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Yeah, it’s a boom you climb into, with the tools and in my case a window, then raise up to the second floor and install it. The boom can be moved from window to window steering it from the bucket.
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When I installed windows, it was staging, no lifts then that were available.
I used a high lift, it would go 80’ at least. Had a old fella in it straight out. He was welding a new name on the ship. Just barely move and the bucket would go up and down about two feet.
Oh Jesus do do that , he would say.
Haha
Wrong thing to say to me.
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When I installed windows, it was staging, no lifts then that were available.
I used a high lift, it would go 80’ at least. Had a old fella in it straight out. He was welding a new name on the ship. Just barely move and the bucket would go up and down about two feet.
Oh Jesus do do that , he would say.
Haha
Wrong thing to say to me.
Haha
Caper
Yeah, lots of crazy crap I did as a young man too. Contracting painting houses, I once did a three story and my largest extension ladder left me two feet short of reaching the gable end soffit/facia peak.
Too cheap to rent a boom, I backed my pickup truck up, opened the tailgate and sat my (40’ I think) extension ladder on the opened tailgate and climbed up and finished those two feet. The suspension on the truck at that hieght was greatly exaggerated and my ass was quite puckered.....🤣

Of course I was mid 20’s and would never even contemplate such idiocy today. I was over a concrete patio to boot. Lights out if I had fallen.and I wouldn’t be here today for @Wallace to yank my chain.....🤣🤣🤣
 
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My damn house has the whole main floor on two circuits, we’re getting a new panel, so he’s going to fix some stuff.
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I had one circuit running 75% of the outlets and another circuit running all of the lights in this place before I gutted it and redid everything. I had bare knob and tube connected to copper 12/2 in the walls and by bare I mean they didn't bother to even tape where they spliced it together. They just spread the wires apart stripped some insulation and wrapped the new copper around the stripped wire and walked away. Amazed it didn't burn down.
 
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Yeah, lots of crazy crap I did as a young man too. Contracting painting houses, I once did a three story and my largest extension ladder left me two feet short of reaching the gable end soffit/facia peak.
Too cheap to rent a boom, I backed my pickup truck up, opened the tailgate and sat my (40’ I think) extension ladder on the opened tailgate and climbed up and finished those two feet. The suspension on the truck at that hieght was greatly exaggerated and my ass was quite puckered.....🤣

Of course I was mid 20’s and would never even contemplate such idiocy today. I was over a concrete patio to boot. Lights out if I had fallen.and I wouldn’t be here today for @Wallace to yank my chain.....🤣🤣🤣
The tales we've lived to tell of our young and dumb days are sometimes surprising.
 
Caper

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Yeah, lots of crazy crap I did as a young man too. Contracting painting houses, I once did a three story and my largest extension ladder left me two feet short of reaching the gable end soffit/facia peak.
Too cheap to rent a boom, I backed my pickup truck up, opened the tailgate and sat my (40’ I think) extension ladder on the opened tailgate and climbed up and finished those two feet. The suspension on the truck at that hieght was greatly exaggerated and my ass was quite puckered.....🤣

Of course I was mid 20’s and would never even contemplate such idiocy today. I was over a concrete patio to boot. Lights out if I had fallen.and I wouldn’t be here today for @Wallace to yank my chain.....🤣🤣🤣
I was on my 40’ last year fixing my chimney. It just reached with me four feet above the top rung with my wife yelling st me.
That’s going to help.
Haha
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Caper

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2 presumptive cases here now a new one at Childrens and a couple suspected cases here at UAMS.
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Caper

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I had one circuit running 75% of the outlets and another circuit running all of the lights in this place before I gutted it and redid everything. I had bare knob and tube connected to copper 12/2 in the walls and by bare I mean they didn't bother to even tape where they spliced it together. They just spread the wires apart stripped some insulation and wrapped the new copper around the stripped wire and walked away. Amazed it didn't burn down.
Sooo many homes were like that. You really had to be careful working around it.
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Montecresto

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2 presumptive cases here now a new one at Childrens and a couple suspected cases here at UAMS.
Yep....🙄

The chief doc at infectious disease that the administration has been trotting out says it’s going to affect 50-60% of Americans before it’s all over.
 
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I had one circuit running 75% of the outlets and another circuit running all of the lights in this place before I gutted it and redid everything. I had bare knob and tube connected to copper 12/2 in the walls and by bare I mean they didn't bother to even tape where they spliced it together. They just spread the wires apart stripped some insulation and wrapped the new copper around the stripped wire and walked away. Amazed it didn't burn down.
Yep, the lake house I just sold last fall was originally wired in knob and tube, much of it was still in use, as you described, there was 12 and 14 Romex spliced in to it. The insulation on K&T was braided cloth (as with original Romex) and mostly long rotted away. The house was built in 1947 and was completely over the water to boot.....😳
 
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I was on my 40’ last year fixing my chimney. It just reached with me four feet above the top rung with my wife yelling st me.
That’s going to help.
Haha
Caper
I’m pretty sure I’d agree with your wife. You’re a bit advanced in age to be upon a 40’ EL.
 
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Great,
My buddy has a fall out shelter in Alberta. He should open it up.
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Not sure how old you are but the riskiest category is the elderly. I think CDC is putting that number at 70+, not me. Bomb shelter won’t be necessary, it’s more likely that you’ll suffer economic pain more so than health problems.
 
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