I thought this might be a good thread to start on its own and dedicate it to measuring and angles.
Please feel free to make suggestions and comments as we go along.
Just about everything I do ends up garden related ate one time or another.
So I feel it appropriate to have this thread.
Many of you guys like to build your own stuff like raised beds and so on.
To many of you what I do may seem like over kill.
But I have a philosophy that I have carried with me all of my life.
If you can cut something not right it is just as easy to cut it right.
Given that you have at least a fare quality tool to do it with.
Here is an example of poor workman ship.
On a job I was on two DGAS (Dont give a $%^#)guys where cutting angle iron with a Porta Band saw.
They were brackets to support pipe.
The cuts were wild crooked in aver way they looked like crap.
I told them so and they didn't care.
My boss who was also a Marine came up to them and mentioned the sloppy work they were doing.
They said it didn't matter because all they did was support pipe.
My boss came unglued and told them they were the type of people that needed to flip hamburgers and they had no pride in them selves.
The rant went on for some time.
On another job years later we were putting up vertical conduit on a wall along side the electricians conduit.
They came to me and said my stuff was crooked and wasn't running with theirs.
No I said your stuff is out of plumb my isn't.
They said you need to make it run with ours.
No I dont, I dont work for you and walked off.
This same hap hazard stuff was all over the place with mine running true and theirs not.
There were seems on the metal walls I was following them, not like it was hard or anything.
They continued to be ticked off.
I mean this stuff was really bad even if our conduit wasn't there, you could see it was out of whack.
Well the inspectors came along and tore our stuff apart inspecting everything.
These guys had to rip every bit of their stuff down and do it right.
Then the jerks blamed it on me saying I made their stuff look bad.
I too had a guy on the crew that I had to run off because of poor workmanship.
I gave him lots of chances, advice, take you time and everything and he just pouted and called me a perfectionist.
Well enough of that.
Here is the dirty rotten truth about angles.
If you make a mistake on two that go together you have now doubled the mistake.
Depending on what you are doing will dictate on how far out you can be.
My neighbor built a shed and had this problem, by the time he got to the roof part he was in trouble.
He said I dont know what happened.
In the following posts I will show some of the tips and tricks I use to try and get this as close as I can.
Along the way I will show some of the tools I use to do it and how I use them.
Sometimes it turns into a total flop.
The phrase good enough for woodwork drives me nuts.
Worth