Maggie’s What's Your View II

[hangunnr]

Spent a couple days last week over at a buddies place putting this mobile shooting bench together. All of the metal, wheels, axels and wagon tongue came out of various scrap piles. The marine grade plywood was donated. The seats, jacks and aluminum box were the only things purchased.
Seats are on swivel bases so to access the right bench you just sit and spin….

….a good start….

….metal work done and a coat of paint…

….got the top on, still needs some trim and finish. Plywood was a little damp so it’ll have to wait a week or two to dry out….

She’s a big girl, 80” wide by 64” deep…

 

[roostercogburn98]

Spent a couple days last week over at a buddies place putting this mobile shooting bench together. All of the metal, wheels, axels and wagon tongue came out of various scrap piles. The marine grade plywood was donated. The seats, jacks and aluminum box were the only things purchased…

….a good start….

….metal work done and a coat of paint…

….got the top on, still needs some trim and finish. Plywood was a little damp so it’ll have to wait a week or two to dry out….

She’s a big girl, 80” wide by 64” deep…

Nice

 

[hangunnr]

Beautiful morning only missing one thing…

 

[AmmoFort]

 

[91Eunozs]

Fucking awesome duet playing at our Christmas party

 

[91Eunozs]

 

[91Eunozs]

 

[91Eunozs]

The quality of her pipes was only surpassed by the turd clippers on parade!

(Hey, it’s the Pit! LoL)

 

[91Eunozs]

Quick pic of garage mahal progress OTW in to work last night… Screen for stucco is up, assume they’ll knock that out mañana, then rock work at some point this week. I hope.

Damn I’m ready for this project to be wrapped up.

 

[91Eunozs]

For all the noise and banging around that kept me awake all dang day, it doesn’t look like a lot was actually accomplished.

They got most of the blocking up for the ‘ledge’ that will be at the bottom of the stucco, and top of the rock portion of the wall facings:

Kind of like this ledge on the end of the garage (and various places around the house), but at the 10’ mark instead of down low like this one:

Didn’t have time to see what else was done…if anything. Going on less than two-hours sleep; gonna be a fun shift.

Did I mention how ready I am for this project to be completed?

 

[LeftyJason]

For all the noise and banging around that kept me awake all dang day, it doesn’t look like a lot was actually accomplished.

They got most of the blocking up for the ‘ledge’ that will be at the bottom of the stucco, and top of the rock portion of the wall facings:

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Kind of like this ledge on the end of the garage (and various places around the house), but at the 10’ mark instead of down low like this one:
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Didn’t have time to see what else was done…if anything. Going on less than two-hours sleep; gonna be a fun shift.

Did I mention how ready I am for this project to be completed?

I started tearing out uneven impossible to clean slate (with expanded metal in it on top of linoleum) in my kitchen. Found damaged subfloor next to sliding back door that was was easiest to fix by replacing and widening sliding door. Also tearing out carpet and putting in pergo with new base boards. Also replacing carpet on stairs with pergo. Doing it all myself.

Haven't finished drywall by sliding door, or started putting anything on stairs yet.

Started tearing out slate July 1st.

Will do a full better post later with pics once I get it done.

 

[TurdFerguson]

Ran into a giant sourwood today 18.9 inch ( 19 if converted to 1 inch classes) diameter. 6 inches short of a national record record. Short lived junk tree that rarely gets about 12 inches in diameter.

 

[91Eunozs]

Stucco’s almost finished, then the rock goes up. Then paint.

Now I know why stucco is almost as much as rock. Took them a long time to get to this point.

edit: didn’t think I caught it, but got a blast from the past along with a view of the garage in another pic…pretty far away from Randolph, but I guess we‘re close enough for an extended outside downwind pattern.

 

[stemikel]

Hiking at cooper’s rock state park in northern West Virginia. Beautiful day with the boys!

 

[Scottnoidea]

Nelson's Bay NSW Australia. Nice place for smoko (morning tea).

 

[Bryan W M]

@Jefe's Dope Did you get lost in the pit?? Or you truly have a very good view.

 

[Jefe's Dope]

@Jefe's Dope Did you get lost in the pit?? Or you truly have a very good view.

Whoops.
Will fix.

 

[Oldloser]

My wife bought herself a Jeep today. 2023 Rubicon diesel with 3 1/2 inch lift, Warne Zeon winch, 37 inch Nitto grapplers and some other goodies. 3600 miles on it. I may need to buy myself a bigger truck.

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My wife is pursuing older jeeps online. How's the Diesel run?

 

[gunjunkie45]

My wife is pursuing older jeeps online. How's the Diesel run?

No complaints.

 

[AmmoFort]

My wife is pursuing older jeeps online. How's the Diesel run?

We had one and loved it. But some broad pulled out in front of my wife when my wife had the right of way and it got totaled. It was a sweet ride. Like most diesels it accelerates effortlessly and In stock form it ripped pretty good. Even without regearing on 37's that German 8 speed shined like a damn star. Super weird getting 25 mpg on 37's in a Jeep. Even stop and go in town with no highway miles the worst I ever saw was 17-19 including a regen.

Very few annoyances overall. We'd have gotten another, but after fighting with insurance for a fucking year and getting pregnant again with our 4th it didn't make sense.

 

[91Eunozs]

To continue the sidebar, we loved our ‘15 Grand Cherokee with the 3-liter turbodiesel.

Best of both worlds: V8 power/torque and V6 (better actually) mileage; we got 27+ mpg cruising at 75-80 mph…almost 700-mile range when light on the throttle. This was on a road trip my son and I took out to Nevada to attend a week-long pistol course at Front Sight a few years ago:

OT: stucco finished on garage mahal; just waiting for it to dry a couple more days before paint. Fifteen pallets of rock delivered today, and they started the tile work in the casita portion.

wood-look tile that matches the tile in the house going into the main area of the casita, and some funky stuff my wife picked out for the bathroom floor. Something close to a basic subway tile for the shower walls, and a variation on penny tiles for the shower floor and the shower niche(s)…basically rough-finished striated marble cut into little circles.

 

[Bryan W M]

Axe and I checking out @91Eunozs tile choices

 

[roostercogburn98]

Took the beater truck out for a cruise with the wiff. Stopped by a small local car show. Had some good looking rides there.

 

[pmclaine]

Cleaning out the camera….

Last images from the August Cape Cod trip…..

Schrod

 

[pmclaine]

Todays winter walk

This where I ran into a lady worried that a goat in the pen was going to get attacked by a coyote. She was searching wildly for a number to call so someone would come save the goat. Probably walks by crying babies without a second look.

Massachusetts has enough BS

 

[pmclaine]

 

[Badfinger]

My new favorite rifle, 32" 45-70

 

[91Eunozs]

Wet and cold here today, but they finally started on the rock facings for garage mahal:

Looks like there’s enough space to drop in some 4’x8’ AR500 plates behind the rock…at least on the corners. Gears are turnin’

 

[Makinchips208]

Wet and cold here today, but they finally started on the rock facings for garage mahal:

Looks like there’s enough space to drop in some 4’x8’ AR500 plates behind the rock…at least on the corners. Gears are turnin’

That’s a good idea. I was wondering what the effectiveness of the rock is at stopping or slowing bullets combined with the mesh and cement behind it?
For sure would be great with some steel behind it.
I’m only asking cause you know how it goes with cabins in north Idaho…

 

[aprocast]

If they are not using ties between the rock and frame they should be

 

[91Eunozs]

If they are not using ties between the rock and frame they should be

99% sure they’re in there but will confirm. The triangle shaped metal thingies that go through a loop on the wall and anchor into the rock, or maybe simple L brackets, correct?

 

[Sniperwannabee]

I always wondered how they attached the rock to the house. I’ve been thinking of doing it to my house and Always thought it was concreted directly to the walls of the house

 

[91Eunozs]

I always wondered how they attached the rock to the house. I’ve been thinking of doing it to my house and Always thought it was concreted directly to the walls of the house

Me too…. Was surprised to see that gap.

There is a “stone lug” poured into the foundation that the rock facing sits in, but yeah, I always assumed it was mortared to the wall too. Maybe they do that with cinderblock construction, but this is stick-built.

 

[pmclaine]

That’s a good idea. I was wondering what the effectiveness of the rock is at stopping or slowing bullets combined with the mesh and cement behind it?
For sure would be great with some steel behind it.
I’m only asking cause you know how it goes with cabins in north Idaho…

New England houses in the time of King Philips War, 1675, were found to be built with brick in the walls up to about bed height so people could sleep soundly at night not worrying about a random shot ripping through the wall killing them in their sleep.

 

[Oldloser]

99% sure they’re in there but will confirm. The triangle shaped metal thingies that go through a loop on the wall and anchor into the rock, or maybe simple L brackets, correct?

I don't see them. They go on after the wrap but before the brick is put on. Best to screw them to the studs.

The Dos and Don’ts of Masonry Anchors – Masonry Magazine

www.masonrymagazine.com

 

[Oldloser]

New England houses in the time of King Philips War, 1675, were found to be built with brick in the walls up to about bed height so people could sleep soundly at night not worrying about a random shot ripping through the wall killing them in their sleep.

Over a third of the European colonies were massacred in 1622. With similar raids conducted every few years after that. It left a deep scar in the memory of the First Families. The Colonists lived in constant fear of Indian massacres. Homes were sited and built to be blockhouses.

 

[91Eunozs]

Looked closer when I got home at O’Dark-thirty this mornin’ and they were there…strap type vs what I was looking for. You can kind of see one in that original pic.

Better pic here from this afternoon when I was rolling out for work:

 

[aprocast]

This is one here waiting to be bent down and bedded into the next bed joint

 

[Bullfrog08]

I like your garage/shop. I really like the tall walls.

However, everytime I read the word Garage Mahal, I want reach through the screen and smack the woman out of you! Same with the word Man Cave...........please don't let women name your hangout locations.

Be a man, call it your SHOP!

 

[Oldloser]

Looked closer when I got home at O’Dark-thirty this mornin’ and they were there…strap type vs what I was looking for. You can kind of see one in that original pic.

Better pic here from this afternoon when I was rolling out for work:

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Yep. Looks like they are adding them as the go. Going to be gorgeous when they are done!

 

[crackerbrown]

New bike

 

[Ronin_64]

I like your garage/shop. I really like the tall walls.

However, everytime I read the word Garage Mahal, I want reach through the screen and smack the woman out of you! Same with the word Man Cave...........please don't let women name your hangout locations.

Be a man, call it your ARMORY!

FIFY.

 

[Badfinger]

Here's my new favorite rifle with 70 grains of black powder at 100 yards. God I love his rifle

 

[HPIguy]

 

[91Eunozs]

FIFY.

Armory’s in the other garage…though the casita will eventually become a climate-controlled reloading room too. A couple years down the road, after we finish all the landscaping, the master bath remodel, the kitchen remodel, and then eventually the expansion on the other side of the house:

Gonna blow out the back wall on my daughter’s bedroom to make it a large secondary family room/home theater (in green…already has an en-suite bathroom), with a glass-walled passage (in black) to a second casita, one-story structure this time (in red) that will then become the ‘real‘ pool house/guest room.

Progress on the rock and tile work:

 

[91Eunozs]

And just saw we’re on page 458! This is what I almost bought instead of building that garage…

…my CPA wife reminded me that we could afford the car, or the garage, but not both, LoL.

Maybe in a couple years if I push second retirement off a bit longer; maybe a spyder though.

 

[Makinchips208]

Armory’s in the other garage…though the casita will eventually become a climate-controlled reloading room too. A couple years down the road, after we finish all the landscaping, the master bath remodel, the kitchen remodel, and then eventually the expansion on the other side of the house:

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Gonna blow out the back wall on my daughter’s bedroom to make it a large secondary family room/home theater (in green…already has an en-suite bathroom), with a glass-walled passage (in black) to a second casita, one-story structure this time (in red) that will then become the ‘real‘ pool house/guest room.

Progress on the rock and tile work:

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I know some kids that would rip down them stairs.

 

[91Eunozs]

I know some kids that would rip down them stairs.

Indeed…not finished yet. Treads, bannister and railings soon. Metal with a gate at the top for the hoist to lift stuff up to the storage area.

also why the ceiling drywall’s not up yet. A lot of wiring, bracing, etc. still remaining to go in up top

 

[Makinchips208]

Indeed…not finished yet. Treads, bannister and railings soon. Metal with a gate at the top for the hoist to lift stuff up to the storage area.

also why the ceiling drywall’s not up yet. A lot of wiring, bracing, etc. still remaining to go in up top

Looking phenomenal!

 

[bobhide]

And just saw we’re on page 458! This is what I almost bought instead of building that garage…

…my CPA wife reminded me that we could afford the car, or the garage, but not both, LoL.

Maybe in a couple years if I push second retirement off a bit longer; maybe a spyder though.

Real nice color. Not a fan of owning a red ferrari.