The Home Improvement Thread

[Oswego]

actually you should only till when it’s dry, it’s due to soil compaction and less oxygen going into the soil.

I'm just thinking of my lungs/dust ~ Very dusty/sandy soil.

New delivery date set for 6am-8pm Wednesday.....They must be getting overloaded w/orders. Last night it was delivery for today - now out to Wednesday.

Stuff better show up this time. I want to be planted NLT next weekend weather depending (frost).

Added some lumber for my deck and some hammock hanging posts with concrete to the order so now it's $79 delivery fee. Whatever.....I can't put 6 x 6 x 12's & 2 x 6 x 16's on my roof rack anyway.

 

[Taco Loco]

I'm just thinking of my lungs/dust ~ Very dusty/sandy soil.

New delivery date set for 6am-8pm Wednesday.....They must be getting overloaded w/orders. Last night it was delivery for today - now out to Wednesday.

Stuff better show up this time. I want to be planted NLT next weekend weather depending (frost).

Added some lumber for my deck and some hammock hanging posts with concrete to the order so now it's $79 delivery fee. Whatever.....I can't put 6 x 6 x 12's & 2 x 6 x 16's on my roof rack anyway.

Wear a mask. Dust?

Don’t complain about dust, , they say it’s always bigger in Texas.

I will let you operate my mower for 5 minutes and that should give you about one years worth of NJ dust.

 

[Oswego]

you can keep that status

 

[Taco Loco]

you can keep that status

we saw a few smaller ones like that last summer when we were headed to Colorado

 

[Oswego]

HD got it all sorted out correctly....they called them "returned items" and thats BS but whatever floats their boat.

 

[Taco Loco]

If times get tough, Texas Redneck Breakfast Taco. Carl Spackler is happy this morning.

 

[tex]

Planted more herbs and peppers in the garden. Once my beans, squash, okra, snap peas, and cucumbers get bigger I will plant those.

Also got a flower bed planted that I tore ivy out of a year ago

 

[Oswego]

$79 for forklift delivery is not all that bad, especially when everything you order is there

Driver was super cool and put it exactly where I wanted it in my backyard.

even posed for a pic

now lets hope the lumber is somewhat strait

 

[AlienXtx]

Teef

 

[Silverback]

He should take that forklift and haul your yardart Tacoma to @PSU Taco85's place.

 

[Silverback]

or the dealer or ??

 

[Silverback]

Come on man, you have a ton of cool shit to install... I need some inspiration to do similar. Not to the extent you do, But stuff.

 

[Oswego]

I don't have any parts sitting around.........











not me.......


























Just a 11' x 12' room full to the brim

I'm going to auction the truck and parts off. Going to get back into drag-racing. 4x4 is getting old & Ive lost my mojo. Just going to buy a side by side and a rice rocket so I have the best of both worlds.

 

[Taco Loco]

Just added another 8’ ground rod, and additional outlet in the corner of the shop, there is already one ground rod there for the 100amp panel, but the electric fence unit instructions suggests to add an additional ground rod, so in the ground the rod goes.

added a pass through ground lug on the corner Ibeam of the building as well.

 

[CowboyTaco]

Since we were talking about concrete earlier. Here's my "expansion" joints.... or whatever they should actually be called.

 

[PSU Taco85]

Just added another 8’ ground rod, and additional outlet in the corner of the shop, there is already one ground rod there for the 100amp panel, but the electric fence unit instructions suggests to add an additional ground rod, so in the ground the rod goes.

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added a pass through ground lug on the corner Ibeam of the building as well.
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hopefully you didn’t tie the neutral to the ground bus out there. Seen too many people make that mistake.

 

[Taco Loco]

hopefully you didn’t tie the neutral to the ground bus out there. Seen too many people make that mistake.

nah, straight from ground rod to electric fence controller, my unkle is a master electrician who owns his own business that I had worked with a few times, mostly to learn from.

I’m gonna eventually change out this 100amp rated electric panel, the tard that put this particular box, did not put in main cut off breaker, the main breaker power source is probably upwards 150’ away.

 

[PSU Taco85]

nah, straight from ground rod to electric fence controller, my unkle is a master electrician who owns his own business that I had worked with a few times, mostly to learn from.

I’m gonna eventually change out this 100amp rated electric panel, the tard that put this particular box, did not put in main cut off breaker, the main breaker power source is probably upwards 150’ away.

It’s a nice to have that’s for sure. In my shop I put in a 100 amp subpanel with a MLO panel, so the only way to de-energize the feed to the shop is from my house basement. Saved a few bucks, I’ve never needed to kill power to the whole shop subpanel, I’ve always added new breakers with the dead front removed and bus energized.

 

[Taco Loco]

It’s a nice to have that’s for sure. In my shop I put in a 100 amp subpanel with a MLO panel, so the only way to de-energize the feed to the shop is from my house basement. Saved a few bucks, I’ve never needed to kill power to the whole shop subpanel, I’ve always added new breakers with the dead front removed and bus energized.

back in the day, I would wire in one leg, like that outlet I added today on a hot bus, nowadays I just feel better cutting the power and doing things right, no need to accidentally slap something in the open panel with the BX wire,

 

[PSU Taco85]

back in the day, I would wire in one leg, like that outlet I added today on a hot bus, nowadays I just feel better cutting the power and doing things right, no need to accidentally slap something in the open panel with the BX wire,

One leg a time is perfect, it’s the 220 that stings . That reminds me, here’s a few good life hacks for you guyz