January 4, 2010
Tape Measure Tricks
Harder than it looks
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- Michael Smith: WRONG, I’m anime FREAK.
- Rick Neece: I hear you. I kind of like the Jaguar-ish look of the new ones.
- Marco: I’ll admit in the privacy of this forum to liking some of the Tauri, but that particular model year was...
- Rick Neece: Thanks, Josh.
- k: Somebody pulled her the fuck out of that house, didn’t they? She’s going to end up in a hospital at...
- picturerock: I drive a Dodge Ram, and the bumper sticker on the back says, “Eatin’ Teslas, Shittin’...
- Joel Bernstein: The father responds
- Carole Corlew: Kathy, it’s in the blood! I have old windows in the garage that I use for that, too. And I...
- Kathy: Carole, you are so so like my father. He built his own mini greenhouse to start his seedlings using the frame...
- Michael Smith: Also, did you guys all know racquetball is fun? Even if you don’t know what you’re doing.
- Michael Smith: Cats don’t count.
- Carole Corlew: I also think about a principal’s message to parents here asking for donations of any used...
- Carole Corlew: Thank you! You know me, I have an agenda. I’m a garden-pusher. Erica, kale will grow very nicely...
- Rick Neece: Oh, and for the conflagation of CRV and Taurus? Well-played, I think.
- Rick Neece: We now have a hillbilly Town Car, eight years old. And a Saab, twelve years old. I’ll take the Saab...
Am I the only person who feels like a complete idiot after watching shit like this because I don’t know whether to be amazed or totally skeptical?
No.
Pfew!
This explains why it costs so much to get a house built. Also, this does look a bit fixed, but I can tell you from construction work in my early years that some amazing things can be done with tools when supervision is slack and you’re paid by the hour. Nailguns for instance. The crew I worked with all got pretty good at nailgun “darts.” You hold the push-tip back with one hand and fire away at a wall on the other side of the house. Help me out here, India.
I believe it’s Lucy who has the expertise here (albeit it with staple guns). I’m pretty sure Miss India is not a nail gun kind of girl.
Legit video. Worked construction with my old man for years and saw trim carpenters able to do things like this. Frame carpenters can hold 20′ of tape up in the air for minutes at a time.
I never saw any tricks like this, or like what Daryl describes, but then I was working for a woman-owned, non-union company, and I think the carpenters were on salary, not hourly. Results not typical, as the ads say.
If I were a salaried carpenter
And you were a lady….
What is wrong with me today?
Okay here’s a thing I learned while waiting for the roach wagon to come with snadwiches: you can put three or four 16 penny nails in a coke bottle, point side down, shake the bottle a few times–and the bottom will drop out clean as a round lens.
I’d watch a youtube video of you doing that, Daryl.
Also, I think I like this video because of the reaction setups. Hi-5s, “hey, i’m in here!” and “I was just THINKING about that song!”