Coop Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 I drove/steered my brothers sailboat one time and I learned real quick that they don’t respond as quickly as a motor boat. If I recall, the one time was his decision. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehmet Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 I'm pretty tired today because of yesterday. However, I continue to work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 @Mehmet, what did you do yesterday? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehmet Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 I had to work until late last night. Today, I watched the movie. What did you do? How is the work going? On 9/6/2021 at 4:33 PM, Mark J said: @Mehmet, what did you do yesterday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tom King Posted September 6, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 Labor Day is for working, right? It was a very pleasant feeling morning, with temp in the '60's to start with, and low humidity, so I didn't want it to go to waste. Behind, and perpendicular to our rental house is another acre of land that went with it, but really separate. It looks like trees were planted on it, but it also has volunteer grass-mostly Bermuda. All the tree limbs were too close to the ground for my mower to cut, even with the roll bar folded down, and I didn't want to be putting the bar up, and down just to cut that one piece of ground. I've been paying the crew that cut the rental house yard to cut it, but it's really only about a 15 minute job with the new mower. Long story shortened some, I decided to limb up the trees enough to be out of the way of the rollbar. I have a Stihl pole saw, but it's the telescopic version, and pretty heavy to use for long at the time. I thought about buying the fixed length, 7' version, which is a lot easier to handle, but decided to try the 18v Ryobi that I keep in the toolbox on the truck. The Ryobi is slow compared to the gas powered ones, but I figured it might be worth saving the $450 for the Stihl, if it could do it. I was really surprised, and it only took me a couple of hours with the Ryobi, and I only had to change batteries once. I drug some of the limbs out onto the paved driveway to the rental house, and since the place where I've been dumping yard trash for 40 years is only a hundred and fifty yards away, I just pushed it. I can push more than I can pile on a truck or trailer, so only two pushes moved the majority of it. I need to drag the rest of it out into the road, so decided to wait for Labor Day busy holiday weekend to pass to get the last of it later this week. I cut what I could with the mower, from where I had cleared the downed limbs, and it's not going to be a bad job at all. Cutting that, and the yard at the rental house might take me a half hour, but will save $150 of paying the cutting crew to do it every two weeks. I'll work for $150 per half hour. I forgot to take a picture before I started "dragging laps", as they call that job around here, but you can see some in the background of the first picture. The deal on the rental house included having to take this along with it. It's kind of in the middle of a lake development, so I'm obligated to keep it up, even though legally, not really. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 Cleaned up really nice Tom, and yep Labor Day is for working, checked off a bunch of stuff today, but tonight, camp fire, brats and hamburgers with s’mores for desert with the kids and grandkids, then back to work in the shop tomorrow as usual. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby W Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 I replaced the fill valve in in one of our toilets today. I must be getting good at it. Only took 10 minutes. It drives me nuts that they don't last very long anymore. Seems like I have to replace one every couple of years or so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coop Posted September 7, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 I liked the old style with the arm and the apple sized float on the end. With the buoyancy of that thing, it would shut off a fire hydrant. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RJS Posted September 7, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 It was a weekend for Labours of love. Saturday was hauling horses for my Daughter's last local show for the year. It was fun for me as it is normally my wife's department. The two of them are going on a big trip, taking in three shows in two weeks in September so I called dibs to take her this time. Sunday was bucking and splitting the last of this season's fire wood. We burn about 3 cords a winter and i like to have two years supply in the shed. This year a neighbour did some clearing and was kind enough to deck a bunch of alder and hemlock to give me at least two years supply. It's more than will fit in the shed so some will be stacked in the yard. Today was bee day, doing mite tests checking on stores and feeding them in preparation for winter. I really enjoy beekeeping but it is a lot like any other livestock or farming...lot's of work and investment in hopes of a good yeild but as many years of disappointment as years of plenty. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 Looks like you have bears in the area! I didn’t manage to split enough wood for our (milder) winter in time, so I’ll have to have some delivered. I only went through about a cord and some change last winter. Hoping to have enough for next winter without buying any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 On 9/7/2021 at 5:40 AM, JohnG said: Looks like you have bears in the area! I Yes, the property borders creek in a ravine that is a major corridor for bears, moose and other wildlife. Mostly Black Bears though, haven't seen any Grizzlies in the last 5 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehmet Posted September 8, 2021 Report Share Posted September 8, 2021 On 9/7/2021 at 5:25 AM, RJS said: It was a weekend for Labours of love. Saturday was hauling horses for my Daughter's last local show for the year. It was fun for me as it is normally my wife's department. The two of them are going on a big trip, taking in three shows in two weeks in September so I called dibs to take her this time. Sunday was bucking and splitting the last of this season's fire wood. We burn about 3 cords a winter and i like to have two years supply in the shed. This year a neighbour did some clearing and was kind enough to deck a bunch of alder and hemlock to give me at least two years supply. It's more than will fit in the shed so some will be stacked in the yard. Today was bee day, doing mite tests checking on stores and feeding them in preparation for winter. I really enjoy beekeeping but it is a lot like any other livestock or farming...lot's of work and investment in hopes of a good yeild but as many years of disappointment as years of plenty. WOW! in a festive mood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chestnut Posted September 12, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 Cut down a dead spruce, rented a stump grinder to get rid of it's stump and the maple stump from a tree i cut down last year. I'll be hiring out any future stump removal. That was miserable work and I don't think I saved all that much money. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BillyJack Posted September 12, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 Didnt ho fishing but can across a makita slider for $75. Havent even got it out of the trunk.. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 I tilled the garden and planted 21 tomato plants this morning. As we have storm headed our way, I spent the afternoon cleaning the floor in shop as dry sawdust cleans up easier than wet. Forecast was for 5-7” of rain. Cleaning was probably a waste of time as this afternoons 5:00 forecast says that we may get 20”-30” of rain in a 3 day period as the storm is expected to slow considerably before it reaches us. We are use to heavy rains but that’s a little much! Probably kiss those tomato plants adios as well! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 Maybe start putting sawdust back down around the perimeter to slow the inflow? Hope you fare the storm well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 That's our annual rainfall total ... It's double what we've gotten this year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 Our worse so far was tropical storm Allison in June of 2001 that dropped 40” of rain on Houston. It not only lingered but went back into the Gulf and returned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 Wow @Coop you be safe I sure hope it isn’t that bad 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehmet Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 On 9/13/2021 at 4:17 AM, Coop said: Our worse so far was tropical storm Allison in June of 2001 that dropped 40” of rain on Houston. It not only lingered but went back into the Gulf and returned. This is pretty intense... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 On 9/12/2021 at 4:08 PM, Chestnut said: I'll be hiring out any future stump removal. That was miserable work and I don't think I saved all that much money. That's what I do, just save them up, my guy did 8 in the spring and it was like $260 ranged from 15" to 38" across. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 4 minutes ago, pkinneb said: That's what I do, just save them up, my guy did 8 in the spring and it was like $260 ranged from 15" to 38" across. That's worse than i was expecting, I probably spent more with the rental then your guy would have charged for my 10" and 18" stumps. I thought of the project last minute and wanted to get a tree planted this past weekend. So i just did the fastest route and did it myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 I finally got around to the annual DC clean out that I've been putting off since last April. There was surprisingly little dust in the canister for having gone so long. Probably didn't need to do it. I dunno maybe I'll be lazier next year . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted September 14, 2021 Report Share Posted September 14, 2021 Mark, you have a paper filter IIRC in the laguna DC. If yours is pretty new it might not have gotten fully "seasoned". That said based on the work you do, I could see you not needing to clean it every year though it'd still be a good habbit. I cleaned mine this year. The dust cloud was huge. I made the mistake of doing it on a pretty calm day and the dust just hung around. There was rain in the forecast so I didn't really feel bad. Good reminder as filters should be cleaned regularly. I like the leaf blower in the back yard method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby W Posted September 14, 2021 Report Share Posted September 14, 2021 On 9/12/2021 at 5:50 PM, Coop said: of time as this afternoons 5:00 forecast says that we may get 20”-30” of rain In So. California, we call that an extremely wet year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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