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Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

Taking down a fence... SOP: Dig a post hole adjacent to the existing post to give it "wiggle room" (literally!) and rock the post. Remove the fence section, rock the post some more, lift straight up and remove post from earth, repeat as necessary.

Last weekend I was taking down a 6' stockade fence... The second post broke clean off about a foot below grade, and I managed to club myself in the forehead with a seven foot long, six inch diameter piece of Douglas Fir (I think... This fence is nearly as old as I am.)

Crossed my eyes for fifteen or twenty seconds, I tell you what.

The bruise and scrape are subsiding, but my longing for my favorite sunglasses has not:

Yes, they were RayBans, and they were prescription. They cost the better part of $400USD five or so years ago.
Now the frames with basic sunglasses lenses can be had for $76 delivered from a legitimate source (BestBuyEyeglasses.com) so I'm just going to swap lenses.
Only complaint thus far about BestBuyEyeglasses.com is that they shipped UPS Ground Saver when I explicitly asked for USPS Priority (both free shipping, BTW.) I hope they survive... my office is a factory and UPS brings us a few thousand pounds a week!

emdawgz1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 7949

1. i'm glad theres no permanent damage to your skull....we crt'ers are few and far enough.

2. i hope your sunglass odyssey turns out well

3. If those post sections are solid doug fir, i hope you didnt toss,em... thats good stuff.

timf · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject:

I thought by the thread title you were describing your nocturnal activity last night and had one hell of a man accident Smile

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

stefuel · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject:

I'll bet it's nice to be home today. Are the dogs loving it?

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:45 am Post subject:

stefuel · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:01 am Post subject:

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

Yep, and its' bustin my balls... (The well, that is.) I'm trying to dig a shallow casement well rather than a drive point well, which I've already got and have never been happy with...
I'm at about 12 feet, thru sand and stones, using a T-bar casement well digger. Think 8" auger on a long pole. I kept running into stones that the 8" auger couldn't dislodge, then I learned Chip had a 2.5" or 3" auger (LOOOOONG drill bit!) which worked wonders at moving the stones so the larger auger could lift them out.

Repetitive, heavy work, especially for a professional computer geek!

Now I'm at 12' and the water is coming in and collapsing the hole (yes, we have a VERY high water table.)
I thought about giving up and actually called five commercial well guys yesterday... one called back and I was thereby inspired to continue!
$1600 when the truck crosses my curbstone, seven hundred of which would be refunded if the hole came up dry. (Not likely.) Dualing voicemails: I don't think the guy understood my needs... I need fifteen feet of digging and 25 feet of casement!

I'll figure something out. I always do.

stefuel · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:31 am Post subject:

"Push pull, push pull, bonk, dammit, who the hell am I?"
Hay woodie, how's the well coming along?

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

And I thought this might be an AmPro thread . Wink

Well never mind ...........

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

paw · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1176 Location: Arvada, CO

A couple of quick notes.

Sometime the frames are prescription specific. Usually the groove to hold the lense is bigger (wider or deeper?). I know some of the metal RayBans are that way.

I was told the best way to remove the concrete after a post breaks off, is to get two LOOONG pry bars. They have another name but I can't remember it. Soak down the soil around concrete. Sounds like you might not need to do that. Wink

Get your best buddy, a couple of 2x4 sections for leverage, jam the pry bars in the concrete and push down on the bars. Repeat as necessary. It worked for my neighbor and I. We've got another one to do later this fall. When ACass goes into remission. At 90+ degrees, I don't want to be outside.

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

Not needed... no concrete! Just PT wooden post and a scar on my forehead.

The RayBan 'Daddy-O' model was only ever offered in one size as fad as I've been able to determine. This is not from the Rx line, but is 'Rx-Able'
I'll know for sure this week!

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

The RayBans have arrived in fine shape (I was standing there to receive them before they wound up at the bottom of 2000 pounds of rivets!) and I've swapped the lenses already. All is well on that front.

As for the well... I'm definitely going drive-point. Numbers for a shallow casement well ranged from $2400 for 30' and no pump to $3600 including a 4" submersible pump and expansion tank included. Nope, says I. A drive point will work quite well (pun intended.)

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:15 am Post subject: