Roger A. Shrubber
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a large country to their south that seems to have the attitude that Canada is a deep freeze storage unit for when shit goes bad down south?
What did you accomplish today?
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If you bother to reread my post you will notice I did NOT suggest turning the rotors (you shouldn't because they are cross cut), instead I suggested you may need to replace them. As for being required by law to replace rotors and pads together please quote that section of the law.
PS Sorry about your spinal surgery was it for pain or loss of motor function? I hope you are doing better now.
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Novabudd
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Justine Trudope . Apologetic fake fucker.
Singlemalt
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^^LOL
WeedFreak78
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The new hugel is on the left. It's about 20ft long, 5ft wide at the base and about 3ft high. My first hugel is on the right, it's about a year old, maybe year and a half? Don't remember if I built it in the fall or the spring. It was the same size but it's gotten wider with settling and adding compost. The old one has 2 varieties of asparagus along the top. I want to get some strawberries for the sides this year and a couple dwarf apple trees on the ends next year. The new ones getting squash, melon and beans this year. They next year some type of berries and another perennial vegetable, then plum trees after that. You can see my pile of chips from the oaks I had taken down last August to the left (it was twice as big a week ago) which I'm cutting my compost with and using for mulch. Those oaks are the bases of both hugels. There's also the start of a pile of wood for the next hugel. I still need to drop a larger tree for the base of that one. It's hard to tell from the pics but that ground sits about 1 1/2ft below the driveway I'm standing on and usually floods this time of year, which is why I went with this style of raised garden. There's also a narrow, ground level, bed that's hard to see running that fence for about 50ft where I plant my mammoth sunflowers.
Here's my main veg garden. 20 x 50ish? Same issue as the other side, it floods so I built mounds. They're just dirt and compost I keep layering, I don't till anymore unless I'm breaking sod. That's about 4-6"of compost and about 2"of wood chip on each row. That fence also has a small bed running the length with mixed perennials to attract pollinators. And also my sad looking fig tree and my blueberry bush I need to stake out.
Singlemalt
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Sweet! Thank you. Nice set up, serious thought behind it
too larry
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I worked all day yesterday {on my day off}. Chainsawed several of the leaning pines where the wife's she shed is going to go. Got a few out to the road. Raked 2-3 'Bota loads of pinestraw. Mulched most of the blueberry bushes, transplanted Indian Broad beans and strung soaker hoses. Not sure if it was yesterday, but got the 3 best Pruden's Purple tomatoes transplanted into a kiddie pool. Then at a much slower pace, and with more breaks for safety meetings, worked at the camp until late.
Today I wasn't worth a fuck. I watered the bean transplants. Took a nap and washed dishes.
Speaking of Sandhill. . . . . . Check out that dirt. Each hill of beans has a shovel of mushroom compost added.
Today I wasn't worth a fuck. I watered the bean transplants. Took a nap and washed dishes.
Speaking of Sandhill. . . . . . Check out that dirt. Each hill of beans has a shovel of mushroom compost added.
WeedFreak78
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No problem. I'm on year two of what I originally called a 5 year plan, probably going to be more like 6 or 7. First I wanted to get my gardens in. Most of its done, but I still want to do a 30-40ft grape trellis this year. Then I have at least 2 more hugels I want to build and they'll all be permacultured with berries, perennial veggies and fruit trees eventually. Should have all the gardens built by end of next year. Then a chicken coop and chickens/ducks in the next 2 years. Then I want to clear an area to raise a hog or 2 if the chickens work out. And at some point I'm hoping to get my hands on a backhoe to dig a small pond. I'll do it by hand if I have to, but I really don't want to with the rocks around here. After that it's all, hopefully, just maintenance.
too larry
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We scraped out a couple of ponds with a box-blade before we got a backhoe. Not as deep as the rest, but they still hold water.
Well they would if there was water going into them. It's been six months now our well is kicking out water somewhere between the wellhead and the ponds. I just hope the wellhead didn't get busted up. Another of the projects that I need to carve out time for.
raratt
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Dynamite. lol. I have always wanted to play with some of that. (with some professional assistance)
raratt
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Back in the day, I made my own. I am sometimes surprised I still have all my digits.
raratt
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Best I did was making firecrackers with the round caps with glue on them. If you ran a needle through them and stuck them all together, then wrapped them in masking tape with a match at the end as a fuse it worked, mostly.
Singlemalt
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I did too; and do as well. I had to stop for awhile after I learned about shaped charges. I did find out later that Uncle Sam was much more encouraging than my dad was
Yes but your parents are still missing that toilet, now aren't they?
Uncles had less to loose.
Early on I discovered that if you broke the head off of a "strike anywhere" match that they generally fit into my crossman bb gun.
*Poof* instant fire where ever I wanted it.
Never burned down a neighbors house but not for lack of stupidity.
cannabineer
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I was working on making a shaped charge when I discontinued my uhm research program. I had this cone of cast lead ...