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PinheadSlim posted:I feel like there's a certain type of idiot who thinks just because they're a land owner that they're basically qualified to do every single piece of work the property requires, and that hiring any sort of professional is a sign of weakness. Cheapness as well. They have $8.5 million in their savings at the age of 65 but choke at the idea of paying $700 for anything they think they can do for free themselves (plus whoever they can bully into helping them).
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I stopped watching Furze after the beach hut video. How bad of an idea is this, really? I started this video assuming there were going to be rooms spread out beneath the surface (as in, rooms with sand above them); since this is all straight down, it seems far less absurd. From the video, it's clear the plywood is taking some pressure, but can anyone substantiate how bad it is? Is a 12ft deep hole actually too much pressure for plywood? Cojawfee posted:Yeah this type of video was fun. An interesting build with fun punk music playing during the timelapse bits. The good music was an added bonus for me while watching this video.  PinheadSlim posted:Oh hell yeah I was just watching a bunch of these British Pathe videos and I thought I saw a lot of material for this thread. I like how in England candy
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Dread Head posted:Where was this tree even going to land if it did not hit the house? based on the "load line" on the house across the street?
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Can't forget this classic British Pathé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfZSEboVM4
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PinheadSlim posted:They're absolutely full of sexism, around 1:20 for this one about miniature wargames. That's the full title of the book Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books by H G Wells. He was born in 1866 and published that book in 1913 and during that period the toy options for girls were pretty much "dolls, and a dollhouse if you're lucky". I don't know about beforehand, but from the Victorian era until quite recently girls have only been encouraged toward the most boring and unstimulating interests. Hell, in the 1960s my mother wanted to learn carpentry and metalwork at high school but they only allowed boys to take those classes, and she had to learn cooking instead.
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pseudorandom posted:Is a 12ft deep hole actually too much pressure for plywood? The plywood could hold back the pressure, but before the floors are installed, there is essentially bupkis stopping several dozen tonnes of force from making the plywood walls meet like the trash compactor in Star Wars. The plywood isn’t protecting them. They are solely reliant on the sand’s good graces. If it started behaving like a liquid, they would be squeezed like tomatoes. Real shoring has horizontal elements to keep the walls of the excavation separated. 
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Dread Head posted:Where was this tree even going to land if it did not hit the house? Given the neighborhood, it's a residential with wide streets and a fairly generous front lawn. The only way that would hit a house is if it was the one it actually hit or the neighbor next, plenty of room across the street to lay a massive tree down, especially diagonally, but lol if it had hit the lightpost or some other public property PainterofCrap posted:No, you're not. Termites go after wet, dead wood in contact with the ground. Termitechat: Inspect the foundation of termite zone houses and trim back growth and keep dirt and mud away, as "staying underground" is a technicality, and once they make a mud burrow up the foundation they can get at your tasty architectural cellulose 
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BattleMaster posted:I live in Ontario and my only exposure to termites is gags from Looney Tunes. The idea of that being an issue from bringing in wood over here is unheard of. Dunno where dude in the video lives but there are lots of places where it just isn't an issue. Same. I have not so fond memories of me and my brothers spending weeks carrying cords and cords of split wood, an armful at a time, down the stairs to the basement. It wasn't until we were grown and gone that my father 'discovered' that he could make a ramp down a basement window and use a small wheelbarrow downstairs to carry the wood to the furnace room. He can put down the same amount of wood in an afternoon with just two guys.
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pseudorandom posted:How bad of an idea is this, really? I started this video assuming there were going to be rooms spread out beneath the surface (as in, rooms with sand above them); since this is all straight down, it seems far less absurd. From the video, it's clear the plywood is taking some pressure, but can anyone substantiate how bad it is? It's a really bad idea. Sand is a bastard because of its large particulate size making it really happy to suddenly liquify, and narrow excavations like that are deathtraps anyway. That plywood will do sweet gently caress all if the sand decides to slip. They also piss about right on the edge of the section constantly; you need to keep a respectful distance from the edge of any excavation to avoid weakening it. They also keep putting their spoil waaaaay too close to the pit, which you don't do in case it either slips into the pit, or the extra weight causes the walls of the pit to deform and slip. They should be bucketing it out, not just throwing it over the side to create more loose dangerous sand. Maybe the finished product has integrity, but the excavation was them skating by on pure luck. I don't know much about the physics involved, but I know about digging holes and you couldn't pay me to get in that thing.
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Werong Bustope posted:I don't know much about the physics involved Neither does Fruze or he wouldn't do the things he does like the Jet Powered Go Kart and wall of death made from old pallets.
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Nov 19, 2019 13:20
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ekuNNN posted:
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moonshine is...... posted:
Oh hell yeah! 
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ekuNNN posted:
A very good start for our snake worker comrade, but where's the hi visss vessssssst!
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dr_rat posted:A very good start for our snake worker comrade, but where's the hi visss vessssssst! He was wearing one, but somehow it keeps falling off his shoulders.
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Shut up Meg posted:In a hosed up way, I wish something bad would happen to people like that. This is why Home Improvement un-ironically created the best actual-fake home improvement show ever, Tool Time™ because it showed repeatedly exactly how abject stupidity and/or cutting corners would make you dead as gently caress and furthermore
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moonshine is...... posted:
hi, i need??? ???????????????????
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SeaborneClink posted:Wait, wait, wait.. this is the ending to the goon that tried to hike across the US with a baby push pram and 1/2 lb of trailmix and had to be rescued by park rangers in San Diego (??) less than 5 miles after starting? Yeah, here's one of the final posts about it: quote:Muerte posted: The whole thread is still amazing https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 I really really want to believe. https://i.imgur.com/B2H39dD.mp4
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Powershift posted:Oh hell yeah! Those are Levi's too, so he's definitely burning his taint and/or balls.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah, here's one of the final posts about it: That was a heartwarming post right up until the last 2 sentences. Hopefully it’s a long time into the future.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Sure, but termites tend to live in dry rear end, hot dusty places, hence less green greenery. the determining factor isn't really how moist a climate is, but rather temperature. Milder winters = more termites  If you go to the wet tropics the termites are out of this world. Like I'd find myself pulling termite heads off my neck hours after coming out of the forest, because the fuckers literally covered every surface and would practically rain on me. Of course all insects are out of control in the tropics, wet or dry. It's cool waiting for your magnificent giant hibiscus bush to go into bloom only for thousands of ants to appear within hours and systematically slice every flower on the plant into thousands of little pieces
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someone too far back ago for me to bother to find it said termites like hot dry places which is definitely news to me in south louisiana
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Sure, but termites tend to live in dry rear end, hot dusty places, hence less green greenery. lmfao
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Easy way to test for termites if you live in Asia or Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHTQqVe6YA Are your walls making this sound? If yes congratulations!
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That was one thing that came up in those Life After People specials. Without humans regularly maintaining their homes, it would take an extremely short amount of time for wood-framed buildings to collapse from termites and other damage. Within 100 years all the suburbs and isolated houses would be completely gone except for what remains of their foundations under the overgrown foliage. The only buildings left would be crumbling, rusty, vine-covered skyscrapers and bridges until those inevitably collapse.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:hi, i need??? ??????????????????? My gf does dtg printing, I just snagged the image from earlier in the thread and asked her for a shirt. Gotta show up forklift operators somehow.
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chitoryu12 posted:That was one thing that came up in those Life After People specials. Without humans regularly maintaining their homes, it would take an extremely short amount of time for wood-framed buildings to collapse from termites and other damage. Within 100 years all the suburbs and isolated houses would be completely gone except for what remains of their foundations under the overgrown foliage. The only buildings left would be crumbling, rusty, vine-covered skyscrapers and bridges until those inevitably collapse. This is why we need solid stainless steel buildings.
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Baronjutter posted:This is why we need solid stainless steel buildings. Remember, termite brought even the WTC down!
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moonshine is...... posted:
How, where?
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I'm the decision to attempt to physically hold that in place with my bare hands.
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This synced up nicely to the audio from tree guy further up the page.
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Bombadilillo posted:I'm the decision to attempt to physically hold that in place with my bare hands. Yep, that's more of a "wait for impact" then "assist the wounded" then "cry because you're going to prison for your criminal neglect" day.
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Shouldn't the breaks lock up when it got disconnected from the air supply?
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Assuming there's one on there without a cage bolt in it.
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Mr-Spain posted:Shouldn't the breaks lock up when it got disconnected from the air supply?
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Mr-Spain posted:Shouldn't the breaks lock up when it got disconnected from the air supply? Oh man, the air line broke and I'm 3 hours from the closest shop. I'll just cage the brakes and drive carefully I guess, I'll get it fixed in the morning. Well nothing bad happened and this job has to get done in a hurry, I'll take care of it this week for sure. I mean it's been driving fine, I really should get it in though. *A year goes by, driver quits and a new driver takes over*
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