At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

Last week my wife had to get onto one of the painters for tracking wet red clay into the house. We had lots of rain leaving the red clay outside very messy. Afterwards she hung this sign on the door to the kitchen.

 

[RadarTech]

Last week my wife had to get onto one of the painters for tracking wet red clay into the house. We had lots of rain leaving the red clay outside very messy. Afterwards she hung this sign on the door to the kitchen.

If I was a brave man, I might wonder if a man ever truly has clean feet in a woman's opinion......

 

[Obed]

The trim guy has been awesome. We're going to miss having him around. He needs to finish installing the porch posts and maybe a couple other things and he'll be done. Check out the trim work around the toilet water line.

 

[tony Cecil]

Hi Obed

One thing for sure is it is nice to have good neighbor.....another thing is when you use a tractor, accidents happen sometimes, and that is how we learn....you and I are fortunate..

One thing that I did not like about the Deere is the breaks being where the clutch should be.....That is easy to understand where that second of hesitation comes from....on a further note with the light tractor (and imo any tractor) is they can get away from you on a hill, or get stuck in a second....Keep up the good work Tony

 

[Obed]

Painting Woes

Wednesday evening, my wife and I inspected the trim painting. The quality of the work just wasn't up to par. You could see every nail hole in the doors. In several places the edges of the trim around the doors felt like sandpaper. The trim on top of the doors didn't get primed or painted. The workmanship was poor in the harder to see places like the insides of the closets. The trim carpenter had put some wood puddy on some trim and was waiting for it to dry before sanding. The painters painted over the rough wood puddy before it got sanded. Defects in the door trim got painted without filling the imperfections first. Obvious drywall dings in the wainscoting below the chair rails in the dining room/office got painted without touching up first. All these issues were outstanding after the painter said he was finished painting the trim.

On Thursday the doors were scheduled to be painted. When the painter arrived in the morning we told him the quality of the work didn't meet our expectations and we didn't want him to do any more work. He asked why and we mentioned a few things. He offered to fix them but I told him we wanted to settle up and part ways.

The tough thing is he genuinely thought that his work was good. If there had just been a few things that had been missed, we would have given him a chance to fix them. But the quality of the work was so far away from our wishes that we didn't want him to do anything else that we either would have to have re-done or couldn't fix at all after he had touched it.

The painter seemed like a likeable guy. He obviously wanted the work and did not get indignant or hard to deal with when we expressed our concerns. He just couldn't believe that the quality of the work was not good enough. He asked if there was something else that happened or if there was something we weren't telling him. He was baffled that we were letting him go.

Letting him go was painful; both my wife and I felt bad for the painter and his crew. After we let him go, my wife started having misgivings because we pulled the trigger so quickly and didn't give him a chance to fix things. However, after seeing marred walls that got painted in the office/dining room on Friday morning, my wife was glad we didn't keep the painter. In addition, we hated to see all the trim carpenter's beautiful work get covered up by such sloppy painting.

So now we are trying to find a painter. The trim carpenter knows a painter he highly recommends so we are attempting to work something out with that painter.

 

[Obed]

One thing that I did not like about the Deere is the breaks being where the clutch should be.....That is easy to understand where that second of hesitation comes from... Tony

Tony,
Yes, I have observed that pushing the brake pedals with the left foot is very unnatural.

Obed

 

[Obed]

I'm surprised the safety police haven't jumped on this yet.

The safety police have been pretty quiet for the past few months on this thread. The people who have continued to follow this thread seem to me to be more interested in helping than just throwing out criticisms. I believe I've made some true friends here.

Is your neighbor really straddling the cable while cranking on the come-along?

It does appear that way. Actually, I cranked on the come-along while straddling the cable a couple times myself but then thought better of it. I've only fathered one child so far; my neighbor has already raised all the kids he wants.

Obed

 

[WBWI]

The safety police have been pretty quiet for the past few months on this thread. The people who have continued to follow this thread seem to me to be more interested in helping than just throwing out criticisms. I believe I've made some true friends here.

My post must have come across wrong. We all know accidents with tractors happen. My safety police comment was more related to the extraction technique. There was a lot of energy stored in that cable and if it snapped it would have been a very dangerous situation (based on the pictures). Friends or not I was surprised someone more passonate about safety than I am did not point it out.

 

[walleyed]

It does appear that way. Actually, I cranked on the come-along while straddling the cable a couple times myself but then thought better of it. I've only fathered one child so far; my neighbor has already raised all the kids he wants.Obed

lol Thats funny.

Of course we all know a few guys that should be fixed in this way.

 

[Diamondpilot]

My mechanic had a U-Haul truck stuck in his yard. He was trying to use a Come-Along to get it out. Anyway it was the type with a nylon strap instead of a cable. It broke and knocked him to the ground when it hit his legs. He gave up and limped away and called me to bring my truck over and pull him out.

He limped around for a month. Really lucky it did not take his leg off or worse.

Chris