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Assembly is Required for These Kit Homes
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| December 23, 2011
| Colleen Kane
Posted on 12/25/2011 4:38:59 PM PST by decimon
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To: Political Junkie Too
I knowed it! It’s the Clinton Lieberry.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:52:53 PM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: decimon
My boss owns a beautiful three-story house that was originally ordered as a kit from Sears Roebuck in the 1930s. Every piece was shipped to the site by train and then built by company approved contractors.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:53:57 PM PST
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: decimon
Everything else aside (including budgetary limitations), if you can build fronm cedar or cypress, by
all means, do so. The resin of both woods have natural insect-repelling properties, and cedar has an aromatic quality that simply invites you in the door. Another aspect is the pre-treatment of the log itself - I'd
like to build with standing deadwood, as it helps remove a magnitude of concern over kiln-drying, checking, and settling. OK, I'm prattling, but it ties into the article - if you throw money into something like this without getting into an intimate relationship with the inner working of it, you may do so at your own peril.........
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posted on
12/25/2011 8:12:22 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(My regular avatar shall resume upon returning from the holiday festivities......assuming it's sober.)
To: null and void
Well you didn’t address it to me so I didn’t feel a need to respond in that fashion.
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posted on
12/25/2011 8:18:36 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(Not too long you devious little parathyroid. Soon I'll be rid of you and I'll be free.)
To: wastedyears
Fair enough. I always have a pun of two on tap...
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posted on
12/25/2011 8:24:05 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1068 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: John S Mosby
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posted on
12/25/2011 8:27:05 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
To: John S Mosby
I like that teardrop camper. I’ve been looking at plans and want to build my own.
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posted on
12/25/2011 9:55:25 PM PST
by
Hotmetal
(Courage is being scared to death..............and saddling up anyway.)
To: Hotmetal
To: decimon
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posted on
12/25/2011 11:55:21 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(I can take tomorrow, $pend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
To: Viking2002
My family built a 3 bedroom two story log cabin kit in 1980. Lived in a very small metal building while doing so. It was interesting. It was beautiful but in the winter it didn’t keep out the cold. We’d lay down two strips of foam between each log, the logs connected dow-like and we pounded 12 inch twisted nails for connection.
It was some kind of work, just moving the logs, especially the higher you got up. Plus a two-story stone fireplace, where I got to haul the stone up the scaffolding for the mason.
To: TwoSwords
Yeah, I plan on the double tongue-in-groove milling and the foam taping, with possibly a thin layer of chinking along the inner and outer joints. As much as I'd love to go with full Swedish cope logs, I think 8" or 10" D-logs are going to be in the final plans, with 12" or 16" lag bolts. Good R-value, and the inner walls will be flat. Early on, I tried to see if one of the log home companies would tackle Swedish cope outer walls and similar width, load bearing rectangular walls, but nobody would bite due to the architectural difficulties involved. The best that they could do is the Swedish cope throughout, with 1" T&G interior walls.
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posted on
12/26/2011 12:52:00 AM PST
by
Viking2002
(My regular avatar shall resume upon returning from the holiday festivities......assuming it's sober.)
To: mylife
Appreciate what you say, but my point was that early on obama and his pals were cutting deals to favor RVs, all during the foreclosure and bank deals he was making— with the exception of the “no income” loans to people who have no jobs.
That is, the people who lost their good jobs are being driven down to the street (and bums moving into vacant homes-an action taken by the Occupy movement), and many people living in trailers (or their cars) on the road, permanently (in obamavilles— and they are out there- I’ve seen them). Nothing wrong with RVs except if they are
the only means for people to have a place to live, because of insane policies that prevent job creations.
This is but one cog in the Cloward Piven strategy of the obamunistas. I like teardrops too, great for hunt trips.
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posted on
12/26/2011 7:14:32 AM PST
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: RegulatorCountry
Hey, man— y’all caint spect me to go down ‘at dere ladder wid a half bottle of chattanooga choo choo on board do yah?
Too funny— deer stand. Like that exscape ladder in back.
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posted on
12/26/2011 7:17:03 AM PST
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Viking2002
Or having to rent scaffolding to re-chink above 40 feet off the ground— or repair holes drilled by woodpeckers and then residence taken up by squirrels in those holes— holes made in the chinking between the square logs, just below the roof peak fascia.
Oh yeah, thaaat’s a lot of fun. Not as fun as shooting the birds and the squirrels (carefully, with a 12 gauge so as not to “remodel” the house). You are so right.
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posted on
12/26/2011 7:22:01 AM PST
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Chode
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posted on
12/26/2011 7:33:08 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
aren't they, great hunting/SHTF type things
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posted on
12/26/2011 8:45:53 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
I have the perfect place for one of these cute things but I’d have to have room for my 4 dogs. arf arf! ;p
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posted on
12/26/2011 8:56:02 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: donmeaker
I was also surprised at the statues. I was surprised at how short some of those guys were! I have a home near the Nixon Library, but I’ve been in the area since it was just a tiny white house set way back on the lot with a sign up by the road that said Richard Nixon Birthplace.
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posted on
12/26/2011 11:29:08 AM PST
by
passionfruit
(When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
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