[TheForge] YooHoo

[peter fels]

Sore back sympathies Andy!
I'ved a similar prospect in my future and am thinking about trying to charm young, healthy innocents for at least some of it.

On Aug 24, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> 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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