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Ice is out @ the cabin and I'm still not ready with the boat.

Hopefully she will be ready next weekend.

Spent some time doing an interior clean, removed my old transducers and got the new Garmin transducers installed.

Still have to install the head units, connect power and NMEA to the VHF and put some panels back in the boat.

Gotta repaint the trailer one of these days. :whistling:

 

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Ice is out @ the cabin and I'm still not ready with the boat.

Hopefully she will be ready next weekend.

Spent some time doing an interior clean, removed my old transducers and got the new Garmin transducers installed.

Still have to install the head units, connect power and NMEA to the VHF and put some panels back in the boat.

Gotta repaint the trailer one of these days. :whistling:

 

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Dave, Tremclad is your friend................

 

Doug

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Got out to the cabin for the weekend.

Didn't get a lot done but I'm ready to do the roofing now.

Was rainy and windy on Saturday so I did some screen work along the eves to keep the skitters and birds out of the cabin.

Got my new cabin toy assembled too.

But mostly I slept. :)

 

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Sunday was nice and sunny so I got the material lift all hooked up and set up the ladder.

Then I loaded up the boat and went to play.

Went 2/5 and had fun playing with the new sonar units. Spent most of the time recording contours and have my bay almost 1/2 mapped now.

 

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Aren't you finished that "shack" yet? Time to get those invisible workers that don't exist cracking. Isn't the roofing the first thing you do before walls and windows? The top of the world seems upside down sometimes. I watch all those Arctic shows where everyone starts getting ready for winter when the first freeze and snow is hitting in 24 hours or they starve or freeze to death. My favorite guy is the guy in Shangri-La AK. or something and refuses to use any power tools. But the film editor didn't catch the frame where his chain saw is in view. Yea right "I know my dear wife it's a reality show." I've had to say that more than a few times when I'm tossing my 80's era sponge brick at the TV.

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Got some roofing on this weekend. Took a lot longer than I thought it would. My back is killing me this year and I could only work on the steep roof for 15 minutes at a time before having to take a break. :(

Was hoping to have the North facing roof finished by now. But I only got it 1/2 done.

Vacation starts after work on Thursday and I'll be at the cabin for 10 days straight. Hope to have the roof done and a bunch of siding on by the time it's over.


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Crappy pic from the lake. Need to get one in the AM when the sun's in the right spot.


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After last weeks unscheduled trip to Edmonton I finally got out to the cabin for 4 days this week.

I picked up a few things for the cabin while I was down South though.

It will do dual duty as a pump for filling my water tank for the cabin and running fire abatement sprinkler system and fire hose duties.

Wild fires are always a concern here in the summer. Although this year it seems like BC is the province on fire.

Picked up my gas water pump and a bunch of associated goodies.


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Need a way to get the water too the cabin so I got a couple hundred feet or 2" poly pipe.


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Spent my time up on the roof layin' tin!!!!

Too dang hot though and I went through several gallons of water and a case of Coke Zero pretty quickly.

Spent a lot of time running the generator so I could sit in front of my fan to cool down.


Finished up the North roof.


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Started work on the South roof and got about 3/4 of the porch roof done before I ran out of screws.

It was too hot to work today anyway and I left the lake at 9:30AM to find me some AC to sit in.


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Temps are supposed to be good next weekend and I hope to get a bunch more roofing done.






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Lookin' good Dave, lookin' good. Now be safe up there, 911 isn't exactly a few minutes away, a few hours maybe? Don't do what the guy that tied off to the bumper of his car when he was roofing. Then his wife decided to go shopping and dragged him a few miles down the road. Maybe a urban legend but I believe it.

 

Minions aren't very good workers, far too easily distracted.

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Lookin' good Dave, lookin' good. Now be safe up there, 911 isn't exactly a few minutes away, a few hours maybe? Don't do what the guy that tied off to the bumper of his car when he was roofing. Then his wife decided to go shopping and dragged him a few miles down the road. Maybe a urban legend but I believe it.

 

Minions aren't very good workers, far too easily distracted.

 

North side was the scary one.

South side is much nicer. ;)

PS. Got a harness and 3 anchor points on the roof. ;)

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North side was the scary one.

South side is much nicer. ;)

PS. Got a harness and 3 anchor points on the roof. ;)

You won't get me up higher than the 3rd rung of a ladder now. Nothing to climb a hoop ladder to the top of a gas bleeder 10 stories from death, at night during a thunder storm. Nuts then or really needed the money, both maybe. Just be safe is what I'm saying and I know you work both smart and safe.

 

Someone is going to say you need to cut down those trees for the view. As someone that lives smack dab on Erie those trees can save you a lot of heating bills when those winds are whipping off the lake at 40 knots or more. Trees have a tendency to stave off erosion too.

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You won't get me up higher than the 3rd rung of a ladder now. Nothing to climb a hoop ladder to the top of a gas bleeder 10 stories from death, at night during a thunder storm. Nuts then or really needed the money, both maybe. Just be safe is what I'm saying and I know you work both smart and safe.

 

Someone is going to say you need to cut down those trees for the view. As someone that lives smack dab on Erie those trees can save you a lot of heating bills when those winds are whipping off the lake at 40 knots or more. Trees have a tendency to stave off erosion too.

 

A bunch of those trees are coming down eventually.

Ones close to the cabin.

Gotta clear a defensible space in case of wild fire. ;)

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Forest Fires! Got you Dave. At least we don't have many of those down south. My brothers lady friends building did burn down in downtown St. Catherines last week though, actually almost the entire block. It reminds me I need to get someone to trim these trees back. Way too close to the shack. With all this rain this year I don't know of they will even burn.

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Didn't go to the cabin this weekend as there was an issue with my screw order for my roof.

Decided to stay at home and work on the cribbing for the section of dock that is connected to the shore. These will protect the lake side posts and the dock from ice damage in the spring.

I was lucky there was no damage this spring as I ran out of time last fall and didn't get them done.

These should be pretty solid once I fill them up with granite.


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