Start by climbing up on top of that pile and having a smoke. :-)
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Ooh Rah Guns ... I'm on it !
Semper Fi
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No pictures today ... Spent most of the day opperating a 16 pound digging stick and shovel digging footings in this rocky hard packed clay we call Ground up here ... Monsoon rains moved in ... I'm done.
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Wifey and I have hand dug nine footings, and are now stacking blocks and waiting for inspection ... our footing piers are squre, level and our corner to corner measurment is RIGHT ON! .... How the hell did we manage that ????
The rains have been Hard and every day .... Updated pictures soon.
I'm tired, Sore ... And I'm gonna sit on the portch with whiskey and smoke and watch the thunder storms for a while.
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If you don't already have a nail gun and compressor... I would suggest one of these http://www.paslode.com/ . No cords, hoses, batteries to charge.... Or if you want to pay the shipping I can UPS you mine to borrow for awhile :-)
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Well the Monsoon rains have slowed us down, And it took a week to get our footings inspected and ok'd .... But we are back to work now...
Stitch cut's Rebar for the footings
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Mrs. Stitch Hand Backfills some of the footing ppiers
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Tomorrow we pour cement and then the hammering of nails begins
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Jeff good luck with the project!!

Be glad you don't live in Mi. were those footing would be down in a trench 48":-)
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Even way up here at 7,000 feet our frost depth is only 12"
18" depth is required by local code ... We went 24" just to be safe.
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Lookin' good, Stitch! Enjoying the project... looking forward to the finished building. :-)
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N E updates for aug...
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Good luck with your project I have brother and sister in law in the white mountians!!!!!
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In case you all wonder where I've been and what I've been doing...
I'm still working on the new shop.
I've been fighting the weather and the fact that Mrs. Stitch and I have done most of the work all on our own.
But a week ago I had a "Barn Raising" and a bunch of good friends from the community turned out and we put a roof on this thing !!!
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Good people here, they worked their butts off ...
The roof is now done, shingles and all, the gable walls are done and the siding is going on ... This has been a long hard lesson for me,
I think I'll stick to building leather goods after this !

More to follow.
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Looks great.
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I really enjoy hard work, I can sit and watch it for hours!
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HA

that's great
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Awesome, good to see it all come together:-)
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Stitch thats coming together great. Can not wait to see this done.
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That's coming along brother. I wish I had skills like that
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Looks great! I was wondering how you were coming along with your project. :-)
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:-)
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