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AC Mel 
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 Topic: RISING FROM THE ASHES
Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 11:16am |
Ok...got busy and didn't get this posted earlier. Got rid of the government agencies and was finally able to backfill and compact...this was a couple of months ago.
My soils engineer wanted it ripped both ways before compacting back. It kind of went like this as we brought it along Had to do several lifts...the last one looked like this The final approved version looked like this. So as I said that was several months ago. We had to wait for the building permit to be approved and some better weather....our contractor also had other projects going. So this was one week ago starting at 5:30 AM The cement crew of 10 or 12 guys was subed out by our contractor and came with the pumper truck...they did a super job. FYI when the first person showed up at 5:30..the dog and I left on the 4wheeler to change irrigation pipe....wanted no part of the cement pour! my wife took all the pictures.
As I said the cement was a week ago...So as of last night at sundown it looked like this..... BUT WAIT!!! Lets put it in more perspective... Here's the AC BBQ...still in service..same place. Thought I should just start a new post for the transition from burned to new construction.
Here's a link to the "center of hell" post for those who didn't read it.
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DMiller
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Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 1:49pm |
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How deep's the crawl space Mel? Looks great!
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AC Mel
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Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 2:29pm |
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Dave... It must be 2'..you can see it in front of the BBQ pit. Everyone knows that I don't plan on going under there.LOL
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Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 3:15pm |
Mel glad to see progress being made on your house. Tom
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Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 12:57am |
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Yup, good to see you moving forward. Looks like you will be in your new house before the one year anniversary of loosing the old place. Hopefully life will calm down from now!
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Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 1:58am |
Saying from South African rangelands Professor Scott
"There is no such thing as the status quo. The only status ids the status fluctatus"
But I reckon Mel could take a bit less fluctatus for a while.
Edited by Ian Beale - 22 Jun 2018 at 3:21pm
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Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 10:32am |
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Mel, Gosh you have a pretty location, what a view, just amazing how mother nature can begin repairing the damage and start all over again. What's all that yella iron doin there??? I am sure glad to see that things are moving forward for you. Best of luck Tad
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Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 10:35pm |
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Sure looking good. Hoping you never have to do it again!
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Posted: 24 Jun 2018 at 7:39am |
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Thanks for the up-date, Mel. I've been kind of wondering about how things were going for you. Looks like there's not going to be a basement under the house. Is that something of your own personal preference, or just something that is not done in your neck of the woods...? Someday I hope to get far enough ahead to put up a new house, and have been debating basement/no basement for years, if the new house ever happens. My reasoning for no basement is that I am just plain sick and tired of stairs, and having a basement be nothing but a "catch all." My argument for a basement, and I think this argument is going to win, is that I about freak out during nasty thunderstorms (they tend to produce tornadoes) and I want to be able to head down to a corner in a basement and sleep without fear. Darrel
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Posted: 24 Jun 2018 at 8:50am |
Well, if there's no basement... you put up a big giant barn!! Yeah, that's it! LOL! Glad to see things are lookin' up for ya Mel & the Mrs. !
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Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 12:58am |
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WOW! thanks for the pics Mel! I was beginning to thunks that maybe to drove over your camera or something! I missed seeing you on here! glad it's coming along for you and like Tom says....hope this will be the last time to have to do this! I really did thunks you might puts a fall out shelter under there...
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Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 2:34pm |
Thanks guys for the nice comments....no there is no basement...haven't had a tornado yet....never had an 80 MPH fire either...so we'll see Here's what it looked looked like this morning The trusses won't be ready till mid July...do to there backlog...framing will be done in several days.
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Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 2:57pm |
What changed, when I was on here a couple days ago the pictures opened today none of them open Tom
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Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 3:46pm |
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something musta hickup'd on your machine, all loaded fine here!
Looking good Mel!
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Posted: 28 Jun 2018 at 5:05am |
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You and your wife are definitely "Phoenix's". Rising from the ashes anew.
Congratulations
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Posted: 28 Jun 2018 at 5:20am |
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Thanks for the updates and pics Mel. You have been through one tough situation. Though not complete you are well on the way to seeing the end of this long road. God Bless.
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When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!!
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Posted: 28 Jun 2018 at 3:16pm |
Yes and sure hope them fire out there are way far off this time. Tom
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Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 5:30am |
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Mel, you're not burning up out there again, are you? Keep reading about wild fires in northern California. Darrel
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Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 11:48am |
Chances are he will not have any fire worries for 5 to 10 years. Yes the dry grass can and will burn every year,but the short brush the fire folks call chaparral is what makes the heat to more or less cause spontaneus combustion of buildings. The first 5 to 10 years after a fire the chaparral will be small and very able to live and grow on the small amount of rain we normally get. But after it gets bigger it will die back and start getting more and more dry tinder just waiting for a chance to burn. Add in tree limbs that fall and trees that have had there time and die or fall you get the inferno that we are known for.
It is surprising how much it can take to get a fire started in this brush if the dry tinder has not had a chance to build up for years. A very good reason to have more controlled burns in favorable weather conditions. The fire control agencies have come around to embrace this so now the air pollution people are doing there best to stop control burns. So major fires will continue to make big news for many more years. Of course when dealing with nature there is no guarantee that man can really control anything so always danger in a controlled burn as well that will make people afraid.
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Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 4:22pm |
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Could have only figured the Misguided Tree Huggers were at the bottom of the issue. Cannot do control burns so tinder builds and builds then once a fire starts Katie Bar the Door!!
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Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 11:33pm |
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Yep, Rays got it right on....and it sounds like Dave's got it figured out too. Darrel, we are about an hour away from both of these fires...lots of brush to burn too...we turned down assignments for both of them for water trucks and our dozer. Just to much going on after our own last year fires. Going to Or. to look at a feller buncher to do a logging job on our burned timber. I'll keep you posted LOL
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Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:02am |
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We have those type twits here too Mel, just not as populated! They cry everytime a Conservation Dept. burn occurs, "Air Pollution" "Damage to Nature" and so on, never come back after to see wild flowers blooming or the seeds that require fire heat to crack the husks sprouting or the harmful insects cleaned off by it as ticks and fleas, that would be giving into the reality of fire being a necessity.
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Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:07am |
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Thanks for checking in and giving us a report, Mel. Good luck with the logging project. Some pictures of that project would be kind of cool, too. Darrel
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Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 2:29am |
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yep...I wanna see pics of that feller/buncher! glad yer coming along with the new house good. I do thinks it's to small for ya tho! but prolly feel like a mansion after being in the trailer!
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Posted: 26 Jul 2018 at 1:47pm |
Sure been a spell since MEL posted hope he's ok and them fires out there are keep there distance.
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Posted: 26 Jul 2018 at 11:14pm |
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I think the roof trusses should have been delivered by now too, maybe too busy supervising to post!
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Posted: 27 Jul 2018 at 1:10am |
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shucks...he's prolly on vacation!
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Posted: 31 Jul 2018 at 12:17am |
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talk to us MEL....we all is worried about ya!
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Posted: 31 Jul 2018 at 8:48pm |
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Sounds like he's gonna be having a lot of fun.
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Posted: 03 Aug 2018 at 10:36am |
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wonder where the hot tub will be in his new house?
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