Two Birds with One Stone
Alright, well, I didn’t get an opportunity to chat about Friday. Charlie and I did another railing installation in a house in Glenridge. Though there was no hot searing metal or shards of sharp things, it did present its own problems of aligning the rail, tightening the rail, drilling the holes in the rail big enough, and securing the rail with two brackets that Charlie had made ahead of time. Thankfully, only the brackets fell through in terms of not working. With that job done, I chowed down while Charlie drove us off to another job site where we’d be doing work outdoors on an entry gate and parts of a fence. That will probably take us a few days, and since we have this summer weather rolling in (85-92 degrees F) I think I might pack two water bottles.
Back on Tuesday (I had Monday off) Charlie and I seemed to be on the same wavelength. He asked me what I’d like to do and I told him that I was thinking about making my own hammer. Turns out that he was going to make a new set of hammer dies for the air hammer for a job he’d been given. So, fortunately for me, I didn’t slow him down to much (I think…). The hammer is nearly done now, the hole just needs to be drifted and the hammer shaped to the proper size, perhaps some finishing, then POW!, handle and we are done! That’ll probably be completed by tomorrow depending on pending installations during the day or the rest of the week. Should be a fun time…
