BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Maybe, if I knew what it was(google didn't help).

You peel off the cap shingles and a bit of the top edge of your roof decking far enough to get the nose of it started under the decking and work it down until the arms brace on the rafters/trusses and it will pry the roof deck, underlayment and shingles off in one big chunk.
I also used it to rip nailed on decking off of good joists.
It's a very user specific tool. I was hoping a roofing company would see the add and want it. That is who could use it. It was worth buying it when we bought this house because the garage had to be take to the rafters and even some rafters replaced.

 

[aart]

Sweet! Don't need it tho.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning and much thanks for the coffee! The kitten needed feeding and he let me know it, and now that he is fed, "Loki" returns!
We have a flash flood watch posted again. We only seem to get gully washers when they don't post watches. A bear hanging around got into one of my neighbor's sheds and stole some horse grain. He is such a "duh" sometimes...
I think splitting firewood is on the list today for me. I hope the tool organizing goes well, DL. Send a table saw this way if you need to get rid of one!
Aart, I hope the garage is not a mess, but it sounds like you are prepared for such a thing happening. Enjoy the day, CAFE!

 

[cheepteach]

good morning everyone!
cleaning and de-cluttering here too---nothing worth selling, though

 

[aart]

Aart, I hope the garage is not a mess, but it sounds like you are prepared for such a thing happening.

There's a LOT of water in there, much more than last time.
1.5" in an hour. GAHGRRR!
Might break out the sump sump set up instead of using the shop vac.
Chicken run is a mess, 'under run' completely flooded and all the sand in there washed into the run.

 

[DobieLover]

There's a LOT of water in there, much more than last time.
1.5" in an hour. GAHGRRR!
Might break out the sump sump set up instead of using the shop vac.
Chicken run is a mess, 'under run' completely flooded and all the sand in there washed into the run.

Is there any way to have a wide, deep, pitched trench dug around everything to prevent the water from getting there in the first place?
When we first bought our property, the garage was always flooding. It was set on this nice flat location which also happened to be the lowest point in the yard. All three sides around the garage were higher than the garage by at least a foot. So water from three sides were being driven into the garage! I had a 6 ft wide trench started at the front right corner going all the way around those three sides of the garage pitching down as it went and ending at the left front corner then a 12" wide trench was added from there to the ditch at the road for the buried drain pipe. I filled in the trench and bury the pipe with crusher run. The crusher run on the right side of the garage is partially covered by my walkway. I covered the crusher run at the back of the garage with some old flagstone that was laying around and that's where my woodshed is. The crusher run remains exposed on the left side of the garage.
I haven't had a drop of water in there since. Even with all of the violent rains we've had that flood the front yard and have a river running through that. Not one drop.

 

[aart]

Is there any way to have a wide, deep, pitched trench dug around everything to prevent the water from getting there in the first place?

Believe me, I've pondered all the options over the last 22 years, well for the first 5-6 anyway. I won't go into all I've pondered and why I didn't do any of them.
I've got it pretty well 'controlled' with trenches and 'door seal plugs', except when the maintenance on those is neglected<blush> and it rains more than a 1/2" an hour.

1500gph pump took longer to set up than it did to remove all the water it was going to.
Still need to shop vac the remainder....but saved a lot of time.
Oh, don't prime the pump while it's running
I knew that, but did it anyway...got soaked but not electrocuted.

 

[bruceha2000]

Tonya, if you sell all your tools you won't be able to work on houses anymore!

 

[DobieLover]

Tonya, if you sell all your tools you won't be able to work on houses anymore!

Most of what I'm selling is duplicate stuff that I inherited from my father's stash. I'm keeping the better of the duplicates! Things like the drill press, the quick rip tool, the bow wrench, and things like that I'm never going to need again.
At my age the chances of me doing another flip a remote at best.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Yeah, right...