ratsmitglied Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 7 hours ago, Inarah said: It ought to be illegal to operate a leaf blower before the sun reaches zenith. 🥺 FTFY I HATE leaf blowers, and the electric ones are just as bad as combustion ones with the whine of the motor 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarah Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, haldir said: Heard over the weekend, some one was operating a mower. Ok np, but it was cold (aka early spring day) wind was blowing like it does here all the time & later in the day it actually snowed, thou more of a sleet storm then anything. I think the next day the house behind ours had their paid crew mow their yard. Which tbh, is not even worth paying someone else as it's small & the people that live there aren't really that old. Yup. Multiple mowers/blowers going this afternoon and storms incoming. We're getting warnings about possible ice in the morning. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Khan Artist Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 55 minutes ago, kristof65 said: Car wash bays typically have "mud pits" specifically to keep as much mud from going down stream as they can. Even in a city that doesn't see a lot of super dirty cars, these pits eventually fill up and have to be cleaned out. It's worse in rural areas - I know a lot my rural customers have to have their pits emptied 2-3 times a year vs once every year or two for a suburban site. There are a lot of cities across the US that ban driveway car washing citing mud in the storm drain system as one of the reasons (the other two being water usage and chemicals). The more immediate issue is that most car wash users just wash the mud off their vehicle, and leave a dirty, muddy bay for the next person to walk around in. If you have to wash a really muddy vehicle, please be polite and wash at least some of the mud that falls to the ground under your car so the next guy doesn't have to traipse through it. We have a poop pit. It's a big cement pit with a slope and a drain leading into it. There is a big mesh grate that lifts out (by tractor) that keeps the shavings from floating into the village sewer system. About every 3-4 weeks, they come with the big loader and empty it into a side dump trailer and take it to the field. The sand and gravel does not flush very well down the drains in the bay, so every few weeks, I take the wheelbarrow and shovel the sand. Then I dump it in a pile in the poop pit to go with the manure. In our bay, it's manure that people don't wash down the drain that's a pain in the butt. Usually it's because it's frozen and won't flush into the grates in the first place. I try to keep it nice in there, because if the guys see a mess, they just compound it. If it's clean, they usually clean up after themselves the best they can. We also have tag, which is a mess of manure and hair that comes off the feedlot animals. Sometimes the animals have so much tag it rattles when they walk. It falls off in clumps in the trailers and it's a pain to clean up, because it won't soften like regular manure. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted March 27 Author Moderator Share Posted March 27 Aarrrgh! I'm in the middle of a good book, and want to keep reading it, but I also want to do some painting. This is why I need to win the lottery; lots of free time. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Hmmm, gotta love having like 3 or 4 items show up on the same day (according to the email/tracking you get with Shop Pay) & nothing shows up in the mail. I think this might be the first time that is happened when I've shopped with that service. Pretty sure it's the USPS here, but who knows. It was mostly bottles of paint, but I do need a couple of minis for Weds night's game....grrr. Hey now!! USPS came back to the house & dropped off the mail. Apparently my wife must have grabbed Saturday's offering & we just got today's 6:20 pm tonight. Yah 6:20 pm, our USPS is so slow. I must have been half-asleep when I ordered the mini as for the paint I ordered like 3 bottles of the new Sepia wash from Vallejo, along with 2 bottle of Xpress Plasma Red, ha ha. I need to check my order & see. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 8 hours ago, kristof65 said: So those of you who are Gundam aficionados. I bought a 1/144th scale Bandai figure set to use as ground crew for my T-Trak Module with the CAVs, Most of the figures will work in some fashion, but I can't for the life of me figure out the intention of these two figures: Are they supposed to be flying or something? You could use the one with helmet as a mech pilot climbing the leg of a mech towards a hatch on a mechs side. A quick drilling of a hole and glue a piece of styrene above the hole as the hatch. On the female, maybe move the arm down to make a standing figure. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Green Eyed Monsty Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 GEM 6 hours ago, ratsmitglied said: FTFY I HATE leaf blowers, and the electric ones are just as bad as combustion ones with the whine of the motor With my Hyperacusis things like leaf blowers are like fingernails on a blackboard. Fortunately, they aren't needed much around where we live as we have the Washoe Zephyr's tm to take care of any leaf problems. Also, loose shingles, lawn/porch furniture that isn't battened down, and small pets and children may be whisked out of sight very quickly as we get winds routinely topping 40 mph and when the wind really gets going we will have sustained winds to 60 mph with gusts to 70 mph plus. It's great for the land sailors and their wind powered lake carts but can be rather rough on windshields and hairdo's. But no problems with leaf blowers. GEM 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator OneBoot Posted March 28 Moderator Share Posted March 28 On 3/21/2023 at 10:05 AM, Chaoswolf said: Mahna mahna! DO DOOOOO DODODODO! (over a week and I can't believe nobody else gave the proper response) On 3/26/2023 at 3:01 PM, Chaoswolf said: It's funny because it's painfully true here. There are downsides to living in a historic floodplain, if one desires to do simple things like, say, put tomato cages in the ground. Poor MrBoot has been out every afternoon this week with an assortment of tools just to accomplish this: a piece of rebar and a hammer to get pilot holes made, plus a trowel, small shovel, trenching tool and a hefty pick to help remove the stones that the rebar finds. We've decided at the end of the season this year, we're just gonna leave the darn things in the ground and cut the dead plants away from them. The awesome fresh tomatoes are still worth it, though! Huzzah! --OneBoot 🙂 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted March 28 Author Moderator Share Posted March 28 12 hours ago, Chaoswolf said: Aarrrgh! I'm in the middle of a good book, and want to keep reading it, but I also want to do some painting. This is why I need to win the lottery; lots of free time. I compromised: I painted for about an hour, and then I spent the rest of the evening reading. I knew it was time to go to sleep after I dropped the book on my face. 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Khan Artist Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Okay question time: I was watching a documentary about becoming a cook in the US Army. Then I wondered, how do they cook on ships without worrying about the pots sliding off the burner when the ship lists? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator TaleSpinner Posted March 28 Moderator Share Posted March 28 14 hours ago, buglips*the*goblin said: Also I'll have @TaleSpinner imprisoned in my Tower Of Doom to subsist only on rat cakes and crow pee because it's been 6 years plus and I still can't get Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins out of my head. I'm pretty sure that you don't have the attention span to become King of Everything, so I'm not too worried. 3 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 PAINTED AGAIN!!! https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/102539-jackal-nomad-by-glitterwolf/ https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/102540-jackal-assault-beast-by-glitterwolf/ 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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