Inside of my truck camper (should have cleaned it more) with LineXed stove top cover

@Mopar1973Man I'll take some of that global warming right now! Maybe Al Gore can shovel my sidewalk while he explains it to me. 

A home I built that I had the most fun I ever had building. It is on a river island right on the river. We watched salmon swim by while doing siding.

Pretty home...

 

Fire hazard though. (Sorry the fire fighter in me comes out.) All the debris piled in the valley of the roof, hanging moss in the trees (great for ladder fuels), trees in close proximity to the house, etc. All it take is one ember to drop in that pile on the roof or ground fire to climb a tree and light that moss... Poof! gone...

Then I get to rebuild it  good for the economy since insurance cos. hoard all kinds of money.

 

Actually it wood be very sad to see it go as building materials are going down in quality. And good subs are harder to find with how busy everyone is now.

Here is a pic for today... A little vehicle line up. Excuse the haze skyline USFS is having fun with prescribed burns all over the place and the valley fills with smoke every evening. Ugh!

 

Looks like an antique car show in the making............................

Hey now. Old rigs are cool. I use to be a big fan of the 1970 cars and truck till I sold them all and upgraded to 2nd Gen collection.

All the fun times growing up I have a strong affinity for the 50s Chevys. They were 'old' when I was in high school in the 60s. that's what we could afford as teens were 50s cars.

Spring time in the Rockies! This was around noon today on a lunch break from plowing 32" and counting 

58 minutes ago, BBHD said:

Spring time in the Rockies! This was around noon today on a lunch break from plowing 32" and counting 

 

Wow, its kinda ugly up here between Co Springs and Denver on the front range, but no 32 inches.

On 4/12/2016 at 8:39 PM, Wild and Free said:

Looks like an antique car show in the making............................

 

No joke, I have a pretty late build 02 and it is 14 years old.  The first 2nd gens are 22 years old.  

 

When I bought my Barracuda, it was only 30 and was a legit OLD car.  

i need one of these. Fits the job I am on at the moment.

Ha Ha, I watched a documentary recently about engineering and engineers and one that was interviewed put it great by saying "We as engineers do not need to get anything exact, just close enough to work as intended"...............Pretty much sums up design flaws in everything man made lol.

4 hours ago, Wild and Free said:

Ha Ha, I watched a documentary recently about engineering and engineers and one that was interviewed put it great by saying "We as engineers do not need to get anything exact, just close enough to work as intended"...............Pretty much sums up design flaws in everything man made lol.

 

It's a fine line between cost effectiveness and good service vs perfection.  Usually perfection puts companies out of business. 

My understanding is the buildings I build are about 25% over engineered. I have never had a structural deficiency that was hard to overcome. Bare in mind I build one story structures that are usually less then 25' tall. The higher you go the more engineering is involved. The engineering is very different depending on where you are. Wind loading is a big one and seismic seems to be a bigger concern than I have seen in the past. I dont seem to be able to build the same any where anymore. 

 2 years 10 months and 2 weeks or there abouts and I quit worrying about it.

12 hours ago, dripley said:

2 years 10 months and 2 weeks or there abouts and I quit worrying about it.

 

Retirement,,, He's counting down...

 

1 hour ago, Mopar1973Man said:

 

Retirement,,, He's counting down...

Me? Count? You bet your sweet arse!!!

 Dave your going to miss bossing everyone around telling them what to do all the time.

 

 

 Here's the inside of my small house showing some of of my handiwork when I was 45

Man I think you should convert that furnace exhaust to be dual purpose........

 

 

Fire pole and furnace exhaust.... I wanna slide down it.

It gets too hot... that's my woodstove pipe

It gets hot you say?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can almost hear the music from The Full Monty in the background

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't firepoles and "hot" go together like white and rice??

 

 

sorry couldn't help it.  Man it is hard to find a semi "risky" image of a fireman.  You wouldn't believe what google gives you hahahahah....dont search.