Re: Central Texas Build
Howdy Again,
I'm finally back to it! My stand and hearth slab completed over the Labor Day weekend. Borrowed a cement mixer from a friend and spent about an hour and a half air chiseling out all the left over concrete from previous uses I guess. About 20 # of debris removed and then I got to use it. It certainly is going back to him in better condition than when I borrowed it, as it should! 64 bags of 80# Quickcrete later and a very good friend/helper, goter' done, in 103 degree day!
I met with Tom, "Tscarbrough" in FB speak, who lives in Austin as well. Very helpful and informative! I'm sure I'll be bugging him a lot. He set me up wit 200 fire brick, heatstop and lintels on Sat. and said call him anytime. I'm now looking for a closer supplier for ceramic board as shipping from CA. is steep. I took a bunch of pix and will post when I figure that out.
Once again, a big thanx to this forum! You guys gave me the confidence to get going.
moT
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Re: Central Texas Build
welcome from the panhandle. Pretty dang hot for a camping trip in Texas right now. You will be conditioned for the heat of WFO. Good luck and post lots of pics.
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Re: Central Texas Build
Hey Russell,
Funny story about a Scoutmaster and Snipe. The SM got tired of the older boys taking the younger ones out Snipe hunting and the next time they did he went and rescued the young guys and had them roasting Cornish game hens on sticks at the campfire. When the older boys came in from goofing off the saw this and asked what's going on the younger boys said they were cooking the snipe they caught, want some?
Gonna have to try that some day!
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Welcome aboard, look forward to see your build. Do scouts in Texas cook Snipe they catch at the camp hunt too? Might be really tasty in a WFO LOLLeave a comment:
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Central Texas Build
Howdy Folks,
After lurking for a couple of years reading every post several times and becoming a "book learned expert", I just had the base slab poured! I'll post pictures as I start the base and I'm sure I will be coming to you real experts with panicked questions. It feels good to get started but I have to take the first weekend off as I am a Scoutmaster of a large Boy Scout Troop and have our annual planning campout this weekend! I'm sure they will enjoy the pizza parties later this fall and I'm looking forward to rewarding the patrols for good deeds done. I'm already planning parties and all I have is a flat chunk of concrete so far!
Anyway, thanks for you're silent encouragement so far and all the help I know that will be so generously offered.
moT
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