[TheForge] YooHoo

[Larry Brown]

Good summer vacation, when are you going to do some work?

Larry Brown
Don't you miss NJ sand?


At 01:34 AM 8/25/2011 -0400, you 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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