You a little early aren't you!
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TerryP
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bamatommy
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Perhaps.You a little early aren't you!
Three months later, a used wagon salesman in California was rolling it back.
TerryP
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How many gallons per hour?
TerryP
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There's a lot built in that make things easy to do...it would take a book to point them all out.
Damn... Like lightning's version of the 7-10 split!
Yeah there were trees about 2 feet off each side, came down both. Took me a bit to figure out what happened, I thought a bomb had gone off or something and things just kept raining down. Jumped in the floor, checked on the kids and the wife as they were in bedrooms then started throwing breakers after I figured out what happened. It welded the power cord to the camper and to the surge protector and fried everything electrical/electronic in the camper.
Wow! So glad everyone is okay. Given how much work to replace all wiring and all RV-sized electrical items, I'm guessing that zeroed out the value of the camper.
It happened last year in Northern California. You would've thought they would've totalled it but they spent about 45k to fix it. I left it in cali and ordered another one, sold it out there after repairs. Been an electrical guy all of my adult life, wasn't something I wanted to have to deal with.
That does not sound fun, at all. Glad it wasn’t any worse though.
Figured there was a reason we weren't supposed to continue the trip or reason we were supposed to be back home.
Tearing this house down to get lumber to match my grandmother's old house, fixing it up. Ceilings are 12' high, lumber is almost all lightard. Originally 2 room with double fireplace in the middle, kitchen added to the back. Finding out how old i am, can't do it like i did back then. 
What a great project. Wow, some folks have struggled to live in that place for generations. You can see the tarpaper used on the addition, and a very basic block and brick chimney for the stove in the kitchen. Is the interior wood usable? looks like tongue in groove, but does it have a bunch of newspaper/wallpaper on it on the inside? I like the use of the pickets on the end of the porch. Are they heart pine? It looks like there might be some salvageable portions of the main beam running the length of the house.
I'll tell you, that's hard work, but it's brave work in the summer with snakes and ever stinging insect around. That would have to be winter work for me.
I can't tell from this angle, did it ever have a dog trot?
It's almost all heart pine, what we call lightard, use it to start fires but it's almost impervious to rot and termites. The main beams are 8x8 hand hewn heart pine and are 18 feet each and all good. Some of the interior siding is bead board pine and the back room is 14" rough cut pine. The joists and studs are all rough cut, they shimmed the studs to attach the interior walls. About 2/3 of the siding inside is good l, almost all of the exterior is which is what i really needed to fix my grandmother's house. Exterior is lap siding. You just can't find lumber like this anymore, it's over 100 years old. The 14" interior siding was cut to length, 17' and change. Where do you see boards like that now. I think about the stories the house could tell while tearing it down and it kinda makes me sad but I'm reusing it so kinda don't. I love old lumber.
