One Man’s Trash

gremcat

Twelve Pointer
So I took the plunge. Just finished up first round of Pallet/Skid Deconstruction. With Nail Kicker I average 1 per hour which nets 4-4x4x10’s and 13-2x10-12x8’s. Finished 10 Skids and about 30 left. It’s a shame we dumpstered 30-40 more earlier this summer before I found time to figure out how to dismantle. With Nail Kicker and Pallet Buster the boards are pretty clean. These are Heat Treated and HEAVY. I tried cheating and had one of my Guy’s mill the 5mm/size 50 punch to let me go straight through. Took is designed for 1” through or larger if punch out in reverse. After 30 strokes the punch snapped. Oh well, using Pallet Buster gave me cleaner boards anyway. No idea what I’ll do with 450 2x10’s or 120+ 4x4x10’s. Small pile of aluminum extrusion and fasteners from dismantling a guard. I have a wall full on the other side. Need to have a sale or something. Have 7 cars of garage and running out of space?. Dust Collector was salvaged to and is like new. This week have a Lathe I have to figure out how to move.
 

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gremcat

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And all the Unistrut under miter saw will become my Workbench under the steel 2-tone Wall Control Tool Boards if I ever get to them. Should be finishing new Office but this “junk” has shelf life. I’ve still got all the Lab/Hydroponics stuff from my Wife’s company closing in RTP. Stereoscopes, precision scales, all kinds of “Junk”. I’m not a Hoarder I swear. I just hate landfilling stuff that’s brand new or has decent value.
 

gremcat

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Even Warehouse Racking was being pitched as were all the new 3ph motors ad Gear Boxes. Not recycled even, landfilled. Here in PA it seems recycling is foreign. We ship multiple scrap steel dumpsters every week and pay to do it. Some trailers have BIG pneumatic Cylinders, etc. I can’t handle alone and have zero bandwidth to deal with anyway. Such a waste of brand new automation components but politics won’t evenlet me donate.
 

gremcat

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Other project waiting on me
 

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gremcat

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And a few more, maybe I should put in DIY, this was a small leak in plumbing that grew many times over.
 

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gremcat

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It was an open unused family room. Rewired 4 circuits since adding 13 can lights and even with 400 amps and 2 breaker boxes someone decided kitchen, family roo/office, Attic, and 1 bath should be on 1-15 amp circuit. After this, a loft bedroom, bath, kitchen, gym, robotics/tech space goes in the 2 story basement bar we don’t use. Day job is revamping a $4Bn company so lots of leisure time....... hope that explains why I didn’t mind shooting the smallish 8 pt to fill my only PA tag. Wife home schools, 4 Kids, 2 under 5, Direct Sunday school, 2 Non-Profits, phew, need a Lee-Cation in Virgilina.
 
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gremcat

Twelve Pointer
Teenager busy so carried and hung 40 pieces of Sheetrock and Double Wood/glass doors solo. He emerged to help with last 4 pieces sheetrock. Yep, back hurts, knee from accident headed for surgery and yet I press on.
 

gremcat

Twelve Pointer
And somehow found time this week to finish wiring and hardware on this Cartesian D-Bot that will ultimately be a Self-Playing Chess set. Need to load Stock Fish, program, install electromagnet, and 4K cam and it’s ready. Maybe mid-summer at this rate.
 

gremcat

Twelve Pointer
Also not sure why my Office is 14’x20’ but it was the best utilization of space so?? Maybe a future trophy room(who am I kidding really?)
 

Eric Revo

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
I'm worn out from reading about all that work.
Amazing that all that money gets trashed and probably sent to China and India and then sold back to us.
 
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