dirtlooter
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wasted another very beautiful day helping my father build his new home. Wasted you may ask but let me explain. My father is building a 2 story house up on the side of a mountain. He has a very washed out and steep road leading up to it. He is 80 years plus and is determined to do most of the work except the actual roof. He has a huge shop already on site and "he" is building the walls inside of the shop where they are waiting to be taken out and put in place on the slab. The wasted part comes from the fact of what he is building the walls out of. Normally one uses 2x4 stud walls and I have heard of 2x6 stud walls but no, he is building 2x8 stud walls. Normally one uses nails to put it together with but we are using 3/8 lag bolts. A ten foot section of wall is gigantic in both weight and size, it is all we could do to get it stood upright and moved about fifteen feet. He has 14 wall sections already built and we have 4 more to build. So let's talk about yesterday, when the trailer load of 2x8s, over 50 of them, slid off the trailer as he drove them up to the house. Loads of fun as we had to walk back down the the side of the "hill" and hand carry them up. He has a backhoe that he plans to use to put up the walls. But 2x8s? it's his money but my back is already bad enough. The good side, my brother-n-law is coming for a week to help get it up and then my brother is coming for a couple of weeks. lucky me.