Tradesmen: Show us your at work projects

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That's cool, I didn't know you were in that line of work. I did commercial water treatment for a while and we'd clean those out for high-end contract customers every spring.
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Official title: Chief Building Engineer - Critical.
We’ve actually got rid of our chemicals and run a Promoss water treatment system. Even with town of Cary’s atrocious reclaim water. Which with that water And chemicals is why the towers didn’t last.
We’re moving to 100% stainless now too.
I’ll get some pics of the damage that caused tomorrow, for those that never seen it. I’m positive You have seen what chemicals and bad water do. lol.
 
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A number of years back we did a large milling, drying and millwork job for a local church that was building a YMCA adjacent to their sanctuary. They shipped in several log trucks of southern yellow pine logs, along with some large white oak and red maple logs that were harvested from the site. We milled, kiln dried, and then processed the lumber into interior and exterior trim and other uses. Some of the largest white oak slabs were made into slab tables for the common areas of the church and YMCA.

When we completed that job, we still had a few boule's of WO and RM leftover, which we've been slowly selling off for them as the opportunity arose.

Recently they asked if we could make a couple of library tables from some of the leftover WO. They wanted something 8' long, but light enough to be portable.

Below is the result.

Table 1 was made from a center cut (quartersawn) 11/4 character slab. The slab was resawn into a pair of bookmatched planks, and then we assembled them into the pattern below. Pith voids were filled with black epoxy. It was a bit of a challenge due to all of the stresses present in the lumber. The multiple pith's from the limbs all wanted to move in different directions, and each one of the resawn bookmatched slabs also had to be ripped down the middle and reglued in order to help alleviate the results of the reaction wood present.

Although challenging, I am pleased with the character of the end result.

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Below is an end view of the same table.

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And here is an opposing corner view.

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The legs were made from a 3 piece glue up of edge spalted, quartersawn WO, with veneer sliced off of the two "show sides" and then bookmatched glued around the corner to cover the seams from the glue up. I enjoy this technique. It provides for a more stable leg and allows me artistic freedom to create a piece with character that spans around the corners. The edge glue lines tend to disappear since they are located on the corners of the leg.

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Here is the second top. This one was not a center cut, but was selected for both the spalting and edge grain character that is showcased in the middle of the table. The resawn planks were also ripped to allow for addressing the stresses; I'm pleased with how the glue lines disappeared though. Although it's difficult to tell from the photo's, both tops are actually 4 boards glued together on edge. The center match is obvious due to the bookmatch, but the other two are less so....

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Below is a close up of the grain character in the center of table 2.

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Here are the two bases before finishing and attaching the tops.

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With the needs of the sawmill and kiln operation, along with running the farm, I don't get a chance to do much woodworking. Typically I refer clients to local woodworking artisans. In this case though, it's a good customer and we have a connection to the wood. All in all a fun project and I'm pleased with the results.
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Big talent right here. ^^^^
 
I have no idea what I'm doing. Have to use a trackhoe maybe once a year for a day or so. IMG_20230110_111922912_HDR.jpg

I'm no operator. Not by a long shot. But I am getting better.
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No one hurt and no unexpected damage🤣. Knuckle booms are cool as hell but I think they should have gone bigger than an 85. She is tippy.

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The second of three bridges is getting close to the home stretch.
 
Mirac said:
Official title: Chief Building Engineer - Critical.
We’ve actually got rid of our chemicals and run a Promoss water treatment system. Even with town of Cary’s atrocious reclaim water. Which with that water And chemicals is why the towers didn’t last.
We’re moving to 100% stainless now too.
I’ll get some pics of the damage that caused tomorrow, for those that never seen it. I’m positive You have seen what chemicals and bad water do. lol.
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Who is doing the controls?
 
Trevillian said:
I have no idea what I'm doing. Have to use a trackhoe maybe once a year for a day or so. View attachment 589793

I'm no operator. Not by a long shot. But I am getting better.
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No one hurt and no unexpected damage🤣. Knuckle booms are cool as hell but I think they should have gone bigger than an 85. She is tippy.

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The second of three bridges is getting close to the home stretch.
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So you got the 85 with the swivel bucket. I was wondering when I saw it a few weeks ago
 
heavydoc said:
So you got the 85 with the swivel bucket. I was wondering when I saw it a few weeks ago
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We did. It's a pretty cool piece of machinery. I think it was mainly for building boulder walls but it's perfect for handling all these timbers when I can talk the boss into having it on my site
 
More hazards of the Job.
I'm in Bed at 9pm. get woken up at 10:40pm Lab CRAH cooling unit craps the bed. 1 Engineer is driving in to make repairs while I'm up manuliplating cooling from other units in the room to bring temps down. .. it's 11.56pm... I wont be back to sleep tonight.

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I can't share pics, but I just wrapped up a controls retrofit on another central energy plant. It's such a good feeling to walk away from a plant with everything under control from your own efforts. 🤗

Edit to add: and the efforts of every electrician, mechanic, tech, etc involved. 😎
 
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Keep them coming. I enjoy seeing y’all’s work. Unfortunately I am no longer a tradesman so I won’t be contributing.

Still a tradesman at heart though!
 
Reclaimed Water line feeding our new towers…
Just started the last one up yesterday morning, turned around with all the tradesmen checking work and the water in the towers was gone.
I hadn’t had time to really set the domestic make up side so it got real low and scared me.

Started digging yesterday morning and couldn’t make the repair until today.

I been up all night Setting the domestic side.

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Turns out, there was a repair already made there with a coupling and DWV pvc pipe .

DWV ( Drain, Waste, Vent ) PVC pipe ,also known as foam core, is for gravity flow systems only. NOT pressures of any type.

Thanks Morons !
 
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Getting so close.
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Almost.
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First truck across didn't fall through and the bridge doesn't shimmy and shake like it used to👍
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Customer decided to have us widen it when we were at the last section to give road tractors more room to swing. It's funny how much 2 more feet to swing a big truck into helps.

Yes the truck above came over those boards boards that weren't set.
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Done and gone😃
 
Trevillian said:
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Getting so close.
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Almost.
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First truck across didn't fall through and the bridge doesn't shimmy and shake like it used to👍
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Customer decided to have us widen it when we were at the last section to give road tractors more room to swing. It's funny how much 2 more feet to swing a big truck into helps.

Yes the truck above came over those boards boards that weren't set.
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Done and gone😃
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Is that in fenley forest?
 
heavydoc said:
Is that in fenley forest?
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Mountaintop entrance on the Cashiers side.

As you pass the school and go up the last hill before Cashiers. Sharp, 120 degree downhill, right turn at the top.

About a mile and a half and it's on the left.


Have you been running your smaller truck lately in Highlands? I never got a look at who was driving but I've seen it a couple times recently.
 
Trevillian said:
Mountaintop entrance on the Cashiers side.

As you pass the school and go up the last hill before Cashiers. Sharp, 120 degree downhill, right turn at the top.

About a mile and a half and it's on the left.


Have you been running your smaller truck lately in Highlands? I never got a look at who was driving but I've seen it a couple times recently.
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I have not. And haven't sent anyone else that way. Not sure who it is. I've had a guy over around the scaly mountain area but not Cashiers
 
Got a call to replace some master pad bolts on a D6T. This is what I got when I showed up.
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After working for about an hour got the track back on so I could see what I am dealing with.
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And after drilling a few holes
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Ready for reassembly
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Got the boom pulled on this unit, it had a bad engine and was in poor condition.
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And put the good boom on this unit after I pulled the bad boom.

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Really wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Just had 1 pin sized up between the 2 machines. It would be the main boom pin to. Fought it for about 1.5 hours. Did the whole job in about 8 hours. Not to bad
 
Deck we’ve been working on for past week. 50’x12‘ overall 29’ covered and screened in. We’re almost done. We have stair handrails, screen system, and metal roof to install yet. I would have liked to drop the deck down a little more or over frame on the existing roof to get more pitch on the covered section but the client wouldn’t go for it 78CFCB87-B429-4C22-B56B-D069E0849FE3.jpeg
 
Bigdave0924 said:
Deck we’ve been working on for past week. 50’x12‘ overall 29’ covered and screened in. We’re almost done. We have stair handrails, screen system, and metal roof to install yet. I would have liked to drop the deck down a little more or over frame on the existing roof to get more pitch on the covered section but the client wouldn’t go for it View attachment 688645
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Did they keep the gutter ?
How’s the water from the main slope going to get to/over the flat roof ?
 
Mirac said:
Did they keep the gutter ?
How’s the water from the main slope going to get to/over the flat roof ?
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Metal roof is going on covered part of the deck. There is transition metal trim that goes in where the roof changes pitch. The porch roof is not truly flat it has about 12” of fall over 12’. Not much but as much as I could get and keep enough head room for a ceiling fans.

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Wilmington SABLE helicopter had an issue Thursday evening. Pilot set it down on a soccer field.
Local heavy tow company called me.

We loaded, transported and unloaded at the hanger.

Fun to do something other than HVAC units once in a while.

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heavydoc said:
....... Just had 1 pin sized up between the 2 machines. It would be the main boom pin to. Fought it for about 1.5 hours. Did the whole job in about 8 hours. Not to bad
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I have a 95lb swinging sledgehammer you need to come get...free99! Might have some other tools you need.
That is a 12lb Wilton next to it.
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I always forget this thread. Just like I forget to take pictures of before...

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Here is the latest project. Redecking and extending the center of the porch from 12' to 18' and extending the dormer (I never remember the proper name) to cover it with a shed roof in between.

A telehandler is cheating and I LOVE it!
 
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