12-17-2009, 09:12 PM
Kurt - It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from your place to mine. 
Come on over and we'll get mine done, then I'll help you build one. I would love to see a 20' x 40' trainroom filled up with your excellent work!
Tom - Sorry to hear that you are down. My best wishes on a speedy recovery. Hope you have a grand time with your son's visit. Now, the plywood actually weighs about 10 times your weight limit. At least that is what the internet said when I was calculating how many sheets I could carry in my truck. But 50 pounds for a sheet of 1/2" sounds too high. I would guess it is maybe 30 pounds each.
Oh... the bad news is that I am going to have to carry every piece of lumber by hand to the foundation - about 100 feet. The yard is just too mushy to drive on right now. UGH. As I think about it right now, that is going to really, well, suck, for lack of a better term.
Poliss - Don't need the snow for the next four days. But we will take some on Christmas morning. Here in southeast Texas, we get snow maybe once every 3 or 4 years. Several years ago, on Christmas day no less, we woke up with 6" of white stuff covering everything! It was truly spectacular, and unforgettable, like they say, a Christmas miracle! It was the by far the most snow I had ever seen in the Houston area, and I have been living here for 49 years.
On that note, just a couple weeks ago, we had about 1 to 2 inches of snow already. It was the earliest recorded snowfall ever in the Houston area. The temperature wasn't below freezing, so the snow melted off in just a few hours. Still, it is quite spectacular for us to see everything covered in white.
Nacho - We had our dry spell last July and August. Seemed like 2 months with no rain. We were 10 inches behind! Last fall we bought some land and had planted 80 trees. Every week we were hauling water. I bought a 250 gallon tank which fits in the back of the truck, and it kept us busy! And we only lost maybe 5 or 6 of the trees.
Anyway, over the past month, we have caught up on the 10 inches and are actually over our average annual rainfall now.
Back to the building - I drilled the anchor bolt holes for the bottom plates, cut some of the studs for the places where the slab is out of level, and am laying out the bottom plates and top plates. Tomorrow it will be time to rOcK aNd RoLL!
Come on over and we'll get mine done, then I'll help you build one. I would love to see a 20' x 40' trainroom filled up with your excellent work!Tom - Sorry to hear that you are down. My best wishes on a speedy recovery. Hope you have a grand time with your son's visit. Now, the plywood actually weighs about 10 times your weight limit. At least that is what the internet said when I was calculating how many sheets I could carry in my truck. But 50 pounds for a sheet of 1/2" sounds too high. I would guess it is maybe 30 pounds each.
Oh... the bad news is that I am going to have to carry every piece of lumber by hand to the foundation - about 100 feet. The yard is just too mushy to drive on right now. UGH. As I think about it right now, that is going to really, well, suck, for lack of a better term.
Poliss - Don't need the snow for the next four days. But we will take some on Christmas morning. Here in southeast Texas, we get snow maybe once every 3 or 4 years. Several years ago, on Christmas day no less, we woke up with 6" of white stuff covering everything! It was truly spectacular, and unforgettable, like they say, a Christmas miracle! It was the by far the most snow I had ever seen in the Houston area, and I have been living here for 49 years.
On that note, just a couple weeks ago, we had about 1 to 2 inches of snow already. It was the earliest recorded snowfall ever in the Houston area. The temperature wasn't below freezing, so the snow melted off in just a few hours. Still, it is quite spectacular for us to see everything covered in white.
Nacho - We had our dry spell last July and August. Seemed like 2 months with no rain. We were 10 inches behind! Last fall we bought some land and had planted 80 trees. Every week we were hauling water. I bought a 250 gallon tank which fits in the back of the truck, and it kept us busy! And we only lost maybe 5 or 6 of the trees.
Anyway, over the past month, we have caught up on the 10 inches and are actually over our average annual rainfall now.
Back to the building - I drilled the anchor bolt holes for the bottom plates, cut some of the studs for the places where the slab is out of level, and am laying out the bottom plates and top plates. Tomorrow it will be time to rOcK aNd RoLL!
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