QC
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Yeah, I know what you're thinking, "this belongs in Non-Boating Tech" plus " you dummy." Well just hang with me for a minute here . . .
So I have been out of town for a week. I got home yesterday, did some stuff around the house. One of the first things I had done to this house was poured a concrete pad on the side of the house long and wide enough for a trailer boat up to around 28'. It's tight, but got it done, and I have a full width swinging gate in the front. Right now I only have a 14' tinny in there and have a lot of room in the front of it so I store a bunch of junk there. Yard stuff, Trash cans etc. So I open the gate a lot. Putting something away yesterday and I had to really muscle it to get it latched. It was missing the latch by at least a quarter inch low. Well this has happened before and I can adjust it to make it perfect and go on. Usually though this happens over the course of a year or more and you can see it coming. This time, one day, good, week later, bad. No matter, got to adjust. So I am messing with it just now, and the normal adjustments aren't getting it right. When I get the latch right, the bottom of the gate won't even clear the post the latch is on. So I am scratching my head, and like any good NASCAR crew chief I decide it's time to take a big swing at it. Well I am close to the end of my adjustable range, but I take it as far as I can, bottom and top, and see where I end up. Unlike a typical NASCAR crew chief it is perfect, and I am pretty pleased with myself. But sort of sat there staring, and wondering how could it be off so much, so quickly, and then it hit me!!!
EARTHQUAKE Swarm!!!
Well this Swarm thing is new to me too, but let's just say it's not a lot like bees . . . I think it was Tuesday that we had two 4.5's and a bunch of aftershocks etc, over a 24 hour period. My house which anchors the latch side of the gate, and the block wall on the property line which the gate hangs on, are now conveniently closer together
All I can hope is that the next flippin' Swarm undoes the damage or I am screwed if this thing sags even a little . . . Add this to the stress thread. I think I should take up worrying about this since I have so much control over it
So I have been out of town for a week. I got home yesterday, did some stuff around the house. One of the first things I had done to this house was poured a concrete pad on the side of the house long and wide enough for a trailer boat up to around 28'. It's tight, but got it done, and I have a full width swinging gate in the front. Right now I only have a 14' tinny in there and have a lot of room in the front of it so I store a bunch of junk there. Yard stuff, Trash cans etc. So I open the gate a lot. Putting something away yesterday and I had to really muscle it to get it latched. It was missing the latch by at least a quarter inch low. Well this has happened before and I can adjust it to make it perfect and go on. Usually though this happens over the course of a year or more and you can see it coming. This time, one day, good, week later, bad. No matter, got to adjust. So I am messing with it just now, and the normal adjustments aren't getting it right. When I get the latch right, the bottom of the gate won't even clear the post the latch is on. So I am scratching my head, and like any good NASCAR crew chief I decide it's time to take a big swing at it. Well I am close to the end of my adjustable range, but I take it as far as I can, bottom and top, and see where I end up. Unlike a typical NASCAR crew chief it is perfect, and I am pretty pleased with myself. But sort of sat there staring, and wondering how could it be off so much, so quickly, and then it hit me!!!
EARTHQUAKE Swarm!!!
Well this Swarm thing is new to me too, but let's just say it's not a lot like bees . . . I think it was Tuesday that we had two 4.5's and a bunch of aftershocks etc, over a 24 hour period. My house which anchors the latch side of the gate, and the block wall on the property line which the gate hangs on, are now conveniently closer together
All I can hope is that the next flippin' Swarm undoes the damage or I am screwed if this thing sags even a little . . . Add this to the stress thread. I think I should take up worrying about this since I have so much control over it 
