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I've spent this weekend doing a tear-off and reshingling the house and garage. My DWMS fits awesome in the tool belt, so I'm abusing it as expected, cutting roofing felt and storm shield, using it with my hammer to pry off a few bad boards.
Well, I'm weirded out on steep roofs. The garage was fine at a 4/12 pitch. The house is 9/12 or 10/12. Did I mention I'm weirded out on steep roofs?
With the older slat-style roof boards on older post-war homes (ours is a `47 build), did you know that you can use a Mean Street as an impromptu "step", sort of a "roofing piton"? Especially when it rains, and you're scrambling around on wet boards trying to fasten down some tarps?
God, I hate steep roofs!
On other fronts, I had to dig a stump out of the front yard the previous weekend. What I couldn't get to with an axe or my DeWalt cordless 18V reciprocating saw (ar! ar! ar!), I used my Steel Heart, as my brother had my hatchet at the time.
A few scratches in the coating, but not through it, and a couple small nicks from rocks that I hit while I was hacking away, was all that showed afterwards. What an excellent knife.
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Don LeHue
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings...they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
Well, I'm weirded out on steep roofs. The garage was fine at a 4/12 pitch. The house is 9/12 or 10/12. Did I mention I'm weirded out on steep roofs?
With the older slat-style roof boards on older post-war homes (ours is a `47 build), did you know that you can use a Mean Street as an impromptu "step", sort of a "roofing piton"? Especially when it rains, and you're scrambling around on wet boards trying to fasten down some tarps?
God, I hate steep roofs!
On other fronts, I had to dig a stump out of the front yard the previous weekend. What I couldn't get to with an axe or my DeWalt cordless 18V reciprocating saw (ar! ar! ar!), I used my Steel Heart, as my brother had my hatchet at the time.
A few scratches in the coating, but not through it, and a couple small nicks from rocks that I hit while I was hacking away, was all that showed afterwards. What an excellent knife.
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Don LeHue
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings...they did it by killing all those who opposed them.