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I shouldn t have but I did and now work to be done
I have a walk out basement. I've been working on a storage shelf system for over 2 weeks now. I won't go into my frustration with the suposedly kiln-dried lumber that was soaking wet. That's one for the rant section. Anyway, hauling the lumber to the basement is most easily done by loading it in the truck and driving it down to the walk-out entrance. I had 10 4x4 posts, 16 1x6 x 8 ft boards, and a bunch of smaller pieces.
So I loaded up the truck and headed off. Bad move. I had stepped on the lawn to try to gauge how frozen it was. It seems ok, but is hard to tell. Anyway, I made it about 50 feet before I realized how screwed I was. I backed up while sliding down my hill to get to my driveway. Now I've got these massive ruts in my lawn that are about 6" to 10" deep.
So once we get out this ridiculous "Winter" weather and either freeze or permanently thaw, how do I go about fixing my damage?
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Yeah, it was the topper to a long weekend of hard work and problems. The storage shelves are a mortise and tenon deisgn. But the wood is so wet (and has been for 2 weeks) the mortiser would just gum up and smoke. I'm already delayed 2 weeks so I used a 1" forstner bit and then used a hand chisel to clean up and square up every mortise in each vertical beam. Took about 30+ minutes per beam. I've got 10 done so far.
So you can imagine how much fun I had hauling all that wood down the steps thinking about all that extra work in late March/April to fix the ruts. I've got some left over top soil that I can use for filler. I may just wait as I will probably order more top soil this spring to fix other parts of the yard. That way the dump truck and my tractor can mess up that section of the yard and I won't care. I can fix it last.
Yooper, you were have fun trying out new vocabulary it sounds like. Earlier this fall, I let my brother drive my new 4310 with less than 15 hours on it. He wasn't watching and hit the side trim on the shop door with the loader bucket. Door closes a bit tight now. He put the first scratch in my new tractor and the first major dent in my shop. I guess it's payback for "remodeling" his nose when we were kids.
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Ouch!! I saw over 20 deer on the way to work this morning. People around here are always saying how glad they are the snow is gone. I correct them in a hurry!! With snow, I can see the deer much better.
Such a suicidal tendancy in an animal...
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