Well bought some parts for my BCS 2 Wheel tractor on eBay. They were in Brasstown NC which required a trip through Elijay, Blue Ridge and Murphy NC.
The guy I bought the parts from raised chickens and lots of other critters. He made chicken coops out of old satellite dishes. I guess you could call this a “dish network”. He had hundreds of chickens and his ebay ID was roosterdude
But on the way home I found a recycled school bus. Remember you can click on these photo’s for bigger ones
For Tony – I think this was in Bartow. If it wasn’t it was real close
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Probably the only bracing is the horizontal siding. You could probably hook a cable to it, straighten it with a tractor and add diagonal bracing some 100+ years after it was built. Click on the smal picture to get a bigger one.
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Well guys, some of your have already had this happen. My last day with Cherokee County will be 12/31/2009. It has been lots of fun with the building department. I would give anything to meet the county marshal on some illegal construction.
I’m feeling a little blue, but I have been very blessed. I’m by no means wealthy, but this is not going to cause me to be homeless.
I will be moving/downsizing from this house in Bartow County
To my new old house built in 1890 in Cherokee County
Just kidding. My wife told me she would never live in it. I kinda like this old house.
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I can’t figure this one out. It is in a bad neighborhood. It’s the street I grew up on. We had to chain our car batteries down and we also left our cars unlocked so they wouldn’t break the windows. I can’t figure out what this is. Maybe they got some kind of illegal lab operation in there. Click on these small photos for a bigger one.
Here is the house.
Here is a close-up of those windows.
Here is a close up of the front door. It looks like the door on a freezer or a container for a bomb. this question if it’s an illegal lab operation.
I thought it might have been some new “GREEN” stuff, but I see a very old air conditioner is still in place.
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This is my next door Neighbors House in Bartow County. It was probably built in 1999. She hit the gas instead of the brakes. This garage has 2 headers so this could have been real bad. The bottom plate did move. She was quoted very high rates from contractors to fix it. I just took a sledge hammer and pounde it back. It took about an hour.
Why we Need Narrow Wall Bracing
Now Bolts might have helped, but if bolts were there, the studs might have seperated from the bottom plate causing as much or more damage. I like the brackets and bolts shown below. I wish the code would require these.
Narrow Wall Bolts with Brackets
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I have one major home builder that tells me he is opposed to arc fault breakers being used throughout the house as is required starting 1/1/2010. He says his cleaning lady can’t plug her vaccuum cleaner into a bedroom outlet becuase it allways trips the arc fault. I WONDER WHY!!!
This is Why
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Ok I have the HVAC line going into the Sanitary Drainge or Sewer. If it were a high effency furnace it wouldn’t need a trap primer. Now the trap primer shown below has holes in the side. The builder was trying to tell me that the trap primer has b built-in air gap and thats what the holes were for.
Trap Primer Without Air Gap
Now I went to the manufacturers site and found this information
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From the State Amendments
R502.2.2 Decks.
(Remainder of section left unchanged.)
(Effective January 1, 2007)
Decks shall be constructed in accordance with this code or Chapter 3 of the 1996 Forest Products Society, “Wood Decks, Materials, Construction, and Finishing” manual. Where supported by…
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