Year: 2014
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McGee Home Garden
“McGee Home Garden” is a working prototype design for a “Redwood Garden with Raised Beds and Lattice Fence” to grow enough food to support one family. This garden currently supports over 400 thriving plants within over 40 species. Built with all weathered redwood and organic soil, organic soil conditioners, and organic pest control methods.
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Lost Coast Trail
Backpacking the challenging and spectacular Lost Coast Trail with Bill Brashears and Jim Sweetwood from King’s Range North LCT trailhead to Cooskie Creek.
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Mercedes C240 Throttle Body
Mercedes Siemens VDO and Mercedes Bosch “drive-by-wire” electronic throttle bodies commonly fail, resulting in rough idle, no idle (engine won’t start/turn-over), poor gas pedal-to-throttle response, and/or random loss of acceleration while driving (common and extremely dangerous). These affected “electronic throttle control” systems are ones fitted for Mercedes C/E/S/CLK/SLK class models as early as 1998, often reported failing after 100,000-130,000 miles.…
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McGee Home Construction
New home construction project in Fort Bragg, CA architected and constructed by Pat McGee. 3600-sf 5-bed 2-bath with redwood deck, redwood garden, workshop.