I went looking for a mess...

[Mgderf]

Any cool updates going on?

This afternoon as I was ready to pull out of my new driveway, a pretty little female pheasant ran across my drive not 25 feet in front of my truck!
On top of deer, coyote, raccoon, squirrel, turkey, and even groundhogs, I now have pheasant!

Another update,
Electrical inspection scheduled for tomorrow and the local R.E.M.C. has me on the schedule for Thursday to set my new pole and energize my new system.

 

[Mgderf]

 

[loudgroove]

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Congrats!!

 

[Mgderf]

Congrats!!

New pole and power on Thursday

 

[Mgderf]

This is the ONLY way ( I'm going to do it) to hang drywall by yourself.

 

[boogieman]

This is the ONLY way ( I'm going to do it) to hang drywall by yourself.
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When I bought my current house the garage was unfinished with 12 foot ceilings. I bought a lightly used drywall lift off of craigslist for $60. It was one of the best home improvement investments I have bought.

 

[ZurokSlayer7X9]

This is the ONLY way ( I'm going to do it) to hang drywall by yourself.
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I concur that the drywall lift is the way to go, especially with 12' sheets weighing roughly 80lbs each. Ceilings were especially annoying because I had to use 3" screws to get through the multiple layers of plaster.

 

[Mgderf]

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I concur that the drywall lift is the way to go, especially with 12' sheets weighing roughly 80lbs each. Ceilings were especially annoying because I had to use 3" screws to get through the multiple layers of plaster.

I'm using 2-1/2" screws.
It's not too bad, until I hit one of those rock hard oak joists.
I've snapped the heads off of several screws before they sink into the drywall.

 

[ancjr]

Drywall screws are very brittle.

 

[Skullglide]

Looking very nice. Well done sir.

 

[Creedmoor]

I'm using 2-1/2" screws.
It's not too bad, until I hit one of those rock hard oak joists.
I've snapped the heads off of several screws before they sink into the drywall.

Have you tried to lube them up by pulling them across a bar of soap?

 

[Cameramonkey]

Have you tried to lube them up by pulling them across a bar of soap?

This!

 

[ghuns]

This!

X3

We bought the house my grandpa built in 1942. He had cleared almost 150 acres of woods when he bought the land. His grandpa owned a sawmill nearby so every board used in the framing came from that.

All the studs are oak. When we were first working on it, the wife was pregnant and couldn't help much. What she could do was run every single drywall screw across a bar of soap.

My other grandpa was helping me and he preferred to nail drywall. I couldn't understand how he was driving those nails into the petrified oak studs. I finally saw him shoving a nail into the bottom of his hammer handle. He had drilled it out and poured beeswax into it.

The hardest thing I have tried to drill/screw into in the house isn't the oak wall studs, but the red elm rafters. We were doing this work pre-cordless tools. I had 2 aluminum bodied 3/8 drills each with a 3/4" paddle bit in them. When rewiring I would grab drill #1 and start a hole to run the wire through. When that drill was too hot to hold, I'd set it down and grab drill #2. When #2 was almost on fire, I'd grab #1 which had cooled off by then.

I'm glad you're enjoying this journey. I have to say, if I had it to do over, I'd have built new.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I actually used the soap trick last night.

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

I actually used the soap trick last night.

Yeah, I've used that trick one too many times while showering with the GF, she usually doesn't fall for it anymore...

 

[printcraft]

This is the ONLY way ( I'm going to do it) to hang drywall by yourself.
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Nice!
Those 5/8 will really give you a knock if you drop them on your head... I've done it, I don't recommend it.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Nice!
Those 5/8 will really give you a knock if you drop them on your head... I've done it, I don't recommend it.

That really explains a LOT about you.

 

[printcraft]

That really explains a LOT about you.

It's like a factory reset when it happens, you just need to give it time to reboot properly.

 

[Creedmoor]

X3

We bought the house my grandpa built in 1942. He had cleared almost 150 acres of woods when he bought the land. His grandpa owned a sawmill nearby so every board used in the framing came from that.

All the studs are oak. When we were first working on it, the wife was pregnant and couldn't help much. What she could do was run every single drywall screw across a bar of soap.

My other grandpa was helping me and he preferred to nail drywall. I couldn't understand how he was driving those nails into the petrified oak studs. I finally saw him shoving a nail into the bottom of his hammer handle. He had drilled it out and poured beeswax into it.

The hardest thing I have tried to drill/screw into in the house isn't the oak wall studs, but the red elm rafters. We were doing this work pre-cordless tools. I had 2 aluminum bodied 3/8 drills each with a 3/4" paddle bit in them. When rewiring I would grab drill #1 and start a hole to run the wire through. When that drill was too hot to hold, I'd set it down and grab drill #2. When #2 was almost on fire, I'd grab #1 which had cooled off by then.

I'm glad you're enjoying this journey. I have to say, if I had it to do over, I'd have built new.

I'm laughing with you, I've gutted three old 1880''s balloon frame houses in the past 30 years. The first was in Anderson, I tripped out the tube and knob elect and started drilling holes for the new elect in the gutted frame.
The floor joists and wall studs were so hard I burned up a Milwaukee hole hog and went to Lowes and bought another one.
Buy the time I was done that rehab I had burned up my 1/2" Milwaukee hole shooter and the new hole hog had a a good smell to it when it was being used.
Every hole was like drilling through 11/2" steel.

 

[Mgderf]