PetersCreek
Codger-in-training
It's been a long, long week and I'm beat. But there's still more yet to do.
I don't remember if I mentioned it or not but The Wife® and I spent the better part of our July 4th holiday shopping at Lowe's. Not only did they have a lot of stuff we wanted on sale...they were offering a 10% military discount, too. So, we made off with garage cabinets, a storage shed, and construction materials to build a floor for it. Well it all arrived last week and I started to work on the floor last Saturday by digging 9 holes for the concrete pier blocks.
As luck would have it, my back yard here at the foot of Mt. Eklutna is apparently where rocks come to spawn and die. The place is lousy with 'em. Digging holes in my yard means swinging a pick-adz before I can get a shovel into it. Seriously, I pulled up rocks bigger than my head...and y'all should know just how big that is. But I digress.
After digging those nine holes, heaving rocks bigger than my head, and toting ten 60-lb bags of gravel, concrete pier blocks, and other materials from the driveway to the back yard, I was one sore old fart. But the rest of the job went far easier if not so much quicker. Here's where the project stands now...
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...all that's left now is to turn some of that leftover wood into a sturdy ramp, and construction of the shed itself.
For you tool heads out there, this project brought two new power tools to my collection. This job was asking just a bit too much of my little Makita cordless drill, so I picked up a Hitachi ½-inch lithium-ion hammer drill,...and it rocks. The other new toy is actually for future projects...a DeWALT biscuit joiner. Yep, I've been a good boy. Tired but good. :-D
I don't remember if I mentioned it or not but The Wife® and I spent the better part of our July 4th holiday shopping at Lowe's. Not only did they have a lot of stuff we wanted on sale...they were offering a 10% military discount, too. So, we made off with garage cabinets, a storage shed, and construction materials to build a floor for it. Well it all arrived last week and I started to work on the floor last Saturday by digging 9 holes for the concrete pier blocks.
As luck would have it, my back yard here at the foot of Mt. Eklutna is apparently where rocks come to spawn and die. The place is lousy with 'em. Digging holes in my yard means swinging a pick-adz before I can get a shovel into it. Seriously, I pulled up rocks bigger than my head...and y'all should know just how big that is. But I digress.
After digging those nine holes, heaving rocks bigger than my head, and toting ten 60-lb bags of gravel, concrete pier blocks, and other materials from the driveway to the back yard, I was one sore old fart. But the rest of the job went far easier if not so much quicker. Here's where the project stands now...
Click for larger image
...all that's left now is to turn some of that leftover wood into a sturdy ramp, and construction of the shed itself.
For you tool heads out there, this project brought two new power tools to my collection. This job was asking just a bit too much of my little Makita cordless drill, so I picked up a Hitachi ½-inch lithium-ion hammer drill,...and it rocks. The other new toy is actually for future projects...a DeWALT biscuit joiner. Yep, I've been a good boy. Tired but good. :-D
