Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Daugen a 4x4 should be 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 so if you cut the front boards at 85.5 so by my calcs the others would be 77 inches to get your 84 total?

that's what I came up with but not sure I trusted myself...
2x3.5=7 minus 84 equals 77
thanks
measure twice, cut once...

 

[Thomas]

65F cloudy mid 80's for high,several degrees colder today little stronger breeze which shall help.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...dump run,fill propane tank,2 stops for critter food,supermarket shopping,all before noon.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

need some carpentry help here.
new garden shed dimensions are 84 inches deep by 85.5 inches wide.
I have four 96 inch 4x4's to join together to make a picture frame base, and will fill in the
inside with packed gravel.

probably making this more difficult than it is, but what lengths do I cut the boards and is there a smarter/better way of lining up the ends?

I'm a big fan of measuring, Drew. Would you be able to assemble the shed first and measure the actual size, then slip the wood underneath it once you have cut them to the actual dimension?

Then on a large, flat surface, you can lay two boards parallel to each other at the proper distance apart, then the other two at right angles on top of the first two. Measure across the diagonals and shift them around until the two measurements are equal to ensure it ends up square. A carpenter's framing square would be a big help. Mark cutting lines where the boards overlap. If you want to get fancy, you can make lap joints by thinning each end by half, drill through the corner centers and drive a piece of rebar through to pin them to the ground, then slide the shed up and onto the boards. Probably need some help for that last step, but maybe not if the shed is made from aluminum and ends up being fairly light.

Years ago I did something similar with railroad ties. Ten or so years later after a tree fell on the shed, I tore it down to get rid of it and found the railroad ties had gone rotten and fell apart in my hands as I pulled them up off the rebar pins. Never trusted wood in contact with the ground again. It would be more work, but you could use cinder blocks or pavers, or even form up and pour a concrete knee wall, then use lag bolts and anchors to attach the shed to it...

 

[Buppies]

70 high of 94 today finished up yesterday got home at 8:30

Truck did well avg 10.2 mpg for total weight of 18000 pounds not bad

I had 4 frozen off my face new one on arm Doctor believes is skin cancer he has not been wrong yet waiting on results. He dis say my skin is fertile ground for skin cancer

Prayers for all

 

[Bird]

Bird, went to Gidding to take my mom to re-new her 2 year license. got there at 11:00Am. It was locked up. It said to go to web site to make an appointment, I sat ing the car with my iPhone and went though a hard to navigate web site. The earliest appointment was in November. Her license expires next month.

It's a crazy situation, isn't it?

 

[Bird]

Just got home from getting my Moderna, don’t call it a booster, third shot. We can’t call it a booster until September.

OK, I'll bite. Why can't you call it a booster?

The Moderna is what Margaret & I got; first on 12/30/2020, second 1/27/2021, and third 8/20/2021.

 

[daugen]

RNG, very good ideas,thank you. Shed is plastic, heavyish and foundation is going down first by landscaper. He said he does lots of them. Ok.
I like the overlap and rebar approach, just don't have the arm strength any more to horse around 4x4's this size by myself. So I have to butt them and
put in a lot of brackets and screws.

when did we go from real dimensional lumber to shaved sizes? When did we lose that half inch?
I know it's been a long time but wonder how that ever got justified.
Does the whole world go by 3 1/2 inch 4x4s?
Reminds me of our pound of coffee that's now only 12 ounces.

 

[toppop52]

Bird, went to Gidding to take my mom to re-new her 2 year license. got there at 11:00Am. It was locked up. It said to go to web site to make an appointment, I sat ing the car with my iPhone and went though a hard to navigate web site. The earliest appointment was in November. Her license expires next month.

In Maryland they are not enforcing expiration dates if it’s not your fault.

 

[toppop52]

Dark Shadows

The Edge of Night, brought to you by Procter and Gamble.

 

[toppop52]

2021-08-27, 0308

65° right now...high in the low 80's today...

Last day of the audit...2 minors, one of which we'll appeal when the time comes...
Get my 2nd Covid shot this afternoon, then home to clean off the rear seat of the truck for our new girl, Margeaux. Hope this 2nd shot doesn't put me down for a day, as it had with some folks

I had no adverse effects from second shot, so far just a sore spot where I got the needle for number three. I’m not out 24 hours yet though.

 

[txdon]

I'm friends with the county's district attorney....

Genital Hospital...

I'm friends with the Judge. He actually came to the farm to preform a wedding - in German.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

The Young and the Useless

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning and thanks for the anniversary wishes.

I have been keeping out of trouble this morning by applying a second light coat of oil stain to a couple of upstairs windows and the French doors on the snug. The oil finish may not be as long lasting as the stuff that was used before, but it should be a heck of a lot easier to prep next time. I find brushing quite therapeutic while listening to steamed podcasts through my hearing aids. The last one was about an Indian girl who was the saviour of an expedition into the American West in 1804. Some of you may have learned about the exploits of 16 year old "Sacagawea" when you were at school, her story was all new to me.

 

[toppop52]

OK, I'll bite. Why can't you call it a booster?

The Moderna is what Margaret & I got; first on 12/30/2020, second 1/27/2021, and third 8/20/2021.

That’s what the official line is at the Health Department. Government says booster can start in September, before that it’s a “third shot”.
Semantics is what it is.

 

[toppop52]

Good morning and thanks for the anniversary wishes.

I have been keeping out of trouble this morning by applying a second light coat of oil stain to a couple of upstairs windows and the French doors on the snug. The oil finish may not be as long lasting as the stuff that was used before, but it should be a heck of a lot easier to prep next time. I find brushing quite therapeutic while listening to steamed podcasts through my hearing aids. The last one was about an Indian girl who was the saviour of an expedition into the American West in 1804. Some of you may have learned about the exploits of 16 year old "Sacagawea" when you were at school, her story was all new to me.

Yep, the Lewis and Clark expedition.

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning.
It’s already 77 and going to pass 90 with high humidity and chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon..

Yesterday was a warm one as well. Got one speaker done and out the door, the last one isn’t far behind it, but I’m waiting for some resistors to finish the crossover. Didn’t do much outside, a friend and his daughter put a couple of crawfish traps in the pond, so we went down to check them, one had none, the other had 5.

Today will be in the shop for a little while, and then I’ve got to head off to Burlington, VT and then right back to Philly.
I’ve been looking at modern TIG welders to replace the Miller DialArc HF that I’ve had for the last 30 years or so. I’m looking at a Primeweld 225, it appears to be a very capable machine with great reviews, other than being Chinese, there appears to be no downside. Does anybody here have any thoughts or experience with the Primeweld?

 

[wngsprd]

74 up to 94. Humidity about 1000%.

Thomas, hope your gout is easing up...eating celery and cherries? ...drinking lots of water?

Don, sorry about your mom and the DMV. Talked with my mom last night and she was on alert after finding a tick in the house that the dog she was dog sitting had apparently dropped off after she walked it outside. I decided not to tell her about the 9 seed ticks I picked off my ankles earlier in the day from my hiking. I did tell her about my spider bite.

Eric, we have a golden coin to remind us of her...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

70 high of 94 today finished up yesterday got home at 8:30

Truck did well avg 10.2 mpg for total weight of 18000 pounds not bad

I had 4 frozen off my face new one on arm Doctor believes is skin cancer he has not been wrong yet waiting on results. He dis say my skin is fertile ground for skin cancer

Prayers for all

Hope he’s wrong.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

No rain last night, none got close.

Was mowing along creek and kept looking at the weeds on the other side, so I went there.
Boy was it getting high, really too high for ZT, but I dove in, with deck all the way up.
Not sure what the weed is, but it’s taken over everywhere. It’s even displacing grass on the side I keep mowed.
Found lots of hidden branches in the weeds. Some quite large, hidden underneath. I cleaned all the limbs out a couple months ago. Walnuts sure do drop a lot of limbs. One big top was obvious. By the time I got that done, probably an acre, back to the other side to finish mowing as it was getting rather dark and now dew was forming. Finished it just as it was getting hard to see where I hadn’t cut yet.

Made progress on programming the stream deck. A cool little toy. You can program buttons to do anything, open an app, play music, go to a web site, turn on a light. And you can make pages of buttons, so unlimited choices.

Cost of postage goes up Sunday. Anyone knows what the cost is anymore, since the forever stamps don’t have a price on them.

 

[toppop52]

82 going to 93 with heat index well over 100. It’s supposed to be cooler over the weekend, so I think I’ll delay mowing until then.
Dinner with friends tonight at Stoked and Smoked BBQ.
My arm is sore around injection site but so far that’s all.

When I put a shed on 4x4 or 4x6, I put down mortar sand first. I’ve never had a timber rot on sand.

Buppies, .

Getting stuff ready for the maiden voyage of the whale on wheels, heading out the fourth and coming back Sept. 8-9.
We could have stayed in nice hotels, condos or beach houses for what we spent on so far to obtain and stick this large cracker box on wheels. But at least we get buy huge quantities of gas, park with 50 others, level and hook up utilities and rent a car to get around. VS pulling up to the hotel, turning in the TV, sit on the balcony and watch the ocean and get in the SUV and go to dinner.
Where’s the down side?!
I hope this still seems like a good idea to my wife by the time we get home. Or, maybe I hope it doesn’t.