Episode 5: This Shed of Mine

I don't really have anything to add to this video.

You can mix paint with a drill press, but set it to the lowest speed first.

One of my friends told me that the snake facts are a little dark. Well, that's life. Nature is like war. In constant fear of violent death, life is nasty, brutish, and short. To paraphrase Hobbes.

And in case you wondered, yeah, one of those snakes ate those baby birds. Probably. They were there and then there was a big storm and they were gone.

I had the bright idea to paste the text of the subtitles into the blog after the torture that was the subtitles for Episode 6. Might as well go back and add that to the other blog pages since I do carefully transcribe all of these things.

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This is my shed and environs in 2005. This place was 

abandoned in 1984 when the house burned down. 

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The shed was fine, but my brother and I were the only ones 

that cared about it and we had to go to college.

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So it just sat there for 20 years. I asked my uncle to let 

me help when he wanted to set a prescribed fire on this 

hill,

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but the decision to burn is entirely weather dependent

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There just isn’t time for somebody to drive down from 

Atlanta, so the shed caught fire a little bit 

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It is largely steel though, so it only burned up the wood 

studs in one corner and ruined the wiring and some roof 

insulation 

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I had to take the corrugated panels off one door and 

dismantle the angle iron frame to prop up the damaged  

corner

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The overhead wiring went from the shed to the well house

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The metal building around the well tank was completely 

burned out.

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The power distribution panel was ruined

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It's a good lesson in metal buildings though. The sheet 

metal is contributing a lot to the system, structurally 

speaking. 

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Even with no framing the well house stood there fine, for a 

year or more.

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I had to back out all the stitch screws with my cordless 

impact driver to get the building apart

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The packrats had to move out.

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I dragged the metal panels around behind the old slab and 

piled it up next to the other burned up metal detritus from 

the house fire.

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A few months later when I had an idea to use metal panels 

for a landscaping project and went to get some I found a 

surprise cottonmouth moccasin

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Sometimes I think about all the abandoned corrugated sheet 

metal in the world and wonder what percentage is hiding a 

snake?

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In the southwest corner of the shed my dad had installed 

fiberglass insulation and particleboard walls

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I still use the pressure treated 2x6 workbench that was 

mounted on the west wall and the heavy duty table that holds

 my vise.

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There were some big particleboard cabinets on the south wall

 that I removed with a shovel before I had lighting to take 

photos of it

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But the most interesting  thing in the shed was almost an 

entire high school gymnasium worth of maple flooring

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The high school where my cousin’s wife worked had a plumbing

 disaster one summer that flooded the gym

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The floor buckled so they scooped up the whole thing with a 

forklift and dumped it on the side of the road

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My cousin made multiple trips with a big flatbed trailer and

 collected it and stacked it with stickers in the shed

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After it dried out he built himself a 16’x16’ workshop with 

some of it. But there was still this much left

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He said I could use some to build my house. So I only fixed 

the shed as much as necessary to get on to the house project

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I pulled off the rake flashing and the pole and weatherhead 

for the defunct power. I got a new piece of rake flashing

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Then I built my tiny house on weekends. I didn’t get back to

 the shed until 2008

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I got laid off from my job like everybody else that year. 

The first thing I did with my freedom was paint the shed

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I bought a 5 gallon bucket of Oops paint for $15 years ago 

thinking I would paint the roof of the shed

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but I kept missing the winter window of opportunity where 

it’s not too hot and not too cold but before the pine pollen

 drops

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So I decided to use it to paint the wall where Ally Mo goes.

 

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Then I can put the trailer back and paint the rest of the 

shed next winter

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But that paint has been sitting around a while. How am I 

going to stir it up?

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I bought a stirring paddle back in the ‘90s without 

realizing I didn’t actually have a tool that could turn it. 

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But now I have one! 

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When I washed the first half of this wall in Episode 3 I 

missed two spots

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So I need to scrub those before I paint

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This is a little black racer. It's periscoping! That's a 

hunting behavior

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Racers eat mice, birds, frogs and lizards

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Despite their scientific name, Coluber constrictor, they 

don't squeeze their prey to death. They eat it alive

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Periscoping is not very effective as a strategy against 

predators. Hawks definitely eat snakes like this

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Racers only come out in the daytime though, so at least they

 lower their risk of being eaten by owls, possums, and 

bobcats

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At night they'll go in a stump hole or under the pine straw 

if they can't find any corrugated metal

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I usually like to paint out of this container that some 

nails came in

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But it's a little too small for this 3 1/2" brush so I can't

 really use this

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So I'm going to use my big pail because it has a handle. 

This is important later

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And then at the end of the day if there's still paint in it 

when I'm too tired to paint anymore 

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I'm gonna put the whole thing in here. Voila 

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So that's the plan. Let's see if we can get some paint out 

of here into there

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Look at this rough green snake!

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It periscopes too! It is in the same family as the black 

racer

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But these guys stay a lot smaller and they eat 

invertebrates, like insects and spiders 

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I'm gonna attempt to fix this bullet hole

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It's extremely hard to bend

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I'm used to aluminum

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Heavy gauge industrial steel don't play

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I shoulda put my gloves on

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This is why I always wear gloves. And then I forgot to put 

them on and now I've cut myself 

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And now with gloves, waiting for blood to come through this 

knuckle

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Now I'm going to go on the inside with another washer and a 

nut

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And see if I can tighten this up without it falling out

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I put mastic on here not really to seal it but just so it 

doesn't fall out of the hole 

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I would like it tighter 

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Dammit, I got blood on my shed

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Old skin, y'all. It's thin and cuts so easiily 

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Around these parts we call this a White Oak Snake

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They are active at night and are good climbers, as 

demonstrated by this one

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exploring the rain gutter and roof of my lab

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These snakes eat mice, lizards, frogs, and lots of eggs and 

baby birds

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This one is probably hunting the squirrel tree frogs that 

like to warm their bellies on the aluminum

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 It's hard to tell here close to the shed, but it's become 

extremely smokey

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I have to stop painting now because it's hard to breathe

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When you can get a long view it's quite smokey

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I can't complain because my neighbors have to breathe my 

smoke when I burn

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I have to breathe theirs when they burn. But I can go in the

 house and work on something else

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Hi, my name is Barbara. I'm a blank builder and a blogger 

and I'm on a mission to rebuild and repurpose this

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this 71 year old aircraft construction aluminum trailer 

home, Ally Mo

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Well today is April 1, 2020. March, what the hell?!

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It's a pretty day for painting, so I'm gonna get on that

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My shed painting project got greatly delayed in March by 

smoke and hot weather

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And my niece decided to get married at my house. I had 4 

days notice to empty my lab and my house

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I kinda got out of order painting my shed

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I wanted to have timelapse of painting the whole thing and 

then a very satisfying next step and the next step

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But I had to sorta skip ahead and trace my design on the end

 of the shed before I finished painting the whole wall

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Because I had to return the projector and laptop that I 

borrowed

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So I'm gonna finish today. I'm going to see if I can.

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I'm feeling pretty good, but my back has really been killing

 me

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I figured out the secret though. Caffeine.

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Lots and lots of caffeine. I do way better with lots and 

lots of caffeine

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Well that's done. I ran out of paint. I still need to paint 

the rake flashing

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But I'll do that. I can use a smaller brush but I have to 

open up the whole 5 gallons and stir it up. And my brush was

 getting all gummy

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You know what? Fuck it. I got light. I'm gonna do this right

 now.

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It's a corn snake! I love these guys!

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Of all the colubrids in my yard, this is the one most likely

 to go in the shed and eat mice

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So if I had to pick a favorite, this is the one

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Corn snakes are not strictly daytime snakes like black 

racers. I see them after dark a lot

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Here's a flash photo of one I saw scoot into the shed as I 

was putting away my tools from working on my trench

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Bon appétit, mon ami serpent! Bon appétit

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Is this the same one? 

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Nobody knows

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Corn snakes are common in all the sandy habitats of the 

southeast portion of America, including in South Florida 

where my brother lives

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I got an email one time from Harry when his daughters were 

little that said, "Can you find Kara's pet rat, Tickle, in 

this photo?" 

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Oh no! Poor Tickle! 

Poor Kara!

Poor Harry!

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Harry said the corn snake came through a hole in the screen 

enclosure and got in the cage with Baby and Tickle, Brenna 

and Kara's pet rats

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It ate Tickle and then couldn't fit out the hole anymore. 

Harry had to catch it and put it outside

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That was about an 8 ounce snake that ate a 12 ounce rat

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I've got this stick with a squash ball. A 35 year old squash

 ball on the end

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that I want to use as a mahl stick, something painters use 

to hold their hand steady

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It used to have some masking tape fletching on it

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So I'm going to cover that up. It's a little sticky.

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And I'm also going to try to make a holder for my paint cup

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I saved this armature wire from my niece's flower 

arrangements from her wedding.

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I'm gonna see if I can reuse this

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This foam came out of a boat seat cushion

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This would work better if this had a little notch in it

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I can hear voices? It's a little disconcerting

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The voices are the tower workers on the cell phone tower 

across the road from me

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It's so quiet out here and they're so high up that I can 

hear them from a half a mile away

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Nice

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Now while I've been making my mahl stick it's gotten all 

fucking smokey

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How am I supposed to work outside when it's smokey like this

 every day?!

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Can't they take one day off from burning?!

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I'm gonna do art today. Despite the smoke

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Because of the pandemic I haven't been able to go to Home 

Depot to buy a fresh quart of high gloss black paint

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that I would prefer to use for this project

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But I have this. A gallon of... most of a gallon of Behr 

premium semi-gloss exterior house paint

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Which is a dark green color I understand? 

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My friend that loaned me the projector gave me this when I 

returned the projector

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He put it outside and I swapped it for the projector and the

 laptop

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So it's old? It was from the previous tenant. It was the 

color of his apartment that I painted over

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So I'm kinda scared. But I'm gonna crack this open and see 

what it smells like

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I also haven't got any fresh paint sticks

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I think he keeps this by his dryer. It's got lint all over 

it

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Wow, that is really full! I don't think they used any of 

this!

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OK, so here's my project. Now I want to address this smeary 

mess 

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I have a... in this plastic bag.... a little piece of paper 

towel and dish soap

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I want to see if I can kind of clean up this smeary place

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Where the pencil smeared

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I wanna see what happens. This is just wet with water

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I wanna know if I can clean up pencil lines after the fact

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Or if I'm going to have to paint over it

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I saved out some paint in one of my little containers so I 

that I can touch up the edges

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But it will leave brush marks that would not be there if I 

can just  wipe it off with soap

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Not bad. That's a possibility anyway

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I think I'll just wait and see how it goes. I can clean that

 up at the end after I let it dry a day

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I can clean all these little places

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Now one thing I need to remember. My glasses on

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Oh whaaa?! Yeah, that's way better

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I've got some paint brushes to choose from

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This is one of my favorite brushes, but it's a little wide 

for some of these places

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This one is a maybe a little bit small. I don't know, this 

one might be good though.

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I like how stiff it is. It's not going to put down much 

paint though

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This is a brand new brush I've never used before. I just 

opened it. I'm not crazy about how the bristles are poking 

out

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This one might be a little higher quality. I think I'll 

start small and work up

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And I just paint  

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Oh, it's going to be hard to get coverage

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I can get the edges pretty dark with this little brush. 

Maybe that's what I should do

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Do the edges with this little brush, then go back with 

another one 

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I've gotten a pretty good start

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I've established a 

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I've established that I want to... all my brush... my fill 

in brush strokes

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Are gonna go up and down

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So after I do the edges

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I have to fill in. I'm going to try to make all my brush 

strokes go this direction

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So that when I do a second coat

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Well, it's just what I decided to do. I don't really have a 

rationalization

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I just, I hate random strokes everywhere

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So instead of random they're just going to be up and down

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I know a lot of people are scared of snakes, and some of 

them are scary

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That moccasin at the beginning of this video, that was scary

 to me

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And when I saw this baby Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake in 

my footpath I got the telephoto lens

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But did you know some people  are afraid of baby birds?

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Too right. That's revolting

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That's all for the Buck Rivet Report. Go buck yourself

Episode 4: Packrats Love Acorns

My new P-100 respirator is from Northern Safety, the GVS Elipse. I bought it in January so of course they're out of stock now. This mask has a check valve to let exhaled air out easily which makes it utterly useless for a pandemic situation. It's strictly for working alone in sketchy circumstances. 

The first thing I did when I got my mask was to remove the elastic straps. Then I  took out the filters and washed the silicone part with dish soap. I replaced the straps with some spandex lingerie elastic from my stash. I went through a whole process trying to find elastic that isn't toxic. The stuff they use in bras and fold-over elastic is fine. Anything else starts out stinky and just gets more toxic to me as it ages.

Kimsul Insulation Brochure

Original faucet with very close spacing on water lines

https://www.vintagecampers.com/1948-spartan-30-mansion-355t/

This is the back of the kitchen sink showing where the original faucet was mounted and the new holes for the T&S Brass faucet

Plumbing under the kitchen sink. Not original

I don't know how the power and water came into these things originally. I hope to find out as I get farther along with gutting it. Maybe something will be revealed when I take the belly pan off and get a look underneath. The gas line went from the trailer hitch to the stove and somehow the water had to come in and wastewater had to go out. I'm guessing there were hookups directly below the bathroom.

While it's not that hard and kind of fun to take down the paneling and take out the cabinets I have put it off because I don't want to just pile them in my shed again. I need some sort of organization or plan for how I'm going to store them and to what purpose. 

On the request of my brother I added scientific ID to my nature clips and a little bit of True Facts in this episodes. I hope I didn't say anything inaccurate. Here's some citations.

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Neotoma_floridana/

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsm91_054316.pdf

All photos and videos in this episode were taken by me with the exception of the Kimsul adverts and the faucet photo from VintageCampers.com. 

I'm adding the subtitles file to the end of every blog entry for quickly finding things later, should that ever turn out to be a thing.

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Hi, my name is Barbara and I'm a blank builder and a blogger

  

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I'm on a mission to rebuild and repurpose this 71 year old 

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aircraft construction aluminum trailer home, Ally Mo

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So to get the back door open all I had to do was turn the 

knob. And pull

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Oh, I don't like that noise

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I think part of my problem here is the hinge pin is out of 

this part

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01:00:44,033 --> 01:00:47,033

But the hinge pin is sticking out

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01:01:02,300 --> 01:01:05,300

I got a new respirator

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I really like it

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What's in this stove is rock wool insulation, acorns, and 

whatever else the packrat wanted in its house

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I took that photo of a packrat in 2005 when I was tearing 

down the burned out well house

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While evidence of them is blatant they are actually pretty 

good at staying out of sight

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In addition to building these massive dens where they hoard 

acorns, another packrat  habit that reveals their presence 

is a latrine

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Unlike mice that just leave a trail of droppings wherever 

they go, packrats go in the same in place every time.  

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Notably, in the northeast corner of my shed

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I found a paper that confirms that packrats'  favorite food 

is acorns. They stock up when they're in season and ration 

them through spring and summer

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Rats in the genus Neotoma only have 4 nipples and have 1 to 

4 babies at a time. Here where winter is mild they breed 

year round

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True rats in the genus Rattus have 12 nipples and have huge 

litters of babies in spring and summer

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Packrats pick up treasure and take it home

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Whenever I rearrange my scrap lumber pile in the shed I wind

 up saying, "That's where that went!" 

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I've found a shed snake skin, a Scotchbrite pad, my work 

gloves, a hacksaw blade, and pencils in packrat nests.

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That's why I'm careful what I leave out in the shed now. 

Cause they will take your tools. They don't give a rat's 

ass.

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I'm not sure if this faucet is original or not. T&S Brass 

was a brand new company in 1949

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You can see this faucet in the T&S Brass catalog page from 

1950

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Unfortunately the chrome on the handles is flaking off

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You can get replacement handles from Home Depot but they 

changed the font. It's just not the same.

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I wonder if this is the original formica? This pattern is a 

cure for insomnia. I bet it was called Tan Linen.

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It's well worn out by the sink though. They were stuck in 

the '50s without a cutting board I guess. 

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The kitchen window still slides open and the screen is 

intact

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01:16:22,633 --> 01:16:28,867

But the glass has a couple of bullet holes. The screen 

must've been replaced after the window was shot.

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I want to see if I can get this shelf out of here

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And I'm going to take the water heater out

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01:17:23,567 --> 01:17:26,567

 I can't find my big crescent wrench

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01:17:29,767 --> 01:17:32,767

I'm not sure which way to turn it

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01:17:32,767 --> 01:17:35,767

That's tightening it, that's loosening it

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01:17:44,433 --> 01:17:47,433

It's good plumbing in these things. It's all copper

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01:17:51,567 --> 01:17:54,567

That was my finger!

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This right here is the wheel well

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And it has a layer of insulation on it here

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It's like some kind of foam

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01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,834

It's weird stuff. I'm not sure what this is

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It's very stretchy. It's like crimped paper

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01:20:50,533 --> 01:20:56,800

Is it some sort of corrugated.... It's weird, y'all

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01:20:57,934 --> 01:21:03,266

After some research I found out this is Kimsul. Its creped 

paper insulation

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01:21:03,266 --> 01:21:12,500

This brochure from 1939 is primarily to convince people to 

insulate AT ALL. But it does have specs, just like you'd 

expect? Ex-speced? Sorry

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01:21:12,500 --> 01:21:18,367

Kimsul has a K factor of .27. It's above average

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01:21:18,367 --> 01:21:25,333

That's an R value of 3.7 per inch, the same as the open cell

 spray foam insulation I used in my house and lab

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01:21:25,333 --> 01:21:31,000

Kimsul was marketed specifically at trailers. I'll be 

interested to see where else I find it

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"Actually a home insulated with one inch of Kimsul is better

 protected against cold and heat than a castle with masonry 

walls several feet thick." 

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Sure, but how is it against a trebuchet?

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Comparing Memphis to Medicine Hat is impressive. 

Copyrighters in the '30s had a high opinion of their 

demographic

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01:21:52,967 --> 01:22:02,967

Imagine assuming anybody knows where Medicine Hat is. It's 

in Alberta. That's Canada. The big cold place North of 

Montana

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01:22:02,967 --> 01:22:07,300

Whereas Memphis, well, everybody knows that's the Capital of

 Finland

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OK, this copper pipe is gonna have to come out of there 

before I can remove this cabinet  

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I remember breaking it off when I was working on the wheel

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01:22:31,500 --> 01:22:34,500

But I'm not sure how to get it out of there

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I might have to go at it from below

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So there's that copper pipe. I just pinched the end of that.

 I don't think I can push it up through that cabinet

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01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:52,300

But the underside of these wheel wells looks pretty good, 

actually

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I'm kind of impressed. These are way nicer than Ally Min's 

wheel wells

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01:22:59,266 --> 01:23:06,100

If I just patch the holes where the pipes go through I can 

use this 

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So now I'm completely inside the wheel well. This is an 

advantage of having one of the wheels out

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I forgot how strong copper pipe is

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OK

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Alright. Back in the wheel well

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>boink<

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It's kind of satisfying to get all these little pieces. I'll

 have to start a collection

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01:24:08,333 --> 01:24:11,867

I might as well document my plumbing

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01:24:11,867 --> 01:24:17,767

I do not know why that pipe went down through that hole. Was

 that the input?

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I don't know where it went from there 

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This was to the hot water. I don't know if that was in or 

out

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01:24:26,033 --> 01:24:29,734

And this was out of this hot water

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Hot... Coulda been the inlet or the outlet

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01:24:35,266 --> 01:24:38,266

Actually I'll go look at the water heater and then I'll know

 

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Alright, here's the water heater. This is the way it was in 

the cabinet. 

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So this one is cold and this one is hot

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01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:51,000

So the left one is cold, the right one is hot

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01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:55,200

Two and a half gallons. That's not much of a bath, is it? 

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OK, so here's cold. And this is hot

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So this is the hot pipe going to the bathroom

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And this is the cold water. I don't understand

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OK, this is cold going to the bathroom

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And this is the main cold. So this must be cold coming from 

the... Oh, hell, I don't know

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So this is hot to the kitchen sink. Right there

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01:25:42,433 --> 01:25:45,433

What, that doesn't make sense

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01:25:47,100 --> 01:25:50,100

This says H for hot

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So this, this, and this are all hot? This makes no sense.

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This has to be cold. The sink is just backwards

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01:26:02,500 --> 01:26:06,734

They plumbed that sink wrong. I wonder if it was done wrong 

in the factory?

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01:26:07,066 --> 01:26:10,767

Or was this all replumbed later? 

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01:26:10,767 --> 01:26:17,066

That doesn't seem like something they would do in the 

factory. It seems like they would've figured that out

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And it makes me feel like this was an input, like this was 

where the water came in, through the wheel well.

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I don't know how. That's weird.

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I got a bright light and stuck the camera way back under the

 sink. Well, look at that!

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01:26:33,467 --> 01:26:41,834

That T&S Brass faucet is definitely NOT original. What is 

that, 4" spacing like a bathroom faucet?

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I found a photo online of the original faucet. That would 

match that hole spacing

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And it is the weirdest kitchen faucet I have ever seen. 

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Look at it!

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So this was cold out of the water heater

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And this was hot

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So cold water came up through the wheel well and then it 

went into the water heater this way

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And then this line took cold to the sink in the bathroom. 

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I'm guessing this went all the way to the sink and the 

shower

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And this line goes to the toilet

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And then the hot side out of the water heater, here's the 

hot. And it went to the sink and shower in the bathroom

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And it also probably went to the faucet

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I think this used to be up here. And maybe when they put in 

the new water heater they just put these back wrong

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Because if you put this one up here then that would be the 

correct side of the kitchen sink

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I'm not sure what this is. I thought it was mouse pee but it

 doesn't want to come off

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And that's Episode 4 of the Beachton Buck Rivet Report. 

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Go buck yourself.

Episode 3: Ally, Move

In this episode I take off one of the wheels to measure it. I studied the Wheel Vintiques Fitment Guide to figure out what to measure.

A. RIM DIAMETER

This is the actual diameter of the wheel at the point where the tire bead seats (not the outer lip).

B. RIM WIDTH

Measure this from the inside of the outer lip at the bead seating point to the inner lip.

C. BACKSPACING

A very important measurement is from the inside of the wheel at the point where it contacts the hub, brake drum or axle flange to the outside edge (lip) of the wheel.

D. BOLT PATTERN

Count the number of mounting holes for the wheel and determine the diameter of a circle that would run through their center. 

etrailer.com has a good guide for the bolt spacing on 5 lug wheels.

Measuring the distance between the centers of adjacent holes, D

If D = 2-5/8", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 4-1/2"

If D = 2-3/4", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 4-3/4"

If D = 3", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 5"

If D = 3-1/4", then the bolt pattern is 5 on 5-1/2"

Notice none of the websites are particularly concerned about the hole in the middle. Well it's damned important! The hubs on this trailer require a 4" hole in the wheel, way bigger than average. 

The tire being on the wheel means I can't measure the rim width directly. But that and the rim diameter are stamped in the metal. 15x6. That'd be 15 inches by 6 inches.

These wheels have 7" tires on them. I almost couldn't get them in the wheel wells. I must be careful not to go any bigger than this.

I have seen some people doing vintage Airstream rebuilds and they put giant aggressive wheels and nobby tires on them. This is absolutely not the way I'm going with Ally Mo. The wheels are meant to blend in with the whole aesthetic. I am not going for a silk slip and combat boots here. 

After I took the wheel off and measured it I put it back on and got ready to move Ally Mo out of the way. My father gave me his old drill press for my art wood project and I need to run power to the shed for it. I've been putting off running power to the shed ever since I moved back here and started fixing this place up. You'll see why. It's not just the expense of copper wire and subpanels, it's the effort of digging in the conduit. It's going to be a bitch. I don't want overhead wires. I'd rather keep running an extension cord to the pole.

I got some help on moving the trailer from Otis Forbes. He used to work for my father's construction company. He helps me with things that are beyond my expertise and ability. When my house foundation failed Otis came with a concrete mixer and his expertise in pouring foundations and helped me fix it. And when I needed to thin some trees he came with a chainsaw and took care of it. Anyway, Otis went by my dad's shop and picked up the drill press and brought it to me. Then we moved the trailer. While he was here I had him get out his chain saw and cut a slice off a light'rd log to see if it would make a good cake plate. It wasn't as fat as I thought so I abandoned that project immediately. But I'm glad to know now.

While we were jacking up the trailer to take out the blocks my brother put under it one of the stacks tipped over and dropped Ally Mo on its noggin. The stack of blocks was turned so the long direction was front to back, like the blocks under Ally Min. This is the wrong direction for stability when jacking up either side. When I put blocks under it in the new location I turned them the other way.

Going forward it seems like I need a three point system for safety. A tongue jack and all four wheels on the ground would be a good start. I may make a little ramp to lift the low side and then put jack stands under.

As a sidebar to this video I have another one where I fix the impact driver that failed to drive a sheet metal screw into an old pine stud.

Here's the subtitles for this episode:

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Hi, my name is Barbara. I'm a blank builder and a blogger 

and I'm on a mission to rebuild and repurpose

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This 71 year old aircraft construction aluminum trailer home

Ally Mo

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I'm gonna have to take this thing off to see if I have the 

right backspacing

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01:00:29,867 --> 01:00:38,000

It looks like I've got on here a 3/4" socket

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01:00:38,633 --> 01:00:42,700

It seems to be the right size. But what am I going to do 

about this?

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01:00:44,867 --> 01:00:47,867

Let's chock it 

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01:00:49,734 --> 01:00:57,233

It is reassuring that this spins well

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01:00:58,166 --> 01:01:05,600

That's good enough for around the yard. I think it would 

probably get hot on the highway

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01:01:14,767 --> 01:01:20,166

I can't find my WD-40, but I found this Liquid Wrench 

without a nozzle

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01:01:20,166 --> 01:01:26,200

And this spray can aid, so I'm going to see if I can make 

this squirt

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01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,567

Oh, yeah. This is very efficient

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The solvent goes where the solvent's needed!

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Straight edge across

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And measure from here

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To the straight part. 3 5/8" is what it says 

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Alright, so 3 5/8" backspace?

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01:02:26,700 --> 01:02:29,700

Doublecheck with a different ruler

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Still looks like about 3 5/8"

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01:02:36,066 --> 01:02:39,066

Yep, 3 5/8" with all the different measurements

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I'm not sure if I want to put this wheel back on right now 

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01:02:43,633 --> 01:02:47,600

because it smells of  Liquid Wrench

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01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:52,633

So I'm just going to put these bolts back in the holes

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For safe keeping

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Now I can collect all the measurements I need to find a new 

wheel

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01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:10,400

This hole in the middle of the wheel is extra large. 4 whole

inches

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01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:17,467

Only a few Jeeps and trucks have hubs this big anymore, so I

think this feature is going to be the hardest to match

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Next I need to know the diameter of the circle through all 

the bolt holes

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Labeled here D, for diameter. I'm going to figure it out by 

measuring x, the distance between adjacent holes

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I'm not going to do geometry here, I'm going to look this up

online 

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01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:39,834

3 1/4" between the center of the holes means it's a 5 1/2" 

circle

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This measurement is the backspace. It's 3 5/8" 

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15 x 6 is the rim diameter and width, in inches. Now I'm 

prepared for online shopping

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I want to run power from this 200 Amp panel to my shed

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01:04:08,533 --> 01:04:11,533

This means digging a trench and running conduit

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01:04:11,533 --> 01:04:13,400

Ally Mo is in the way

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My father got a new drill press and he's gonna let me have 

his old one. But he wouldn't let me take it in my car 

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He said to get a man with a trailer. That sounds like a job 

for Otis Forbes. 

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So I called Otis and asked him to get the drill press for me

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01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,000

and then help me move Ally Mo while he's here. 

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01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,433

When the coast is clear I can run my power. And I should 

start repainting the shed

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01:04:34,433 --> 01:04:38,233

This is the last time I'm moving this with three wheels

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Something made a noise up here when I let that down

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01:09:09,300 --> 01:09:13,667

Oh, shit! I lifted it off of this stack. That's not really 

what I meant to do

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So what happened? Well, that's off too.

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01:09:19,500 --> 01:09:22,500

I don't know what I did

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01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:26,333

Alright, I'm not sure what's gonna happen. I gotta jack up 

this other corner 

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01:09:26,333 --> 01:09:31,967

and it's gonna go back down on that other side

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01:09:52,233 --> 01:09:55,233

Looks pretty level

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01:09:55,233 --> 01:10:01,266

Maybe a little low on the left side

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It's the new spot for now

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I got the weight off of the wheels. Tires, really.

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01:10:11,467 --> 01:10:16,800

Because these old worn out tires I don't trust em with 

weight on em

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They will go flat

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01:10:19,133 --> 01:10:22,133

Better to have them go flat without weight on them

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I'll still have to jack it up to get them off and to get new

tires on

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But I think it's ok for today!

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I'm excited to get this thing cleaned up. Gonna look so good

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Oh, let's check what happened where I dropped the trailer on

the 

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What do you call the skirt? The skirt?

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I dropped it on the skirt because of this wheel missing

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The Notorious Missing Wheel

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It makes it completely unbalanced

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And this front corner took a dive

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And sat right down on this aluminum and squushed it.

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So that's never gonna be the same again

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But you know, it's pretty strong. It just goes to show you 

just how thick this is

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Heavy gauge aluminum, it just sort of mushed

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I could, I dunno

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On the other one when I took the tongue off I had to patch 

in all this

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So it's possible to patch this in

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Or take it off. I could take that part off and redo the 

whole front

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Make the whole apron go around the tongue and everything. 

That might be interesting 

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This shed used to have power coming in through this 

weatherhead. The wiring into the panel was copper 

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01:14:29,033 --> 01:14:34,200

and then aluminum wire went through the air and into a power

distribution panel in the well house 

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I can't explain these taped up lumps. I cut this down 15 

years ago but saved it as an artifact

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In the 20 years this place was abandoned prescribed fire 

destroyed the well house  

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and burned up this corner of the shed

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I sistered in new wood against the burned up stuff,  

replaced what was totally gone and screwed the metal to it 

again

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That's how I ended up with this triple stud situation

80

01:14:58,700 --> 01:15:03,700

I think I can screw a subpanel on there and bring conduit up

 through the corrugation in the wall

81

01:15:03,700 --> 01:15:05,867

I prefer buried utilities

82

01:15:08,467 --> 01:15:11,467

It's not real flat

83

01:15:11,467 --> 01:15:14,033

But the box does fit pretty good

84

01:15:14,033 --> 01:15:17,033

I like that there's three mounting holes, one for each stud

85

01:15:17,033 --> 01:15:20,033

I'll just make it flatter

86

01:15:56,500 --> 01:15:59,500

That's better

87

01:18:47,500 --> 01:18:57,567

Building code says electrical conduit has to be 18" deep, so

I got some more digging to do

88

01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:54,266

Now this is a bit higher than it needs to be, but I'm going 

to cut end off

89

01:20:55,867 --> 01:20:58,867

That's gonna be great. Awesome 

90

01:21:01,967 --> 01:21:04,967

So this'll get a fitting like that

91

01:21:06,066 --> 01:21:09,633

Then that goes on like that and then you screw it to the 

wall

92

01:21:09,633 --> 01:21:13,967

And then you put the nut on it, it's gonna be awesome

93

01:21:23,233 --> 01:21:27,500

If you're looking at this 50 feet of conduit thinking, 

"Barbara

94

01:21:27,500 --> 01:21:29,834

That's a lot of digging!

95

01:21:29,834 --> 01:21:35,100

Especially since it goes past these two giant longleaf 

pines.

96

01:21:35,100 --> 01:21:39,700

Think of the roots, Barbara! Think of the roots you're gonna

have to dig through!"

97

01:21:40,033 --> 01:21:43,033

Yeah, I'm thinking about it! I'm thinkin' about it!

98

01:21:45,367 --> 01:21:47,533

I'm thinking about it

99

01:21:47,533 --> 01:21:52,066

I'm just gonna dig a little bit until I get too tired and 

then I'll dig some more the next day

100

01:25:24,066 --> 01:25:27,066

That's all I can do in one day

101

01:25:31,100 --> 01:25:33,834

It's hard, y'all

102

01:25:33,834 --> 01:25:36,834

It's hard to dig. It hurts my back

103

01:25:39,166 --> 01:25:41,300

That's all for today go buck yourself