CCColtsicehockey

I don't believe that for a minute

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

Love the shelf modifications, omg that's awesome

SamDoe1

I think by that he means he doesn't pull out anymore.

CCColtsicehockey

CCColtsicehockey

Yeah I couldn't believe how exactly perfect everything fit by doing it.

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

KaMLuNg

iTrader: (5)

well i did have a conversation with him about possibly getting snipped... maybe he did???

CCColtsicehockey

Not sure he is ready for that

Flipster23

iTrader: (15)

That looks amazing Jason.

gatrhumpy

iTrader: (1)

Yay for efficiency!

brian2

needs more beer

imj0257

iTrader: (1)

I was about to say.. your beer stock looks pretty low.

rockstar143

iTrader: (6)

he probably refills them as he drinks them, I bet there is never any free space in that fridge!

CCColtsicehockey

Fairly true. It probably gets a 4 pack of something new that was released almost weekly.

CLtotheTL32

iTrader: (3)

It doesn't look like that shelf can hold that much weight...I'll come over and help you out

KaMLuNg

iTrader: (5)

my beer fridge is sad compared to yours... it has been taken over by the women in the house and filled with other crap...

CCColtsicehockey

I have one shelf in the house fridge as well and she gets so mad at me saying you have an entire fridge outside why do you need a shelf in here. Sometimes I am lazy and don't want to go into the garage for a beer.

rockstar143

iTrader: (6)

did you tell her that she has an entire bathroom to herself and she better not be using your toilet paper in the 1/2 bath downstairs?

CCColtsicehockey

Speaking of toilets there is something really wrong with my master bathroom toilet and I know nothing about plumming and what might be causing it. You have to hold the handle down for like 60 seconds while the water builds up in the bowl before it finally goes down the toilet. Our half bath toiler on the same floor flushes just fine and so does the upstairs bathroom. It has become so annoying she won't even use the master bathroom toilet and only uses the half bath. I just keep putting up with it.

thoiboi

Replace the fill valve sounds faulty..

CCColtsicehockey

So are you saying the tank is not filling with enough water to have a fast flush?

https://www.homedepot.com/c/replace_...guide_HT_PG_PL

Just trying to understand how it works. The last three days it has been working again but there is like air bubbles coming up as the water goes down the bowl. I was originally getting worried I had some sort of partial clog in my lines. What you describe seems like a fairly eash and cheap fix.

thoiboi

well when you open the bowl, is the water up to the proper levels prior to flushing? I'm thinking the fill valve may not be filling the tank to a proper level so you have to hold it to get more water in and THEN it flushes the bowl.


ALso damnit I missed out on all the networking fun


daisychain phone line... damn cheap asses, it's not that hard to just set up a Networking hub in the closet, then, you could have just terminated all the cables and plugged in a router and be good to go.. I hate when they cut corners


Fluke toner

CCColtsicehockey

occasionally it isn't at propper level but 95% of the time it is the right level in the bowl and still doesn't flush. I have not checked the level of water in the tank. I will have to do that next time before I flush it.

Basically what happens when it doesn't flush right away is I push and hold the lever and the bowl slowly continues to fill with more and more water till right where you would think it would almost overflow and then everything finally goes down.
Definitely missed all the network fun. I would say it was around the time of just starting to do full run pulls in regular houses and not high dollar homes. The house was built in 2005 so not sure all homes around then were getting home run pulls. I definitely wish they had that is for sure. I much prefer hard wiring everything when possible and only use wireless when I have too. I definitely wish I could have a router in a closet to feed all the rooms. Just happy at this point to have gotten a wired connection to the upstairs to put my eventual camera system and maybe most of the network gear even. I could move it all out of the office someday even.

I actually hate the Fluke Toner. I find it is much more sensitive and doesn't have as strong as a signal as our other much older BlackBox toner kit. I use the fluke kit for cable and speed verification.

thoiboi

Yeah.. that's not normal behavior.. Tank water level is much more important to look at than bowl water level to troubleshoot. Check that first.
When we remodeled my parents home two years ago, I made sure to get two Cat 6 runs to each room and I set up a 6U rack in my room where everything goes to. I prefer wired as well

Wow that's news.. I loved our Fluke tools when I used to work in networking years ago.

KaMLuNg

iTrader: (5)

so two open question on this... ahh f it i'll text you...

SamDoe1

Sounds like the flapper isn't opening completely. Air bubbles are normal as that's the J-pipe creating a seal. If the flapper doesn't open completely, the rate of water flow to bowl will get impeded and it'll take a while to fill for flush. This is a pretty common failure.

Open the tank lid, flush, and see if the flap goes up completely.

CCColtsicehockey

So we had a pretty big storm a few weeks ago down here and it cracked two trees on my property. They were big trees. One was about 16-18in across and about 50-60ft tall. It was plit from the ground to about 8ft up. Another was split in from the side about 4ft up and then cracked up another 2ft. They were both too dangerous for me to take down. So I had to hire someone. In total we found 4 more that were dead and needed to come down. So I had 6 removed. I could have taken 2 down myself but in my family we have been using this guy for 14 years for all our tree needs so he said he would just drop them for free while he had his saws out. I wasn't having him do any cleanup or remove the wood. Doing all that work myself. Just needed him to get the dangerous trees safely down. They were also both close to my fence and if brought down wrong would take it out.

Two cracked trees. The first one would prove to be the most time consuming to safely bring down.




The first 5 trees he had down in about 50min. Quick and dirty. Even the second cracked one wasn't difficult. The big project would be the 16-18in wide 50-60ft yellow pine that was cracked and leaning. I personally found this very interesting process on how he brought this tree down. He use a sling show and a little been bag ball with a thin wire attached to get ropes up in the tree. once he had a rope aroun the top of the tree that need to come down with a slip knot he put another rope with a pulley up in a second large spruce pine nearby. He would be hanging the tree to cut down from this other tree. Apparently the ropes he uses to do this have the ability to support 20,000lbs.

If you look close on the bottom right you can see a neon green rope and a red rope. The neon green rope is the rope with the pulley on it hanging in the spruce pine. The red rope is the rope tied to the top of the tree being taken down and going through the pulley so as pieces of the bottom are cut off he can slowly lower the tree down to cut more off.


How much the tree is leaning


Red rope way up top


Red rope through the pulley on the adjacent tree


To protect himself while cutting the tree he used ratchet straps to try and hold the split sectiof the tree together.


Tree cut off from the stump. Now time to cut sections off the trunk


The impact of the weight of the tree left the first two pieces sticking out of the ground. Crazy that the rest of the tree is hanging from a rope secured to another tree.




The piece of equipment used to gently lower the tree with all that weight


Completely down on the ground




Last night I started my first day of the cleanup process. Went around and got some photos of all the downed trees.


Trusty Stihl 028AV Wood Boss getting some face time. Thinking of picking up another Stihl to go along with it. Afterall it is over 30 years old. What better time to break in a new saw than with 6 trees to cut up. And who doesn't love a reason to get more tools.








I think I need to get my property treated for ants. Hard to do though with the dogs though. Everyone of the trees taken down had ants in it.




These two who the pile of whats left of the huge pine. You can see in the first picture the reason the tree split was cause it had been eaten away so much by ants.








So after all that I got one tree cleaned up last night. Cut into 12-14in length pieces to be later split. I also made a bench out of part of the tree and saved another section to make a second one.


My first piece of log furniture made with a chainsaw. This is much harder than just cutting logs for firewood. Cutting with the grain using a chainsaw free hand to make the bench top really takes its toll on your arms.

brian2

you got like a few thousand bucks in furniture sitting there
https://www.westelm.com/products/nat...de-table-f655/

CCColtsicehockey

I do have enough wood that I thought of making a couple extra and putting them on craigslist. I don't know how much though I could reasonably sell them for $75-100? I mean they are not sealed or anything so they will eventually rot outside. If I could sell 4-5 though I could pay for most of the new saw I want to pickup.

rockstar143

iTrader: (6)

I bet you can sell for more than that...

CCColtsicehockey

You think? Even if it is something that could rot in 3-5 years time possibly depending on where it is used? I mean would be nice to make $150 a bench. Took me a little over an hour last night to make one. I could probably kick out 3 more this weekend.

brian2

it's all in the marketing

sustainable artisan stools for sale... 100% guaranteed organic
10% of every order goes to the earth fund

rockstar143

iTrader: (6)

exactly...
you'll get all the hipster business...
especially if you have a fire sale around your fire pit with free "cheap" craft beer!

SamDoe1

You could sell that for $200 if you just sealed the open grain with some outdoor finish. Oh and sand it smooth and all that jazz too.

Also, you can get a rip chain for the chainsaw to easily saw with the grain.

CCColtsicehockey

Interesting you think I can get that much for them. That price would make it worth it to build one extra and give it a shot listing it. What would you recomment using to seal it? And you think just sealing the open grain is enough to protect it?

They make rip chains to cut with the grain. Had no idea Definitely need to get one of those then. That was hell cutting with the grain with a regular chain. Almost though of giving up for a second. Glad I didn't once I got the finished result.

rockstar143

iTrader: (6)

look at it this way, that tree would have lasted forever with the bark protecting it...you opened a wound, you just need to protect that.
Use a urethane or any wood sealant...keep it natural finish and thick IMO...the person will have to reapply when it bakes off over the years...

you want to gauge interest? List yours for sale right now for $300 OBO...custom made bench, wife decided she wanted to get a less rustic style

CCColtsicehockey

I get that I just figured that eventually the bark will break off once the tree starts to dry out form now being alive anymore.

I am too much of a perfectionist. I couldn't sell that one. Notice the mistake I made when cutting down to remove part of the piece I was taking of the top. I learned from that and there are no more mistake marks but couldn't sell it like that

brian2

just sayin
https://www.etsy.com/market/log_bench

SamDoe1

You'd be surprised at what people will pay for "handmade" goods. Don't screw yourself on pricing, sell it for what YOU think it's worth.

I'd use some outdoor coating. I don't have much (if any) experience with outdoor stuff as I haven't made anything for that.

Rip Chain:
Brush the bark with clear satin epoxy and call it good. It'll stay on and look the same forever.

CCColtsicehockey

Well there is now a new member to the family.

Stihl MS291C-M with 18in bar





Though this one kind of looked like an advertisement shot


This saw uses Stihl M-Tronic technology that is more like a fuel injected car. It takes 33 calculations a minute and adjusts the fuel and air ratio of the carb automatically for you. This means the saw should always be running at peak performance no matter what the outside conditions.

Two more smaller trees cut up into firewood size lengths. You can see a lot on ant damage to these trees.


Well starting to think I had more lumber that I really believe I did that was big enough for making benches. Some of it turned out to be too infested with ants to be usable. I did make one bench out of the ant pieces for in the woods along my short walking trail. I went to fast on this one though. You can see the one side is not done very well. I made the cut for the support too deep.