I’m 56 and I got my AARP card. Good for 10% off at Denny’s!
(Wow, I’m creeping myself out… )
Wow, way to go. Don’t forget the Early Bird Senior Special!
Oh, the AARP sent me a card years ago. I think I was 40 when they sent it to me. I didn’t apply, I didn’t ask for it, it just showed up. It was funny then, not so much now.
Yeah, you hate when they give you the senior discount without having to ask !
Gary, especially since I am not a senior yet.
This weekend I finished the main controls cabinet. Hung the doors, put on a latch, handle and two hasps for padlocks.
Also put up the upper backboards and the stock rack. Tell ya, the concrete drilling, even with a hammer drill, takes it out of me, haha! But the hammer drill sure helps!!
I need to put a ceiling over this area, and a gutter and downspout. That will come next.
I think I said at the beginning of this thread that I was slow. Well, I’m sure living up to that on this project, haha! But here’s why I say that. I’m trying to build a layout & infrastructure that will endure into my retirement older years, and be fun and operable by weaker versions of my wife and me. Hips, knees, lower back, not tracking dirt into the house and onto the carpet, needing the miniature trees to be watered whether we think about it or not, all that comes into play my long range planning. The result being that I need to make the layout as easy as possible to work on and play with for us. Hence my over-focus on the infrastructure. And I’m not very quick either.
Best to y’all,
===>Cliffy
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Not quick? you are leaving Devon in the dust.
you will have to live very long, if you want to “use up” these very strong constructions!
not only well done, but well thought also.
Sorry I’m late
Wow, that’s very encouraging guys. I truly mean it. Thanks Ken, David, Korm, Saen.
And thanks for the thanks Rooster.
Not to be too dramatic about it, but this garden rr’ing thing has been (for 8 years now) my antidote for over-focus on job (workaholism). But, the hobby is only as good as I can keep up with. More importantly, my wife must be at peace with it, and motivated to participate. The latter is happening gradually, via the gardening aspect. And you can bet I’m trying to enable that. So even though we were married in '84, we’re seeing this hobby as a very helpful get-together element in our relationship after all these years.
Consequently, everything on my RR has been very slow in the creation, to put in place the features I think we’ll need in the future. Features for watering, storing, hauling, etc.
So thanks for understanding folks, that means a lot.
Best to y’all,
===>Cliffy
Hi folks,
Over the last couple weekends I’ve been putting up the “ceiling” over the shelf / controls area. It’s more like an upside down roof, with roof panels catching the rain that comes through the deck, and sending it to a gutter.
I don’t have the money for a nice professional under-the-deck system, nor the headroom. So this approach uses $13 roof panels from lowes. On the left side, the panels are held up by plastic brackets I made. On the right, where the panel has to tuck up beside the joist, I drilled holes for 30p galvanized nails. The nails fit loosely.
I’ve had to get the panels out a few times already, and will need to with some of the upcoming wiring. I poke the nails back, freeing that end of the panel. Then I tip that end down, and the panel comes free off its brackets.
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, I used a garden hose from above to make sure all was draining correctly. And I was so relieved that it did. So that’s the first tier of water-proofing. The second is that the plastic cabinet is now caulked at each seam.I wanted to make this as bullet-proof as I could, since my DCC and other electrical equipment is going here.
===>Cliffy
Cliff, except for the joist caps that hold their panels in yours is better in the long haul. Their joist cap is their first gutter that runs all to the main gutter. If I had done this it would have been very close to what you have done. Nice work(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
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That’s one hell of a man cave you got there Cliff!
Hey Sean, thanks, and “cave” is a good description. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Much obliged Ken! (specially since I’m from California, haha!! Do I get a merit badge?)
Dave, thanks very much for the confirmation. And since you’re familiar with this stuff, here’s a couple more points to the story. At first I didn’t have enough brackets, just 1 every two feet (at each panel joint). Wow, that sure didn’t work, the panels sagged under their own weight. So I put alum angle between (with drainage notches at the brackets). Then, after my first hose test, the water didn’t run off quickly enough, and the panels sagged under the water weight some, leaving a pond in their middles. So, I tore it all out, re-did the brackets for more slope (and less top shelf room), and put it back up. So when I said I was relieved yesterday that all drained well (with zero dripping on the shelves), I was really relieved, haha!
Yesterday was pre-fabbing the power strips for the cabinet. It’s just a Stanley 9-plug strip, plugged into a GFCI. The spacers and backboard allow wiring to pass behind.
Today I installed these, and ran a new / dedicated circuit to feed them.
I chose these strips because of the X10 modules, which need a little room, and need the outlet oriented with the ground lug down. I only need 1/3 of the outlets for now, but I figger WTH.
===>Cliffy
Wow Cliff, that cabinet looks great! The ceiling turned out great, too. Make some room for a fridge and you could almost live down there!
-Kevin.
Nice work Cliff. Great use of “wasted” space
Jerry
Hi Jer, I appreciate it. Looking forward to your coming by, whenever our schedules get in sync, haha!
Thanks Kevin, you bet. The lighting comes next, I’ll post on that. Not sure about the fridge, but if I go there, the mirror ball has gotta go in first. Right after the stereo.
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