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Another difference is that its foliage is lighter in color, with really pretty light gray/silver tones (versus the darker gray-green colors of the other.) This variety also blooms heaviest in early spring, with only a few blooms later in the summer.
Thank you for the great photos and inspirational plants. I have a small garden at Tahoe and am amazed at the plants that return. I have lots of small succulents, and maybe I need a few more rocks and try some new varitiies.
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When rocks undercut, you have two options: keep tumbling them, but make as absolutely sure as possible no residual pieces of grit are in those undercuts or pits, as the grit will come out in the next step and scratch your batch up; or throw them back to the coarse grind step.
I judge undercuts on a case-by-case basis. I am mostly concerned with having as smooth as possible rocks at the end. I seek zero imperfections but sometimes I can tell a rock is at its best likely state after coarse grind despite some small scars, so I make sure to get any grit out and move them along.
The crappy thing about putting rocks back in coarse grind is they lose more size. Some rocks get withered down majorly before being smooth and hard all over. Some are just not destined to become tumbled stones.
Currently we got Headbutt Pokemon encounters, so I was thinking why not for Rock Smash like in the hand held games, and also add some to the Dig Cracks as well. May have to have the happiness added to Rock Smash for balance. you could also add possible Items from the rocks that is rock smashed. I also came up with with a list of Possible Pokemon to be encountered.
I first climbed the Class 5.6 Three Cracks Route on 1,200-foot high Slick Rock in October 1972. I ended up climbing it at least 5 other times and also helped to pioneer 3 other harder routes on Slick Rock. I had last climbed the route in 1985 with a girlfriend. Mark Mason has also climbed it numerous times and we both thought of it as the type of route that you would climb with a novice climber. It seemed right for us to finally climb again since Mark had also not climbed it since the early 1980s.
Pitch 8. Meanwhile, 2 pleasant Washington State University students had just passed us on the closely adjacent 5.8+ Memorial Route which is a well-bolted Sport Route. It was so logical and easy to step across to a bolt on it and then to follow that route up some 5.8 climbing to a 2-bolt belay.
Pitch 9. Followed the bolt route for 2 more bolts then I could not see more bolts or any nearby cracks to the left in a 100-foot high blank slab that ended in a vertical headwall. The other climbers had not found any bolts in that section either. I told Mark that I was going back left to the original route but he talked me into following the line of no bolts. I traversed right on run-out 5.4-5.6 that had unfortunate occasional sandy spots. I became very aware that if I slipped badly on the impossible-to-see sand, I was going to take a 100-foot fall. I eventually reached a large un-protectable crack that provided all-important handholds and diagonaled back left to a large crack that led upward that I could protect. Then I traversed left under a steeper area and reached the top.
I am attempting to make cracks on the floor of my stone tiles as shown in the example below, on the columns. I have tried using brushes others suggest as well as experimenting on my own. In addition, I have several crack alphas. So far I have not been satisfied with the result. Does anyone have any suggestions for achieving the sorts of cracks as seen below?
With the mask pen, also at high resolution, draw out your cracks along the surface. Invert the mask, so that the crack lines are UNmasked. Then, in Deformation>Inflate, deinflate with a negative value until you get the desired recess. If the transition to too sharp and causes undue distortion of the polygons, consider blurring the mask first. Then, unmask the entire mesh, and inflate with a positive value (use small increments, you may have to type them in). This will inflate the mesh around the cracks and close them in a bit. Follow up with the pinch brush as desired.
Many parts of Texas have high PI soil (extremely expansive). It only takes one season of failing to perform proper foundation maintenance here to cause these conditions. We are also in our second year of a very bad drought which, along with lack of foundation maintenance, only aggravates the condition.
This year and next there are going to be many more homes like this one. Have a friend who wanted me to go into the foundation repair subcontract business with him. I should have taken him up on the offer!!!
Being a concrete contractor for some time you no doubt have extensive experience. You could do us all a great service and start a concrete thread and help answer questions, provide insights, etc. That would be a great help even to those that know about concrete. It is always good to obtain different perspectives and experiences. I would look forward to a concrete thread on the BB.
The house was quite old - 70 years or so. I could not find anything holding the rock onto the home. In fact there were quite a few loose ones that I could have easily pulled off. That was another write up in my report.
What can you do to minimize this flexing and to protect your foundation? First and foremost, maintain a constant moisture level in the soil around your home. This is impossible to do completely, but here are some steps that you can take.
1. Ensure the grading around your home is correct. The soil around your home should slope down about six inches in the first ten feet out from your home. This will allow rain water to be carried away from your foundation.
Sometimes it may be necessary to have your foundation repaired and your home leveled by a foundation repair company - an expensive undertaking. If your home requires this, be aware that it is very likely that cracks will re-appear after only a few years unless you also implement a strategy to control the moisture level in the soil around your home. Depending on the amount of damage already done, it is possible that this expense can be put off or even eliminated simply by controlling the moisture level in the soil.
Has anyone thought of expansion and contraction of the veneer in the sun of the day, expanding in the heat and contracting at night? In my opinion its very poor veneer work. The veneers do not appear to interlock, there are several stones runing parallel in the electrical meter photo
Ice wedging causes many rocks to break. This refers to the repeated freezing and melting of water within small crevices in the rock surface. This expansion and contraction is also a major cause of potholes in streets. Water seeps into cracks in the rocks, and, as the temperature drops below freezing, the water expands as ice in the cracks. The expansion exerts tremendous pressure on the surrounding rock and acts like a wedge, making cracks wider. After repeated freezing and thawing of water, the rock breaks apart.
There is a notorious kind of crack called offwidths. Several friends of mine stated, that they were pretty devastated at first when they were not able to do 5.8 offwidths in the valley. Later they learnd, that this was quite common. There has even been an epic film called "Wide Boyz" about two british climbers taking on the hardest american offwidths. My questions are:
Off width cracks are cracks that are too big to finger jam or fist jam, but too small for you to fit inside and chimney climb, so you have to come up with really awkward and very physically excerting moves to get up them, like climbing upside down (literally).
Basically they are cracks that are just the right width to not be fun, and take a lot of physical exertion to climb. Off width climbing is a lot of grunting, struggling, and trying to wedge your various body parts any where you can. You come out at the top dirty, sweating, scraped up all over and absolutely exhausted.
A common technique to get through off widths is to essentially use your arms and legs the way you would use your fingers in finger cracks, shove as much as you can inside the crack and then bend them to get them jammed. Other than that, the answer to how you climb offwidths is, "However you can."
My goal from the start was to provide a single point of reference for crack climbing technique. The aim is to show you the different techniques and give you an understanding of why and how you use them. Then you can put them into practice with confidence and your climbing will improve.
There are five basic rules to abide by when it comes to climbing cracks. If you follow these rules and apply them to all aspects of your jamming techniques then you will experience less pain and a higher level of enjoyment and success.
Crack climbing is climbing the spaces between and inside the rock. So, with all jams, you should try to fill those spaces as efficiently as possible. You therefore want to insert as much of the body part you are jamming with inside the crack before you even start doing any of the techniques needed to execute the jam itself.
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