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How high could I go? I'm thinking if I get some more telescoping tubes with some kind of base plate to support the weight.
>>299827540 feet, don't be a pussy with that aluminum shit, get a solid wood saw
>>2998275get a pair of spurs and climb it
>>2998275 so you can bounce a branch off the roof into your face?ya reeeaaaalllly think this is the best approach?
>>2998292>fall out of a tree to save a few bucks
I dropped my relatively new opinel knife and it stuck into the floor bending the tip at a 90 degree angle. Is there any creative way to straighten it out? I'm traveling long-term and have access to zero tools. It's still fully functional but totally annoying. Alternative is trashing it and buying new for $10. I only use it for chopping vegetables and cutting meat for which it's fabulous.
>>2998136Nice reading comprehension retard.
Is it carbon or stainless?If it's carbon you're better off grinding it back, sandpaper, fine cement, a file, whatever. If you try to bend it it'll snap further down, and you probably can't retemper it like you would in a shop. If it's stainless, heat the tip with a lighter then put it against something metal and gently tap the flat side until it's straighter. Don't try to retemper it,
>>2998136So everyone on here that broke their tip off with pliers or smashed it on o rock or used a ceramic mug was also "traveling long term?" And you had to ask on a forum how to get rid of a bent tip on a knife... You have zero space to call anyone else retarded.
>>2997527>Alternative is trashing it and buying new for $10.niggaJust find a flat piece of metal or rock or something and straighten the tip out with that. If it breaks off in the process just sharpen it.How do you make it to the DIY board and seriously contemplate trashing a perfectly good knife over something this easily fixable.
>>2998290How do you make it to the DIY board and seriously go into a pointless rage without reading the op and a few posts down where someone did read the op and gave a solution which fixed ops problem days ago?
Last thread -> >>2974706 Patch edition - Got a hole? We'll help you!linktr(dot)ee/4chansewing <---- links and shitAlways remember, it doesn't have to be the theme, post your work, post what you want to talk about as long as it has something to do with sewing in general, or the craft in general. We welcome everyone and will try our best to help you out. Yes, sewing is an art, it's a practicing art, you will always suck at it, but remember that everyone starts somewhere, so Google everything! We also talk about cosplay creation, fursuits, and more. Everything sewing related is related, just don't be overly cringe. Or just show off your work.---------------------------------------------------------------Your question may be stupid, but ask it anyway.
As someone who has never sewed anything before how hard would it be to make a handkerchief? I plan on using it primarily to dab my forehead whenever i start sweating too much
>>2997064Late on this, but plushmaker here. I've always just done straight darts, largely for the convenience of sewing them. I'm already sewing so many curves elsewhere, I can't be assed with doing more on the face.That said, try it out and experiment. If it works better for you, go for it
>>2998128Dude, just go to walmart and get for less than 2 dollars. Everything you would get to make it will cost you nearly over 1000xs more. I know you want to do it, but as you said, you gave never sewn so you likely do not have anything, no extra fabric, no needles, no spare anything. Wait till you get all the extra stuff like a lot of us we have. This right now is more about saving money.
>>2997064Yeah, I use curved darts where necessary but I guess it's always the goal to create the highest possible quality. I never pre-cut darts like in your pic, though. Always sew and then dart if necessary for the fabric (I skip it entirely with moth bodies because I accidentally fucked the mohair pile before pulling it out of the seam too many times kek.)My day job has basically shut down for the last week of financial year, so I've had heaps of time to smash out some projects I've had lined up for ages.
>>2998263Now sew the moth's pregnant and happy.
Board Certified Master Arborist and Qualified Tree Risk Assessor here, AMA.Lets please not turn this thread into a chainsaw/ tree cutting dick measuring contest, we have enough of those. Lets focus on the plants. Pic related is a girdling root I removed from an eastern white pine located on a residential property. My question for you guys is on chisel sharpening. I use a few different size chisels to remove roots like this, but they obviously get dull frequently using them down in the soil near rocks and such. I don't want to put the effort in sharpening them like I do my nice chisels in the wood shop because these get beat up constantly. Right now i just use a flat file from my chainsaw sharpening kit. any better ideas?
>>2994596>UKsomehow missed that still pretty broad but as you say minigreenhouseWhat sorts of citrus seeds are you planting out? They're originally understorey plants.so light is less of an issue but you're using grow lights anyway...Not really my area of expertise so I can't offer much
>>2994650>What sorts of citrus seeds are you planting out?The small sweet ones, the size of a tangerine (so tangerines themselves, clementines, satsumas) - whatever I happen to buy and whatever gives me seeds.
>>2994531ended up getting the notch catalyst and wowwhat a fucking improvement, unironically 5x easier to climb than the lineman strap harness, along with being significantly more comfortableclimbing seems like it's just a fucking gear check at this point
Anon do you have a list of books or other resources that you would say are fundamental to an education in the matter of trees and shrub care ?thanks
>>2990266you can pluck some leaves and make yourself some tea.
I have an old Magnavox stereo that the FM doesn't work everything else works. So far I've recapped the FM board still doesn't work. I've checked the voltages on the board by this picture and pin 2 is supposed to have -15v but it has -20v all the other voltages are right could this be what's causing the FM not to work?
>>2997805I'll do this when I get off work
>>2997840You get sound out of it in AM mode though, right?
>>2997961Yes the AM radio works fine so does the phono
>>2997964Did you fix it yet?
>>2998122no
finished the new electrical installation, starting the false gypsum ceilings that will hide all the cables n shit, and add insulationI really gotta finish this shit, I started it almost 5 years ago, past 10 months I did more than 3 years, where did that time go?
isolation up, gotta put the gypsum on
>>2997516No strain relief?
>>2998251its a tiny apartament board, fuck u mean strain relief...
>>2998251Euros got weird electrical shitThey make fun of us for our plugs and low voltage and then they just yeet appliances and connectors into their ceilings and don't secure their wires to anything its crazy.
>>2995552Are there no junction boxes for the electrical? Just wires popped out of the drywall?
this Framing Inspector seems kinda picky.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R15nJNwtEp0
>>2997446>Why the obsession with using wood anyway?cheap and absorbs kinetic energy far better without failing.
>>2997230>How do you sister a stud with 3" of pvc plumbing elbow through the dead center?Fucking kek
>>2997446North America has an absolute fuck ton of trees because we didn't cut them all down to heat our houses 1000 years ago.
>>2997446>Why the obsession with using wood anyway?Easy to fasten to and is compatible with traditional building methods. If the trusses had steel chords the mexican framers would have no idea how to get them on.
>>2998218Boomer mythology. My country (Serbia) is like 30% forest and we still barely build out of wood anymore, though it used to be the norm for single family housing before WW2 (half-timber frames). Our forests are not old growth, sure, but you don't need old growth for viable structural lumber. I can say the same for all of Europe pretty much, only the UK has a shortage of trees and they are still like 15% forest. It's not about material shortage or lack thereof, but what the average contractor is most well versed in.That being said though, what kind of insane anal spans are you building for that you even need steel trusses to begin with? That looks very unintuitive and frankly overkill to me.
>step 1: obtain a building permitamericans need permission from the government to change a light bulb
>10 dollars for permit application>250 dollars for the permit itself>500 dollars for inspector to come in to make sure you installed the right bulb wattage>taxes increase because you improved your home with the new lightbulbAll for a property you "own".
>>2991137Californians and New Yorkers need permission to 3D print
>>2991137>More Europeans die from heat stroke per year than Americans do from gunsYou eurofags can't even put ice in water without your government raiding your home for ruining the environment
>>2993392>constitutional republicBased and aristotle-pilled.
>>2993577Kek saved
Stupid Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own ThreadLast thread hit bump limitI have a big spool I wanna make into a picnic table. I want to use the slats as the base but it's wobbly af. How would I shore it up without making it look super worked on?
>>2998187fill the gap with styrofoam or wood (doesn't have to look pretty) and then plaster over the whole thing
>>2998248Those don’t even look like Neports in that pic. What a pussy.
>>2998260>mentholsof course faggots love shit flavored things in their mouth t. camel straights
>>2997944Is this mold or efflorescence?
I'm setting up my garage to be more of a chill space. I have a dartboard, and I want a unique scoreboard. I have an old Sector 9 longboard that I'm going to sand down, prime, and then paint chalkboard paint on it. It's carbon fiber, any tips for how deep or what kind of grit to use on it, and why? I'm a noob when it comes to this stuff.Also, if you have a better idea, I'm all for it. I was originally going to cut out an alligator, and do the same thing like picrel, but I didn't have the wood or a jigsaw, and I didn't think I'd do as good with the cutting.
I have a feeling in the future houses "decorated" with solar panels like this with complete disregard towards looks will be a mark of an impoverished area
I live in oklahoma bro it hails at least once every other year I cant imagine it makes any economic sense to have these unless they have gotten way more durable recently
>>2989366>concerned with 'appearances'>too stupid to take advantage of the one thing the glowies can't control>relies on daddy gubmintwow, surprise, you're a nigger.
>>2995118you don't need to own a house to put solar on it.
>>2989505where i live electricity is 12 cents per kwhto pay for a solar install that could get me completely off grid, it would take over 30 years for it to pay for itselfbut the equipment lifetime, especially the batteries, is much less than 30 yearsthe only way to make it work here would be a DIY job, but im not an electrician and im sure we're not too far off from electric utilities demanding states to make laws requiring permitting for solar installs that effectively bans DIY anyway
>>2996014good idea, thanks anon
can you wash these out and use them as tomato pots?i googled it and reddit says absolutely not youll definitely get cancer but boomers on an agriculture forum posted by tapatalk circa 2010 say its fine
>>2998145>garbage bagProbably more hazardous than the oil, desu.
>>2998131if you have SOME plot of land around your house, planting tomatoes in buckets on your porch is literally hobo tier i would never respect such person
>>2998252>doesn't grow anything
>>2998154empty it first
>>2997560You can get them suitably clean with boiling water and strong detergent, but you need to weigh the time and effort of washing them versus what it'd cost to just buy new ones.As others pointed out, you're probably better off just getting new ones and spending your time dealing with your tomato crop, instead of scrubbing out used oil buckets.
Not this house or area, specifically, but WTF is the "landscape" for rehab on what is surely LEAD PAINT house that needs TLC and DIY?In 'Frisco, CA there was some scam where you'd get sued by neighbors who'd claim your lead got into their dirt, even though all dirt in SF has lead, and it was illegal to take samples before hand. No idea how that shake out or if still going on.But what about more "reasonable" areas? I'm I going to be "Catch-22" where I can't fix shit without building a NASA tier clean room 3 stories high, but I'm also going to be hit with "blight" fines?https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/432-Pine-Ave-Cumberland-MD-21502/36163766_zpid/
>>2998162>>2998161Lets talk electrical. The house was built in 1922. That is knob and tube era. There is not a single picture of an outlet or light switch in those photos. No telling what you might be dealing with inside the house. I can tell you that the thermostat is 50+ years old. So, lets look at the outside. It appears to be a fair amount of bare romex-style cable just running on top of the aluminum siding. So, two layers of sun/wind/rain exposed plastic between your electrical system and lighting up your house like National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation without even needing any Christmas lights. I doubt the inside is any better.
>>2998163Then there is the inside. This place was probably renovated in the 1960s or 70s. They appear to have covered most of the walls with fake wood paneling. The bad news is that the stuff from that era off gasses all sorts of nasty shit into the air. The good news is they are so old now that is not much of a concern. That said, I shudder to think what they are covering considering the state of the few original walls in the place.The place is a 3 bed/1 bath and, from the description, it appears the only bathroom is on the second floor. Imaging working the basement on some DIY stuff and then getting the Taco Bell shits. You'd have to crab walk up two flights of stairs so steep they are no longer legal before you could relieve yourself.
>>2998164I mean, the place is going to need a full gutting. Fake wood paneling, harvest gold carpets, deathtrap wiring, that half collapsed outbuilding in the back yard. Lord knows what is left of the roof. What is the plumbing situation? What is more damning is what they AREN'T showing you. Where's the photos of the kitchen, bathroom, and garage? How bad are they if they didn't even include photos of them? Each floor is only about 600 square feet. Heating and cooling is 'other'. I mean, it is cheap.>Fixer-upper with incredible potential! Its also a cash sale. That means no mortgage company will touch it because it can't be insured. If it were me, I'd salvage the vintage interior stuff like doors, the stair banister, etc. and then have a fire. The foundation, if still solid, is an asset but just about everything else is garbage.
>>2998141>Do they expect the next owner to haul the whole shit show off to Toxic Waste Disposal?looking at the pictures, that would be your best course of action. i don't know why you'd want to leave any of that standing.
It's probably more time effective to just remove the old painted material. Both porches need redone anyway. It's anyone's guess what's under the vinyl side, but surely the water damage in the back is permeated throughout the entire lower section. This money pit will either get torn back to studs or leveled. I can't speculate anything mechanical inside being up to par.
Since we got a gardening thread now it seems only right to get ourselves a mushroom thread.https://blogs.cornell.edu/learning/how-to-grow-mushrooms-a-beginners-guide/https://www.almanac.com/plant/mushroomshttps://northspore.com/pages/mushroom-growing-guidesWhat are you growing?What are you trying to grow? How do you avoid contamination?
>>2996352Well, since we are, I would like to ask a few things. I have absolutely zero knowledge on these things. That being said I live on a farm and see a few growing here and there. (Pic related) I would like to know which ones are good and possibly how to prep them?
>>2995238What do you mean?They're all cut from a live tree split in half during a wind storm. I got them cut up and innoculated 2-3 weeks after the storm.
>>2996462Can't tell if that's the right one, but if it is, just eat it raw. You'll need some 10g wet for a good buzz.
>>2996359Yeah most edible shrooms are either significantly less or significantly more demanding than cubes.Though on that note I'm still not entirely sure why wood loving shrooms didn't take over.The sterility demands of coprophilous fungus are *fucked* all things considered.Meanwhile a shockingly low amount of things can chew on cellulose so pasteurization rather than pressure Sterilisation is more than sufficient.
>>2996462just buy spore syringes and grow your own, collect the spores when they open their film.
Hi /diy/, I want to put a small shed in my parents' back yard where I could put my PC and a bed because as of now I'm forced to share my room with two roommates and having no privacy is driving me insane. I'm too retarded to build a shed from scratch and I want it to be done as soon as possible so I've been searching for a budget kit. The Little Cottage Co. 8x8 ft value workshop shed seems like a good pick for this and judging by the reviews it's easy to assemble and the quality is decent.My plan is to lay a gravel base right next to the concrete patio and put the shed there. I live in AZ so AC is a must. I would have to insulate the shed and put some vents in. I have an exterior outlet there, would be roughly 8 ft away from the shed so maybe I could use a heavy duty extension cord to power my PC, a small AC unit and a lamp. I really want to avoid running a cord from my house's main panel, I'm no electrician and it sounds like a lot of work and electricity is scary.Aside from that the shed is designed to only lock from the outside. What could I possibly do to modify the door to be able to lock from the inside?? Please help.
>>2998040See those pegs to lock the left door in place?Just get another pair for the right door.Even more secure than hasp & padlock.
Do you get safety with a shed? No, you are protected by a flimsy bit of plastic that's slightly bigger than a coffin. Same goes about burglaries. Do you get protected from the sun? Again, not really, it's just plastic.So why not pitch an insulated tent where you can stand tall, get a used AC, get some sort of cabinet on wheels and store everything valuable in it and roll it in you parent's garage every time you go away or go to sleep?A party tent surely draws less attention than a cuck shed.
>>2998064>who the fuck is gonna figure out that i'm actually sleeping in there?everyone you're currently living with will know, and they'll tell someone.
>>2998240exactlyyou mother (a woman) will blab to anyone and everyone about things she was explicitly told to not sharet. speaks from experience
>>2998228That makes it even more obvious that you have a homeless person living in your yard and you will draw the ire of the white mormons and their HOA.
