Today was more of the same when it comes to the fuel shed - cutting up pallets and nailing pickets onto the frame. With the front of the shed fully clad top to bottom with pallet boards I moved on to the back. As usual I had to keep carting in fresh pallets to cut up for more boards. At the same time I was running low on brads/nails for the nailgun so I figured I'd go as far as that dwindling supply would go then take a bit of a break from the fuel shed in order to work on other stuff around the homestead that still needs attention. In the meantime even after I finish the few things I have in mind to do I can still go ahead and cut up more pallets, not to mention I can cut up the other boards that made up the pallets that I was not able to use after salvaging the picket boards.
I am knocking out the stacks of pallets in the back of the lot, cleared one stack, almost cleared another stack. When I did run out of nails I managed to fully cover a third of the back wall and a half of another third. I figure I'll probably knock the remainder of the one stack that's almost done and probably another stack. This is mainly because a lot of the pallets were rotted enough that out of the whole pallet I may have salvaged only two or three good boards. The rest was rotted punkwood that when dry would make excellent firestarter. One thing that did occur while nailing the boards up was a bit of an accident. Either I misjudged where my left hand was while holding up a board or I misjudged where I had the nailgun with my right hand while rushing to finish the job before it was time to come in. To make a long story short I triggered the nailgun and had a nail jab me right in the tip of my left ring finger. I reflexively pulled back fast and attempted to stop the inevitable bleeding that resulted from the puncture. I really didn't have to do much short of holding the finger to help kill circulation to the tip, it surprisingly stopped pretty fast. A couple of times I had to wipe a little bead of blood that formed on the tip of my finger and some blood that was on the side of my finger while I kept working afterward. It wasn't until later in the evening when I took a close look at my finger did I realize that the blood that was on the side of my finger wasn't blood that was accidentally wiped onto the side from moving around or from any other injury in the process, it was from that fucking nail going right through the tip of my finger and coming out of the fucking side! That shit happened so fast that my mind couldn't even register what happened and still hadn't registered what happened until long after the shock wore off. Of course the finger swelled up a little and changed colors a little, and is throbbing as well. Yep, that's what happens when you rush, you fuck up something! Well as usual, I'll continue to fight through the pain until things heal up. At least now my next order of business will be to pull the carburetor from the zero turn lawn tractor to clean it out later and hopefully be able to get the machine running again. I also plan on installing the exhaust manifolds on the Dodge and move metal working tools up to the garage temporarily to start putting together the exhaust system so I can try to get as far as I can on the car until I reach the point where I need to buy more shit to continue. Hopefully tomorrow will not result in any more bodily injury or dismemberment.
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