A girl and her (nail) gun

[Suzanimal]

I built garden beds from pallets. It was a huge project (for me) but I'm almost finished. I'm going to lay pavers along the bed and lay sod down on the red clay (GA dirt) in the spring.


Just one of muh woodpiles.




Too ugly







so I spruced it up. Not fancy but free. A few of the pavers I'm going to put along the bed are in the lower right hand corner,

[Natural Citizen]

That looks pretty dern good, suzanimal. You just have that one high point there toward the end but that's nothing. I wonder what it would look like with capstones on top of the wood. Run into any of those ants?

Was going to rep you for your hard work but, alas, I must spread some around so I'll catch up later.

[Suzanimal]

That looks pretty dern good, suzanimal. You just have that one high point there toward the end but that's nothing. I wonder what it would look like with capstones on top of the wood. Run into any of those ants?

Was going to rep you for your hard work but, alas, I must spread some around so I'll catch up later.

No ants, thank God.

Yhe high point its rock. I tried to bust it up enough to make it level but the rock > the Suzanimal. It looked pretty sketchy until I added the facing but I'm happy with it - not sure how long it will last though.

[amy31416]

Really nice Suz! What method did you use to get the pallets apart?

[brushfire]

That gun must drive nails like moonlight through the pine. I was just admiring your weather too.

Was going to rep you for your hard work but, alas, I must spread some around so I'll catch up later.

gotcha covered

[Suzanimal]

Really nice Suz! What method did you use to get the pallets apart?

The cussing, bitching and angle grinder method. That was the worst part, it wasn't as easy as the youtube guy mad it look.

[green73]

Great job, for a girl.

[Natural Citizen]

No ants, thank God.

Yhe high point its rock. I tried to bust it up enough to make it level but the rock > the Suzanimal. It looked pretty sketchy until I added the facing but I'm happy with it - not sure how long it will last though.

Oh. Yeah, rocks suck. It could be a small boulder too. Either way, that's good work you did there. Clever too.

[Suzanimal]

That gun must drive nails like moonlight through the pine. I was just admiring your weather too.



gotcha covered

Muh gun, it's heavy as hell.
I think it's a framing gun.

[Natural Citizen]

Great job, for a girl.

Heh. I was going to say not bad fer a hen but then I remembered what Carlybee had said about referring to the women folk as poultry.

[amy31416]

The cussing, bitching and angle grinder method. That was the worst part, it wasn't as easy as the youtube guy mad it look.

"mad it look" Even if unintentional, probably appropriate.

Great job, for a girl.

Let's see your work, tough guy.

[KCIndy]

That looks like some fantastic work, Suz! And if you ever go into the landscaping business professionally, let me know. You're hired!

[Suzanimal]

"mad it look" Even if unintentional, probably appropriate.

I like being cryptic sometimes, keeps people on their toes.

[Carlybee]

Looks great..heckuva lot better than I could do.

[Suzanimal]

That looks like some fantastic work, Suz! And if you ever go into the landscaping business professionally, let me know. You're hired!

Oh hell no! But thanks for the job offer.

[jmdrake]

Nice job! Would you like to build my deck?

[amy31416]

I like being cryptic sometimes, keeps people on their toes.

I got the blade for my sawzall, just haven't been able to get to dispatching my tower of pallets yet. I have several plans for them--one is to make shelves in my bedroom/library, those will have to be sanded and stained. The other is to simply lay them behind my garage for the day when I get a wood stove in order to store firewood. The last plan is to build planters.

I'm sure I'll come up with more wacky ideas that may or may not come to fruition. The shelves will happen though--this blank space in the bedroom is driving me nuts.

[Natural Citizen]

Nice job! Would you like to build my deck?

Ah-haaaaaaa....

[amy31416]

That's a nice deck, even if it isn't very big.

[Suzanimal]

Nice job! Would you like to build my deck?

Haha! You want it to stay up? I'm not sure my little walls are gonna hold - there's some controversy there.

[Suzanimal]

Oooh, I could do that - don't even have to take 'em apart.

Ah-haaaaaaa....

[loveshiscountry]

What did you treat the wood with to make it last longer?

[Suzanimal]

What did you treat the wood with to make it last longer?

Love. Just kidding, I didn't treat it with anything. I wanted something temporary. I had the wood and I'm not sure if I'm gonna like the raised bed. Anyway, if I do like it, I'll replace the wood with stone when it starts rotting out.

[Acala]

those will have to be sanded.

You will be much happier if you plane instead of sand.

[Acala]

Very nice Suzanmal!

[Suzanimal]

Thank you very much!

I'm pretty proud of myself (*pats self on back*) and I appreciate the kind words.

[Deborah K]

Well done, Suz! Did you use a table saw to cut your wood? Nice angle cutting on the end too.

[Suzanimal]

Well done, Suz! Did you use a table saw to cut your wood? Nice angle cutting on the end too.

Thank you!

No, I used a miter saw to make all the cuts, the air nail gun and a hammer to deal with jacked nails - that air gun gets away from me sometimes.

You can see it on the stand in the the upper right of the second pic.

[Natural Citizen]

Well done, Suz! Did you use a table saw to cut your wood? Nice angle cutting on the end too.

Seems like the women folk around here know their tools rather well. I think if I asked most ladies to set up the table saw, I'd probably walk in to a table set with knives and forks talking about "I made hot dogs and mac & cheese". YAY...

[amy31416]

You will be much happier if you plane instead of sand.

Probably good advice--I'll have to get a new plane, all I have is a tiny one that I've used for doors and small projects.

Another thing I want to do--flower boxes for the windows to attempt to add some character, and they're useful.