06-17-2020, 07:19 AM
I'm building the mother of all cutting stations/tool storage. I've built the carcasses and I needed some hardwood to make the doors, drawer fronts, and face frame. I found a lovely place an hour away in Fresno called Saroyan Hardwoods. They have lots of lovely lumber. And they are taking pandemic precautions!
My original plan was to buy a bunch 3' and 4' pieces because I didn't need anything bigger. Plus, I have an SUV instead of pick-up truck with a lumber rack.
Saroyan didn't have that. They had lovely boards ten feet long. Lovely. I bought a lot of them. More than I need. But as I was putting the boards cross-ways through the car to make them fit from the rear to front dash, I bumped the front windshield. I hit a previous small crack. Now I have a really large dangerous crack.
I spent the hour drive home white knuckling it watching one of the cracks to see if it was growing. I haven't driven that slowly on the freeway in a long time. I had visions of the 500lbs of lumber pushing through the front windshield or having it coming loose from the strap and rolling over on me. But I did make it home.
I called to get it repaired because I need to drive to San Jose to get a flight on Thursday. The glass places can't do it until next week, so I'll be taking tQ's car to the airport. (It's about $400 cheaper for me to fly out of San Jose)
The car sat out in the sun for the last two days. Turns out heat and sun effect windshield cracks. The main crack from the starburst of cracks now extends three quarters of the way across the windshield.
My original plan was to buy a bunch 3' and 4' pieces because I didn't need anything bigger. Plus, I have an SUV instead of pick-up truck with a lumber rack.
Saroyan didn't have that. They had lovely boards ten feet long. Lovely. I bought a lot of them. More than I need. But as I was putting the boards cross-ways through the car to make them fit from the rear to front dash, I bumped the front windshield. I hit a previous small crack. Now I have a really large dangerous crack.
I spent the hour drive home white knuckling it watching one of the cracks to see if it was growing. I haven't driven that slowly on the freeway in a long time. I had visions of the 500lbs of lumber pushing through the front windshield or having it coming loose from the strap and rolling over on me. But I did make it home.
I called to get it repaired because I need to drive to San Jose to get a flight on Thursday. The glass places can't do it until next week, so I'll be taking tQ's car to the airport. (It's about $400 cheaper for me to fly out of San Jose)
The car sat out in the sun for the last two days. Turns out heat and sun effect windshield cracks. The main crack from the starburst of cracks now extends three quarters of the way across the windshield.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm