Preach it Brother!

I am getting around to putting the Hardi plank on my new shop now that its a
bit cooler outside and not raining. Framing drove me crazy with all the up
the ladder/down the ladder/tote and cut, tote and cut. Only one of me and I
didn't have any help either... It was fun. sigh I recommend it to anyone!

"Rudy Lang" wrote in message
news:rKkOc.195902$JR4.186578@attbi_s54...
If the excavation has you crazy, you are doomed when it comes to actual
construction.

Good luck and start (or quit) Drinking. One way or the other youi'll be in
a
program. Bring a whittling knife.

Rudy
"John Moorhead" wrote in message
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Folks -

Well, I am back at it with the foundation layout and cutting of the
footings. Wif and I restrung the foundation lines and make our cut
lines
for the backhoe guy again... He wanted the line 3" OUTSIDE of where the
cut
was to be.... So he showed up this morning and got started. Lo and
behold -
he didn't make his cut 3" inside the chalkline, he SPLIT the chalkline
and
dug 30" deep instead of 20". Goddamn it! I needed a trench 1 foot
wide,
now the trenches vary between 18" and a bit over 24". So now I'll end
up
A)
buying appx 1 acre more fill sand than I was planning; or B) renting a
compactor and tamping the soil to get my depth right, building my forms,
and
backfilling the sides and compacting that; or C) Both.

I perhaps should have gotten some other backhoe service, but this was
the
only guy to return repeated calls. Sometimes I just *ucking ***HATE***
contractors. Nothing personal, to those of you who are, I was just
hoping
to at least have the footings dug out before someone ****ed me off....

John