New England B.S. Thread

You could always build a simple 2 x 6 “window” frame to fit in the wood pile. It looks pretty cool and allows light and air flow as well as allowing you to see off th porch. Maybe stick a simple mutton in the middle of the window frame to add character.

Edit: Try a Google image search for wood pile window.

 

So...the porch is built on top of a root cellar with poured concrete walls and a precast concrete ceiling. I'll admit that I haven't been underneath it to see exactly how everything under there is constructed, but I'm opting to take a chance on it for lack of another good option.

 

Sounds like a good springtime project...if I still have a porch.

 

Retired Bud drinker, wanna make something of it?!?!?

When you just guzzle them down you don't notice that much

 

We're on a secondary road in a rural area that doesn't get a whole lot of traffic. My girlfriend walks a few miles up the road with a trash bag regularly and picks up litter. She always fills a 13 gallon kitchen bag. I think she's up to her 8th bag since she started doing this a couple months ago. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I'll sometimes see someone drop a cigarette out their window at a stoplight. If I were a larger more intimidating person I would get out and tell them they dropped something.

 

Nope, I'm a retired Bud drinker also... I retired just about after I had my first one!

 

I love doing that. The look is always interesting

 

Yeah I wouldn't question it if you came up to my window lol.

 

Okay, all you porch people, I went out at lunch and pulled some of the lattice off for a good look underneath. It's got 2x6" joists @ 24"oc, ~3" between the bottom of the joists and the cast concrete cap over the root cellar, the joists are all singles, supported at the ledger, then to the concrete at 54" and 96" (end of the span), the decking is also 2x6" nominal lumber, and everything looks to be pressure treated. I should try and get all that debris out from there, but I'm feeling better about the weight bearing capacity (it looks pretty stout to me, but I probably should pop it into a calculator if I can find one just to be sure).

 

@Skierrichy night wheeling was sweet. Helped me put in place what I want to actually do on the truck. Probably will skip bumpers, do full skids, tires when mine wear out probably sometime next year, and I will hopefully end up in a 3 inch suspension lift. For what I want to do with my truck, bumpers more weight and cost than it’s worth. Same with wheels, stocks fine. Derped then Sunday morning. Looks a lot better that way. didnt mask the wheels at all so the overspray just looks like shit oh well. stock lights were good might get ditch lights eventually but not rushing it.

 

Looks pretty decent Just keep an eye on the underside of that slab. If you start noticing cracks and water coming in, more so than usual, then I'd get concerned. Otherwise, looks like the spans are short due to those little stubby pieces.

 

I say see how many cords it will hold, but I don’t need to repair when it breaks

 

That's kind-of the plan. If it holds 6 at a time, that should be plenty to get me through an average winter, I hope, and I'll probably never load it beyond that. If something gives out, and the sudden loading doesn't destroy the cast concrete below it, rebuilding the porch wouldn't be an impossible task at that point.

 

Should hold it fine. But, if it ever does fail, you can rebuild it so that it'll be beefy enough the next time.

 

I’d just build it down to the concrete and stack directly on that or on pallets if you don’t want to stack on concrete. As long as the roof doesn’t get pulled down with it

 

I see that can under your porch! Better get it out of there and toss it on a random highway quick

 

It's bad up here, but seems largely unintentional in our area. I live on a private road that's just off US-2 and we take (just about) daily walks with the dogs down the shoulder of the highway since it's really the only place we can walk from home without building some trails across our property (which is going to happen eventually). There's so much trash that ends up on the shoulders, but most of what I see doesn't appear to be intentional. For every bottle/can or McD's bag/cup, there's at least a couple busted ratchet straps, chunks of tire tread (big east-west trucking route across the region), scraps of this/that building material, paper, an occasional piece of firewood, miscellaneous debris that probably got left on a bedside/roof/trunk lid by accident (gloves - never in a pair, boxes of utility blades, tools, shoes, safety harnesses). Vermont has an annual day every spring that they use to encourage residents to clean up their local roadside and then leave the bags at a few designated spots around town for pickup and disposal - Green Up Vermont. We pick up some bigger stuff on our daily walks when we have empty hands, but haven't gone out with bags to really comb over the shoulders yet, probably will next spring for Green Up day.

 

Most of the trash on the side of the road near me has a faint heartbeat and a heroin needle hanging out of its arm...

 

Sad, but true. My brother was somewhere in that area until he wound up in jail down in Manchester, again.

 

That time you're so bored, you search backwards through 20,000 posts to find your first post in this thread......