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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 19, 2024 21:05:05 GMT -5
Got my lumber for the back porch delivered today. Man, those freshly treated 2x8x16 pine boards are HEAVY!
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Post by urbino on Oct 19, 2024 21:28:05 GMT -5
Got my lumber for the back porch delivered today. Man, those freshly treated 2x8x16 pine boards are HEAVY! They are, yup. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 19, 2024 21:40:32 GMT -5
Rain last night. Rain all day. Heavy snow in the higher elevations. Forecast is for snow here tomorrow. I am glad for the precipitation.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 19, 2024 22:57:15 GMT -5
Rain last night. Rain all day. Heavy snow in the higher elevations. Forecast is for snow here tomorrow. I am glad for the precipitation. No rain for the past 3 months and none in the forcast. We have received our average amount of rain, but it is kind of gone as far as the grass is concerned. The trees are fine. |
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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 19, 2024 23:18:13 GMT -5
Got my lumber for the back porch delivered today. Man, those freshly treated 2x8x16 pine boards are HEAVY!  Half of that sounds heavy to me...good luck! |
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Post by urbino on Oct 19, 2024 23:46:36 GMT -5
Rain last night. Rain all day. Heavy snow in the higher elevations. Forecast is for snow here tomorrow. I am glad for the precipitation. No rain for the past 3 months and none in the forcast. We have received our average amount of rain, but it is kind of gone as far as the grass is concerned. The trees are fine. three months? Wow. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 20, 2024 8:52:54 GMT -5
Rained last night and pouring now. About 2 inches in 12 hours yesterday. I am curious to see the cumulative total for this storm.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2024 13:45:47 GMT -5
Rained last night and pouring now. About 2 inches in 12 hours yesterday. I am curious to see the cumulative total for this storm. 2 inches in 12 hours! That's what we call a sprinkle. 😁 Would definitely love that now. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2024 14:04:09 GMT -5
Guys finished the roof repairs Friday. 2 guys 4 days. Replaced over two thousand screws and sealed up any possible leaks. The guy quoted me 600 to start. I said let's talk about this and start at a thousand. He gave it a better look and came back with 1500. He found a hammer that had been left under the metal on the back of the house, panels that were lapped wrong and a ton of F-ups. He even took out the skylight and reinstalled it properly. I paid him $2k and hired him for some other projects.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 20, 2024 14:26:37 GMT -5
 Ron you’re my kind of guy, I Garronte!
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Post by urbino on Oct 20, 2024 15:39:15 GMT -5
Guys finished the roof repairs Friday. 2 guys 4 days. Replaced over two thousand screws and sealed up any possible leaks. The guy quoted me 600 to start. I said let's talk about this and start at a thousand. He gave it a better look and came back with 1500. He found a hammer that had been left under the metal on the back of the house, panels that were lapped wrong and a ton of F-ups. He even took out the skylight and reinstalled it properly. I paid him $2k and hired him for some other projects. A good workman is worth his hire. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 20, 2024 16:20:57 GMT -5
Three inches in three day here. That is a lot for us.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2024 16:21:52 GMT -5
Got my lumber for the back porch delivered today. Man, those freshly treated 2x8x16 pine boards are HEAVY! Do they still treat them with copper green? In a former life, I worked construction, and some projects required pressure treated lumber that went through the needle an marinating process. Cut ends were also treated with copper green before assembly...Pretty sure that stuff causes cancer in the state of California...like everything else. |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 20, 2024 16:23:43 GMT -5
Nice to have open doors here today, and the A/C has not kicked on (79 degrees) Diggin it man, groovy weather for a change.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2024 20:06:41 GMT -5
Nice to have open doors here today, and the A/C has not kicked on (79 degrees) Diggin it man, groovy weather for a change. We haven't needed AC for past 10 days or so. It's been wonderful. And for the past month it's been wonderful before 2pm. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2024 20:09:50 GMT -5
Got my lumber for the back porch delivered today. Man, those freshly treated 2x8x16 pine boards are HEAVY! Do they still treat them with copper green? In a former life, I worked construction, and some projects required pressure treated lumber that went through the needle an marinating process. Cut ends were also treated with copper green before assembly...Pretty sure that stuff causes cancer in the state of California...like everything else. I don't know what they use now, but you have to have it. The new stuff seems to be wetter than the previous preservative. Edit Chromated Copper Arsenate. Sounds nasty, but it's supposed to be less toxic than the old stuff. They do the treating on the other side of town, about 9 miles away. You should see the telephone poles stacked 30 feet high and going back as far as you can see. Used to be a creosote operation. I doubt any of the new stuff lasts as long as creosote. |
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Post by Gandalf on Oct 20, 2024 20:37:55 GMT -5
Do they still treat them with copper green? In a former life, I worked construction, and some projects required pressure treated lumber that went through the needle an marinating process. Cut ends were also treated with copper green before assembly...Pretty sure that stuff causes cancer in the state of California...like everything else. I don't know what they use now, but you have to have it. The new stuff seems to be wetter than the previous preservative. Edit Chromated Copper Arsenate. Sounds nasty, but it's supposed to be less toxic than the old stuff. They do the treating on the other side of town, about 9 miles away. You should see the telephone poles stacked 30 feet high and going back as far as you can see. Used to be a creosote operation. I doubt any of the new stuff lasts as long as creosote. Wolmanized lumber - Copper Chromium Arsenate - or something like that. Thought they had discontinued that and were using something else these days. I built a couple of large decks with it. One I built in 1984 is still standing and in great shape. Still solid as a rock. So is the one I built around 1998. Great stuff. Don't use it to build garden boxes. It'll leach into the soil, into the produce. Need to wear a mask when cutting that with a circular saw. I would get a sore throat if I didn't - breathing in the sawdust. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 20, 2024 21:48:43 GMT -5
I don't know what they use now, but you have to have it. The new stuff seems to be wetter than the previous preservative. Edit Chromated Copper Arsenate. Sounds nasty, but it's supposed to be less toxic than the old stuff. They do the treating on the other side of town, about 9 miles away. You should see the telephone poles stacked 30 feet high and going back as far as you can see. Used to be a creosote operation. I doubt any of the new stuff lasts as long as creosote. Wolmanized lumber - Copper Chromium Arsenate - or something like that. Thought they had discontinued that and were using something else these days. I built a couple of large decks with it. One I built in 1984 is still standing and in great shape. Still solid as a rock. So is the one I built around 1998. Great stuff. Don't use it to build garden boxes. It'll leach into the soil, into the produce. Need to wear a mask when cutting that with a circular saw. I would get a sore throat if I didn't - breathing in the sawdust. I mask up when I cut it. I use it for garden boxes, but I coat it with roofing cement. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 21, 2024 7:02:47 GMT -5
Pressure treating used to use arsenic but was shut down in 2004, had a plant about 30 miles North of us, stacks of pressure treated wood, but nothing grew around there.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 21, 2024 14:07:42 GMT -5
Just got a text from the County Judge. The polls are overwhelmed. Do not try to vote today. First day of early voting.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 21, 2024 14:42:14 GMT -5
Pressure treating used to use arsenic but was shut down in 2004, had a plant about 30 miles North of us, stacks of pressure treated wood, but nothing grew around there. I remember when we soaked our corral posts in barrels of creosote. Erecting large tripods to suspend the posts in barrels. That was back in '64. Looking at the old ranch on Google Earth, I see some of the corral is still standing. Maybe the original posts? |
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Post by Silver on Oct 21, 2024 15:12:41 GMT -5
Got some chicken prepped for the grill. It's 82, sunny with an intermittent breeze here.
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Post by urbino on Oct 21, 2024 17:41:09 GMT -5
My new desk chair arrived. It didn't require much assembly, thankfully. Attach the post to the seat and the base to the post, and that was it. The back, seat, and arms all came as an assembled unit. It is a heavy unit, so just hoisting it around was the only difficult part. There were no instructions with it, so I'm figuring out what all's adjustable and what the various knobs do. It sits good, though.
Word of advice: don't buy a Serta desk chair. Mine started falling apart less than 6 months after I got it. Now another 8 months or so later, it's a pile of garbage. It's going to the landfill.
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Post by urbino on Oct 21, 2024 19:37:35 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 21, 2024 19:42:50 GMT -5
Pressure treating used to use arsenic but was shut down in 2004, had a plant about 30 miles North of us, stacks of pressure treated wood, but nothing grew around there. I remember when we soaked our corral posts in barrels of creosote. Erecting large tripods to suspend the posts in barrels. That was back in '64. Looking at the old ranch on Google Earth, I see some of the corral is still standing. Maybe the original posts? Wooden things last longer in the desert. I have seen 100+ years old doors in Big Bend NP that are shriveled but still there. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 22, 2024 3:06:00 GMT -5
Taking wife’s Avalon to get her windshield replaced, OEM wait is about 4 months, hers had a really bad crack in it, DONT know how it happened, but we got the best aftermarket.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 22, 2024 8:08:01 GMT -5
My dad was an engineer who built and operated creosote and tanalith plants.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 22, 2024 9:04:03 GMT -5
Taking wife’s Avalon to get her windshield replaced, OEM wait is about 4 months, hers had a really bad crack in it, DONT know how it happened, but we got the best aftermarket. Gotta take my Nissan Frontier in at 9 this morning. The other day when I turned the key forward it sounded like a woodpecker under the dash… immediately knew it was the blend door actuator. Easiest self diagnosis ever. I jinxed myself… the other day I told someone that my 2012 frontier with 118K on it, never had to replace a single bulb, replaced tires at 110, and shocks shortly after that, the brakes are original…. Other than that, just routine maintenance. |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 22, 2024 9:23:54 GMT -5
My dad was an engineer who built and operated creosote and tanalith plants. A plant that produced creosote must have been a lot of fun to deal with, especially on the maintenance end of it. My dad got old creosote RR ties cheap, so that was what we used as fenceposts for the pig pen…handheld posthole diggers in hard Texas clay, produced the blisters, and the creosote provided the salve for our blistered paws. That sucked! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 22, 2024 11:36:58 GMT -5
My dad was an engineer who built and operated creosote and tanalith plants. A plant that produced creosote must have been a lot of fun to deal with, especially on the maintenance end of it. My dad got old creosote RR ties cheap, so that was what we used as fenceposts for the pig pen…handheld posthole diggers in hard Texas clay, produced the blisters, and the creosote provided the salve for our blistered paws. That sucked! As a punishment in the Scouts, the scoundrel had to clean the coffee pot that set on the wood fire for 2 weeks at summer camp. The only thing that would clean that was gasoline. I smelled like creosote for a week afterwards. |
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Half of that sounds heavy to me...good luck!
Ron you’re my kind of guy, I Garronte!
