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I've been watching some slasher-comedy films like Thankskilling and Poultrygiest, and they're hilarious! I love em!
So I have a hilarious story to tell.
My brother and I just got finished breaking up some concrete yesterday(that story to come after this one).
We went out to the country house to dump the concrete on the river bank. Alligators and hurricanes have been tearing up that bank for years.
When we get finished, there are 3 guys shooting all sorts of guns(I'm sure some illegal ones) about 15 feet away from us.
My brother is driving, and just keeps staring at them shooting their guns.
All of a sudden he smacks right into a mailbox. Hit's it so hard the whole thing looks like a stick of TNT went off in it.
I guess it's one of those "you had to be there", but it was hilarious and we just took off!
As for the concrete story, this one is a bit manlier. Well more like I felt like a caveman.
I have a 30' X 3' strip of concrete that needed to go.
So my brother and I decided that we'll get it up. The only issue was that we didn't really have the right tools
We wound up breaking it all with just the back of an axe and a shovel!
We would take turns, one leveraging the concrete with the shovel while the other whacked it with the back of the axe.
It only took us 3 hours to take all of it up. Plus it saved me a bunch of money.
Now I'm just so friggin sore! I can barely walk :/
Wow, I'm in the top three 'last post by' in the Chit-Chat!
I used the back of a splitting maul, which means a bit more force than an axe, but is essentially the same idea.
I spent an inordinate amount of time this weekend changing a couple switches in my house. I thought it would be a half hour job, but it ended up taking hours. The problem was that I thought the service came in through one of the wall boxes, but it actually came in through the ceiling light fixture. I didn't figure that out until I took the fixture down in frustration at not being able to figure out how the wires were connected.
I was getting rid of a couple X-10 switches that were doing me no good at all. The idea was kind of cool, but the switches only lasted a few years before becoming increasingly tempermental. It's bad enough when you hit a switch and the light doesn't come on. It really sucks when it comes on....and you can't get it to shut off.
Anyways, it's fixed now.
I would imagine that it would be quite shocking when it doesn't come on.
I'm so close to passing up the next guy.
I replaced all the switches in my house a couple years back. As I was on about the fourth or fifth room, I noticed that I wasn't shutting off the electricity anymore. That's often not a real issue with house wiring, which is so stiff that you can set a wire in any direction and it will stay there. Crossing wires is a bit hard to do by accident. I was still thinking about this as I pulled out one switch....and somebody called me on my phone, which was on vibrate and vibrated right about 60Hz. I jumped pretty high.
Holy guacamole! I bet so.
I'm pretty bad at electrical, but good enough to wing it.
When it comes to replacing fans and switches, I can do it, but any thing else... ehh.
That's about all I've done, too. One or two outlets, some CAT-5 cabling (trivial in comparison), a bunch of switches, and a pair of bathroom fans. Those last two were a extractor fans, and I really like them, so I guess I'm an extractor fan fan. I haven't worked with anything fancy, either, and stay away from 220 lines whenever possible (though I guess I did wire in a few thermostats on 220 lines, now that I think about it).
I've put an extra 60-amp box on my home service myself - moved oven and dryer 220's and what not. Crazy pool filter breakers with GFCI built into the breaker that goes into the panel...
Lots of cat-5 - heck we made RS232 cables and ran them for our customers 30 years ago!
Got my own punch down tools for phone system and network jack setup - have wired my last three offices myself for all desk services - all the way to the network jack boxes.
You're a braver man than I. My dad always told me never to fix two things by myself: electrical stuff and brakes
I've got my own acetylene torch for doing real plumbing as well!
Brakes - no problem. Re-built an Oldsmobile engine 30 years ago. Down to stuff like mic'ing the crank shaft. You use this thin plastic thread - totally tube-like - and put it in place - and then squeeze it down - by torqueing down the bolts to whatever foot pounds and yadda yadda. Then you take off the bolts and see how "wide" the tube-like thread has become. Look it up on the chart and that width corresponds to the "tightness" in micrometers of that joint. I think they call this plastigauging or something like that...
Doesn't everyone here have a torque wrench?
Drill press?
Radial Arm saw - with digital readout?
Table saw?
Band saw?
Metal vice for the drill press?
Biscuit joiner?