What's your view like at work?

[wayoflife]

They've totally lost the narrative.

What do you mean? Aren't Jeeps made to be driven around with lame ass ducks on the dash by grown men?

 

[Jsouder53]

Quite a bit of work going on at a house I manage this summer! They just started a few days ago and have already started removing most of the logs. They are replacing the log columns with steel since the logs are stress cracking and compressing. The wood deck was removed last year for liability reasons and we didn’t have enough time to plan and rebuild it before this past winter.

 

[NPC 6060⁸42]

Nice house. Why all the snow stoppers? Usually there’s one level of them at least around here. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them all across a roof like that.

 

[Mike Pierson]

Quite a bit of work going on at a house I manage this summer! They just started a few days ago and have already started removing most of the logs. They are replacing the log columns with steel since the logs are stress cracking and compressing. The wood deck was removed last year for liability reasons and we didn’t have enough time to plan and rebuild it before this past winter.View attachment 428427View attachment 428426View attachment 428428View attachment 428424View attachment 428429View attachment 428425

That’s a bummer about the logs. Do you know if they’re going to put log veneers over the beams to retain the log home feel?

 

[Jsouder53]

Nice house. Why all the snow stoppers? Usually there’s one level of them at least around here. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them all across a roof like that.

These roofs are designed to handle the snow load and they want to retain the snow on the roof to add to the neighborhood look during the winter season. There will usually be up to 3 feet on the roof for a few months.

Also, probably a given, they don’t want a huge sheet of snow falling from that height.

 

[Jsouder53]

That’s a bummer about the logs. Do you know if they’re going to put log veneers over the beams to retain the log home feel?

They will be capping the steel in wood but it won’t be logs this time so it will look closer to the neighboring houses.

 

[GP NOIR]

 

[cozdude]

Currie rear axle for a sprinter van. So weird that there is a big enough ask by people for Currie to make this

 

[Mike Pierson]

Currie rear axle for a sprinter van. So weird that there is a big enough ask by people for Currie to make this
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Surely that will make the 4x4 system much more capable.

 

[cozdude]

Surely that will make the 4x4 system much more capable.

Currie HD60 solves all its short coming

 

[Jsouder53]

Surely that will make the 4x4 system much more capable.

Gotta get that much further out into the middle of nowhere to kill your girlfriend nowadays… too many people suspicious of those van lifers these days…

 

[Jsouder53]

All of the timbers in the front have been removed and they were in worse condition than expected. It’s a good thing that we did this project and didn’t wait around on it.

 

[jeeeep]

All of the timbers in the front have been removed and they were in worse condition than expected. It’s a good thing that we did this project and didn’t wait around on it. View attachment 428534View attachment 428535

low quality lumber or bug infestation?

 

[Jsouder53]

low quality lumber or bug infestation?

Luckily we don’t deal with bugs like termites aside from the beetles in the forest sometimes. It’s just rot from 20 years of freeze / thaw cycles.

 

[Mike Pierson]

Luckily we don’t deal with bugs like termites aside from the beetles in the forest sometimes. It’s just rot from 20 years of freeze / thaw cycles.

And lack of maintenance?

 

[NPC 6060⁸42]

Luckily we don’t deal with bugs like termites aside from the beetles in the forest sometimes. It’s just rot from 20 years of freeze / thaw cycles.

I’d imagine the snow load every year is pretty tremendous as well which as you said earlier is a desired aesthetic. I can imagine the work involved here is on the pricier side.

 

[OverlanderJK]

And lack of maintenance?

Looks like poor design. If that is sitting right on that stone/concrete pier its going to rot. Should be slightly elevated and on a metal plate to allow water to drain.

 

[Jsouder53]

And lack of maintenance?

Like overlander said, poor design. It was sitting directly on stone and constantly soaking up moisture which would freeze and thaw in the winter.

 

[Jsouder53]

I’d imagine the snow load every year is pretty tremendous as well which as you said earlier is a desired aesthetic.

Here is a picture of another property I manage with the early season snow load in December (we get most of the snow in January- April). Disregard the red outline, that was on the picture.

 

[bobfriesenhahn]

Here is a picture of another property I manage with the early season snow load in December (we get most of the snow in January- April). Disregard the red outline, that was on the picture. View attachment 428566

How many inches of snow load is that?