart meds changed my life and I now have the energy and motivation to carry on.
Had some wiring melt in our Clearstream septic system. Five years worth of corrosion, finally caused resistance and failure. So that's what I'm doing today, and some tomorrow, I imagine. Replacing all wiring between the control box and the pumps and alarm. I spoke to the installer, he said it's a known issue. It also never happens under the warranty period. I'm just replacing like for like, this time. I'll try to plan on making the system more corrosion resistant next time, sometime in the next five years.
All back together and working properly now. All new wiring, with exception of the main supply from the house breaker box, and new flex conduit between the control box and tank.
Few months ago when I did the quickie laundry area reno, there was a 1/2" copper water line that appeared to go in a big ass loop so I removed it. Apparently, it.was the water line to the rear sprinklers. Oops. Edit - Hard to see in the pic but it's the line that runs down the stud to the concrete and makes a right turn. Out of picture it goes into the cabinet that the water heater sits on and then comes out (the line that's about 2' off the slab) and back into that convoluted mess
I found a project I'm not willing to take on myself. Cutting bigass trees down. This particular one is getting scary, growing like a weed since the new septic drain field was installed uphill from it. It leans over my shop and towards my neighbor's house. And I'm sick of the gumballs. $2,000. They'll have to climb and use ropes and such. Can't get to it with a bucket truck or other big equipment, because of ours and the neighbor's septic fields. There is no direction they can just drop it that it won't crush a fence, house or other buildings. I'll have the tree guys back this winter to top the big oak that hangs over our house. Then put a new roof on when that is done.
Yeah... it's pretty amazing what they can do with a bunch of rope and a sling. Money very well spent, in my opinion... if only for their insurance coverage.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to watching them work, from a safe distance and in the shade of our back deck awning. Wife had confidence in me, she knew I could do it if only I rented some equipment. Not me, nope, not happening.
Today is tree removal day. Some before pics that give a better idea of how big this thing is. I hate cutting down healthy trees I love trees, shade and oxygen. But, I don't want it to crush my neighbor, or my shop. Hope to get some good action pics of the folks climbing this fucker
The neighbor let them use the bucket truck in his yard. So, I didn't get to witness any awesome climbing skills. Fuck, this thing was tall.