New framing

Let’s just stick to human monkey stuff today. Debra Kay, the reason I’m interested in heating with wood pellets is because if burned properly they are energy efficient and less polluting than burning firewood. And the price is right in this area. But I don’t want to spend well over a thousand dollars for a high tech stove to burn them in. It requires electricity to run them and they are complex with electronic control boards and such and I like simple things that work well.

I have owned one pellet stove, but it was pretty much junk so I didn’t use it long. The factory gave me a new ‘improved’ model but I wasn’t impressed with it either. And my place is small, the store bought stoves would be overkill. I’ve been doing some research and may try some things on my own, I have all the tools and equipment to do that with.

As for just building a fire, I do that some times. But it bothers me at times that I’m adding to the pollution.

Anyway, about the pictures. I mentioned recently that I had bought a combination brad nailer and staple gun. A cheap one, just 20 bucks, but it will drive a 2 inch brad and a 1 ½ inch staple, this is very handy for some of my building and restoration projects.

I’m currently putting new framing in the overhang of the camper, the berth area. Using thin galvanized mental plates (on both sides), the staple gun allows me to create nice strong joints without dowels or complex joints. Being a cheap gun it wasn’t working quite right but I tore it apart four or five times until I got it working to my standards.

I don’t often ask other monkeys to help when working on projects, the other monkeys are busy doing other monkey stuff and many things I do could use an extra hand or two, like when I was working on getting the separated skin on the camper back together. Over the years I’ve learned a lot about getting things done alone. I needed to push the front back some to get it to reach the other skin, to get and hold it in the proper place while I worked to getting the two pieces mated back together. Mated, my mind just wandered, ha, ha, ha.

I also recently bought some clamps that not only clamp but can be converted to spread things, like the legs of virgins, ha, ha, ha. That isn’t a pretty picture and is cluttered, like my mind, but it does illustrate my solution. I backed my pickup toward the front of the camper and used a couple of pieces of 2X4’s set behind the hitch ball so I had a support to push from. Then I used a piece of ¾ inch PVC pipe over the spreader bar to push against a short 2X4 on the face of the overhang.

Bored yet? There was also a vertical 2X4 (I added a yellow line to it to help you identify it) going to the ground that was holding a horizontal board (blue) to keep the lower sheet in place. This is better than getting another monkey to help because they will stay in place for as long as I need them to without complaining like monkeys do, in this case about an hour while I got the metal straightened and folded back over.

I’ve worked with some monkeys that were good craftsman and understood what I was doing and didn’t question me and just helped with no problems, but I’ve worked with plenty that I wished were somewhere else. I started building a garage for a man a few years ago, he had hired me and a lady monkey to build it. She decided that she was the project boss, I didn’t care, she could be the boss if she wanted to.

But I couldn’t work with her, she hadn’t been a carpenter for long and her ways were different than mine, and she wasn’t worth a damn at communicating to me what she was expecting me to do. The cement floor and foundation was already there, I had done it a few weeks before we started the building. I worked with her about three days and we had a large part of the framing done and the side panels on when I got tired of her being short with me so I told her too take a flying fuck and went home.

She complained to the man about me and tried to make it sound like I was an idiot but I had completed many projects for him over a number of years so he knew it wasn’t me.

The man hired another helper for her and she was putting roof truss’s up and doing it wrong when the owner pointed it out. She got in a pissing contest with him and got her ass fired. He called me and I went back and finished the job. Just one of my many experiences on this silly planet.

Ever been fired from a job? I have a few times, when I couldn’t get the boss properly trained. LOL No big deal, I just went on to other things, there are always other things to do that suits me. I don’t understand people that stay at jobs they are not happy with. It’s never bothered me to leave a job I was not enjoying, but I’m a free spirit and need no one else’s so called job or security.

Yesterday I went into the computer shop I bought my new computer from. The same shop that I also signed up for my high speed Internet ISP through. I was just looking for a little help getting the new cable modem that I got off of Yahoo Freecycle working, I’m sure that I have to give the computer a little information about it. Type in some code or address or something.

I got stuck talking to a monkey that I’ve talked to a few other times because the monkey I wanted to talk to was on the phone. I tell him that I have another brand of cable modem that I want to use so I can return the one I’m paying rent for to Wavecable but it won’t work. He starts talking down to me, told me that I didn’t have a cable modem. Hey, I’m not a fucking computer geek, I’m willing to admit that I don’t know as much about them as I once did because I got tired of trying to keep up with it all.

BUT I FUCKING KNOW WHAT A CABLE MODEM IS !!! I just wanted some help getting it working. He pitched some other shit on me and I said right in front of the other customers there, “I don’t like talking to you, I like talking to that guy because he is always more helpful than you are.” I figured that all the monkeys there needed to hear that. And then I walked out of the fucking store, fuck him, I’ll figure out to get it working, that is what I have a brain for. I can rebuild an automatic transmission, I’ve rebuilt hundreds of them, I can figure out how to get a fucking cable modem working, it’s just easier if you have some helpful advice.

I posted something interesting on my other blog this morning. FRANKENKINDER

Hey, have a great day, simply and peacefully, hugs…. BBC