Page 3 of 4 FirstFirst 1234 LastLast
Results 21 to 30 of 31

Thread: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

  1. #21
    Great Value Carrots hoarder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Posts
    4,693
    Thanks
    3,079
    Thanked 2,524 Times in 1,310 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    I didn't have to but I camped out on neighbors property across the road with a good view of the fire, which is about 3 miles wide (spotting with gaps in between).

    Fire is plodding along slowly, just understory. Saw a couple canopy flare-ups last night though. I don't expect it to kill more than 20% of the mature trees. I have fire on both sides of the ridge above my home site.

    Tried uploading pic 3 times. Failed.

  2. The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to hoarder For This Useful Post:

    Hitch (27th July 2017),monty (27th July 2017),Neuro (27th July 2017),Tumbleweed (27th July 2017)

  3. #22
    Great Value Carrots hoarder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Posts
    4,693
    Thanks
    3,079
    Thanked 2,524 Times in 1,310 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Update. About 30% of my property burned, most of which was back-burning (fighting fire with fire). Most of the damage is just understory Douglas Fir. I won't really know how extensive until next spring. They're going to do some more back-burning adjacent to my South boundary today or tomorrow and when that's done I think I'll be out of danger.

  4. The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to hoarder For This Useful Post:

    Camp Bassfish (31st July 2017),crimethink (30th July 2017),madfranks (31st July 2017),monty (30th July 2017),Tumbleweed (31st July 2017)

  5. #23
    Dangerous Donald Neuro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Absurdistan
    Posts
    21,221
    Thanks
    8,798
    Thanked 7,785 Times in 4,994 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Quote Originally Posted by hoarder View Post
    Update. About 30% of my property burned, most of which was back-burning (fighting fire with fire). Most of the damage is just understory Douglas Fir. I won't really know how extensive until next spring. They're going to do some more back-burning adjacent to my South boundary today or tomorrow and when that's done I think I'll be out of danger.
    Aren't you going to paint that building? How's your cough?

  6. #24
    Iridium monty's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Nevada
    Posts
    8,940
    Thanks
    7,785
    Thanked 8,331 Times in 5,107 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Quote Originally Posted by hoarder View Post
    Update. About 30% of my property burned, most of which was back-burning (fighting fire with fire). Most of the damage is just understory Douglas Fir. I won't really know how extensive until next spring. They're going to do some more back-burning adjacent to my South boundary today or tomorrow and when that's done I think I'll be out of danger.
    Thanks for the update, glad to hear you are safe.

    They put domestic terrorist ranchers in federal prison for back-burning. /sarc/
    The only thing declared necessary in the Constitution & Bill of Rights is the #2A Militia of the several States.
    “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a freeState”
    https://ConstitutionalMilitia.org


  7. The Following User Says Thank You to monty For This Useful Post:

    Tumbleweed (31st July 2017)

  8. #25
    Great Value Carrots hoarder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Posts
    4,693
    Thanks
    3,079
    Thanked 2,524 Times in 1,310 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Quote Originally Posted by Neuro View Post
    Aren't you going to paint that building?
    What for? I'm going to leave it natural.
    How's your cough?
    I'm spitting out pieces of lung I no longer have use for.

  9. #26
    Great Value Carrots hoarder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Posts
    4,693
    Thanks
    3,079
    Thanked 2,524 Times in 1,310 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Quote Originally Posted by monty View Post
    Thanks for the update, glad to hear you are safe.

    They put domestic terrorist ranchers in federal prison for back-burning. /sarc/
    One of my neighbors said he would like to do some back-burning to protect his property and stated "I guess that wouldn't be a very good idea". I told him it would be a very good idea if USFS decided to do it.

  10. #27
    Dangerous Donald Neuro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Absurdistan
    Posts
    21,221
    Thanks
    8,798
    Thanked 7,785 Times in 4,994 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Quote Originally Posted by hoarder View Post
    What for? I'm going to leave it natural.
    Isn't the wood decaying faster if not treated?
    I'm spitting out pieces of lung I no longer have use for.
    Good!

  11. #28
    Dangerous Donald Neuro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Absurdistan
    Posts
    21,221
    Thanks
    8,798
    Thanked 7,785 Times in 4,994 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Quote Originally Posted by Neuro View Post
    Isn't the wood decaying faster if not treated?
    Or did you build your house out of Pacific Yew?
    http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xm...D24?sequence=1

  12. #29
    Great Value Carrots hoarder's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Posts
    4,693
    Thanks
    3,079
    Thanked 2,524 Times in 1,310 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Quote Originally Posted by Neuro View Post
    Isn't the wood decaying faster if not treated?
    The posts in the ground are pressure treated. The siding is rough sawn locally cut pine. Dry vertical wood generally does not decay.

  13. The Following User Says Thank You to hoarder For This Useful Post:

    Neuro (31st July 2017)

  14. #30
    Dangerous Donald Neuro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Absurdistan
    Posts
    21,221
    Thanks
    8,798
    Thanked 7,785 Times in 4,994 Posts

    Re: Taxpayers just funded my swimming pool.

    Attachment 9185Attachment 9185
    Quote Originally Posted by hoarder View Post
    The posts in the ground are pressure treated. The siding is rough sawn locally cut pine. Dry vertical wood generally does not decay.
    I recommended a friend of mine who was building a villa in Sweden some 15-20 years ago to pre-treat it with iron sulfate, and he did, because you never need to paint the house again, and it gets this silvery tone like really old untreated houses get over time, but within a year, and it cost like $10. So today I decided to read up on it re the science. Apparently untreated houses generally last better than painted houses, depending a little on the paint, and if you build the wall correctly with roof protection against moisture (like your roofs), the iron sulfate may add some extra protection against fungus, but not very much against UV-decay. The problem with most paints is that it keeps the moisture within the wood, and if you don't repaint it with proper intervals (which almost always happens in a life time of a house), you'll get a crack in the paint that lets in water, and the paint doesn't let it out and rot starts.

    There are wood houses in Sweden that were built 300 years ago, with your type of construction, untreated, that are still standing somewhat intact today.

    Good you didn't paint it!

    Another option if you want to paint it later on, which would protect against UV decay (about 1/3-1/2 inch in a 100 years) would be to use this Swedish paint which essentially is a mix of iron oxide, rye flour and water. Called in Sweden "Falu Red", may be known other places as "Swedish Red". Which my 130 year old outhouse is painted in, and I repainted a couple of years ago, you have to keep repainting it every 10-15 years though, as it starts looking ugly.



    Btw, will you be able to keep your fancy tax payer funded swimming pool?

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •