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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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noice! i'm going to need to dive in and learn hows those things work myself. despite having intimate knowledge of computerized fuel injection, i've never owned a carb, and have never messed with one, till now... the willys has a buick 225 with a carb, and right now its running fine so i haven't touched it, but over the winter the motor will get pulled and i'll go through it top to bottom.
i dig seeing all of the wood work, but its nice to see somebody else turning wrenches.
thus far i've been mostly focused on cleanup, minor fixup and body work. got the interior repainted, trying to decide on what color blue for the body.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Treez !! I have two of those Makitas. A stair/rafter button does a great job holding the guard back.
Just starting a Timberframe again,will post in a few weeks.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nov 24, 2010 - 03:54pm PT
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I have failed to reach the top of three walls. Along the way I came to see that the hauling was a lot of work. Who knew! In a supertaco thread many years ago big wall veterans said a 4” pulley would be better than the Protraction’s 2 3/8” so I decided to try it out. The four inch CMI pulley I bought is rated to 16,000 lbs! Maybe a little overkill there. When I showed it around to local bigwall people they all said it was just too heavy. I thought this was pretty amusing since you are hauling 100 lbs or more and an extra pound is no big deal if it really helps do the job. So does it really do the job? I made a three bolt anchor on my 14 foot crack wall and compared hauling a 70lb. load with the Protraction and the 4” pulley with a Petzl basic ascender. The four inch pulley works a lot better.
Of course there is no reason not to go as light as possible. I decided to lighten the pulley by removing metal from the sheaves on either side.
My son, Peter, who is a mechanical engineer offered to run calcs for me to make sure the reduced sheaves would still be strong and, therefore, safe enough.
Here’s the calcs. I’m putting all three ways he ran the program so that those of you who do this stuff can see it.
The red parts are actually a function of the way the program is written so the simulations show the pulley will be fine. This is no surprise really because one has only to compare the carabiner holes on the pulley to the protraction carabiner holes to see you don’t need that much metal to support hauling.
Here are a few pics of cutting down the first sheaf. I still have the second side to go.
Have a great Thanksgiving y'all!
Zander
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 24, 2010 - 04:09pm PT
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Nov 30, 2010 - 10:01am PT
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After I finished making the regulator clock (details here http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1331017/Build-A-Regulator-Clock-With-Edge) for my wife's neice, my wife mentioned that I should look at fixing a crack in the upstairs bathroom ceiling.
Our upstairs bathroom has always been a sore spot as it had no shower, only a tub that didn't drain, and so we have never bathed in it during the entire 17 years that we have lived here. Our one and only shower was downstairs, located off the kitchen. Not ideal, but it worked for the whole time we raised our family here. My daughter is now graduated college and teaching math in Connecticut, and my son is a sophomore at U Mass Amherst.
We had no reason to remedy the shower situation now with both of them out of the house, but there was that crack in the ceiling...
The entry to the room was halfway blocked with a poorly placed sink.
The tub was inside the door and to the right, taking up precious space and collecting dust.
Left of the tub was wall space that was only useful for hanging pictures. Here you can see the crack in the ceiling that started this whole mess.
My wife is a sly one, and I suspect she knew full well what would happen next. I went in to fix the crack and 6 hours later the room was gutted back through the horsehair plaster and lathe to the old posts and beams.
It took me two weeks of working in the smallish space to re-plumb, re-wire, add insulation, sheetrock, flooring, a 48" shower stall, a pedestal sink, repaint, and re-accessorize, but finally we have a new favorite place to wash away the day.
The new entrance to the room. The toilet was the only fixture that we re-used.
The right, back corner where the tub used to reside.
And finally the left, back corner, which is the same view that showed the cracked ceiling in the photo above.
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NFB
Mountain climber
Wilson, Wyoming
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Nov 30, 2010 - 10:56pm PT
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Survival,
I have enjoyed this thread and have intended to participate for some time. Got a wild hair. Here goes:
It has been A BUSY year for A2 Plus, inc!
A2 Plus, inc = (Where A5=chinese death trap house and A1=tight, bomber, safe home) haha
This is a cool building we did this year for great folks. Private yoga studio at a residence in Wilson. The owners were great, the project went well and we stayed within budget!
This project we are wrapping up now. The home is owned by a holywood movie-star agent. It has been a great job for us!
When I get a free minute, I will post up some more.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Not as good as Tucker, but someday. No power tools were used at any time.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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"Crow and Bear Discuss Abstraction" 48"x48" Oil on Canvas (At Spirit Gallery, Truckee CA)
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NFB
Mountain climber
Wilson, Wyoming
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A2 Plus!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2010 - 08:38am PT
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NFB Rocks!
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Man, there are some craftsmen on this site! Nice work people!
Here is my humble addition. Finally the kids will have a place to play now that it gets dark at 4pm and it's wet outside most days. It has darts, ping pong, basket ball hoop (PIG anyone?), climbing wall, and a dry erase board :) for my 2.5 year old. So far it's a hit.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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I love this thread, there is amazing talent here on the Taco. The buildings, furniture and guitar are over the top.
"Camp II" Oil on Canvas 18"x24"
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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I just finished this today for a dear friend who facilitates Native American healing circles and sacred fires. The rattle is made of turtle shell with a deer bone handle and decorated with coyote fur, deer tail, leather, wood and bone beads, and partridge, blue jay, and woodpecker feathers (all found.) The inside contains dried corn from a sacred place, small stones that were collected from the roots of an upturned pine, and the beak and jaw bones of a songbird whose body I found in a field and buried. May the small bird continue to sing in ceremony!
A few months ago I had noticed that my friend was missing the eagle fetish that she placed in the direction of the East at her healing circles. During a visit to a sacred "grandfather" tree that she had shown me, I noticed a fallen branch on the ground and asked the tree's permission to use it. With permission granted, I sculpted the pine wood into an eagle and presented it to her, coincidentally (and unknown to me) on her birthday.
Later she found the original stone eagle fetish, and gifted that one during a pow wow to a friend who is a healer. Her friend, it turned out, was looking for an eagle fetish to use in her work and my small gift ripples out to the greater good.
THE PEACE TREE
Great branches of the White Pine shaded the ground below as Woodpecker gave the Peace Tree a good cleaning. Woodpecker was eating the little insects that had come to feast on the inner bark. It felt good to be cleansed of the creepy-crawlers that had gotten underneath the Peace Trees skin. From time to time, it was necessary for White Pine to call on Woodpecker to perform this act of service. Even the Peace tree had experiences that were a bother.
Woodpecker found joy in eating the juicy bugs that had plagued his friend, White Pine. He realized that his mission of service was to protect the peace by ridding White Pine, who was the peacekeeper of the forest, of unwanted distractions. To this day the feathers of Flicker, the Woodpecker, are highly prized for the strength of their cleansing of negativity and for their protection.
Storyteller, the Clan Mother of the Sixth Moon Cycle, shows us that anything we allow to get under our skin detracts from our ability to find inner peace. The judgmental words of others can reflect our need for outside approval. We can protect ourselves from the unjust opinions of others through cleansing the negativity, adjusting our focus, and allowing the Peace Tree to be our teacher. Is something bothering you that should be cleansed in order for you to rediscover and to protect your inner peace?
From “Earth Medicine” by Jamie Sams
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Nice Edge.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Dec 18, 2010 - 01:42pm PT
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Beautiful kids, Cragman.
Beautiful structures, too.
Your strong work ethic is obvious, too, very admirable. Just wish it were more obvious across the board in today's generation like it was in previous ones.
Cool how your roof beams all came together in the final product.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Dec 18, 2010 - 03:15pm PT
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Dean,
That is incredible, thanks for sharing.
FWI, Chris and Maureen and their kids will be down from Alaska for Christmas. It's been several years since we have all been together and am looking forward to it. It's not like the old days when i could cruise up to June and crash at their place.
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rich sims
Trad climber
co
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Dec 18, 2010 - 09:51pm PT
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Really beautiful work everyone
Some of my most rewarding work has been working with wood.
I think some of the best lesions I taught my daughters was when we built our houses.
I am being taught some lesions of my own building my first S.C.I.P. foam and shotcrete house.
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