Recent content by schiker

I enjoy this. I don’t always appreciate poetry. I struggle with English rules. Linguistic’s has a cultural influence imo.

I am thinking of buying a diamond grit or diamond segmented wheel for metal (steel) cut-off purposes. Will be welding on cuts ends. Anything to watch out for? Anyone had bad service from amazon diamond blades. Any brands to avoid? From this I assume diamond is ok. Other interesting thing...

I went to Peru and they have something like 3000 potato varieties. I think I have eaten some chips made from purple potatoes in a bag of mixed root vegetable chips they were good.

Yeah, Temu is scary. I would buy Vevor though. This one was recommended on Amazon. I have scoffed at battery chainsaws but they do have their uses. Didn’t want to spend $200 for name brand then not like using it for this purpose. When this one dies I’ll rethink buying a nicer one.

This is a handy little tool a battery powered pruning saw. This one was $60 has 2 batteries&charger with 3 chains from Amazon. It should last a year maybe 2 of light work. For real work I might buy a premier brand but for testing and trying method this one worked well. First battery lasted...

I find this guy has several good videos. In this video he explains the recall reason and some of the logic to the fix.

Yeah, I guess that is a bit much. I was mistaken. The 2018 IBC suggests. "The ground immediately adjacent to the foundation shall be sloped away from the building at a slope of not less than one unit vertical in 20 units horizontal (5-percent slope) for a minimum distance of 10 feet (3048...

You should only have to meet minimum slope. 10% for 10’ I think is what they want here but as long as water doesn’t hold 10’ perimeter of wall and runs away many inspectors don’t notice here as they get mulch or bushes etc. I wouldn’t worry about getting it too accurate. A little more...

My understanding is lumber here has to be stamped by an inspector that measures the moisture. Most box stores sell Kiln dried 2x4's Side note I worked for a company that shipped to China and they mandated heat treated pallet wood to kill any biologics. Pallet wood could not be chemically...

Oops the other side of the same River Birch.

Anyone correct if I’m wrong. These River Birch are real fighters. They don’t go down easy to the insects and rot.

Heck it doesn’t have to be a dead tree. Lots of oaks die here of bugs. Black ants and other insects find wounds or Y’s if it holds water and can’t scab over it is doomed.

Good looking greenhouse. Dead trees here get eaten up with bugs and rot within a couple years. Except Cedar will last a good while and some others Black Locust, Cypress but I don't have any of those. I have heard a dead dry black walnut will stall a gang saw and are harder to process. All...

Going to try a worm farm to make worm casings for soil amendment.

Finally installed the Trellis for our box garden. Wife has been chomping at bit to plant. She has lots of little planters going. Going to try some potato bags this year. She is planting some Okra on top of potatoes in bag. Will spray weeds and mulch then place potato bags around perimeter...