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Seen a lot of posts about people’s screw ups and hack jobs lately. Let’s just say I’ve seen some pretty sketchy stuff from working on old farm buildings. I’ll try and contain the carnage to this thread and I’m not sure I’ll post everything because some stuff is too sketchy and you never know who’s watching.
Did this insulation job last summer. Talk about Frankenstein framing. Not a single stud was spaced the same. No two pieces of insulation could be cut the same. I wish I had a few better pictures because this wall was one of the better ones.
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This was how the building was wired (not by me)
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Another hack job, thus one I respect though. This was the button for the brake lights on my brother’s car that he made using the trunk release button. I went through that car and made some hard core custom wiring. Apparently windshield wiper circuits are really confusing but I managed to get 2 switches in there to control that one and put in a real light switch to the brake pedal. We had that car with a hacked together 16 gauge switch panel to where you flipped two switches and then had a push button start because the ignition switch had burnt up for the PO.
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This was out of a motor I pulled out of my truck. Valves shouldn’t look like this. Ever.
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Looks like they closed in some old doors and windows and didn’t bother with putting studs nice and even
Stercorarius wrote:
This was out of a motor I pulled out of my truck. Valves shouldn’t look like this. Ever.
Flooded/water damage?
From what I can gather the old nylon sprocket ford put in these things for the timing slipped (pretty common) and the valve made a little contact with the piston along with it running too rich (way oversized jets) and penzoil (lots of graphite) and somehow the cylinder had coolant leaking into it, probably from a head gasket failure and not a cracked head.KnarlyCarl wrote:
Flooded/water damage?
Yeah it was a booth for an old toll bridge that became a freeway. The building was pulled apart and moved to my boss’ property in the eighties and closed up. The whole thing was a mess. The roof was flat and chamfered about a foot around the edge but then had a 2×12 that was proud by about 3 inches up from the edge making troughs that I would assume were intended to be some sort of integrated gutter but the tar cracked leaving just a really leaky roof that didn’t let water run off. Re roofing that one was fun.KnarlyCarl wrote:
Looks like they closed in some old doors and windows and didn’t bother with putting studs nice and even
The old owners of my house tried to do some framing in the basement and none of the studs where placed the same
That drives me crazy when people just throw wood together and call it a wall, do it right!
Working on this beauty currently. Someone thought a 2×6 could hold the whole thing.
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Ha ha sweet, great way to add a little curviture to your wood
Jimbo
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Stercorarius wrote:
Working on this beauty currently. Someone thought a 2×6 could hold the whole thing.
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that board will have to sit flat for a few days before using it, damn waste of time…..they should never store lumber straight up and down let alone hold building up one board at a time….besides isn’t it 2 boards for code?….lol
Wow. SpecialStercorarius wrote:
Working on this beauty currently. Someone thought a 2×6 could hold the whole thing.
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Millerz
What exactly is the top of that 2×6 holding up? The picture is kind of dark and I can’t tell, just a truss?
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Yeah it’s nailed right to the truss.KnarlyCarl wrote:
What exactly is the top of that 2×6 holding up? The picture is kind of dark and I can’t tell, just a truss?
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Sweet that’s real secure
Jimbo
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No surprise I guess, time to get out the hydraulic jacksStercorarius wrote:
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Yeah a twenty ton bottle jack should do the trick. I’ve lifted heavier roofs that had sagged a lot more with a loader. I’m talking heavy enough that I had to keep the stick cranked all the way back to keep the bucket stationary and had the rear wheels about off the ground.KnarlyCarl wrote:
No surprise I guess, time to get out the hydraulic jacks
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Oh that sounds safe haha
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Took a picture of the same building today as I left.
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How about people who never change their sparkplugs in the life of the engine? I mean, I’ve seen worse, but this is pretty bad too, you can tell that the sparkplug was beginning to deteriorate. their ceramic based anyways so there not made to last forever.
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You can fix almost anything under the sun, but at the end of the day you can’t fix stupid.
Some more carnage for you guys. Apparently bailing twine is an acceptable romex fastening method. [External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied]
Don’t worry guys what was the previous owners deal and that whole wiring has been disconnected. He had overhead romex runs going between barns when we got there……
This was the building I posted earlier that was being held up by a 2×6. Turns out that framing nails and drywall screws are how you fasten tin down.
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Yes I know that the vertical trim still needs the tail lopped off. The tin will be reattached with tin screws after we put fascia and soffit up.
Stercorarius wrote:
On March 3, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Stercorarius said:You can fix almost anything under the sun, but at the end of the day you can’t fix stupid.
You know what they say, No brain no headache
Good to see your pics are getting clearer, more steady!
That’s awesome you get an eclectic work day like that, I get that too. Now figure out a game plan and get a raise from ur boss already!
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KnarlyCarl wrote:
Good to see your pics are getting clearer, more steady!That’s awesome you get an eclectic work day like that, I get that too. Now figure out a game plan and get a raise from ur boss already!
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Yeah it’s nice. If I didn’t do a little of everything I would have left my job a long time ago. The only bad part of it is that I never get the opportunity to finish a project without getting pulled off for something more critical. I layed about 5k in PVC pipe (800′ runs of 6″ gasketed PIP, 3″ PVC, 1 1/2″ conduit). As soon as I buried them I was immediately tossed in a tractor to take hay and then into a truck hauling cileage. The pipes never got plumbed into anything untill a few months ago. The whole system still needs to have the automatic pnuematic valves and relays installed to be used.