[Hugh Heifer]

Okay. Off to teach class in Lafayette, GA. (they pronounce it La-Fayit )

[Hugh Heifer]

The asshats are at it again on Ebay. Bidding shit up on the first day of a listing. Assfucks.

[NaterGator]

Fuckasses.

[srplus]

G'day Boyz and Girlz... Yoop I got your PM and will review.

[srplus]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

What about a follower?

You're in deep in early.

[NaterGator]

Gday.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

Windermere Real Estate

That would be less than $200,000 here.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by Jman

I need to hit the hay.

don't bruise it!

[yooper]

Originally Posted by thorvald

what'd the hay do to you?

[yooper]

Originally Posted by semlin

this one is better

house

that looks pretty nice. i dig the pool. that would be a smoking price for that house here. how does it compare to your old house on a bang for your buck basis?

Ooh I didn't see the pool.



That raises the price to about $225,000 around here.

Pool party at Cube's!

[srplus]

Originally Posted by gladly

you know what works really well?

a plexiglass cutter


but it's kind of a bitch to do curved cuts, and you'd pretty much have to have it off the bike in order to get enough pressure

[TEAKETTLE]

We found the hooked cutter to be a shot in the dark, especially with the different formulations of the plastic. Some are too soft to snap off properly.

Best bet is a special blade for the skill saw for straight cuts... there is one made for plex that has a lot of carbide teeth or a GOOD plywood blade... for all straight cuts. You also could take a fairly high tooth count carbide tooth blade and turn the blade backwards in the saw. This gives a nice smooth cut but is slow as molasses.

Curved cuts require the use of a band saw or a GOOD jig saw... I forget the tooth count on the band saw but if you are cutting with a jig saw then use a good bi-metal blade that is good for cutting wood, aluminum etc... Bosch labels theirs a T-101 (IIRC).

Best to lay the plex down on top of Styrofoam sheet and let the blade barely cut into the foam thru the foam... this keeps the plex from welding itself back together behind the cut.

For straight cuts you can polish the edges by lightly belt sanding and then using a propane torch run along the cut slowly until the plex clears and loses its frosted look. This must be done carefully.

[/TEAKETTLE]



Edited for accuracy:

T101BF Bosch - 4in., 10TPI, Bi-Metal Jigsaw Blade (5 pack) - is the blade that works best.... only fits Bosch jig saws (best ones on the market). But there are other blades with about the same tooth set and count. I am pretty sure we used 10 or 12 teeth an inch for the band saw too and we used a blade that cuts aluminum.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

The basement is pretty cool, would be a great ManRoom™. There's a door that leads to the crawlspace. Because it's partially excavated, would make a great root cellar.

edited for TRVTH

[srplus]

I realize that you are not talking sheets (re: plex) but that is the procedure for cutting flat plex which I thought might be helpful if Mars was going to cover the pergola.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

We've got just under 1/7th of an acre in a 30-year-old subdivision. House is 2,500-ish square feet and the appraised value for taxes is about 55% of the asking price of that home . . .

Man, Cali (and BC too, apparently) are quite 'spensive. Good luck, Cube.

My 4800 square foot home on an acre at the edge of town on all city services would list for sale at the same price as the home Cube is looking at.

Appraised value for taxes here is about half of that.

[NaterGator]

Crumple zone anti-fail

[stinkyfj60]

damn, i feel like i am running behind....

[srplus]

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

Howdy. Went and looked at the fixer upper on Saturday and again tonight on the way home. I think we're going to make an offer. Holy Schnikes does it need work. But it is a cool, eclectic house. On .62 acres. Close to town but it feels like it's out in the boonies.

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

Has an existing, ancient orchard that will probably all need to come out. About 4 producing citrus trees. Plenty of room for a huge garden and for a separate flower garden.

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

is plumbed for natural gas and has a meter. Is on city water. Septic, not sewer. Carport that could be finished off with a door. Two workshop rooms.

And a crapload of work.

[NaterGator]

[srplus]

Originally Posted by surfpig

Yup...

, a friend used to own one... he regretted not having the short wheel base because the long one would not go over and ant pile... he bought a cruiser to replace it rather than jack it up since it would be so top heavy with the width of the axles IIRC.

And even back then stock parts for anything were very hard to get.

[srplus]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

I can see that. It might be one of those thing you just have to adapt to though.

Dramamine?

[stinkyfj60]

and.. out.

[NaterGator]

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by Jman

I did mine at one of the machines the other day--127 over 73 or something like that.

I'm hanging in the 148 over 75 zone . . .

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by valentine

They are cool looking.


This guy has the "I want to eat your kids" look, doesn't he?

that's just a bitchin' truck, right there.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by rachel1027

I am going to go here tomorrow on my way back to Eugene.

Nice orchard. You gonna pick some apples?

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by yooper

My 4800 square foot home on an acre at the edge of town on all city services would list for sale at the same price as the home Cube is looking at.

Appraised value for taxes here is about half of that.

Hmmm, our "appraised value for taxes" is about 30% over what we paid 18 years ago and probably very close to what we could sell for . . .

Your taxing authority is apparently very lenient.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by rachel1027

Holy GINORMOUS pic Batman!!!

[yooper]

Originally Posted by dieseldog

Hmmm, our "appraised value for taxes" is about 30% over what we paid 18 years ago and probably very close to what we could sell for . . .

Your taxing authority is apparently very lenient.

Not lenient, just different. The taxable values are way way out of line with the market values but the rates are higher. It's pretty stupid and based on some laws that limit how much the taxable valuation can go up each year. The taxable valuation of the Witch Lake property is about 25% what we paid for it.

[dieseldog]

Originally Posted by yooper

Not lenient, just different. The taxable values are way way out of line with the market values but the rates are higher. It's pretty stupid and based on some laws that limit how much the taxable valuation can go up each year. The taxable valuation of the Witch Lake property is about 25% what we paid for it.

Well, there is no free lunch. We have pretty high property tax rates and values. Remember, there is no state income tax here and they're gonna get their money somehow . . . There's about eight different taxing authorities, each with a different tax rate on our home, each taking a bite.

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

I almost bought one of these many years ago. It was not far from being a basket case. I ended up buying a new plain jane Nissan Hardbody 4x4 instead for about $12,000. It was a wise decision at the time. I didn't buy a Toyota because they were about $3K more.

did you have good luck with your Nissan?

I bought a used 4x4 Hardbody, the motor blew out around 90,000miles. Mine was a 4 banger. Good truck but not a Toyota. the transmission blew out on it too, though when I bottomed it out hard going through a mud hole that might have helped that along