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Re: New "manta" while doing Home Improvements.

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Subject: Re: New "manta" while doing Home Improvements.
From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@home.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:42:03 -0500
What piddling projects you guys talk about.

My neighbor - and several friends - chain sawed off the whole roof of his
single storey home and added an upstairs. I helped by standing and staring
with mouth agape. So far we haven't had any really strong wind storms . . .
. . . . .

No - they didn't put the same roof back on again.



> -> My only choice, was the good ole chainsaw!  I must say, that you
> -> really haven't done a "home improvement project" until you've cut
> -> through timbers and walls with a chain saw!  8>)
>
>  I used a chain saw to level off the 4x4s I set in concrete to support
> my shed.  Not as dramatic as cutting through a wall, though.
>
>  I *did* cut through a wall with my 4" Black & Decker angle grinder.  My
> Dad wanted a door in the back of his workshop, which is a steel pole
> barn.  It took me about ten minutes to follow the chalk marks and make a
> hole for the door.
>
>  Handy hint:  don't forget your ear muffs...

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