Just a little update on my PWRL file

[wroughtn_harv]

Jim and Kevin, we lifted the shingle and placed flashing up under it. In fact we got lucky and every place we had to put another piece of flashing back under and over the flashing because there was a seam in the shingles to worry about.

I cut the flashing two inches longer than the treated two by six, standard ten inch flashing that comes in rolls. I then folded it with a two by (the compound miter saw works great in assisting the bending of the flashing with about three inches going under the shingle.

Once the two by six was secured to the rafters over the top plate the flashing was folded over it. We also used some seamless gutter aluminum material to flash over the balance of the two by treated and under the shingle flashing piece.

I haven't decided exactly yet the design of the plates I'm going to tie it all together with yet. I've got some eighth inch stainless that would work fine and I've also got some quarter inch plate. I'm leaning on using the quarter inch plate with some forged something or another detail, just to make it different, I do different, character flaw.

The arbor over the spa is about seven or eight years old. The new arbor is the first cedar anything of my own that I've sealed or stained. I happen to be one of those sick individuals that love weathered grey. So I guess the next two projects are first, bleach and stain the spa arbor and deck, two, pull the redwood deck that's fifteen years old and replace it with concrete and sandstone.

Glenda said that two o clock this afternoon she was on the patio reading a book and very comfortable. Lucky her, at two o clock I was cutting in and welding up a corral. With any luck tomorrow I'll be stretching V Mesh over it.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

When Glenda was working she'd come home beat up and down and I'd come home walking on air all excited about an adventure on this or that project I was involved. I always felt guilty because I wanted to share my adventures with her but our separate paths wouldn't allow it.

One of our friends has a hundred and twenty acres up in Oklahoma. Two things interesting up there. One is it's over run with feral hogs. That's good because I plan on working at emptying his place while filling our freezer.

The other thing that's interesting is he has two small barns, well, one barn, one shed, and an old farmhouse that he was going to have bulldozed. That was until I claimed them. Except for the tin roofs they're made of locally milled lumber, oak, cedar, pine. Some of the pine siding is sixteen to eighteen inches wide and eight feet long. I don't know how old they are but I'd bet they were built no earlier than the thirties or forties last century.

This fall Glenda and me will camp out up there and I'll pull boards while she pulls nails. Way out in the country, just us and the wild life, harvesting, the fruits of a lifetime of work.

If everything goes according to plan next Wednesday we're going to go to where I get the big cedars and harvest some trees for a couple of projects. One of them is a staircase made with cedar logs for treads and rails.

The other one is some cedar poles for a gate. For some unexplanable reason I started thinking about suggesting Don and Karen's gate be cedar poles with a hidden steel skeleton. About the time I got it figured out to present it to them I mentioned it to a client. It looks like Don and Karen will get a preview of what a cedar gate with a hidden steel skeleton will look like to see if it's something they'd be interested in having.

The log harvesting and then splitting will be a fun adventure for Glenda and I always enjoy it. But then, heck, I'm easily entertained.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Eddie, the sealer/stain is something from HD. I think it was twenty seven a gallon. All I know I got my butt in trouble because I told her we'd only need three gallons max and buying five gallons for the price of four was a false economical decision. Then we used four gallons, why is it when I'm wrong it usually involves money?

 

[Knight9]

Harvey,

Thanks for the extra pictures. Clears it up for me a lot. Very interesting attachment method to connect to the house. I like it.

 

[EddieWalker]

Same here, it makes allot more sense now that I see it from a distance.

Are you gonna shoot all the hogs yourself? or will Glenda do most of the shooting? Either way, it sounds like allot of fun!!!!!!!!!!1

Eddie

 

[txdon]

"For some unexplainable reason I started thinking about suggesting Don and Karen's gate be cedar poles with a hidden steel skeleton." -Harvey

WOW! I have been stumped on the entrance gate design. The cedar poles will look original, rugged, and basic. but structurally strong with the steel skeleton. That would be the perfect entrance for our place with the cedar log cabin and cedar trees! I'll be watching your posts.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

"For some unexplainable reason I started thinking about suggesting Don and Karen's gate be cedar poles with a hidden steel skeleton." -Harvey

WOW! I have been stumped on the entrance gate design. The cedar poles will look original, rugged, and basic. but structurally strong with the steel skeleton. That would be the perfect entrance for our place with the cedar log cabin and cedar trees! I'll be watching your posts.

Hmmmmmm, Glenda was wrong. She said the cedar theme wouldn't work at ya'll's place. Even after I pointed out the cedar cabin and trees.

Great minds do think alike. ; > )

I'm hoping I can use the same principles on building the hand rails on the cedar beam stairs. I'll build the steel skeleton and then attach the cedar poles to it. Appearance of cedar without the inconveniences wood sometimes gives with expansion and contraction due to temperature and humidity changes.

 

[txdon]

It will be interesting to see how you enclose the steel skeleton. With two different materials outdoors the condensation and rain must be able to escape for longevity. I have not seen a wooden entrance gate, it will be unique.

EDIT: Karen kind of agrees with Glenda, this will be an interesting challenge.

 

[jinman]

Jim and Kevin, we lifted the shingle and placed flashing up under it.

Thanks Harvey; now I see it. The nice breeze we had yesterday made it cool in the garden too. I was pruning tomato plants.

 

[dmccarty]

Harvey,

How are you going to get the cedar on the frame?

I have lots of cedars, quite a few are big towards 12-14 inches. They have fallen over/killed from ice storms or been pushed over during timbering. I have them stacked all over our property trying to figure out a use.

Some old timers have used them as fence posts but the fence lines I see are rotted out at some level so I don't want to use the trees for posts.

I have a couple of uses in mind and getting the cedar on metal would be helpful.

Later,
Dan