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Kilts are always acceptable, even in the white stuff, and as an added bonus you won't need underoos no more.

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Good afternoon everybody. Enjoy your Sunday.

 

Afternoon everyone

Watching the NHRA Auto Club Finals ( qualifying rds) . Then at 1500 hrs Final rds eliminations starts

 

Home again, home again.

 

Awesome pics !!!

We're you out near Ubehebe crater and Devils hole ??

 

No the roads over there are still reported as closed. We came up from the south. These pics are Lippincott and teakettle junction, about 25 miles from Ubehebe

 

Good evening, gang. I was busy today bailing out the 30" deep holes going down to the tops of the footers, 2 days of rain had them pretty filled. After that, I decided it would be a good time to back fill/tamp down the fill dirt. The night time temps will be below freezing for the foreseeable future, no use in the dampness down there getting frosty. The fill dirt will insulate it while the dampness absorbs into the surrounding dirt.


Here are a few pics of my goof.

I removed about 3/16" of material ( too much) with the planer while trying to get the joist to sit flush across the deck beam. ( the paint stirring stick is .160" so a "heavy 1/8" or a " light 3/16". The biggest problem that I didn't realize at the time was that the damn joist was twisted a bit. Once I got the straightener tool on the joist, it sat flush. That was where I just stopped last Sunday before I got too angry about it.




Today when I laid a few deck boards across the joists, the gap is huge, like 5/16".



The 3rd joist over is sitting higher then anything around it, so I can knock it down a little to help close down the gap but it's still going to be a big gap, more then I want to suck down with the decking screws. I don't have a plan to un-fuck it yet.



Then the biggest headache is going to be the outer rim joist, since all of these joists are slightly different heights. I'm almost tempted to line up the BOTTOMS of the joists to the rim joist, then plane down the tops to be smooth-ish. There's no way to bend the the joists up and down at the very ends to align to the top of the rim joist. It's been a while since I built a deck, I don't remember the lumber being a big part of the headaches back then.

 

John Force has a violent engine explosion during final rd eliminations at the Auto Club Finals . He's had some nasty wrecks and engine explosions over his 44 years as a NHRA fuel funny car driver


https://youtu.be/v75oXYjb4WY

 

Ask over in the home improvement thread.... some of those guys have built decks and might have some tips for you

 

Holy hell!

 

Morning folks

 

Good morning all.

 

Good morning everyone

Frosty 31 degrees here in GA.

 

Good morning.

 

Good morning all you Monday peeps

 

Good Morning

 

Mornin’.
Finally a seasonable 32°