Thread 2928732

what do you have going on anon 3 day weekend a bit more time to spend on those projects

Trenching 50' from the house to the solar shed. we have had live 240v split phase #4 AWG cable laying on top of the ground covered with FRP & ZIP board scraps for 12 months. barn construction has been held up for 2 months waiting for it.

after the trench is done, I mostly just want to relax. I may start framing the wall that has been on hold, waiting on the trench. once the wall is framed, i can start installing the roof panels. I already have the studs for the wall and the steel roof on site. my body is tired. I am not as young as I used to be.

>>2928732 (OP)
it's summer and can get over 110 here. I don't do anything outside that is not an emergency.

>>2928823
Had a new roof put on the house last week and need to reinstall my solar up there. Been busy putting up hay and fixing hay equipment lately though. Hopefully this weekend I can get started.

Also need to put some motorsaver auto starts on two of my irrigation wells. For some fucking reason the power company decided they can't provide clean stable power to my farm for the past week and my two irrigation pumps without auto starts have been shutting down constantly and I've been getting fuck-all irrigating done...

>>2928732 (OP)
bigger project is an overhead Gaming chair mount
this weekends the smaller portion im working on is the table just finishing up the table top portion and the mounting brackets

>>2928732 (OP)
I'm going to get my landlording ass out of the office and try to teach myself wtf do I do about this stucco falling off. I'm guessing the snow and weathering has been doing it at least since I bought the place a couple years ago.

Thinking of doing a layer of elastometric caulk dap240 and then some sort of all purpose stucco patch and then maybe I'll even paint it after with some tinted paint from shermin Williams using the chipped off stuff as the color sample to give them

I also bought some white paint, two types of sanding blocks, a brush, and a paint tray and I'm going to sand and renew the wood trim along my tenants windows in the rental suite

>>2928732 (OP)
Digging holes, got 2 shrubs to plant and some potted coneflower I figure I'll put in the ground.
Also need to get out the ladder and fix a soffit cover that came detached. Might just use gorilla tape if it's too difficult to push in.
And if I have time I have plans to build a target stand to shoot my air rifle at and fix the sight alignment. But that is lowest priority since the squirrel traffic has calmed down.

Workday is coming to an end.

Time to celebrate kicking Limey ass. 1776, Nigel. The rednecks will paint the sky. We get to sit back and watch 360° for free.

>>2928732 (OP)
I just bought a new truck. 2015 Toyota tacoma with a 6ft long bed. It has a camper shell and I need to build some kind of tool storage in the back. Going to try and make some strong slide-out drawers.

>>2928841
Changed my irrigation water and then got the two motorsaver auto starts installed and working on my pumps. After that I fed some cattle and caught a heifer and her calf and penned them up together because he seemed a bit off. Not sure if she was coming around to let him nurse often enough as she always had him stashed somewhere in the bushes while she was off running around with the rest of the herd. Then worked on putting new teeth and wrappers on my baler pick-up head and tore into the secondary baler to work on it as well. Came home to some beer and fireworks with the wife and daughter.

thanks for sharing anon keep up the good work

>>2929114
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_monkey

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_monkey

I didn't realise they categorised monkeys as old world and new world. Neither category includes niggers though. I thought for sure old world would include boongs. Very cool golden snub nosed monkey.

>>2928732 (OP)
Alright lads not happy with the way it feels looking for solutions. Thinking about going the articulating arm route

It's incredible but I actually got these truck bed drawers done. Well I still have to put locks on them... But I'll consider it a success

>>2929239
So wait, how did they get across the ocean is the slave trade didn’t exist yet?

>>2929524
I'm literally shaking rn

>>2928732 (OP)
Just made a cool $650 doing a side job on this fine Saturday. Put in some wafer lights, fan box and fan for a guy.

>>2928732 (OP)
Anyone know the name of these types of 3" fittings?

>>2928870
Movement flow on that thing is poor, imo. I would hate being caged in. I want to be able to move in and out and around and put my legs up high. For how much it cost to fabricate that arm, they could've picked a bigger monitor.

>>2932110
Suction side is just a threaded flange, discharge appears to be a barb for tubing/hoses, although i suspect both ends are compatable with a fire hose if theyre 3" as you say. A water pump of this size typically uses a fire hose to accomodate flow + volume.

>>2932158
>discharge appears to be a barb for tubing/hoses
the hose is barb connected directly onto the pump?

Not a separate hose reel that is connected onto the pump discharge when needed, its instead permanently circlipped onto the discharge outlet?

>>2928841
Finally finished putting the solar back on the roof. Was hot as hell for a while so I stayed off the roof until evenings when it cooled back down. Then of course we got some rain storms a couple times that kept me off the roof too. But it is done and better than it was originally done by the company that put it on to begin with. Their cable management was atrocious. Tomorrow when the sun comes up will be the real first test of it.

>>2932193
No. Tubing coupled to a barbed fitting is secured by a hose clamp. You could remove the clamp and then the tubing. I dunno, even as a journeyman pipefitter i've never seen a barb that big, it's just my best as to what it is based off appearance. I wouldnt be surprised if you could even remove the union nut holding the barb and attach a firehose to the union's male threads. Looks like some typical weird chinese shit, never seen a hydrostatic pump of that size use anything other than a chicago fitting or a threaded firehose.

>>2932133
I agree im trying to make mine modular as possible that way I can configure it with a chair or couch etc

>>2929465
nice, did you put wax or soap for them to slide easily ?

>>2928732 (OP)
I'm up early at my moms place, she's been having problems with the Texas heat so we're working our way slowly from the top down to make improvements.

We're starting with sealing the roof up with some Tropico 887 on the horizontal roof spots to help with rain water pooling and reflect the light and radiate off heat before it soaks into the roof. It's a metal roof though so I got to get up there with a power washer and prep the surface and seal the bolts off with silicone before I apply the Tropico.

Roof work in the Texas heat is a special type of challenge and hell if you're not careful. The surfaces can easily get up to 140f so you gotta do what i'm doing and get up before the sun so as soon as it rises you can climb up there.

I have a thermal sensor to verify readings but if this works the way I think it will then we'll hit the pitched part of the roof with the acrylic version and paint the house white Mediterranean style with some nice blue highlights.

>>2932592
>rain water pooling
nice mosquito hotels you are building there

>>2932592
good luck anon, it's nice of you to work hard to help your mom

>>2932593
Dude tell me about it but it's deep south Texas along the boarder of Mexico. Average rainfall is like 20 inches per year. The horizontal roof has a rain water pooling problem but the heat of the sun burns that off pretty fast. It's never sticking around for multiple days.

Better to do the silicone seal with the Tropico and get the bonus on sun reflectivity and water proof because there's also signs of water damage on the ceiling drywall which i'm also going to try and replace and upgrade the insulation. I got about 20k budgeted for these home improvements and I got contractors showing up to demo the bathroom soon because it's a mess in there too. My dad built this house and he didn't know what the fuck he was doing. We have to go under the table because he didn't pull permits for anything.

>>2932110
>types of 3" fittings?
>>2932511
>Tubing coupled to a barbed fitting is secured by a hose clamp. You could remove the clamp and then the tubing.
What is the chances that barbed fitting is a separate part and is screwed onto the discharge outlet?
Is it possible the discharge outlet is threaded.. And that visible barbed fitting was screwed onto it?

If the discharge outlet was barbed, then why are there those 2 bits sticking out? what purpose would they serve to the discharge hose being clamped onto the barbed section?

This pump comes with accessories, like circlips and inlet hose filter.. does this help identify what's going on?

I got home Friday and saw how fucked up my mailbox was. Its wood and hand painted. The paint is chipping off and it looks disgusting. Its been like this for over a year. I just got so tired of it looking like shit immediately got hoe from work and started scraping off the paint with a putty knife then sanded the rest of with a wire wheel on a drill. Then spray painted it with like 5 coats of primer painter white spray paint. Ive never painted before in my life. Hope it lasts a bit. It looks fine.

>>2932592
Fuck working on roofs by the way. Power washer did a good job though. It was like 84 but felt like 100 up there. Going to let it bake in the sun and then get back up there in the morning to seal the bolts off with silicone caulk and on monday paint on the stuff. Guy that was supposed to help texts me at 9am asking when we're getting started like I didn't tell him to show up at 6am sharp.

>>2932616
>Fuck working on roofs by the way.
This. Those solar panels I had to put on the roof were an absolute ass pain because of the heat, and the slickness of the tin roof. I don't like being on roofs especially towards the edge where you have a nice long 2 story fall. I got some grippy knee pads that really helped with my stability when working up there. Otherwise it was like trying to climb an old metal slide constantly.

>>2932602
the pump body has pipe threads. if it was a name brand pump theyd be NPT threads but if its a chinkshit knockoff they might be britsh pipe or just a close sized straight metric thread or one of about 10 different fire hose styles or just a thread shaped blob of die cast aluminum that isnt any standard. its a crapshoot and without measuring exactly on your pump its a shot in the dark
the t handle nut is meant as a quick connect to hand tighten the barbed hose fitting on the pump after its been attached on the hose
banjo cam lock fittings are the best for a pump like this but youd have more money in 6 fittings and a couple pieces of good hose than 2 chink pumps cost

>>2932650
thanks anon.
>a thread shaped blob of die cast aluminum that isnt any standard. its a crapshoot and without measuring exactly on your pump its a shot in the dark
lmao.

+1 (You)

>>2932592
Roof Anon here, finished up the cleaning yesterday and went up this morning around 7am to seal up all the bolts. Had just enough silicone caulk. The one spot I thought was rust was just a huge chunk of bird poop that baked onto the metal of the roof but some wire brush action fixed that up. Going to double check my math for square footage and get the roof treatment stuff and get up there at 5am Monday to get started. Got mild heat stroke the day prior and had to jump into a cold shower to cool down and it sucks ass. So i'll do anything to avoid the heat.

>>2932834
Also FYI for those of you in desert climates with lots of dust power washing your roof is good to get the baked on bird shirt but more birds will show up because the roof is their toilet. So you will get angry at bird for shitting. Dust will also gather up so maybe grab an electric leaf blower. The only way it was ever going to be perfect is if the metal sheets were pre-treated before they were bolted to the roof. Once it's up there there's a certain amount of dirt that's going to miss in with your roof treatment no matter what.

>>2932835
Oh yeah, the roof is always dusty. Even after a good rain, before it even dries off the dust and pollen is already accumulating again.

>>2928887
ADHD brain kicked in with combination of rainy weather. Ended up trying to slapstick this together for the first time

I also learned the hard way that if you want to buy home depot wood you need to buy some sealant for the ends or else they'll be more prone to bending. I swear it was straight when I bought it from the store prior to letting it idle 3 weeks in my driveway unsupervised. I'll bring a moisture meter next time

Roof Anon again. Finished up the flat portion of the roof around 10. I got up there at around 7(ish) because I didn't want to haul heavy 4.7 gallon buckets of the Tropico up in the dark. It took a while but i'm a one man operation.

So that's phase 1 of this work done. It cost about 1200 dollars for all the materials and tools. The roof is just shy of 900 square feet.

Now I need to do some measuring and prep work for the pitched part of the roof. That side will get acrylic because i'm worried the silicone Tropico will just slowly loose it's fight with gravity and goop down the 30 degree pitch of the roof.

That'll probs run me another 2k all said and done. I'm excited to bust out my thermal camera and see if I can measure the difference in heat already.

>>2933146
So far i'm very pleased with the result. Normally at this latitude and longitude the Texas sun beats on this roof like a pawn shop drum. My thermal sensor reads the ceiling at being deep into the 90s even breaking 100f. Looking at my thermal sensor around 4(ish)pm and the roof is hanging around 85. It's noticeably cooler.

>>2933038

>Not Buying Pressure Treated Ground Contact Wood

Buy Yellow Pine My Guy

>>2933166
So I have this hairbrained crackpot idea from your post to make more of these things, buy the pressure treated yellow pine, and transfer all the firewood into the new wood-be 8ft long racks about 6ft high from the soil. Would it be overkill if I dug out a bit of a trench and put it a hand tampered 4 inch gravel base and then put the regular soil back on top? Would it be or value later in case I decided to do something with this space or would it just be a hassle to dig out later. I don't mind throwing a couple hundred at home depot for mats to make it look more fancy over a weekend project stretched out to 10

>>2933038
>>2933166
>moisture meter
>pt wood
its a fucking firewood rack. old rotten pallets are just fine. less rotten ones are even better. total cost $0
t. 12 cords stacked on old rotten pallets

>>2933239
Thank you sir for snapping me out of that I will now proceed with the next part of the master plan

Optimizing gutters
With no survivors

>didn't want to make new thread award
my washing machine smells like death, pls help
I started renting this the apartement about half a year ago, previous tenant said she never cleaned it
I always leave the lid open but it stinks to high heavens, already did a run with the cleaning fluid and drained it after, this was about a month ago, it only got stinkier since
do I bleach it or what?

>>2934853
>do I bleach it
well try that first, maybe it comes from the evacuation plumbing ?

>>2928732 (OP)
>3 day weekend
It's fucking tuesday

>>2934853
Citric acid, baking soda, and Sodium Percarbonate (oxi-clean). Mix together and dump half a cup or so into the machine and run its hottest longest cycle. Repeat a few times. If you're too lazy to buy the individual ingredients search wash bomb washing machine cleaning solution there's an appliance repair guy that sells it + a few other goodies in the mix that break down fats and oils.

>>2934986
What are time stamps :)

>>2929465
What are those for?

>>2932578
No but I should have. The drawer on the right had tighter tolerances and is getting a bit harder to pull out. Still works good though. And I think I can wax it up without pulling everything out.

>>2935220
Tools during the week and i'm going to use it for a camping trip soon where it can store camping gear.

Help me Anakin. Do I just add wood filter to stop the rot and some sort of material to stop further moisture coming in?
May I dig underneath and add gravel to help with draining? I'm new to DIY and this started after the winter thaw

Also want to change out the pavers for square shaped ones with a 4 or 6 inch packed gravel base anyway

>>2934986
No it's Sunday today what are you on about?

>>2937608
>No it's Sunday today what are you on about?
it's Monday nigga...

>>2932642
did you buy those "cougar paws" roofers always wear, or are they only good on asphalt shingles?

>>2937648
>did you buy those "cougar paws" roofers always wear, or are they only good on asphalt shingles?

I bought these: https://sutherlands.com/products/item/6602858/custom-leathercraft-knee-pad-non-skid-ultraflex

They're pretty grippy and rubberish. Saved my knees. Used them lately doing some crawling around and kneeling on gravel under some stuff I needed to weld. Damn rocks in the knees hurts too much anymore. I'm getting too old for this shit...

>>2937639
Take a hike Tuesday