Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT A trip back from the edge.
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Workspaces between 705 and 1200 squarefeet.
shortykorte
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It is. 31° but feels like 23° 
jollygreengiant
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Come now, you can't leave us hanging like that.
harley jim
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So back to bringing you up to date. When my son was young, and I had my 2nd bike, we rode out to the middle of nowhere Michigan for a bike meet. It was actually about 15 miles from Hell,
"Are you wet? Are you cold? Are you depending on Bosch or Lucas to get you home? ****** HELL!!
You must be at Suzi Greenway's Bi-annual Freeze Your *** Off Party".
Suzy passed away this past spring, so bunch of her club members (I think it was Norton and BSA) got together and held a memorial meet. Here are a few of the interesting bikes at the meet.
"Are you wet? Are you cold? Are you depending on Bosch or Lucas to get you home? ****** HELL!!
You must be at Suzi Greenway's Bi-annual Freeze Your *** Off Party".
Suzy passed away this past spring, so bunch of her club members (I think it was Norton and BSA) got together and held a memorial meet. Here are a few of the interesting bikes at the meet.
sublime68charger
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Nice bike pics
sublime68charger
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So what inside work did you get done inside?
Details are with the way the cable attaches to the bottom of the bottom door you have to remove the entire hinge to remove it. Then they tell you to put the pulleys on the outside of the rail while the cable is between the rail and the door. How in the heck is that supposed to work. Then there's no adjustment in and out so on the top hinge so the pulley digs into the header.
We worked outside on putting up the first bay door. I was hoping to have the She Shed done by the first weekend in January. Pics are coming, I promise.
Prospecter
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It's difficult for us DIYers to keep to a schedule in the winter months. I wonder if southern folks have the same problem in the summer? In any case, sounds like you are making progress on your list.
Finallygotit
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Lou's Garage
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It can be a problem in both seasons in the South. Some Summer days the heat, humidity, or both can be just too much. The Junior Building has 15' walls so with the 14' door and 10' high windows open it's not too bad most of the time. The small garage has heat and A/C so it's good in all but the worst weather. This past weekend, the only thing I was able to accomplish in the big garage was to replace the battery in the motorhome. It was 30's and 40's most of the time inside and colder outside. I ran the heat all weekend in the little garage and accomplished a few small tasks in there. Of course, the weekend was abnormal as we were thawing out after 3/4" of snow topped with 1/4" of ice on Friday.
Lou Manglass
Lou Manglass
jollygreengiant
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I know my motivation to get things done in the winter certainly drops. Especially on days like today when I need to fight to get the tractor started in my unheated 23F shop so that I can go blow snow on an open station tractor with a -4F windchill. It almost has me wishing I lived somewhere further south, but then I remember that I don't like much above 85 either. I just can't win.
Prospecter
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I'm surprised you have starting problems when your tractor is in the barn. Mine definitely need the glow plugs in the unheated portion of my garage, but they start easily enough. I do make sure I add the anti gel treatment.
jollygreengiant
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Mine doesn't have glow plugs, just a coolant heater and a magnetic oil pan heater that I use when it gets really cold. I should have had the timer set a bit longer and likely had the magnetic heater on it as well but I wasn't expecting it to get that cold last night. Normally it's not too bad to start if I get things warmed up beforehand. But that tractor is 45 years old so I guess it's earned the right to be a bit cantankerous in it's old age.
Prospecter
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Yup. That would do it! Good old tractor!
NORMALLY I don't do much outside during the winter but getting Momma's She Shed done has negated normalcy. As far as what I normally do in the winter, it doesn't matter what the weather is like. With the propane furnace and the kerosene torpedo, the shop goes from 40*F to 68*F in about an hour.
jollygreengiant
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Hopefully your weather hasn't been like ours when you are trying to work outside. I think I could count the sunny non windy days since Dec 1 on one hand. It's been a lot of cold, and wind, and snow.
But then again it was like this last year too, right up until about early February and then winter was pretty well over. Maybe we'll get that again this year.
Just watch yourself working outside in this weather, especially on the ice.
sublime68charger
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following your thread you can say that again!
Tune up the Band for the slow Death! by song! LOL!
course I dont have alot of room to talk.
Our weather has been very weird. Low 30s (*F) one day, high teens the next.
I'm jumping out of chronological order in my rewind. Back in the end of July we hired a friend of the family to help me finish the She Shed. He can only work on the weekends. Anyway, we finished the purlins and got the roof tin done by the end of September. After that we attacked the gable ends. Yes, that monkey is me. He's more comfortable on mechanical lifts than I am, and I'm more comfortable hanging from the structure. So I did all the peak stuff.
The next post will PROBABLY go back to the fall and some of the other things I've been doing.
Prospecter
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You made some really great progress!
Once I am out in it, I don't mind the cold. It's the dampish 30ish weather that soaks into my bones that I detest. Wind would wreak havoc with those panels, though. It does not take much breeze to turn panels into sails!
Once I am out in it, I don't mind the cold. It's the dampish 30ish weather that soaks into my bones that I detest. Wind would wreak havoc with those panels, though. It does not take much breeze to turn panels into sails!
I hear you on the damp part. The one that really gets me is the high winds that drive the cold through your clothing and deep into you.You made some really great progress!
Once I am out in it, I don't mind the cold. It's the dampish 30ish weather that soaks into my bones that I detest. Wind would wreak havoc with those panels, though. It does not take much breeze to turn panels into sails!
We did have a roof panel catch the wind and get ripped out of our hands. Luckily it missed my daughter's car by about a foot and it didn't crease the panel.
jollygreengiant
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Luckily it didn't rip your hand open when it became airborne. I've seen something similar before.
Bob Heine
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Kirk, had that been me up there, that poor kid would have been real wet.
harley jim
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That's some good progress Kirk! This has been a long time coming.
As for the cold, 735 miles cured most of my problems. Last week was miserable, but You can 100% count on bad weather the first weekend in January, it sounds like a joke but as long as I have done the world of wheels it's always been the worst weather of the year.
As for the cold, 735 miles cured most of my problems. Last week was miserable, but You can 100% count on bad weather the first weekend in January, it sounds like a joke but as long as I have done the world of wheels it's always been the worst weather of the year.
Thx HJ, it's been a real long time coming and I've learned a TON.
Actually it's a weird winter up here. Low 30's one day, two days later mid-teens and windy. I was up on the roof today putting on the ridge cap and it was mid-30's, but super windy. Tomorrow's supposed to be in the mid-20's, Sunday mid-teens, Monday around 7 for the high, and Tuesday around 3 or 4. By next weekend it's supposed to be back in the high 20's. I miss the days when it got cold and stayed cold until March. Then you could get used to it and it was no big deal.
sublime68charger
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Cold is cold My thresh hold is 25 degrees for me to be doing outside work If I want to. and no wind. That is in January/Febuary.
25 in November feels like 15 in January though for some reason.
My Novemeber threshold is 35 or above for outside work. December is the same goes to 30
Course I have had to due work outside in way way worse weather that was not by choice stuff is broke and need to be set to right's or Im at a fire call and you don't get to pick your conditions there either.
I really really like the 40 degree day's in March it feels way way warm and there's no bugs or anything to deal with.
25 in November feels like 15 in January though for some reason.
My Novemeber threshold is 35 or above for outside work. December is the same goes to 30
Course I have had to due work outside in way way worse weather that was not by choice stuff is broke and need to be set to right's or Im at a fire call and you don't get to pick your conditions there either.
I really really like the 40 degree day's in March it feels way way warm and there's no bugs or anything to deal with.
sublime68charger
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Status update is the door on the She Shed yet or is the Tin all on!
How did your get the tin cut to match up to the roof line?
Hope your doing well and getting things done!
How did your get the tin cut to match up to the roof line?
Hope your doing well and getting things done!
Thanks for dropping in Sub. I'm going to try to get to doing a weekly update.
But to answer your question, the first bay door is up and usable. It's not done correctly (the tracks are too high), but it won't be a huge deal to fix it. The second door is done up to the point where the track transitions to horizontal and we have one more panel to put up as well.
On a very recent note, this morning I signed up to ride my motorcycle (the Buell Cyclone) on Sick Michigan Miles. Considering I've never drag raced in my life, this ought to be hilarious.
But to answer your question, the first bay door is up and usable. It's not done correctly (the tracks are too high), but it won't be a huge deal to fix it. The second door is done up to the point where the track transitions to horizontal and we have one more panel to put up as well.
On a very recent note, this morning I signed up to ride my motorcycle (the Buell Cyclone) on Sick Michigan Miles. Considering I've never drag raced in my life, this ought to be hilarious.
harley jim
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You have watched it all of your life!
What could possibly go wrong!
What could possibly go wrong!
jon72vega
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I think it was a Holiday Inn... LOL