Damn forgetting pics…

Now to continue on with the handrails

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After some blocking, a shitload of screws, cutting the head off a 1/2” bolt to use as a pin, and copious amounts of wood glue, we have a full post again.

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Had to back up and punt this morning. Noticed yesterday evening that there had been a miscalculation made. The owners had made all the plans for this deck project themselves (the husband is a former contractor), so I’ve been going off of his plans for the next steps, all good no big deal. Well, we cut out a post because he was under the impression that our handrails were 8ft long..which they are…nominally….they’re 92” actual, 4” short…so now I’m grafting that post back in lol

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Well damn, guess I won’t be stealing my wife’s leggings tonight lol

*walks in with disproportionately large arms* “it’s not what you think, I swear!”

Yeup, won’t have to worry about local sound ordinances anymore, your shit won’t work if the sun ain’t out lol

Unfortunately they’re gonna have to. California has banned small engines (lawn mowers, concrete saws, chainsaws, etc) so we’re seeing a lot of movement to batteries. I think had this ban not occurred I think we would see the market force better batteries before the battery stuff really took over the Outdoor Power market. Being a user of a battery chainsaw myself, the runtime is still the weak point, and my primary saw is still gas.

100% agree with your husband…you’re putting pants on your head…not sure there’s a wrong way lol

Really anything. There’s often times where you need to take a little bit of material from something but a saw blade won’t work well because the piece is too small to safely hold or something along those lines. Or you need just one corner knocked off something. Today I was making notches in the plastic brackets for these hand rails, so I was using the half round side.

Forgot the pic last go round….

Mmmm the venerable 4-in-hand file, otherwise known as a Farrier’s rasp. Yet another thing I’m keeping in my toolbelt that I don’t often see in other people’s, and comes in handy at the least expected moments.

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Mmmm the venerable 4-in-hand file, otherwise known as a Farrier’s rasp. Yet another thing I’m keeping in my toolbelt that I don’t often see in other people’s, and comes in handy at the least expected moments.

#GrowNostr #Toolstr #Handyman #SkilledTrades #SometimesYouJustGottaCheatALittle

It’ll be a minute lol gotta do the sink upgrade first. I wasn’t even planning on messing with the sink but my buddy was getting a new one and his old one was an 8” cast iron, so I swiped lol

Love it! I’m about to swap sinks at my current house and I think I’m gonna mount the old sink on some wheels and adapt the supply lines to garden hose connectors

I like tools…

I’ll second #[2]​ here. There are some great “all purpose guns” that can do pretty much anything you’d need, but that doesn’t mean they do them all well. Right tool for the right job will always make your life better.

Thanks!!

Thanks! And thanks for the zap! I’d say about 90% give or take has been done by me alone. I’ve probably got near 300 hours involved at this point. It’s been a big project lol

Well, I got 4 panels up before I called it a day. These composite railings and all their hidden fasteners take forever when you’re by yourself lol

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Installation manuals are great and all, but they rarely take into account reality. Nothing is ever perfectly square (especially when you’re reusing old structure built by somebody else who may or may not have known what they were doing and has been here for give or take 30 years) and wood likes to twist and turn and curve and do weird things. This manual says to basically eyeball the bottom rail, and an inch, and then cut both upper and bottom rails to that number. Well, since the top of these two posts is about a 1/2” wider than the bottom, that would have been ruined had I not checked measurements. #SemiProTipForTheDay #GrowNostr #Handyman #SkilledTrades #WeDontNeedNoStinkinInstructions #NoWaitIWasJokingGiveItHere