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sandburRanch said:
My entertainment long after retirement is reading through these older posts to determine how craftsmanship and general education has deteriorated over the years .

Now we have available hammering drill /screw drivers of all types to force screws and nails where those that resist entering can cause you to spend considerably more time with twisted off screws , stripped screw heads , bent nails and surely split wood when working close to the end of lumber . If done the way i was taught 60 + years ago 99 % of those wasted minutes and material wouldn't have happened . The time saving secret is pre-drilling for screws and some nailing applications , but i can't tell ya everything because some things just stick in the mind better if ya learn it yourself .
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Hammer drills have a purpose. CONCRETE. That would be their only purpose. But as I am building a concrete home...

Impact drivers - nice for setting screws into tin / metal roofing. Or concrete board (i.e. James Hardie Board, etc)

Nails aren't for anything permanent - but if you are going to use them, coated sinkers sure go in nice. ;)
 
sandburRanch said:
My entertainment long after retirement is reading through these older posts to determine how craftsmanship and general education has deteriorated over the years .

Now we have available hammering drill /screw drivers of all types to force screws and nails where those that resist entering can cause you to spend considerably more time with twisted off screws , stripped screw heads , bent nails and surely split wood when working close to the end of lumber . If done the way i was taught 60 + years ago 99 % of those wasted minutes and material wouldn't have happened . The time saving secret is pre-drilling for screws and some nailing applications , but i can't tell ya everything because some things just stick in the mind better if ya learn it yourself .

Note: I've intentionally tried to avoid any reply that didn't pertain to Coop building , and i think that's quite a feat sorting through 812 replies that cover any subject from human bronchitis to shep that got a leg cut off with the sickle mower . WOW . maybe we could convince the management to allow the original subject to follow through with each reply , but that's kinda doubtful .
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I am not going to reply to the management segment of your post.
Capricorn Farm is the person who started this thread,
Hammer drills have their place. They eliminate the need to stop and start when driving a screw. I don't know of any instance where they twist off the screw any worse than a straight drive drill does.
Drilling holes for screws is OK in very hard wood and for finish screwing. I put down thousands of feet of decking with screws. Never drilled a hole. Never twisted off a screw. Did break a few philips screw driver bits, though. They fatigue.
I built a few houses and garages, Used nails for permanent fasteners on all of them. after sixty years, none of them has come apart, yet.
 
47F and sunny. No need for a heavy coat. I went down and got the garlic bed mulched. I mowed a bunch of dried grass and used that.
I am not going to do anything more to that bed until it is time to cut the scapes. I don't expect many weeds.
after I pull the garlic, I am going to use that bed to start some rooting scions. I want to start some elderberry and apple stock. maybe some plum, too.
 
jvls1942 said:
I hope you know how lucky you are.
the temperature here right now is in the mid 20F's. heading for the teens by morning. Our normal is mid to upper 50F's.
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Yeah, i moved to Virginia on purpose. First we lived in Nova Scotia. Too cold. Then Florida. Too hot and crowded. Then TN. Which was nice, but we had to move back to FL because my parents needed help. Even more crowded. Once we got a chance to leave FL, we retired to VA. We really like it here. Not much snow, and freezing nights not the norm. Our last average frost is April 15th. We have seen 80 already this year. Luckily it's cooler down on the river.
 
3KillerBs said:
Been to the doctor again. Back on the steroids and a different set of antibiotics.
My doctor is always sensitive to cost. Since the treatment for Bronchitis and pneumonia is the same at this stage of affairs he didn't insist on a CAT scan to figure out which it was -- but that's held in reserve in case I'm not better by next week.

I'm sick of being sick.
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I am with you there. This chronic ear infection is no picnic. Must be about 7 years by now i have been dealing with it.
 
I have not been building as many coops as before, because i cut back to only polish chickens, except for a few cochin roosters that will be sold or turned to soup.
I have lots of hutches that i can turn into brooders for my young chicks. Maybe i should write about that. Plus i want to enlarge at least one of the grow out coops, and build another one.
 
I had lots of ear aches when I was very young. I can remember how they felt.
I had to chuckle, you said you were not building much anymore, and then go on to say all the remodeling you would like to do.
If I was allowed to move, I would go to Tenn. there is a large lake there that is loaded with crappies.
A friend of mine used to go there each year just to fish. I never had the chance to go along.
I spent a lot of time in Fla. I would not want to live there. My nephew did live there for awhile. He called it
God's waiting room.

 
I stayed indoors today. It threatened rain, and then it did rain on and off.
chilled off too.
did I mention that I called the tractor fixit shop at noon on Friday ? surprisingly he called me back .
He has the head off. Said the gasket looked OK. checked it out and found that the head is cracked. He found a head and has it in the machine shop. If it is in good shape they will true it up and grind the valve seats. This is turning out to be a pricey fix. Still cheaper than buying a new tractor.
Some people play with snowmobiles and R V's. I have a tractor. lol
 

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