What did YOU do today?

[bilbo]

Burning it is no good, it puts the stuff in the air and you can breath it in and get poison ivy reaction in your throat and lungs

This, yes. The stuff of nightmares. I have to be real careful about eating campfire roasted food.

At scout camp once a kid got some on his arsehole wiping with leaves. That had to have been an embarrassing trip to the ER for him.

 

[Rick W]

Put a exhaust fan in the chicken house, still need to wire it in but the hard part is done. Not a cheap fan, 14” , 17x17 opening. 1400 cfm, $179. Not easy climbing up a ladder while holding it to put into the hole. The fan I did have was just a house box fan, going to flip it around & run it at night to draw cool air in. The other day it was 80 in the feed room area, at night when I went to close their outside door to the run several had their wings out from their bodies to try & cool off. The next thing if I need more air will be to make a fence panel where the sliding door is, might make a 2nd door to the run and have it be expanded metal to let air in. The big window on the east side opens but dont want it open at night since it has residential house screen in it, A raccoon could go right through that with ease. 3 schools of thought for the fan electrical connection. 1- timer like I use for the other fan & the outside light, have it come on at dawn, shut off at dusk, other fan I will have running at night but be off during the day. 2-a thermostat control, can set to come on at say 90 & run until cools off below that. its about 30-40 bucks. 3- just run it constantly, my “electrical panel” is a 7-outlet power strip with switches on every outlet. Has a circuit breaker & runs to a heavy extension cord going into the garage to a 15amp outlet with breaker in a regular breaker box. Never have had it trip yet. All im running electrically is a floresent light fixture in both feed room/bird area (switched separately), a bug zapper in bird area, a cord for the heated waterer for winter months and a outside led light over the door to go into feed room, and the fan.
2.65 amp draw on this new fan, not too bad. 4-blade but huge amount of pitch to the blades. curious to see how noisy it will be. Rainy now & will be tomorrow but at least I can be under roof for the finish of this project.
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That looks like the same thermostat for an attic exhaust fan. Search them on eBay:

With tax, less than $30 delivered to you.

Government electric is only going to go up. I’m not sure what the cost of electricity is in Ohio, but down here it would pay for itself if it controlled by temperature, instead of a timer. Also, here in Hotlanta, the danger is we have very hot days for several days/weeks in a row, and it would never shut off. I don’t think that would be an issue in Ohio.

I have two exhaust fans in my attic (1200 ft.²), but that’s mostly because I would never want to change one in the middle of the Summer. One is always running.

There’s only two things that go wrong with them. The bimetallic strip warps/wears out, and it has to be replaced. But usually, the contacts burn out. I’m guessing that happens every two or three years. I swap it out, but with a little file, I can usually clean the contacts and that becomes my spare.

My 2 cents, hope it helps.

 

[racsan]

Yes, I was on fleabay a little while ago and saw that style along with the other style I had a picture of. Im going to set it up with a plug on one side of thermostat & socket on the other in case I would want to use it for heating purposes too, plus if (when) it fails I can easily exchange it for one of my light timers to get me by.

 

[sgtsandman]

On the fire extinguisher, I have a half dozen of those $10 1 or 2 gallon bug sprayers from Home Depot. If I’m cutting or welding or whatever that might cause a fire, I fill up a couple of them with just water and have them close by. Just a thought, hope it helps.

I have one in the garage. The thought never even crossed my mind.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I'm aware but I've yet to get poison ivy. Getting it in the lungs would have sucked for sure, if it was a problem. In anycase, it isn't s problem for now on my side of the fence. I do have to buy a new fire extinguisher for the garage though. The neighbors left all kinds of leaves and crap against the fence and it caught fire a time or two.

One of the things on the to do list is to install a solid, wood, six foot fence on that side. That should fix some of the issues. The posts and everything is on my side. So, it's my fence to take care of and it is due for a replacement.

If you want help on the fence, I’m sure we can work something out

 

[sgtsandman]

If you want help on the fence, I’m sure we can work something out

Thanks. It's not on the needs done immediately list. Just on the to do list.

I need to finish the retaining wall for garden and the benches for the fire pit first. The wood for the benches needs to dry since pressure treated lumber is sold soaking wet. So, they will probably be sitting out all summer before I even cut them in order to set them in place.

 

[scotts90ranger]

A friend of my boss was trying to get rid of a '01 Tahoe for cheap and a friend decided to get it so I rode with him to my boss's house so that took a bit of today, other than that I gathered most of the steel plate I have on hand into one location for my current project. Then I slightly switched gears to find a way to get more moisture out of my air compressor, I remembered I have a broken 3 gallon compressor so I stripped the compressor off of it and put a male and female quick connect on it in different ports so it should condense in there hopefully... It's after a water separator and I put one after it too... Need good dry air for my plasma cutter that I'll need here soon...

 

[ericbphoto]

Started putting together my video for the recent trip to Moore Expo. My computer is struggling to compile part 1 right now. In a couple hours, it will be ready to upload to YouTube. Thinning out 5 days worth of video clips and still photos to make something that isn't "too long" is quite a task some days. I had over 35 hours of dash cam footage to wade through, plus the rear camera footage and videos and still photos on my phone. Part one is just under 45 minutes long and that just covers my 2 day adventure getting to SMORR.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I didn't have fabrication in me tonight, tomorrow I'll work on a plan for the trans crossmember, I stared at the stock radius arm crossmember a bit to see where I want to bisect it with the plasma cutter tomorrow, I'll start big and whittle down... but I'm going to start by making side plates to bolt to the frame and runners to go along the bottom of the frame, possibly a piece on the inside, we'll see... I have a partial plan in my knoggin...

 

[snoranger]

Just another day working on the new house before we move in.
Has anyone else ever had to use a wire wheel on an angle grinder to take the paint off an interior wall?? The previous owners painted the walls with a sand textured paint that can’t be sanded. I burns through 2 sheets of 80 grit sandpaper in a spot less then 1 square foot trying to remove it.
The only thing I’ve found that will take it off reasonably quickly is an angle grinder with a wire wheel cup. I’m literally shooting sparks off a sheet rock wall trying to remove this stuff.

 

[Roert42]

Have you tried just living with the textured wall?

That’s what I would do.

 

[ericbphoto]

Mud over it.

 

[snoranger]

Have you tried just living with the textured wall?

That’s what I would do.

No. It’s not living with the textured wall that’s the problem, it’s living with my wife with the textured wall that’s the problem.
I’ve already sanded the textured walls down in 2 rooms, what’s one more?!?! Here’s a bucket of sanding dust for you:

The other 2 rooms were easy, the texture on those walls was just spackle. This last one is actually sand mixed in with the paint. (For better traction on the walls?)

 

[snoranger]

Mud over it.

Can’t. Tried it. You pull little bits of sand everytime you try to and it screws up the finish when sanding.

 

[ericbphoto]

No. It’s not living with the textured wall that’s the problem, it’s living with my wife with the textured wall that’s the problem.
I’ve already sanded the textured walls down in 2 rooms, what’s one more?!?! Here’s a bucket of sanding dust for you:

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The other 2 rooms were easy, the texture on those walls was just spackle. This last one is actually sand mixed in with the paint. (For better traction on the walls?)

I climbed the walls regularly while I was married. Texture would have been helpful.