JackBootedThug
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Wish me luck…getting ready to do a disconnect and generator hookup on my breaker box pretty soon….
billsbigego
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Yeah I've seen some up close photos of some of the work those HGTV flippers do. Would not pass my inspection as far as the finish work. They just make shit look good "from a distance" and most of the dummies buying the places don't know any better.
BesaMoogie
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Non of the traditional work, but I once did remove the goop from a 4x12 for a retolex. What a shit job. I still have another 4x12 I am palning to do.
Sanding in general. It`s ok doing it with a sander but it sucks by hand. It all gets dusty and after a longer session, my lung usualy hurts. I have to admit I`m a heavy smoker though, so the combination is kind of overkill for me.
Sanding in general. It`s ok doing it with a sander but it sucks by hand. It all gets dusty and after a longer session, my lung usualy hurts. I have to admit I`m a heavy smoker though, so the combination is kind of overkill for me.
Dan Gleesak
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I suggest making sure the generator is off when you do it
JackBootedThug
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WHAT?!?!
Dan Gleesak
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They are really loud, who wants to listen to that while they are working?
70 Mach 1
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I spent the entire 80s in the electrical business. That I can handle.
Last week I had an AC contractor try to charge me $1000 to bring a 220 line up to the new air handler.
i told him its there already, he told me no its not that I have 110 and the new AH needs 220
i told him a fucking 220 breaker is $25. all you have to do is move the neutral wire off the neutral bar and connect it to the new breaker and there is your 220
he shut up and started backtracking. I watched him try and cover up his BS and then I threw him out of the house
the next AC gut who i gave the job to never questioned it and told me the upgrade is no problem my wiring is good. so i gave him the job
other than that I cant cut wood straight cant sweat pipe. No patience for cars any more
i can spackle but takes me forever to get it nice nice
to old for this shit nowadays
Last week I had an AC contractor try to charge me $1000 to bring a 220 line up to the new air handler.
i told him its there already, he told me no its not that I have 110 and the new AH needs 220
i told him a fucking 220 breaker is $25. all you have to do is move the neutral wire off the neutral bar and connect it to the new breaker and there is your 220
he shut up and started backtracking. I watched him try and cover up his BS and then I threw him out of the house
the next AC gut who i gave the job to never questioned it and told me the upgrade is no problem my wiring is good. so i gave him the job
other than that I cant cut wood straight cant sweat pipe. No patience for cars any more
i can spackle but takes me forever to get it nice nice
to old for this shit nowadays
Thumbpicker
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I hate painting walls and ceilings.
Shortly I have to fix the end of a gutter that is about 5 metres in the air and the ladder will be in a narrow corridor. Scary stuff.
Shortly I have to fix the end of a gutter that is about 5 metres in the air and the ladder will be in a narrow corridor. Scary stuff.
JackBootedThug
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Painting is my jam. And I don’t have any love for it…just lots of experience. I no longer do ladders. Multiple sclerosis made sure of that…lol…
70 Mach 1
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No patience left to work on guitars either.
No patience to even open the tool box or plug in an extension cord
Holy shit i think i turned into grandpa
No patience to even open the tool box or plug in an extension cord
Holy shit i think i turned into grandpa
Floyd Eye
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I have a picture somewhere of me up on a 12/12 steel roof ( so no roof jacks) doing windows and siding on a pair of dormers. 4 Story old house. I had two 3 stage 60' extension ladders that were not quite tall enough. So I pulled my truck up in the yard and set the ladders in the bed of the truck and laid them up on the roof. Then I put ladder jacks on the top rungs with a toe board. I threw ropes over the roof and tied off to a post on the other side of the house.
That was a hell of a way to make a living brother.
JackBootedThug
MURDERATOR
Fuck that.
Floyd Eye
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When I first got into the high work, like the very first time, my notoriously hungover dickhead boss had this 40' ladder full extended up on a narrow chimney with a 2x6 through one of the rungs and extending over to the pitched roof. He told me to go up there and do whatever the fuck it was. I looked at his brother then I got on the ladder. I kinda stayed right there on the first rung looking up for a few minutes. Then his brother comes over and says, " Look, it's gotta be done and you're the guy that's gotta do it so you best get to it".
That sums up my attitude towards high work, which I did for a couple decades after that. Of course, my dickhead boss was a moron and fell off several structures over his career. I am the only guy I know in that business that never fell. Wanna know why ? Because I only bought the best equipment and I set it up properly every time. And tied it off. As long as you do that there's only one thing that can hurt you. Doing something stupid. So just don't do anything stupid and you'll be fine.
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VonBonfire
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Fun times right there.
My roof is steel and 12/12. I have a slab foundation and used scaffold to get up there and build a lot of it aside from in the loft section where it was an easy reach on a regular 10 foot ladder. I don't have any dormers but the last piece of ridge cap, and getting off the roof alive, was the terrifying part of everything I did because it was three sections of scaffold with a ten foot ladder to step down onto off the ridge cap, blind, with the kid telling me where to put my foot, lol. Those moments you are climbing onto/off of the roof are def the most dangerous. I also had some good climbing rope and a quality harness/carabiners and and tied off on trees or my truck bumper but getting up or down off a roof seems to me to be the dangerous moment. I slipped and got slammed down onto the roof a few times pretty good just trying to get it all done.
JackBootedThug
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Those metal roofs can be deadly. I was finishing one up and the next morning went to do a couple things. Apparently box elders decided to release all their pollen…or something else. Anyway it was coated with a light green haze of pollen. Slicker than cum on a marble. I said nope…work on it later…it was literally like ice skating…
billsbigego
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I did my jam room with Sponge painting about a year ago. Everybody hates sponge painting now, but I still love it.
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VonBonfire
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So that is the cockpit of what airplane in those pics? You must be rocking that top secret security clearance to fly that bad boy. TR3B Black Manta or something.
JackBootedThug
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You use a sponge or a plastic bag? I seem to do better with walmart bags....
billsbigego
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Haha, yeah it's a bit absurd. Wife - "why do you need so many boxes?"
It was a rough go learning how to hook all this shit up, press one button and have everything work. You should see the wiring. I moved it from one room to another and it took 8 solid hours.
billsbigego
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Never thought of using a walmart bag. I used one of those brown round natural sponges. Ripped it in half and a few smaller pieces for the corners. The key as you probably know is to constantly rotate the sponge so you don't get a repeated pattern. Shit takes forever, but I get into a zone when I pop about 6 kratoms and have about 4 beers in me.