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Buy another 10 and build a mini home gated community.
That's nice.
That's nice.
Tom Picciani
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I want to get a small park bench to sit between the bushes
Make one.
That's a very nice shed, Tom. Did the price include installation or did you have to install it yourself?
I don't know if you have a samsclub membership, but they have an outdoor storage bench Keter Hudson Plastic Storage Bench Deck Box - Sam's Club
I'm starting to think maybe I should just build my own custom shed from scratch. I can probably put framing together myself but will need help setting it up. Roof might be trickier. I'm thinking of re-using the metal beam in the center of the ceiling from the old metal shed. I think removing the old metal one would be a pain & it will all have to be done quickly so that the electrical stuff isn't exposed to rain. I'm halfway thinking of just building around the existing metal shed to insulate it a bit better, adding a wood door on the front (either an outswing or sliding barn door type as inswing is a no go). I could put new roofing over the top & extend it out a few feet and then cut out the metal part where I want an opening. Might be easier than the tear-down/removal. I imagine it would be pricey to have a contractor remove the old one & put a new one up. Hard to find reliable people in my area anyway.
I wasn't feeling well Thursday. Tooth was acting up & the meds made me sleepy. Stomach is disagreeing with me. I spent most of the day sleeping. I got up to clean the litterbox, feed the kitties, refill their water, clean the toilet, and reheat leftovers for Mom. Got woken up by the phone a few times. Best friend called-- his fiance went into labor 10 days early. They have a healthy baby boy. I'm awake now bc of my stomach not behaving. Three of my cats climbed on me wanting cuddles & then the dog got jealous so she had to climb on me too.
I wonder if this would be any good https://www.amazon.com/2x4basics-90192MI-Custom-Shed-Peak/dp/B000E3XNC0/
I don't know if you have a samsclub membership, but they have an outdoor storage bench Keter Hudson Plastic Storage Bench Deck Box - Sam's Club
I'm starting to think maybe I should just build my own custom shed from scratch. I can probably put framing together myself but will need help setting it up. Roof might be trickier. I'm thinking of re-using the metal beam in the center of the ceiling from the old metal shed. I think removing the old metal one would be a pain & it will all have to be done quickly so that the electrical stuff isn't exposed to rain. I'm halfway thinking of just building around the existing metal shed to insulate it a bit better, adding a wood door on the front (either an outswing or sliding barn door type as inswing is a no go). I could put new roofing over the top & extend it out a few feet and then cut out the metal part where I want an opening. Might be easier than the tear-down/removal. I imagine it would be pricey to have a contractor remove the old one & put a new one up. Hard to find reliable people in my area anyway.
I wasn't feeling well Thursday. Tooth was acting up & the meds made me sleepy. Stomach is disagreeing with me. I spent most of the day sleeping. I got up to clean the litterbox, feed the kitties, refill their water, clean the toilet, and reheat leftovers for Mom. Got woken up by the phone a few times. Best friend called-- his fiance went into labor 10 days early. They have a healthy baby boy. I'm awake now bc of my stomach not behaving. Three of my cats climbed on me wanting cuddles & then the dog got jealous so she had to climb on me too.
I wonder if this would be any good https://www.amazon.com/2x4basics-90192MI-Custom-Shed-Peak/dp/B000E3XNC0/
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Tom Picciani
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The price includes installing. Took 2 days because the tractor and it’s replacement broke down. Second one they repaired onsite
One way to protect your electrical would be to build the newover the top making it bigger and the tearing down the old. Or at least untill you get a roof over it.
Tom Picciani
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I didn’t have one to tear down but I think they had a flat fee of $500 to tear down and haul away. Remember, you need to get rid of it.
Up here if there is any metal they would be on it like stink on shit.
Same here. Scrap metal is selling for high prices.
Tom Picciani
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Someone told me the same thing about the wood from my deck. People would tear it down for free just for the wood. The deck was built in 1978. Might test the theory when I get $15k to build a new one.
I thought scrap metal prices tanked after the Chinese stopped buying all of it.
For some reason there is a shortage.
Tom Picciani
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Ate a Gyro at a nearby diner yesterday. Pretty good. Place is called Black Olive. Not crowded at all. Many places still closed to indoor dining and temperatures around here are too hot to eat outside. Plus Lancaster is getting an infestation of all sorts of bugs I would have to fight with. Lantern flies are the bad ones right now.
putting down 60 lbs of Milorganite today. Want to get that done before it gets hot. Should drop my blood sugar pretty good.
Hunter wants to stay in bed. Beagles are cutest when they are curled up and sleepy.
putting down 60 lbs of Milorganite today. Want to get that done before it gets hot. Should drop my blood sugar pretty good.
Hunter wants to stay in bed. Beagles are cutest when they are curled up and sleepy.
Tom Picciani
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The smells from the nearby farms will start soon so I started playing Farming Simulator 19 again. The farmers provide the reality pack.
Lancaster County, where corn does grow! (Love that song)
Lancaster County, where corn does grow! (Love that song)
Put flooring in the changing shed of a hog farm once. The smell was overwhelming and I grew up on a farm with hogs. They threw the dead ones on a pile and they were hauled away once a month.
I'm sitting here down on the bay eating a burger and fries. The bay is being dredged before the winter rain set in and a large tow boat is coming by with a barge.
It's about 12 miles around the bay till they hit the ocean. They go a couple miles out to dump the load of muck. It's a hopper barge. When ready, they open up the bottom of the barge. Kinda like flushing the toilet.
Takes hundreds of trips. They have been doing this for a couple of months, one bucket full at a time.
It's about 12 miles around the bay till they hit the ocean. They go a couple miles out to dump the load of muck. It's a hopper barge. When ready, they open up the bottom of the barge. Kinda like flushing the toilet.
Takes hundreds of trips. They have been doing this for a couple of months, one bucket full at a time.
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Here comes another tug. He is moving at quite a clip for some reason, to catch up with the barge. It's a couple miles to the train bridge.
He will get behind the barge and help steer it as they pass through the swing span of the trestle of the train bridge that crosses the bay. It gets very expensive when a ship or a barge hits the swing span of the bridge and damages the bearings that rotate it.
He will get behind the barge and help steer it as they pass through the swing span of the trestle of the train bridge that crosses the bay. It gets very expensive when a ship or a barge hits the swing span of the bridge and damages the bearings that rotate it.
Dang it's a busy day on the bay. An hour ago the pilot boats undocked a log ship so I could take a load of logs back to China well they will probably use them to make concrete forms then throw them away.
These larger tug aren't needed to take the ship all the way out to the ocean, so they are just coming back to Port. Their day is over.
These other little boats are just local guys fishing in one of the two channels in the bay.
Holy smoke the pilot boat is coming by now they must have made a fast Trip.
..... Correction. Both of those two orange and white tug boats only undocked the ship to help it head out to the ocean. Currently there is a local pilot onboard the ship and the actual pilot tugboat is closer to the jetty. Painted the same colors, but is smaller about 75 feet I believe. That smaller tug will follow the ship about two miles out to sea take the pilot off the ship and bring him back.
What a busy afternoon .....eating a hamburger, and watching everybody else work.
These larger tug aren't needed to take the ship all the way out to the ocean, so they are just coming back to Port. Their day is over.
These other little boats are just local guys fishing in one of the two channels in the bay.
Holy smoke the pilot boat is coming by now they must have made a fast Trip.
..... Correction. Both of those two orange and white tug boats only undocked the ship to help it head out to the ocean. Currently there is a local pilot onboard the ship and the actual pilot tugboat is closer to the jetty. Painted the same colors, but is smaller about 75 feet I believe. That smaller tug will follow the ship about two miles out to sea take the pilot off the ship and bring him back.
What a busy afternoon .....eating a hamburger, and watching everybody else work.
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learned a little tool hack today. I've wanted an impact driver but never got one. A guy was working at my neighbors and said I love those hammer drills. He was using it as an impact driver. I never thought of it they turn avibrate just like an impact driver.
