Excellent.

To me it looks like an great place to drink pina coladas.

Thank you guys. We really like to eat meals there and just enjoy the shade and breezes. Since I'll be turning 80 in a few weeks, I probably won't be doing a lot of things like it in the future. Wrestling the 4x8 sheets up to replace the lexan panels while dancing around on the 2x4, top structure was more dicey than when I made it originally some years ago.

I bought some second hand aluminum sheets about 1.2 meters X 2.4 meters. I found they are quite good for building structures like these as they don't need much framing as they are quite stiff and rigid, while light enough to handle.

I'd built a beautiful wood shed with them and proudly showed it off to GF who said "That's the most redneck shed I've ever seen." Ha, it just shows how lacking in sophistication and appreciation of the arts some females are.

Sheds are important. My wife calls me the "shed king." I had to remove the lexan roof panels and put up sloped supports before the 4x8 roof sheets. Now my wife comments the roof is too high. Can't please them.
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Picked up the gasket set for the left hand cylinder of the B&S 21 hp twin in my lawn mower. Took about an hour to strip it down, do a bit of clean up ( lots of oil on that side) and reassemble with the new gaskets. It is so much quieter now and idles smoothly.
I call that a win.

Best
Les

"Can't please them"

Pretty much why I don't have one. :)

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Regarding roofs.......

If you look at the photos I posted, the roof panels I used were some I bought off Craigslist. Aluminum "pans" - 12' long and 12" wide. They interlock with each other due to the folded edges. I only had to provide a cross member - and 3 fasteners - to secure them on each end.

I've also purchased Galvalume panels in a 3' width, cut to my desired length, which also didn't require a lot of frame support. Certainly no plywood.

To each their own - every variation having it's advantages and disadvantages. My concern will always be storms and hurricanes. I've already conceived of an idea to use ratchet straps across the span of my roofs to help secure them in case of such storms.

Attached via eyebolts screwed into the 4x4 posts and 2x4 deck framing - I think that would go a long ways to hold them down.

Regarding the height of your roof there, Marv.....I lowered one of mine by simply cutting a section out of each 4x4 support one at a time and re-securing with metal plates (I think they were 3x3 with pre-drilled holes) I bought off Amazon.

I actually used a chainsaw to do the cutting and did the whole thing by myself. No catastrophes and worked like a charm.

Not ideal in terms of structure integrity - and also doesn't look as pretty now - but easier than starting over!

Baz, thanks for the info about lowering the roof, but I'm not inclined to lower it. I like it that highl, because it provides shade, protection from weather and is high enough to not feel intrusive. After putting the heavier, more traditional sort of roof on, I added some diagonals to sitffen it. The 4x4 posts are well anchored in concrete, & we don't get hurricanes here so it will be fine. A really nice place to spend time even on stormy days.

That's like the project I started last week. I have a large deck at my remote mountain cabin and I decided to build an open, outdoor kitchen in one corner. About 13x13 with tinted polycarbonate corrugated roofing to let light in. 9' high sloping to about 8 and a half.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658095943.jpg
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The new 100% solar powered high tech SunFrost fridge I'll be installinghttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658096064.jpg
Right next to this cute low tech 1920 gas range I refurbishedhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658096162.jpg
I'll fabricate these pecky Cedar slabs I milled up into live edge counter topshttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658096382.jpg
I'll use a large deep double sink I have (you can fill a 5 gal. bucket in the deeper side) and I'll build a 4'x4' butcher block island on locking wheels. No pic of that yet, one project at a time!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658096624.jpg
Built for snow load. I'm confident the roof can handle mucho snow. That Poly is thin but incredibly strong

Woooow! Greg, that's going to be spectacular. One comment about the polycarbonate, corrugated roof. One reason I didn't like mine over a period of time was that although it had a mild slope, it collected leaves (oak), which needed to be cleaned off at least periodically. I put it on originally for the same reasons you are using it. The roof I put on now has more of a slope, which I hope will shed leaves more.

Yeah, I have conifers surrounding mine so needles will be piling up. I figure I'll hose them off from the ladder every now and then. I want a lot of light in the kitchen plus I'm attracted to the fact that the plastic roofing will never rot or rust. I used the same panels on my chicken run at home and it works great. It would be too hot in there with the non tinted.
I like your tall roof, it will give a feeling of openess to the great outdoors. Don't let your wife talk you into lowering it, the next thing you know she'll want walls!

I made a gas tank for my fc-150 jeep. The old sender was toast so i drilled a hole in the middle and use it for a flange to back the tank. with nuts welded on. I had another sender from a cj so i extended the float arm but when i welded it it messed up the sender so i had to take it apart and solder up the connection that went poof. Also drilled and tapped it for a fitting to run the line in and keep it all in one spot. The baffle in the middle made it very hard to get the last end cap on because the square box didnt want to tweek into shape very well. End result was good other than the laps dont quite line up on top but nobody is going to see that anyway. I used the old filler neck. Lots of welding and its galvanized sheet. I havnt pressure tested it yet im sure there are plenty of leaks but Ill work on that another day.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1658190578.JPG
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..... Ok, you're damned funny.

A reference book I use quite a bit was starting to pull apart so I drilled holes 1/16" diam, 1/4" apart down the spine and sewed it tight with some waxed thread.
Whoever settles my 'estate' is going to either laugh or cry when they examine my worldly possessions for distribution.

(Hopefully my wingman will take care of the embarrassing stuff as promised, but if not, oh well!)

Good of you.
Now do entire hand-spun lace dresses on a manual loom, or a pattern rug.

(yeah that old fashioned stuff is beyond me. some math involved.)

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More sprinkler system fun. After 22 years, more heads to raise up. We had a decent size Bradford Pear tree in our front yard. One of the few things that was planted by the builder, that was left. The big ice storm took care of it, so we had it cut down and tthe stump ground out. About 10 feet from where the tree was was this sprinkler head.

It had been sucked down into the ground and was just peeking up to ground level when it popped up. So I really needed to raise it up. I hit a ton of roots, and finally had to get the tree limb cutters with the long handles to cut the root. It had grown around the fitting that supplied water to the head. I had a heck of a time getting that head free. Once it was free of the alien like root, it was a snap to raise it back up to ground level. I had to go get my biggest flat blade screw driver to pry the root away from the head, or the head from the root, depending on how you look at it. It was attached like a parasite.

The spray head in the photo is an old one I need to just throw out, but I might need for parts it someday so......

Good job, Glen.

These come in real handy when I raise mine.......they come in 1/2" and 3/4"......

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I use those as well, but the alien root was simply in the way of the connection. It was wrapped around the elbow for the funny pipe. No way to even rotate the head or fitting, that root was in the way. I was just happy the dang root did not grab me and suck me into the hole like in the horror movies!

I understand - just passing the info along. Great job! SmileWavy

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This caused a major cussing episode. The mower blade actually hit the top of it, sucked it right back out of the ground from the fix done yesterday, and then whacked it a second time to make all the parts fly out.

The home owner guy was really upset at the mowing guy and mowing guy was blaming the sprinkler repair guy. In 22 years of mowing that yard, this is the first sprinkler head destroyed. The sprinkler guy just left it a little too high and not below the turf level. The mower guy should have stopped and just stepped down a little on the head to make sure it was below the mower blade.

As one of my friends has often reminding me, there is no f***ing like a self f***ing. I refused to pay the sprinkler guy or the mower guy, and I just drank the home owners beer, and fixed it myself and quit changing hats from sprinkler guy to mower guy and homeowner guy.

The good news was the hole was dug just yesterday, so it was easy to pull the plug of grass back out, swap in a new head and new spray nozzle. A 5 minute fix. All the parts were on hand. It is for sure low enough now!

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Shortened GT 3 rods. No picture just a video of the machining.