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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ray on July 09, 2011, 02:54:24 PM

Title: Time to take a break
Post by: ray on July 09, 2011, 02:54:24 PM

I was replacing the stove pipe for the wood burner in the garage / workshop, up on the roof a steep pitch ( 5 - 12 ) , 88 degrees , no clouds, when I saw 5 turkey buzzards circling over head. Hummm time to take a break !!!

Ray

Title: Re: Time to take a break
Post by: bc_z on July 09, 2011, 04:14:04 PM

very wise, and there is always time to go back when cooler & rested.  Had a friend fall from only 4' off of step ladder = shattered pelvis in 12 places just before last Thanksgiving - still recooping.

Title: Re: Time to take a break
Post by: dimwittedmoose51 on July 10, 2011, 12:18:45 PM

Yeah, I keep looking for one of those used pole vault pit foam contraptions at these yard sales so when I fall off the roof, it's not a big deal.  "Hey, I just cleared 24' 2 1/4" !!!!!!"........with the nail gun still in my hand....

Title: Re: Time to take a break
Post by: Wrenchmensch on July 10, 2011, 02:46:28 PM

Guys,

I installed an 8" triple wall stainless flue through the 12 -12 pitch of my man cave and installed a new skylight.  This was all done last summer. To accomplish these things safely , I constructed an 8-foot "ladder" with 2  12" right-angle pieces at the top (to hook over the ridge and secure the ladder).  This left both hands free to work on the flue and skylight installations.   The ladder was the second one I built.  The first one was made 25+ years ago when I shingled the 12 - 12 pitch on the future mancave.  I stored that one outside, and the gray squirrels, coupled with dry rot, destroyed it.  The new one is safe in the garage.

Title: Re: Time to take a break
Post by: Papaw on July 10, 2011, 04:35:24 PM

I sure like that cabin! Reminds me of my parent's hideaway in Arkansas.

Title: Re: Time to take a break
Post by: stanley62 on July 10, 2011, 04:44:31 PM

Awesome Man cave...  Are the walls inside covered in old tools???

Title: Re: Time to take a break
Post by: dimwittedmoose51 on July 10, 2011, 09:14:15 PM

How the heck does snow stick on that roof????  Hasn't it heard of GRAVITY???

Title: Re: Time to take a break
Post by: Wrenchmensch on July 10, 2011, 10:16:21 PM

Snow sticks on the roof as long as the inside temperature is within a few degrees of the outside temperature.  Once the stove is lit, the snow may start to melt, but from the bottom up.

I designed and built the building in the early '80s. It's 21' long and 10' 6" wide. Inside it's 21' long and 8' 3" wide. It's first use was as a boat house, and it had ramps and a winch to use in pulling a boat on a trailer up inside for storage.  Last summer, I sold the long unused boat. I put in a new floor, a woodburning stove, some old Andersen windows I had, and I ran a 20 amp service from the house through a buried Schedule 80 PVC conduit to a sub-panel in the building and wired the building.

As far as tools go, they are all in our de-humidified basement. They aren't as rugged as my friends are. 

The only thing of note on the walls is the 21 inch rainbow trout one of my friends carved and painted.