Re: [MBZ] OT: Things have escallated

2021-09-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
 It's the farm in front of our farm. We were landlocked and this gives us road 
frontage. It was so cheap so we kinda of couldn't not buy it.
This land was all originally bought by my great, great, great, great, 
grandfather (my great grand mother's great grandfather) in about 1850. His 
son-in-law was a kind of neerdowell who didn't really want to work and would 
sell off land any time he needed money. The family started with something like 
600 acres but by the time I came along we were down to just over 200. The 
larger portion of that (140) went to my dad's cousin Jane over on the other 
side of the river. We ended up with the smallest, worst, piece of land the 
family ever owned. 

So interestingly we're kind of buying family land back.
-Curt

On Sunday, September 5, 2021, 02:52:21 PM EDT, Dwight Giles 
 wrote:  
 
 curt,remind me was this in your family? is it near the camp? great progress.
On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, 12:43 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes  
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
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Re: [MBZ] OT: Things have escallated

2021-09-05 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Impressive!

On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, 1:49 PM OK Don via Mercedes 
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
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> 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!
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Re: [MBZ] OT: Things have escallated

2021-09-05 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
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
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pause and reflect." Mark Twain

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2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
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[MBZ] OT: Things have escallated

2021-09-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
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
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