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Digging the foundation..
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Dad's fancy tool..
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C-base & A-Base
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Archeologist at work, with supervisor..
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The other woman in my life.. Who can't love Peach??
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stud drives motorcycle.. whats not to like..
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Steel for the house is under fabrication..
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Finally the main slab is complete..
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Drilling for all concrete bolts..
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The steel finally arrives..
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The very first beam goes up..
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I used a forklift to lift all but a couple beams..
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Discussing the work with my supervisors.
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Takin the super for a ride..
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Back to work..
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The view from near the top of the backyard
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Junk display
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Gunpowder tool
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Vegas trip over.. back to work
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license & registration please
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NEW TOYOTA ARRIVES!!
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Installing the hitch..
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Look at the wild animal behind me, about to attack..
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plywood windows in the backround..
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Do these pants make me look fat?
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Where are the camels?..
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This is looking up inside.. The red primer will soon be black, which is the finished look.. Cool
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Some of the steel engineering..
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These plans were altered somewhat, the front door is wider and i changed the beams from 13 to 12 per side, not that i'm superstitous, i just like even numbers...
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Also changed to Parallams for the second floor beams, instead of steel..
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After a long winter, its time to start on my project again..
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just bootin around in the lift..
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steel garage door in progress..
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steel garage door in progress..
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steel garage door in progress..
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placed, but more work than it looks..
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packing in the insulation..
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Blueskin layer is finally completed..
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Drinkin, Drivin with one hand, while being chased by a vicious Maltese..
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This is the coolest lil guy i've ever known..
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What?..
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if he could, he would..
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Starting on the westside on Canada Day..
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Starting finally on the insulation..
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Check out my fancy angled insulation cutting jig ..
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Westside insulation going on..
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Starting the exterior black steel..
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cool..
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doesnt look it, but its desert hot out..
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cool..
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the easiest of four sides..
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Can you spot the door?..
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black..
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part 1..
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part 2..
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part 3..
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part 4..
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part 5..
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all i need now are the hydraulics ..
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in house robot..
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time to figure out the glazing frames..
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950 lbs of window frames..
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prepping window frames..
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Highest piece, first window ..
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Plus 35 and this nut's wearing black pants?..
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somehow, it fit's..
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32 feet up and exact on frames that were put up the winter before..
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old man soaking western style..
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P loves V..
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starting on the second and biggest of four assemblies..
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hot hot hot ..
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soo damn hot....
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nearly melting ..
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i sold my bike to someone in Quebec..
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frames in, next the glass ..
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Snow is coming , gotta hurry ..
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RA looks on ..
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Notice no glass yet, then the 375,000 btu heater? Starting to get cold at night..
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The first shipment of glass arrives..
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151 lbs per unit..
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Off comes the plywood, time to install glass and end the darkness..
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Tryin to figure out how to get the JLG to do all the heavy lifting..
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I have two suction cups holding up the glass, i'm REALLY hoping they stay working ..
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Man, do i want this to work like i planned..
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One hand barely balancing the glass in the wind, one hand steering the lift with the controls loose on the basket floor, with an untested installation method planned, 30 feet up..
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This is some fun!..
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Now i gotta make sure the glass edges don't strike the metal frame, with about a 1/4" of clearance ..
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Second unit was just as fun ..
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Three in, 25 to go.. Beats the plywood look so far..
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Those suction cups really suck ..
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Working till dark daily..
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Purple flower, chimney sticking out and Vegas sniffing for intruders.. Notice all the leaves on the ground, and i only have half the windows in..
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Workin late ..
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The next day we woke up to snow ..
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Snow, but no windows..
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live here..
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The last window ..
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How the hell ? ..
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this should work ..
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need heat..
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Hangin out with Peach..
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Me and my angry lil buddy..
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VEGAS ...
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click the blue to see more ...
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