Impressive! On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, 1:49 PM OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Looking good! > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 11:43 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > We just returned from a week up north. This was a "working vacation" > which > > is to say we did a lot of work up there and I actually hadn't taken the > > week off from my real job so I was doing that too. > > I wanted to jack up the enclosed porch on the front of the Cushman house, > > you might remember our 1880-1920s era farm house on the northern estate. > > The porch had sagged real bad and allowed water to pool in front of the > > door which rotted out the sill. Unfortunately we found that the rot > > actually extended into the whole south end of beam and a bunch of the > > floor. I managed to save the north end of the beam but had to splice in > > 174" of new wood. The existing beam was 6" x 6", I ended up putting in 4x > > 2"x8" to make up the thickness and then putting a 4 foot splice onto the > > existing beam. I still need to put an outside splice but I ran out of > time. > > Pictures and more details: > > https://curtsotherblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/things-have-escallated.html > > -Curt > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > -- > OK Don > > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to > pause and reflect." Mark Twain > > “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” > Wernher > Von Braun > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
