[TheForge] YooHoo

[Andrew Vida]

Spent day getting 1/4"x9 1/2" x 19 ft long flitch beams up 9 ft and onto 
the extant block columns.   Next, drill the holes across, insert and 
tighten about 20 5/8 x 6: grade 8s, after which I can then remove the 
columns.  All this after excavating about 140 yards of red shale clay 
from beneath the house, by hand with nothing more than a shovel, wheel 
barrow, and mattock.  The clay on which the columns now rest are 
completely dried out and hard as concrete.  Each about 2.5 to 3 yards, 
their removal should be an experience after which great profaning and 
blaspheming should be the result for many years to come, assuming I last 
that long.  But in the end I will have a clear span with 9' ceilings so 
I can put in a extended foundation, again my hand and with ntohing more 
than a shove,, barrow, hammer, and nails for forms.  25 yards of fiber 
reinforced concrete should about to the trick and my house will 
hopefully refrain from sliding down the mountain as all this proceeds.

The lack of power tools long lost its charm.  At this point I would like 
to line every Luddite on the planet in a queue and walk the line, 
slapping each one with great enthusiasm as I passed.  Hard physical 
labor is for idiots... which isn't making me look any too good right 
about now.

On 8/24/2011 8:30 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> Is anyone here or all you out playing with fire in the heat?
>
> Jer
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