Hey, wasnt it you who was looking for a bigger battery?What kind of battery powers that? A Die Hard LOL
You "might" not even need to carry a spare!
You "might" not even need to carry a spare!
Going to be back breaking busy days here for the next week. Yesterday was finally excavation and driveway repair day here. Got the gravel driveway leveled out and filled in then they did some leveling of the yard next to the driveway so I'll be able to finally drive my snow blower into the yard and keep the huge piles of snow from road plowing pushed way back, something I've wanted done for 25 years. Unfortunately I couldn't afford to have them finish the job, just level it off and left me a big pile of top soil. I'll have to finish it all off by hand and get some grass seed on it soon. I should have watched them better before they left, they didn't tapper the pushed pile out like I envisioned, going to be a whole lot more work they I intended.
Got right on the phone to my doctor, "I'll need another round of steriods, I got a big job I have to push through." Ran out and picked up the scrip up, not looking forward to the next week. Never thought I'd say this but boy I'll be happy when it snows, that means I'm sitting inside giving my poor ole broken body a rest.
Got right on the phone to my doctor, "I'll need another round of steriods, I got a big job I have to push through." Ran out and picked up the scrip up, not looking forward to the next week. Never thought I'd say this but boy I'll be happy when it snows, that means I'm sitting inside giving my poor ole broken body a rest.
And now that it's light enough I see it rained last night.... It was only a 15% chance..... UGH!!!
I feel for you, Willie. I just finished a "major" project myself. Ran about 15 yards of piled, old, leaves through the shredder. Some of it was three or four years old. The yield is about three yards of really nice, rich, loam. Today is clean the gutters day, heavy rain coming tomorrow night and Monday, fix the lawn tractor and trim some evergreens and run the trimmings through the chipper.
Next week I've got to dig about 200 feet of trench to bury some flex conduit for the security cameras. I'm only going down about two feet, flex conduit and low voltage cable, but lots of tree roots to work around/through. They're currently wired and strung above ground on tree trunks. As the trees grow, and sway in the wind, the pinching and constant flexing eventually breaks the wire plus the wiring is visible. I'm not looking forward to that project
Next week I've got to dig about 200 feet of trench to bury some flex conduit for the security cameras. I'm only going down about two feet, flex conduit and low voltage cable, but lots of tree roots to work around/through. They're currently wired and strung above ground on tree trunks. As the trees grow, and sway in the wind, the pinching and constant flexing eventually breaks the wire plus the wiring is visible. I'm not looking forward to that project
Yup, the big push before winter, while we can. Putting up the gutter's has suddenly got pushed back a week, probably be putting them up in the rain. Not fun....
I grew up in the city, but moved out for about 5 years in a suburban area. Every time i think about a thunderstorm blowing through that might bring down a tree I'd have to cut or the snow I'd have to deal with, I am damn grateful I moved back in. Sure, I liked not seeing my neighbors and having lots of green around me, but that was way more work than I wanted to tackle for the rest of my life.
That's the price you pay for being a Mountain Man.
I'll take the hardships of country life any day, I've never been a city person but then again I grew up in the country, until I got married it's was only life I knew. Living at this place, inside this little village was a comprise to the wife, but my back yard boarders woods, deep gorge with a creek. When I need to get that feeling of being with nature all I need is to walk about back, twenty yards into the woods, sit and enjoy.
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I like the city, nice place to visit, but not for me to live in. Too many people, too much noise and too much constant bustle. Yeah, living in the country, with trees, leaves, lawn, snow, gardens and yada yada, is a lot of work, but it keeps me out of trouble (sort of anyway) and helps keep me in fairly decent shape without paying for a gym membership.
I put in two stints in the big city (Philly) when I was younger. Never again. I have no desire to live in what's essentially a human ant-hill.
One thing about NYC at least, is you do a ton of walking around to get anywhere. Cars are not a daily use need to get to work or shop or whatever it was outside the city. Yeah, not as much exertion as shoveling snow or splitting wood but I don't mind walking several miles a day.
Walking is good. It's what our bodies were built to do. The best part is one can do it pretty much anywhere.
I'd rent a small trencher for that job, no way I'd dig it by hand.
I've done all the city living I'm going to do until I just can't handle keeping up this place in the Ozarks. I used to keep 2 miles of trails groomed on this 160 acres but not any more, I'm slowing down already and I'm only 55. Keeping 8 acres of lawn/pasture cut, cutting firewood to heat 4500sqft, mending fences, constantly fixing the 1/4 mile driveway, caring for 175 orchard trees, the 1800 sqft garden and fixing everything that breaks around here is enough considering I still work full time in the construction biz. I wonder how much longer I can keep this up. Oh well, another day of work means another day of enjoyment, right?!
With me, being somewhat nomadic in my younger years, I have lived in big cities like L.A., Boston, San Diego, Atlanta, Norfolk, etc, and also very rural places. Today I live in a small town of about 40k, which unfortunately is declining with the collapse of the domestic Textile & Furniture industries.
Where I live now I dont have to lock the doors, no traffic jams, and decent community ethics. But.... there is no culture attractions to speak of, the best restaurant in town is an Applebie's, they wouldnt know a decent pastrami brisket if it slapped them in the face, no ethnic culture beyond racial and redneck, work is scarce, etc.
I adapted to all of those places. They all have their +/- s. I do miss the ethnic culture from up north (east coast), the scenery of northern Cal, the nightlife and employment opportunities of the big city. I have settled here though, I am secure in my job and I have a decent standard of living.
In the words of Jerry Garcia, what a long strange trip it's been.........
Where I live now I dont have to lock the doors, no traffic jams, and decent community ethics. But.... there is no culture attractions to speak of, the best restaurant in town is an Applebie's, they wouldnt know a decent pastrami brisket if it slapped them in the face, no ethnic culture beyond racial and redneck, work is scarce, etc.
I adapted to all of those places. They all have their +/- s. I do miss the ethnic culture from up north (east coast), the scenery of northern Cal, the nightlife and employment opportunities of the big city. I have settled here though, I am secure in my job and I have a decent standard of living.
In the words of Jerry Garcia, what a long strange trip it's been.........
I'd do exactly that except the number of trees, and roots, that will be encountered along the way. I don't want to wreck a rental machine on big roots and I sure don't want to be cutting as many as a trencher would. I can dig under/around them as I go. Plus there is a fiber line out in the front, at the bottom of the little "hill", that I wouldn't want to hit with a trencher. If/when I do post lights at the driveway, where it meets the street, I'll definitely use a trencher though. That project will involve more than just a couple of post lights though and way more trenching.
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