New homestead

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Yeah, I know it's not a competition. Gunfxr, been tracking your progress over the year. Eagle, way to go brother, I'm sure you enjoyed the time off.

Seriously, old folks get it done, the young folks don't seem to have any work ethics. I see people come and go with the subs that we hired. Their main complaint "nobody wants to work" I could give two shits about their problem. "I" am your problem when you have to work for me.

On the lighter side, I just got back the two ten foot Cherry logs. The lumber mill was nice enough to slice it up for me, 3 4x4's, one 2x4 and the rest is all 1" boards ranging from 4 to 10" wide. I'm thinking about slicing up a couple of Black Walnuts as well. This will increase the variety of wood we'll have to play with to make stuff. I just have to get it stacked and spaced so it can dry out. We looked at it this way, they wanted to give $60 for the logs, screw that, I ended up with a trailer full of ruff sawn boards that would cost over a grand I'm sure. I know we'll use to build something.

I'm happy to see/hear that everyone is making progress. So we'll just keep plugin along and make life better and easier, at least for us and our families. At's what we do, right?

[eagle326]

Yep ; enjoyed down time. Evans helps those old bones aches and pains. Beer quenches the thirst.
Youngins' spend too much time in and on electronics and know nothing of manual labor and power or manual tools.
A lot that I've met stand around until told what to do even though they've been told their job description and duties before hand.If I have to tell you or baby sit your ass you and whatever you brought to job leaves immediately .If you run into a problem is one thing if you've never encountered it before . The rest is bullshit to my old ass. Just watching them tells you if they're milking or faking it.

Critical thinking for some of them is like a messed up wet dream. And most of them probably don't know what that is.
That's some sweet lumber there R.R. You'll have a good time figuring out how to use it. Maybe make Lady K a nice custom cutting board with some. Keep us dialed in on your adventures. And give that dozer a squeeze from me.