the closer a big post is to vertical... the less it weighs... if you get tehy thing staqight up and down, you can hold it with a finger... or rather-- 98 pound devin can hold it while you hammer in a nail or two.----you wouldn't want to come round here with a "T" square--- or a level.... my building techniques work...but perfection is not a word in my vocabulary.
GOAL--- getting teh second post of teh tool shed set so someone can start to unscrew teh front and move it 4 feet toward teh donkey cafe. well i had to adjust the whole tool shed project to accomodate my friend, the dump truck driver- which i did by moving a portable post around with a $10 bill attached to it with a note "can you squeeze in here? " - when teh trash and teh $10 were both gone... i got the note"this works" and i coul d set that post. so now i have the second one.. almost in place
---it is vertical... but needs to move over 3 inches-- which i will wait to do when someone besides devlin is around... i can put a chain around it to the tractor bucket-- so at least it does not fall all the way down... object being to get teh bottom of the post where it is supposed to be- and if you can at least get a nail thru to plywood which is attached to the rest of the building, it oughta stand up-
"strapping"-- is a big word in my life--- 1 x 3 inch wood..-- which in previous daily doggies i have descried as planed down to 3/4 x 2.5 inches 10 feet long-- stuck on teh building with one nail- all i had to do was get the post ( a 4x6) very nearly upright and one nail to that stapping kept it vertical in one direction-- a second piece of stapping at a right angle- would be darn good... however...
lacking the strapping which a normal builder would have hanging around... i have 5 slivers of some bureau nailed in a variety of directions- but it is up... with a sign "do not get near this mess. to be continued"
my goal of yesterday was 2 fold--- in prep for dog fest, i want to get that #$%^&* overhead wire to the "g-tent" underground... bud asked for a 12 deep trench- my biggest problem there is that whoevr designed this back hoe did not allow for an ample girth on the driver... the levers are all wedged in your lap-- far too close for comfort. but i got it done.
other than that...
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someone--- asked that at dog fest people wear theri names - or online id's ---so that people who are not here can put a name to a face..- like waving a red flag in front of a bull... i began to get ideas... and i demo's the idea last nigh at maqil call... 2 coat hangers and some duct tape... just like i did to hold up puppy ears-- or teh unicorn for some kid's halloween.. try it... it is a valuable thing to know if you deal with kids ( of any age) white wire shirt hangers from teh cleaners--( bronze ones are too heavy) cut off the hook... bend one side straight up.. and bend the other around your thigh.. put 2 of thse togethere with some duct tape and you have a very light - easy to wear, adjustable frame on which you can tape ANYTHING-- pinwheels name tages or any other silly thing.
it is one of my more valuable bits of education/-- if you have kids... try it.
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moving on...
