Border Fence

The first gate will go here
The fence was free from my brother-in-law.
The soil is nearly 100% clay, we have about 3 inches of topsoil. Absolutely brutal to dig through.
The large double gate, with removable post.

We had to hand dig most of the post holes since the 2 man auger couldn't hack the clay.

Check off second major project of the summer.

I wish I had a before photo. The only way my garage could have looked worse is if I had 300 cats living in it, 50 of them dead and the rest living in a massive heap of their filth. The garage was nearly that bad, just without the cats and mound of filth. So we had to clean it, and build shelves, and cabinets (well I just hung the cabinets).





























Take a guess what next weeks project will be. I'm renting the two man post digger for Friday. Whoopee!














Oh and even more amazing news, I got my Grandfather's table saw assembled and used it to build the shelves. It's a beaut! 1950 something or other Craftsman. Took the index and thumb off my left hand first try! Boy can that thing rip a plank! Still need to get the rip fence on though.

Electrical Box? DONE!

 
 
 
 

Well the job is done. I took out that horrible "fire waiting to happen" Federal Pacific box. They have a 10% failure rate I'm told. I replaced it with a Square D cheap jobbie from Lowes. I had a little trouble with the 2 gauge Al wire coming up from the Main but my electrician buddy helped me out with some know how and a weird little contraption to give me the extra 18 inches of neutral wire I needed. Now everything is code and the breaker no longer keeps switching off at random times. One step closer to completing the attic.

The Summer Has Begun

So work will resume.

We will begin work on the picket fence along side the house, as soon as I get the boundary line dimensions worked out. I power washed the fence and boy is it clean! Nothing like 1500 PSI.

Then I have to do the Federal Pacific sub panel in the attic, which might happen before the fence at this pace.

Then I will redo the attic. Yikes!