More beers than people so apparently not enough
I've always wondered if I had enough friends. I guess that answers that.
The Amish people sure know how to pull together but I've never seen anything like that before!
TF
Lastspikemike You just put the moved garage on top of a row of cinder blocks and you will then have even more headroom.....
richhotrain Metric? We don't need no stinkin' metric. Unless, of course, I am comparing Tanqueray 10 - - - 750ml to 1.75L. If 750ml costs $36.99 and 1.75L costs $64.99, I'm going with the 1.75L. Rich
Metric?
We don't need no stinkin' metric.
Unless, of course, I am comparing Tanqueray 10 - - - 750ml to 1.75L.
If 750ml costs $36.99 and 1.75L costs $64.99, I'm going with the 1.75L.
Rich
Lol, You obviously haven't priced framing lumber recently. I'm going to build my next house with flex track. Upwards of $9.00 a 2*4-8 in upstate NY
FlattenedQuarter Lol, You obviously haven't priced framing lumber recently. I'm going to build my next house with flex track. Upwards of $9.00 a 2*4-8 in upstate NY
Mike
Dang! You guys are right, I haven't done any framing for quite a while. I only thought it was the cedar crisis Who would have ever thought Cedar would cost more than composite?
Check out this receipt for 10) 2x4's cedar
They're just two by fours for crying out loud! Crooks I'll tell you, legal thieves!
P.S. It's starting to look like it would be cheaper for modelers to build their bench work out of ripped OSB and 90° angle brackets. Unless they decide to Jack the price on OSB too.
We can't even buy those here from Home Depot, but that is a little more than a simple 2x4 stud. That's S4S lumber, like a trim board, and cedar on top of that.
But agreed, lumber prices are out of control.
Sheldon
S4S? I see that on the receipt Sheldon. But these ten 2x4's I purchased were solid cedar lumber. Is it possible Home Depot got the wrong SKU numbers on their boards?
I thought S4S was (surfaced four sides)
Track fiddlerUnless they decide to Jack the price on OSB too.
$37 a sheet, are you kidding me. I believe it but I did had no idea. I've lightened my load the last 2 years doing small jobs like plumbing repairs and such. Wow! It won't be long a $200,000 house will cost a half a million. I shouldn't have downsized as soon as I did but who was to know
Track fiddler S4S? I see that on the receipt Sheldon. But these ten 2x4's I purchased were solid cedar lumber. Is it possible Home Depot got the wrong SKU numbers on their boards? I thought S4S was (surfaced four sides) TF
If what you got is smooth and has square edges, it is S4S. Regular studs, cedar or otherwise, will have rounded edges.
Shekdon
Track fiddler$37 a sheet, are you kidding me. I believe it but I did had no idea.
Absolutely true.
There was a lumber theft down here where a guy stole $10,000.00 worth of lumber... jokes were...
He must have been in a hurry.
His truck must have been in the shop.
Someone is building a new doghouse.
He got away on foot.
That was a quick in-and-out theft.
And so on.
Then there is the new classic... My wife wanted to go somewhere expensive for our anniversary, so we ate a picnic lunch in the lumber section of Home Depot.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
The rationale isn't using a tree as a sink for carbon or to reduce emissions. The idea is to close the carbon cycle, albeit at a higher level. Burning a tree injects no new carbon into the cycle.
NittanyLion The idea is to close the carbon cycle, albeit at a higher level. Burning a tree injects no new carbon into the cycle.
Yes, the carbon from the tree does not come from the ground, so the carbon load in the atmosphere is not increased, because when a new tree grows, the carbon is absorbed.
It is a pretty simple idea to understand.
I just heard a radio report that blamed the lumber shortage also on the low interest rates. At the same time the lumber companies cut back production last year due to the virus, the low interest rates caused a building boom. Not sure if this is true or not, but it sounds logical.
York1 John
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
LastspikemikeFortunately, Mother Nature is growing more stuff faster with the "extra" CO2 so we need not be concerned.
Including poison ivy!
Regards, Ed
Lastspikemike...the idiotic belief that this reduces CO2 going into the atmosphere (which of course it doesn't)
Most carbon 'fixation' by plants involves photosynthesis, which only runs with adequate light at a couple of wavelengths. Since plant life does not cease during dark hours, some amount of normal respiration occurs during that time which involves oxygen uptake and CO2 generation.
With regard to fixation: it's my opinion that the slip between combustion of carbon in a given amount of biomass and fixation of a comparable amount of carbon via the usual range of growth processes can be comparatively short, so in a practical sense whether you burn before 'replenishing' or only burn biomass fixed since some arbitrary beginning point for renewable-fuel production is only a relatively short offset. The much more important thing, as noted, is the long-term carbon sequestration involved in use of the various building products...
gmpullmanIncluding poison ivy!
And Kudzu!
SeeYou190And Kudzu!
Yeah, that, too!
NS - Macon, GA by d.w.davidson, on Flickr
Ed
It's a pretty Lush looking Ivy but is that evasive parasite foliage corrosive on the building? Would the lawn service possibly take care of the problem while they are there trimming the hedges anyway?
And what about poison oak and itch weed, are they a contender?
gmpullman SeeYou190 And Kudzu! Yeah, that, too! NS - Macon, GA by d.w.davidson, on Flickr Ed
SeeYou190 And Kudzu!
Alton Junction
richhotrain gmpullman SeeYou190 And Kudzu! Yeah, that, too! NS - Macon, GA by d.w.davidson, on Flickr Ed Is that where they make Scotch whiskey??? Rich
Is that where they make Scotch whiskey???
No silly! That's where they make the Scotch whisky. The whiskey is made at the Windsor plant up in Canada
LastspikemikeTo my taste buds both e rye whiskey and non e rye whisky taste identical. Awful.
Macon, Georgia will be corn likker, not whisk(e)y however spelled; if you think Chivas tastes like puke you have a real experience coming...
Track fiddlerIt's a pretty Lush looking Ivy but is that evasive parasite foliage corrosive on the building?
Kudzu will cover up anything it can attach to. Entire buildings have disappeared beneath it. It drapes across and down power lines. It is so hard to get rid of. It grows inches every day.
They call it "The vine that ate the South" for good reason.
Wicked stuff. I knew it wasn't good. Sounds like that stuff does to buildings what Creeping Charlie does to lawns up here. Sometimes the only way to get rid of it once it's over spread is to kill your lawn and start over.
P.S. Maybe that's why Brent's Flex track is shorter. Kudzu was growing on the end of it so they cut 3.37 inches off the meter and he ended up with a yard Walther's might have been doing him a favor watering down his whisk(e)y
Kudzu covered power poles: