Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

[Domon]

That' what this one uses. So there ya go.

wow... the motor is right on top of the head. No twisty turny bad for efficiency drive shaft.

 

[wetwillie]

any idea the brand you've got? The ones on amazon the primary complaint are all about the blades turning into shrapnel the first time you hit something hard

Grass Gator. White blades

 

[Valve1138]

oh fuck, link me.

Ego 56v Sting trimmer with carbon fiber shaft.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/EGO-56V...PIPHorizontal2_rr-_-300999026-_-304971992-_-N

 

[Valve1138]

wow... the motor is right on top of the head. No twisty turny bad for efficiency drive shaft.

It's freakin sweet. Makes my life a lot easier.

I'm going to pick up the leaf blower and hedge trimmer too.

 

[Darth Handsome]

How the hell could your life get any easier??

 

[kiwi]

gonna buy one. I got like a 10x30 patch of blackberries i gotta take down.

Or you could just eat the delicious blackberries.

 

[wetwillie]

wow... the motor is right on top of the head. No twisty turny bad for efficiency drive shaft.

Yer saying Valve looks kind like this?

 

[Josh]

The door and ramp stuff is fairly simple stuff but if you don't have the time you don't have the time.

Gutters really are all that complicated either but can be a real pain in the ass without a second person who also knows what they're doing.
And time.

Nah I'm not that handy to build an ADA compliant ramp. Easier to hire it out and get it done right. Same with the interior door. And gutters (I posted photos last fall when I hired a gutter guy to install on my house and garage). At the time I didn't think it was necessary to get gutters on the barn. But all that water splashing back on the wood siding is deteriorating it pretty quick. And getting water dripping down your neck while opening the entrance door isn't fun And the whole time thing too.

 

[HipHugHer]

Or you could just eat the delicious blackberries.

I was going to mention something like this. No f'n way I'd be cutting down blackberries.

 

[HipHugHer]

Nah I'm not that handy to build an ADA compliant ramp. Easier to hire it out and get it done right. Same with the interior door. And gutters (I posted photos last fall when I hired a gutter guy to install on my house and garage). At the time I didn't think it was necessary to get gutters on the barn. But all that water splashing back on the wood siding is deteriorating it pretty quick. And getting water dripping down your neck while opening the entrance door isn't fun And the whole time thing too.

That's cool.

ADA compliant is just a maximum steepness of slope you can't exceed and a minimum width. Can lay it out with string and stakes.

 

[wetwillie]

I was going to mention something like this. No f'n way I'd be cutting down blackberries.

Most domesticated varietys need to be cut down in spring to have a crop in late summer/fall. PITA. I got tired of it and cut them down - the wild ones that grow here are just as good, albiet not as sweet. No idea why domon is doing it.

 

[HipHugHer]

Most domesticated varietys need to be cut down in spring to have a crop in late summer/fall. PITA. I got tired of it and cut them down - the wild ones that grow here are just as good, albiet not as sweet. No idea why domon is doing it.

We had a good size raspberry patch on the farm we never did anything to other than pick bucketfuls. Don't know what variety. They were plenty sweet. Certainly didn't need to cut them down to make more.

Other people had "black raspberry" (I assume that's a black berry) bushes and things that were the same way.

 

[wetwillie]

We had a good size raspberry patch on the farm we never did anything to other than pick bucketfuls. Don't know what variety. They were plenty sweet. Certainly didn't need to cut them down to make more.

Other people had "black raspberry" (I assume that's a black berry) bushes and things that were the same way.

Blackberries and blackraspberry are not same. Blackberries the core stays in the fruit when picked. Raspberry the fruit lifts off the center core. No matter the color.

 

[Darth Handsome]

Raspberries & I have an understanding: I dont eat them & they dont get their seeds stuck in my teeth

 

[HipHugHer]

Blackberries and blackraspberry are not same. Blackberries the core stays in the fruit when picked. Raspberry the fruit lifts off the center core. No matter the color.

Our Border Collie would gently grab them between her two front fangs and carefully slide them off the cone, leaving the cone on the plant.

 

[nukes]

I like blueberries.

 

[wetwillie]

Our Border Collie would gently grab them between her two front fangs and carefully slide them off the cone, leaving the cone on the plant.

That is cool. No regular collie would figure that out.
"Lassie, Go Home!" "Uh, No U"

 

[nukes]

That is cool. No regular collie would figure that out.
"Lassie, Go Home!" "Uh, No U"

Is there a pecking order hierarchy in the of hierarchy in the collie world?

 

[Darth Handsome]

Hierarchy makes a dogs world go 'round

 

[nukes]

Hierarchy makes a dogs world go 'round

I'm gonna pee on that fire hydrant before @Strings does.