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Some very nice stuff there guys. Slumlord, the greenhouse and the sun room/patio area look first-rate.
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I left farming after college for a good while. Worked as a carpenter, got my general contracting license, did that for a bit. Not digging up those pics. Now I just play with wood work. Sweet work RUM7 Mrs slumlord builds a few tables. She rolled in here one day with a stack of 4x4s, backer board and a sheet of 3/4”. She built the table and a week later did all of the tile inlay. That mofo is HEAVY. but it weighs 300 lbs
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Some very nice stuff there guys. Slumlord, the greenhouse and the sun room/patio area look first-rate. Thank you
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No Kidding. Some of the nicest carpentry I've ever seen. I just want to know who did the layout. And we’re they hanging down or climbing up?
“When Tyranny becomes Law, Rebellion becomes Duty”
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version) "And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
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Life long dream was to build my own home! DONE! Built several sheds, box blinds, a barn (36×48). Spent time in north Dallas (Highland Park, University Park) on framing crews putting those monstrosities together! Worked on a couple of log homes in Colorado.
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"Jesus was a carpenter. I'm just a wood butcher!" LOL!
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Anyone ever built a fort out of empty munitions containers filled with sand ?
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Anyone ever built a fort out of empty munitions containers filled with sand ? More than a few, we used sand bags and logs or railroad ties for the overhead.
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For a day job I build military support buildings like the $80 mil, F35 Lightning ll hangars and $400 mil. medical office buildings, concrete & steel vertical parking structures & other such stuff was a residential contractor years back, homes from $200k to $800 k in the local residential market Never had time for personal builds before until last summer .... It involved a bunch of earth moving & landscaping with rented heavy equipment, building a cabin at my private shooting range that will have a sound proofed, ventilated ballistics lab/shooting bunker where I can shoot steel 100-1000 yards directly from the bunker, year round, 24-7 & no one will ever hear a shot .... Don't have the building started yet, I wanted to do all the landscaping first to get that out of the way, Got the steel pilings pounded in 15 ft deep last fall with frost sleeves on them so don't squirt out before I build, did some extensive earth moving & built me a "moat" around the cabin building pad that is connected to a creek and now have rainbow trout & grayling in my moat, no crocs yet but a bunch of beavers built up their dam last fall and created a small lake just below my build, 100 lbs of tannerite will fix them in the spring
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For a day job I build military support buildings like the $80 mil, F35 Lightning ll hangars and $400 mil. medical office buildings, concrete & steel vertical parking structures & other such stuff was a residential contractor years back, homes from $200k to $800 k in the local residential market Never had time for personal builds before until last summer .... It involved a bunch of earth moving & landscaping with rented heavy equipment, building a cabin at my private shooting range that will have a sound proofed, ventilated ballistics lab/shooting bunker where I can shoot steel 100-1000 yards directly from the bunker, year round, 24-7 & no one will ever hear a shot .... Don't have the building started yet, I wanted to do all the landscaping first to get that out of the way, Got the steel pilings pounded in 15 ft deep last fall with frost sleeves on them so don't squirt out before I build, did some extensive earth moving & built me a "moat" around the cabin building pad that is connected to a creek and now have rainbow trout & grayling in my moat, no crocs yet but a bunch of beavers built up their dam last fall and created a small lake just below my build, 100 lbs of tannerite will fix them in the spring That's gonna be nice !
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This thread will draw RoundOak out to show off his 27 different log cabins he built by hand on his 600 homestead acres.
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No Kidding. Some of the nicest carpentry I've ever seen. I just want to know who did the layout. And we’re they hanging down or climbing up? We used to sell a bunch of those old C band satellite dishes that we removed from people’s yards. The interior designers would snatch them up for big money to use as “domes” that would be plastered over for a curved ceiling.
Welcome to TN - patron state of shootin’ stuff
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Nice work everyone. Every building project shown shows serious skill.
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Ha,ha, I built the roof portion in my shop first.
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This is what it replaced.
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Built 5 houses as general contractor. 40 to 50 concrete foundations for houses and mobile homes , double Ambulance Bay building with command center for emergency responce. designed and built 5 private bridges all capable of 60,000 lbs payloads, took apart a log garage and built a house for myself full basement under and 12 by12 pitch roof. suspended slab cold and storage room in the basement. round pen and corrals.
4-5 miles of driveways worked on many roads , installed hundreds of steel culverts some multiplate 12 ft in diameter, took out 3 concrete bridges to install multiplate culverts.
General contractor on two 23 lot subdivisions , all earthworks pipe and roads. 30 unit townhouse project all earthworks pipe and roads.. apartment site 100x230 ft from 10 ft above grade to 20 ft below grade 70% rock.
Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 700 ft of rock walls from 10 to 30 ft high over 38 years all still standing , 300 ft of which is on river delta foreshore which slowly sinks over the last 13 years but has not fallen over.
other stuff that i cant remember .
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A little log cabin I built on our property. I did it all with hand tools, except a chain saw to cut the trees. I watched Alone in the Wilderness enough times that I wanted to try building my own log cabin. No where the quality of his, but almost 20 years later it’s still just as sturdy as the day I finished it.
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yoruba names for boysFormer chicken house just taking up yard space
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