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Well I hope the hoar frost doesn't lift those footings up and down. I'm sure your aware of the 18" frost line for all footings and pads. But hell.....what could possibly go wrong?
Well Christmas is coming and I was bored today. Finally feeling good after a week of ice on my balls post vasectomy. So I made a bowl, for who? No idea but someone will love it
Nothing like icing the balls. 
Hope you got a cookie!
Hope you got a cookie!
Haha, well I dug the holes for the sono tube with the post hole auger, it only goes down 40 inches or so, but next time I build a shed you can bring your vasectomy docs micrometers to check for me.
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I for for one am totally looking forward to 6 months of driving to work and coming home in the dark.
Starting with lying awake at 430am tomorrow waiting for my alarm at 530.
I think every farmer who gave a s*** about daylight savings died of old age decades ago.
So got tired of moss on my roof. Keep thinking I’m gonna be away in Alabama or some damned place when the wind blows and big tree parts fall on my house. Hired a guy. I wish I saw this when I was younger, this would have been a cool career. Amazing job of clearing the limb 45’ up and back. 2 days. Cleanup this weekend now.
That is a MASSIVE tree!!
10x8 thru the trunk. My previous estimate was a cautious 65' but Patrick is an arborist and actually climbed to top of canopy for
assessment and we are now close to 100' +/-. I love this thing. Pileated Woodpecker was pecking and hunting 15' above him while
he was limbing branches. Sure wakes a person up doing this stuff. Tomrens Tree and Landscape, Parksville. Highly recommend -
skillset, teamwork with his son, safety protocols, clean up was impeccable, just top of the tree (line) kind of service.
Be careful how you store your tools…
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You think it’s safe to leave them out in the workshop… but you leave them alone and before you know it there’s another.
A gear-head’s baby pictures.
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You think it’s safe to leave them out in the workshop… but you leave them alone and before you know it there’s another.
A gear-head’s baby pictures.
I couldn't pass up on the baby. For $20 I took a gamble that it was something I could fix... and I now have it all working properly. All it took was complete disassembly, cleaning and reassembly.
During the repair I called Makita’s service department. I wanted to confirm my suspicion that the two pistons should be 180* apart from each other. The set screws had backed off resulting in the motor turning but the pistons not moving. The Makita repairman told me to align the screws the flat spot on the shaft on each end of the motor. He told me that I was already further in than the ever got. Sure enough, I did find flat spots on the motors driveshaft that were 180* apart (as I had suspected).
After sorting that out I pulled the heads off both cylinders, cleaned both pistons, cylinder sleeves, heads, and all the reed valves. Everything was in great shape but had some buildup from the limited use the compressor had. After reassembly the pump now easily builds pressure to the 135 PSI shutoff point and no longer has the occasional popping sound when the o-rings or reed valves didn’t hold full pressure.
The Makita service department would have tossed the motor/pump and replaced it with a new one. Rather than take 15-20 minutes to rebuild it. On one hand that’s good for the customer, but not as good for the environment. I hate our throw away society.
During the repair I called Makita’s service department. I wanted to confirm my suspicion that the two pistons should be 180* apart from each other. The set screws had backed off resulting in the motor turning but the pistons not moving. The Makita repairman told me to align the screws the flat spot on the shaft on each end of the motor. He told me that I was already further in than the ever got. Sure enough, I did find flat spots on the motors driveshaft that were 180* apart (as I had suspected).
After sorting that out I pulled the heads off both cylinders, cleaned both pistons, cylinder sleeves, heads, and all the reed valves. Everything was in great shape but had some buildup from the limited use the compressor had. After reassembly the pump now easily builds pressure to the 135 PSI shutoff point and no longer has the occasional popping sound when the o-rings or reed valves didn’t hold full pressure.
The Makita service department would have tossed the motor/pump and replaced it with a new one. Rather than take 15-20 minutes to rebuild it. On one hand that’s good for the customer, but not as good for the environment. I hate our throw away society.
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Hempcrete house we’ve been working on. Walls are 12” thick and the sound proofing is next level. Not my favourite design of a house but a cool natural building method.
Hahaha! Whoops. Don’t know how that smoked bird got in there. Lmao.
That's cause it's not wrapped in the same kind of hemp.
Very interesting construction method. You do some pretty neat projects.
Wonder how the house smells if it burns down?
I was more curious about mold/rot in our climate?Very interesting construction method. You do some pretty neat projects.
Wonder how the house smells if it burns down?
We’re doomed. This was the help AI offered.
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Well, the other day I’d noticed a faint diesel smell… never a good sign, but didn’t see any drips. The next day, before I could track down the source of the smell, it was leaving drips.
At first it looked like a fuel line, until I dug under the turbo and found it was this part…
It had a hairline crack in it and was weeping diesel fuel.
So I ended up replacing the fuel pump, pulse accumulator, and the turbo gaskets, o-rings, and exhaust donuts. During the disassembly, I found the Turbo output o-ring had been shredded. So far so good… seems to be pulling stronger and faster…
At first it looked like a fuel line, until I dug under the turbo and found it was this part…
It had a hairline crack in it and was weeping diesel fuel.
So I ended up replacing the fuel pump, pulse accumulator, and the turbo gaskets, o-rings, and exhaust donuts. During the disassembly, I found the Turbo output o-ring had been shredded. So far so good… seems to be pulling stronger and faster…