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Originally Posted by Palf70Step
Nice work Rian. I am now tired seeing what all you did!
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Laughing here Bill.
Sometimes I was ready to give up, but it was not an option.
I know most of you dont like food, so thought opening with a bit of food made sense.
On Wednesday after work I cooked some ribs and oven chips for myself and Andy the lodger, Sally had stuff to deal with at home, so skipped dinner.
2kg of ribs became this after 70 minutes at 180’C
30 minutes on the bone side, and 40 minutes on the meaty side.
Serve and enjoy.
Back to the carport job.
Went up to the farm to drop off some more unused hardcore on their pile.
Walked around the pile and saw this marble lintel that’s been there for years.
I had asked Charlie the farmer about it before and he had said yes I could have it, only problem is a 5 foot long lump of granite weighs a fair amount.
Now with the current progress and changes here, I thought it is time to try get it here again.
Also found a birdbath stand or who knows what you want to put on it......
As always there is still stuff to do,
I need to band the paving at the edge, and also recast a bit of the driveway that I broke out.
While I started mixing the banding cement, Andy carried on with the rather large RSJ cleanup and weld.
What a pleasure watching a pro weld......
Once he strikes an arc, it just goes on till the rod runs out, or he gets to the end of the run.
Joined up, welded all sides.
Then added some more bracing.
Totally over engineered without doubt.
And finally some galvanising spray over all the grinds and welds.
And cement and concrete work done and cleaned up.
Chicago Town Stuffed Crust Cola Pizza and nice seasoned fries as a quick n easy dinner.
Along with maybe more beers and most of a litre of Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey.
No regrets.
Weekend soon.....