Why are so many Americans willing to pay for someone else to mow their lawn?
This totally mystifies any non American. I think one factor here might be HOA, which is like...a local council... but private... which fines people by law for doing things their neibours simply don't like. So in the US you can get sued for failing to mow your lawn. So residents are trying to offload the legal liability not really paying to mow the lawn.Culturally, Americans seem to care far less about gardens and far more about lawns.And a well maintained lawn needs mowing less often so if enough people in the same area all have this cultural view then its probably an economy of scale in spraying/edging/weeding lawns.Here in Australia it's a $150 call out just to get someone to show up, because there just aren't 100 customers a kilometre in the same area, culturally anyone who calls trades to do something you they do themselves is called a faggot and there's no particular punishment if your lawn is just totally f*cked
>>3009881this guy gets itour neighborhood mower shoes up once a week and has 5 clients on the same street, we all pay em 50$ and it takes them 2 hoursrinse and repeat
>>3004041People are shitting on this but it's basically the situation for me. My lawn is too big and hilly to be viable for a push mower, so I'd be looking at several thousand dollars minimum for some kind of riding mower. We also have a relatively short mowing season. It'd take many years for owning a mower to work out cheaper than just paying a guy to come every couple of weeks. I also live in a literal (high) desert with limited water resources and having this huge lawn is wasteful and expensive, so I'd like to eventually rip most of it out and replace it with native foliage, something all of my neighbors have already done. I like the natural arid forest vibe of the area more than a huge expanse of non-native grass anyway.
>>3009881>Culturally, Americans seem to care far less about gardens and far more about lawns.One factor in this is that we have a lot more wildlife in the US than most populated parts of Europe. I have some herbs and vegetables but I have to grow them on my upstairs balcony because deer will eat anything on the ground level, and keeping them out is basically impossible unless you make your garden look like a prison.
>>3004022They're rich.
In /rcg/ we discuss anything & everything remote controlled - multirotors, fixed wing, cars, rovers, helis, boats, submarines, battlebots, lawnmowers, etc.>How do I get started with racing drones?https://oscarliang.com/mini-quad-racing-guide/https://www.fpvknowitall.com/ultimate-fpv-shopping-list/> How to build a racing drone (16 part video series from Joshua Bardwell)https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoDb7WF6c8mWARrcxtX_G6yytK7QFHID>What about planes?https://www.flitetest.com/>What about aerial photography, is DIY viable?Buy a DJI if what you actually want is to take good photos/videos, with Potensic being an alternative, go DIY if what you actually want is a fun project.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3009886Current setup: BetaFPV Pavo 20 Pro 4S W/ DJI 04 Pro air unit modified by flywoo with the mp66 gyros Radiomaster Boxer max radio DJI goggles 3 Am I missing out on some more top tier shit? I have whoops , like the air75 original and the air65 2 champ that I fly with my T8L Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3010209Got a Whoopstor 3? Greatest 1S charger I know of. Did 3 hours of flying a couple Saturdays ago because I can swap in batteries and they're done by the time my last battery is discharged. 2S charge of course.
>>3010259I got the Geprc woo power and I charge it off of ridgid power tool batteries and an inverter in the field No idea if Iām retarded or not for doing it
>>3010349You're losing a fair bit of efficiency that way. You're going DC->AC->DC->less DC. Try to cut some conversions out if you can.
>>3010349>Geprc woo powercut out the inverter and plug in the tool lion pack via the xt60 directly. just keep an eye on the input voltage so you don't fuckup your tool packs.
so the cocksuckers DID at one time make a XL Twin normal air mattress.Anyone got any bright ideas for how to make a good XL out of a regular twin?I guess I could get a 8"x10"x39" block of foam and maybe Velcro and upside down fitted elastic bedsheet and another one rightside up over it.And WTF does no one make XL Twin air-mattress?Its for a DIY fold up bed for my beater van. It will be along the driver's side wall. It will be barely high enough to fit 3.5 gal buckets under when folded down. Platform will hinge on door hinges with removable pins, and there will be another rail and butt-hinge halves mounted at 29" so it could serve as desk/work bench or "Captain's Bed" with lots of under bed storage.I've done that before but without the second level option, but the removable door hinge pins worked great. Could fold up the bed out of the way and haul a motorcycle, fridge, etc and the mattress and bedding would be "positive aired".For legs I used PVC pipe which would rotate flush and a more or less full length PVC pipe sat in the groove of the van floor.Haven't worked out the details but I think it will be OK to have two sets of legs, one about 13" and another at 29".Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3009638For a van? Go to a carpet store get an offcut for a buck. Hard floor is the best mattress there is. Carpet is second but it keeps you warmer.Don't use sheet wood for beds either, the glue fucks your throat unless you seal it properly.
You VILL but the regular twink bed und you VILL be happy
>>3009703I'm not sleeping ON the wood, but on mattress, sheets, etc.I'll spray with poly clear seal to wipe clean with damp rag or even hose.
>>3009638>XL Twin air-mattressthe hell is that you fat?
>>3009638Have you thought about one of those premade trifold foam mattresses? They seem to come in Twin XL. I used to have one that guests used and said it was fine.
Post your boxes
>>3009673Or you take your job seriously and you don't want your shit stolen. Last guys I hired to do anything mostly just kept most of their shit in a Job Box on the truck
>>3009680maybe if you have an active transport still you have to leave something as a matter of politeness
>>3008836lold
>>3008836I see your 20' and raise you a 40' high cube... I probably need to source a few more. I have too much shit. The blue one at my house is organized pretty nicely. Have 40 more 40' high cubes at the shop that are full of stuff that I really need to get organized better. Could probably set a couple more up there and then my mom wants one at her place... I've also amassed a bunch of job boxes over the years. They're pretty handy.
>>3009307I dug up the Stanley box I mentioned and tried it for a day but it sucked, the body dragged on the ground while rolling and the handle was so short that it made my back sore to pull, and barely fit my gear with no room to spare. I ended up finding a smaller, lighter "Black Diamond" modular setup that's bigger than the Stanley but smaller than the Klein and it seems alright so far. Here's the Stanley loaded up, I should take a pic with the new box. >>3009430Honestly mine has never been anywhere close to a jobsite. I bought it when I was moving cross-country and knew I'd have to live in short-term rentals for a while until I found a house, and I didn't want to just dump all of my tools in cardboard boxes where they'd be a pain in the ass to access. It's not doing much now that I've got a garage shop set up with workbenches and a US General cart.
Wtf do I do here? First thought is to start drilling from small to large. Fker before me used locktite ffs. Give me some ideas.
>>3008483I can just imagine the big brain going>well I don't have a torque wrench so I'll smother it in blue glue and crank on it for a good half heave
>>3008483Sumbitch. Nice job - when you said it started to come out then snapped, I figured it had been crossthreaded or damaged and you were fucked.
>>3008486They love loctite at the factories man. Every single factory bolt on my 2007 and 2008 Volvos are smothered in the shit. The cars are right at the age where 'time to do the brake disks' and 'needs a new alternator' etc. and it's the first time most of that stuff has been done. Gotta heat nearly every bolt.(and then put them back in with coppercoat because fuck loctite)
>>3009277Try a 2015 Volvo. Front caliper brackets are held in with 150ftlb and red loctite just shits and giggles
>>3009551Brake engineer here. If the bolts have red loctite from the factory it is because a caliper fell of in development and that was the cheap fix. Anything less is going to fall off eventually.
Finna install a letterbox next weekend, including the concrete base. You're supposed to install the anchor bolts after the concrete has dried by drilling a hole, but can I instead fasten the bolts to the letterbox then place it in the still-drying cement? Then, the next day, I can tighten the bolts to activate the wedge function.
>>3010272fuck tapconslittle tiny bitchass threads rust off and they get loose in 5 years
>>3010264This. If you're setting them in wet concrete just use j bolts or regular bolts with shit welded to the heads...
>>3010260Try and tell us about it, though I assume it won't turn. Just use a normal stainless bolt then, held on with a nut in the box.
>>3010260>pound threaded rod into the ground in the right dimensions>make sure they will stay nice and plumb until the concrete sets>for each rod use bolts to secure a pair of fender washers a couple inches apart inside the eventual concrete pad>pour concrete and wait for it to set>cut down rod to the correct height (file it to avoid sharp edges)>mount letterbox
>>3010317>boltsNuts obviously
Let's get a gardening general going on. What are you growing? What are you building? Problems, solutions, and advice are welcome. Books, non-gay yootoobers, and other resources also welcome. If we get enough engagement perhaps even a pastebin is in order!
My plant is dying. I had one person saying it's better to put water rarely, while another said the opposite. At first I didn't put water often but the leaves were brown but then after I listened to the other the plant ended the opposite, pic related.What advices you have anons?
>>2995891look up "PAR", photosynthetically active radiation
>>3009218It started rooting alreadyHow long until I can transfer it to soil?
I fucking hate most gardening fags. They will grow the most beautiful plant and if you ask them how they will just be like "heh I just threw the seeds out in my garden". So many fucking people are like this.
>>3009557Is that a Venus flytrap? If so well good luck they are super turbo picky in terms of growing conditions
TL;DR What are some cool old vintage home features that you don't see much anymore that would be good to add to a renovation?One of my grandmothers is moving to Florida and I'm getting the house. The bones of the place is a late 1940s 2/1 bungalow. It was basically gutted and rebuilt on the inside back in the early 80s after a bad kitchen fire. Out went the hardwood floors, plaster, and solid wood built-ins. In came lots of melamine, fake wood veneers, and vinyl flooring. To be fair, based on old photos taken for insurance, the interior was wrecked by smoke and water damage. Well, 45 years hasn't been kind and most of it needs to go. Luckily they insulated and replaced the old plumbing and wiring so all I really have to do the easier stuff.What are some cool features I can add while I am at it? I'm going to be taking the kitchen and bathroom down to the walls and putting hardwood floors/tile back in the place. I don't have the inclination to tear out the drywall and go back to plaster though.Picture from google but is similar vintage. More posts to follow with some ideas I already have.
>>3001906Came here to post this. The biggest issue I see is that most delivery people aren't going to bother looking for the package door and will drop things where ever they want.
>>3006777ThisThe worst is when you go to someone's home and the bathroom door is a hollow core door Cool now anyone who's home can hear you take a shit
>>3009412I just assume everyone can always hear the percussive blast of my farts through the walls anyway.
>>3003487Isn't that what the doo-dad on the bottom is for?
>>3006562Lots of people in Quebec used old bathtubs to build shrines to the Virgin Mary.
If you were starting over at 30 more or less, what trade would you go into?
>>3005282I work in a hospital in a non-patientcare role and i would shoot myself in the head before i became a nurse
>>3005217I like to DIY but I just don't see myself being a blue collar worker nor desire interacting with them daily. No offense.
Iām in the same boat OP. Decided to do carpentry with the plan of eventually running my own renovation business. Self-employment is the dream.
>>3005264PLCs is easy as fuck
>>3005217I'm 30. I have a degree in software development but ended up in higher tier support and later a cloudops role. Many teams including mine were made redundant and now I can't find an IT job. 7 years total experience in IT with 1 of those being as head of IT for a small college so like sysadmin. I'm in Ireland. I was considering doing an automation and robotics course to get into scada so maybe I could branch out into fixing automation lines. I don't know if the jobs are there really but fuck it. I'm a built guy and can handle practical jobs easy but I'm not keen to wreck my body either. Any advice for me?
I have 56 cans of monster energy. I would like to create some kind of costume for Halloween out of these cans. I'm going to cut them and flatten so they'll become flat aluminum sheets. My first idea was to make some kind of knight armour, but then i realised that cans are too thin to hold on structurally. And so I'm asking for an advice on how to make either some kind of a frame and then glue these monster sheets onto or some other way you have in mind to decorate a costume. The direction i wanna go into is historically "accurate" armour or some fantasy knight armour. There aren't many YouTube guides regarding aluminium cans decorative usage therefore I'm asking here. I have some basic instruments such as scissors, knife, wooden desk, soldering(idk why would i need that) etc at my disposal. Can buy some other if needed. TIA!
>>3009727Poetry!Thrift shops are actually good for the matter, I'll keep that in mind. Unfortunately I haven't seen any huge thrift shops here in Helsinki but I visit some from time to time. Maybe I'll manage to find something cool for Halloween
>>3009797but still morbidly obese i assume
>>3010044How did you come up to with that conclusion, may I ask?
>>3009798STOP COLLECTING TRASHF I N N I G G E R
>>3009245With the rainbow colors, go as a tranny monster of some sort
I want to replace the faucet in my 1970s house but I'm scared of touching the shut off valves because I have touched valves in newer homes and they started to leak. How would you proceed
>>3010090Oh shit, I might be fixing that faucet soon bros, that's plenty within my tard skills
>>3010090>but don't use anything with teeth of you will mar the finish and it will look like a fucking tard worked on it. IE not pliers or a pipe wrench.lmao fuck off who cares
>>3010233You say dumbass shit like this but I bet you are the kind of person that pops a vein when the Cluckin' Bell employee forgets to put the extra dip in your number 6.
>>3010247If I get fast food i've already accepted it's going to be fucked in some wayreally there's a great tool for angle stops I use, however using toothed wrenches is perfectly fine if you hold them tight and don't let them slide around
>>3006423i've heard from the maintenance man that if you don't open and close these valves periodically, they will break the next time you need them
What's the proper way of cleaning this? I always end up making the hole bigger i.e. ruining the flame
>>3009752it's a pilot orifice
>>3009767>orifice fitting for a pilot light.Nta, but we can't actually see the orifice. It could be a center mark from machining.I thought it was an orifice, but now that the other anon said standoff, I'm not sure anymore
>>3008748I use a needle.
>>3009969>needlemakes hole bigger
>>3008748carb cleaners or torch cleaners
What tools will I need?
>>3006081i actually drew on graph paper todaycough i mean engineered cough lol no i dont mean that cause thats fucking pretentious and gayi drew on graph paper today to explore some tessellations. it was simply the easiest way to go about it.but id never Corinthian on graph paper, id never plan on graph paper, id never descriptive geometry on graph paper. units are a fiction for a magnificent draughtsman.grids of course are not. but then we are getting into nuance beyond the calibre of the board.we need more spiralshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx10715hFKothe spirals are hard to decode.
>>3006086All engineering paper is graph paper but not all graph paper is engineering paper.
>>3000050get some cold chisels in different sizes from a box store. include a point, 1" and a 4". go to a stone place and buy some limestone, bluestone and granite scrap. they'll give them to you for a few bucks. learn how each stone cleaves by practicing rock facing edges. start with limestone because it's the softest and easiest.once you get the hang of it, get an unpolished piece of flat granite at least 1 1/2" thick, about 18"x18" and stencil a simple design like a cross. start by chiseling out the cross, that's sunken relief. when you learn that, do the reverse. stencil a design and remove the material around the stencil, that's a relief carving. you can use a grider with a 4" diamond wheel and other tools, like an acetylene torch and water, to do it faster, then put a stipple finish on your work using a point chisel.wear safety glasses when working with stone, especially granite. if you aren't a patient person, don't bother with any of this.
>>3000709this, and 3D printed concrete forms, and "artfully" colored concrete.by "colored" I mean mixed mostly white and other colors, and not just swirly but to look like real stone.Once out of forms and cured, probably a clear coat to make it look polished and allow bird shit to hose off.I've seem some pretty impressive looking fake rock crete, but didn't get details.there is Youtube short of a guy with a screed shaped to make a roman style lower section like WTF you put the columns on. It ran on two rails and you could tell it was about a day or more process of building up concrete troweled onto the wall, running form to shave excess, repeat. but it looked like a million bucks when done.Maybe it was just hours in a day. He did it over a rough brick wall, didn't even start with chicken wire rough shape.
>>3000127robots pissing
What do I need bypass the iCloud lock? Is a mainboard swap enough and how do I make the parts recognize each other
just take it in to an apple store, they will help you out for free!
>>3010190gotta learn what to steal, nigga
>>3010190Give it back Tyrone.
>>3010190Nigger
It's not yours, give it back.
does anyone know some creepy/mysterious halloween diy like these blairwitch stick figures?
>>3008205What is the origin and symbolism? What kind of bad shit does it repel? Why don't you see it everywhere?
>>3008205Lmao I would not be messing with that stuff. 2 nails hung upside down on a red piece of yarn screams danger to me. Might as well put a neon sign in your window for any wandering spirits or whatever to check your house out.
>>3008213its an iron variant of the rowan cross from yorkshire. rowan crosses (or brides crosses) are usually protection against witches and other evil doers.the iron variant confers the same protections but with iron it keeps away the fae and similar entities. you can also make it with iron and rowan together if you really need the blessed wood>>3008217haven't had any issues with spirits but its not made to stop them specifically
>>3008311>rowan cross from yorkshireInteresting. What are your thoughts on the Druids? Do you think they were Phoenician, Atlantean, or something else?
Here's my halloween decoration
