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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: flight17 on October 02, 2010, 11:40:38 PM
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I officially called my museum project finished today. It really has been finished since August, but I kept adding more so I never called it done until now.
For graduation, it is required that you must do a job shadow or community service. I didn’t know any pilots so I wasn’t going to do a job shadow. I am a member of Air Heritage Inc. which is an aviation museum and restoration group and I thought what better way than to help out the museum by redoing their entire landscaping as it was in really poor condition. So in March I brought it up at the board meeting and they all liked the idea, so I began drawing up plans. After starting at a $3000 project, I was able to shed it down to "$1000" and they gave me the go-ahead in May.
I must say, I’m very proud of it. It amazes me how much of a difference it really is from the before and finished project.
Timeline:
March- Project brought up at members/board meeting
April- original beds cleaned out from past year
May- Project Approved, Started taking bulbs out of old beds
June- Officially began building new bed walls
* Bed one (started 6-12, finished 6-17)
* Bed three (complete all on 6-23-10)
July- continued building walls, took out remaining plants, filled beds with dirt, started planting
* Bed two (completed all on 7-1-10)
* picked up plants and started planting them (7-28-10)
* finished planting the plants
August-mulched all beds, finished off beds 1-3, started on bed four
* mulched all beds (8-2-10)
* added river rocks (8-28-10)
* started bed four with extra brick (8-29-10)
September-finished bed 4, planted fall plants
* finished bed four, got mums ( 9-25-10) (smashed my finger too)
* planted half of the mums (9-26-10)
October- planted last few mums, cleaned up
* finished planting last few mums (8-2-10)
* cleaned up (8-3-10)
Total hours worked for project: 81 (only needed 50-60hrs)
The Plan
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/AirHeritageInccdd.jpg)
The Brick (ended up getting another half pallet or so)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/DSC01094.jpg)
Before
Beds 1-3 in march
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/1.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/2.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/3.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/4.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/5.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/6.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/7.jpg)
Beds 1-3 in april/may
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/9.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/10.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/11.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/12.jpg)
Bed 4
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/8.jpg)
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After
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/54.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/55.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/56.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/57.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/58.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/59.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/60.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/61.jpg)
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(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/63.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/64.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/65.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/66.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/67.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/68.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/69.jpg)
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(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/72.jpg)
And the final comparison…
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/1.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/Final%20Senior%20Project/73.jpg)
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Nice work Flight, top job.
:salute
Wurzel
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Nice work Flight, top job.
:salute
Wurzel
Thanks
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Nice. :aok
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Good job. :salute
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it's not complete without http://compare.ebay.com/like/400155964280?ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar (http://compare.ebay.com/like/400155964280?ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar)
:aok
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That is excellent! I may borrow some of those ideas for next year.
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awesome work. :aok
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Very good work!!
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Flight how far will you travel to do work and what do you charge??
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I really like the change. Well done.
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Very nice job.
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Great job
it looks great
BTW which country are you from?
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Thanks guys!
@ getback yes you can...
@ Jimmy, Im in the US, near pittsburgh PA. Your welcome to come over to see it and the museum. :) The furthest person away we have had come in were 5 Airbus officials two years ago. I think they were over here for US Airways. Only one of them even knew english.
if you guys want to see the whole process of it you can look through the origional topic i had made. http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,289781.0.html
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Look's good . Did you just dry stack those block's ? or did you use an adhesive Like liquid nail when you stacked them ?
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I was thinking about liquid nailing them down, but i decided not too. they gave me 1100 dollars towards it and it ended up being $1600 by the time i was done with it of which the extra $500 i directly paid for, so i decided not to spend any more on it.
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nice work :aok now your next assignment is to talk them into a ww2 dogfight mural for the front of the building hehe
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We could, you know, stage a dogfight and you could get screenshots for inspiration.
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I love the round thing with plants in it. I want one filled with canna flowers. :)
Nice job flight17!
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Look's good . Did you just dry stack those block's ? or did you use an adhesive Like liquid nail when you stacked them ?
also if anyone trys to steal them, ill just take this out of the hangar and drop a bomb on them :)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/airplanes/DSC03763.jpg)
or i can catch them and tie them to the T-3 provoss' seats and pull the ejection chord (it hasnt been deactivated and sat outside for like 20years... i can only imagine how stable those rockets are) the provoss is the redish-orange and white jet off to the side of the f-15...
lol
And thanks guys (and mom) for all the comments.
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Looks incredible. Very nice job.
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Nice work :aok
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Beautiful! What a difference! Now get over here to my house.
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Isn't that a F-15A? Maybe you can strap the offending person to the under-fuselage missile rails and release them over the museum.
Seriously...you did all that under $1,500? That is a great job!
Congrats on a project that turned out well! :salute
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What's the loadout on a Wright Flyer?
also if anyone trys to steal them, ill just take this out of the hangar and drop a bomb on them :)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/flightsimer/airplanes/DSC03763.jpg)
or i can catch them and tie them to the T-3 provoss' seats and pull the ejection chord (it hasnt been deactivated and sat outside for like 20years... i can only imagine how stable those rockets are) the provoss is the redish-orange and white jet off to the side of the f-15...
lol
And thanks guys (and mom) for all the comments.
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What's the loadout on a Wright Flyer?
One crazy innovator plus fuel, maybe a revolver for MA use :D
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:aok
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Very nice upgrade...... excellent work.
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Isn't that a F-15A? Maybe you can strap the offending person to the under-fuselage missile rails and release them over the museum.
Seriously...you did all that under $1,500? That is a great job!
Congrats on a project that turned out well! :salute
yes it is. The 86th (i believe, it might be even be a lower frame # than that) off of the entire f-15 line. We only have 1 drop tank that is in horrible condition (holes all through it) and one missle rail base. We are trying to get everything for it though so its complete.
yes as well for the $1500... the grand total was 1523.26 for supplies and about 65 for delivery of dirt, mulch and flowers. so 1588.26 really is the grand total. Of that, $1000 was from the museum, $100 from a board member as a donation and 488 from me.
and thanks everyone for the comments.
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You shouldn't of sealed/nailed/glued the blocks in, really good job, I see you put in a board up against the building in the raised planters.
Those type of blocks (called Keystone-Legacy lipped blocks), though it doesn't seem like it, hold very very well when dry stacked well and put right up against the sides of adjacent blocks, especialy after being filled with soil/mix from behind. Also, dry stacking is really the only way to go with them, it allows for the planter or hill behind them to settle and adequatley drain through the wall during heavy rains. Most suprisingly to me, they make for very stable and sturdy retaining walls, drystacked and without anchors because if you notice they slant back as they stack up, they're lipped in the bottom back of the block so they can't be straight 90-degree stacked (specificaly the lipped Keystones). Just stack them neat and tight together and fill in behind them as you work up, I redid an old and failing wood-tie ~100' long retaining wall in my parents back yard with these same blocks about 8 years ago, 4'-tall (4'-6" total if you count the first couple of blocks that are the foundation and buried on the front face), hasn't budged a smidge and drains the hill behind it during storms a lot better than the wood ties with perforated pipe behind them ever did... I might be overhyping these blocks, but only because wood-tie planter walls and retaining walls are/were complete junk after a couple years in the weather and after being climbed upon compared to these blocks. I even saw a 50' tall (very long too, maybe 300-400' with a gentle 90-degree bow) retaining wall done last fall with the larger variety of Keystones that have a hollow space in the middle of the block to allow for planting, I'm not sure what the civil did to make such a huge dry stack meet all the code since the manufacturers don't honestly recomend using them for walls higher than 3-feet, but that may have more to do with codes out here requiring any retaining wall higher than 3-foot to be certified as professionaly engineered.
http://www.angelusblock.com/products/retaining_wall_systems.cfm
http://www.angelusblock.com/docs/Angelus_Keystone_Landscape_Units.pdf
(http://www.keystonewalls.com/media/Page_graphics/Legacy_xsection.jpg)
I'm a drafter in the Landscape Architecture/Design for about ten years now, those blocks for retaining walls or planter walls have gotten mighty popular in the last decade (they're cheap, easy to install, sturdy and most importantly they last for a very very long time).
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If you don't glue them down around here , they will not be there in the morning , lol .
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Cool :aok
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If you don't glue them down around here , they will not be there in the morning , lol .
Going off the list prices I was familiar with 5-6 years ago, that's just wierd, a couple of guys in a pickup truck would make more money off a truck full of recyclables or sand from the desert out here. We only have to worry about metal and copper really out here. Those blocks are really cheap (not to mention the 12" high variety are pretty heavy and would take a pickup truck full of strong guys a while to load any worthwhile quantity). I just can't see the black market taking an interest unless they can pawn em off as legitimate and full price... then again if your some joe and pay home-depot price for them you probabley deserve to have Pablo pawn them off on ya for a couple bucks cheaper. We also make sure to specify they get filled behind and then compacted, the "pressure" from the weight pushing from behind them locks them in place pretty good, and it would take a bit of digging and noise to get them out.
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its true though, and that was the only reason i was considering it... they dont take them to resell... they are stealing them to use at their own house.
my sister lives in robinson and i helped them do this with the 16in blocks and last year, they came home and like 6 were missing from the back of the wall at the bottom where they were least visable. also the larger bricks are hallow. for example the 16in bricks my sis got have 2 hollow sections cut out of the bottom. If i remember right, the 16in bricks actually weigh less than the 12in ones.
at my house we did this a couple of years ago. ended up using like some 600 brick. the highest one we have is about 6 foot tall and it hasnt moved at all. we filled in behind it with rock and then there is like a foot or so of dirt on top of the rocks. The only thing bad about that is as you get higher, it gets narrower because of the setback from the lip.
your pic is a different designed version than the ones i used at home and over there. the lip is only about 3/4-1in max and are not 12in deep. I think that is just the pic though.