The gate

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Uh Hurv, uh, is your picture a little crooked on the left side? It makes your work look a little out of plumb and I'm sure thats not the case. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

How do you notch your pipe on the fencing?
 
   / The gate #102  
<font color="blue">The wind causes it to move in and out. </font>

That statement begs for details of the hinges. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

A gate that large must have some very good hinges. What do you use?
 
   / The gate #103  
Harv:<font color="red"> "It was three eighths of an inch off width wise and we had to do some tuggin' and pushin' " </font>

Good eye RaT, do you think Harv will start over? LOL /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

(You know Harv is going to spend some time in front of the gate tomorrow, staring at it, thinking about your post.)
 
   / The gate #104  
I can't help it. When I go in folks homes I'm always silently picking them apart. One eye squinting at door openings to walls etc. Heck when we play Bocce, I'm the one who has to rake the court, no one else seems to have the eye or least is dumb enough to want to admit it.
 
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Hmmmmmm, I checked the puter, scanner, etc. They're all right on. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

The posts are plumb. The ground isn't. In fact there's five and a half inches difference in grade between the posts.

RaT might want to check his puter screen, might be a tad off. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The hinges are sealed roller bearing and from King Architectual Metals.

So far the biggest problem I've had with this job has been with Norton Metals out of Ft Worth. If I had done my part like they've done theirs we'd have, well, they'll never get any business from me again. Professionalism, it's a hard bird to catch for some, impossible to even define for others.

One of the things I've learned over the last half century is when folks accuse one of being a perfectionist and impossible to please they've ran out of excuses for their own incompetence. As far as they're concerned I'm the customer from hell.

They're right of course.

Yesterday I picked up the rocks. Today I'll start carving. What's going to be fun is the star rock is granite, harder'n a bad girl's heart. But the color's right, the shape's what I want, and hard for me, well, that's just a little character for the project, right?

We are getting a third survey or a statement of responsiblity from the latest one. I strongly suspect the last survey was done in the office to get the job closed. They had about a four foot discrepancy so adjustments were made. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Professionalism comes in all shapes and sizes. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
   / The gate #106  
RaT might want to check his puter screen, might be a tad off.

Oh yeah Harv, our old 15" IBM screen is all over the place. It has neither pin cushion or trapezoid, I think it now has rhombus /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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I'll try to take a picture that will accomodate your challenged puter screen, just for you. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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#108  
This is rock number three. One was the three quarter scale to see if the concept was plausible. Two was the one that broke, darn it's hide.

This is number three. btw it and the star stone that goes in the overhead weighed out at seventeen sixty, one thousand, seven hundred, sixty pounds for the number crunchers.
 

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Son in law came by and took some pictures of yours truly at work.

Some of those who are considering such a project might find the following interesting. Wanting to see a finished project will mean skipping them.
 

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At this point in time I've already taken off most of the non state stuff with the Stihl 510.

I'm using a Bosch small angle grinder with a cut off blade.
 

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