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everdave
Nov 14, 2005

Rhyno posted:

I cleared a ton of my backyard and I just hate nature in general. Just too much effort for a space I won't even spend time in.

I love my enormous back yard. Mowed early and worked on cars the rest of the day. Really expanding my abilities and equipment on the super cheap but I would hate not having my giant yard. Now if only I had a 3-4 car garage (I have zero garage I do have a small workshop)

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Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Ether Frenzy posted:

I wonder if those trees that used to be there drank any of that water that now lives in your basement...

I only cut down dead poo poo. The sump was discharging into the center of the yard and all the trees around that area died.

bolind
Jun 19, 2005



Pillbug
Just mounted remote controlled blinds in our skylights in the hall. Perched atop an 11 step ladder, working above my head. Very happy it's done.

Now hopefully the Scandinavian summer sun rising at 4:30 will stay on the outside and allow me to sleep in, just a little bit. Waking before you toddler is not natural.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
Drowned the internals of a Subaru motor with diesel.

(It's a rather old fashioned way to unstick cylinder rings.Utterly drown with diesel, let it sit for a week. Last throw of the dice and not much lost either way while the altenate re-motoring takes shape)

(It sure as gently caress confused one of my neigbours seeign a jerry can being upended down the oil filler)

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
"What, diesel is an oil. It lubricates diesel injector pumps."

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

bolind posted:

Just mounted remote controlled blinds in our skylights in the hall. Perched atop an 11 step ladder, working above my head. Very happy it's done.

Now hopefully the Scandinavian summer sun rising at 4:30 will stay on the outside and allow me to sleep in, just a little bit. Waking before you toddler is not natural.
Batteries? Those fuckers eat batteries way faster than they should. My in laws put some in an area that's awkward to get at and after the 3rd time they changed the batteries they said screw it and just left them closed.

bolind
Jun 19, 2005



Pillbug

slidebite posted:

Batteries? Those fuckers eat batteries way faster than they should. My in laws put some in an area that's awkward to get at and after the 3rd time they changed the batteries they said screw it and just left them closed.

Battery and solar. They’re facing north so I’m a little concerned, but the manufacturer claims a fully charged battery is good for 600 actuations, and we’re going to close and open them once per day half the year, so...

A smarter man (or a construction company with more foresight) had foreseen this and ran 230V to them, as they also come in a hardwired version.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.

It's the iron block not the viper engine. I just sold one of those motors with under 100k on it for 250 bucks a few weeks ago actually. I'd bought it for a Comanche build but there was no way it was going to fit, period.

A few notes about them. There are zero aftermarket upgrade parts for them basically. No cams, no nothing. Zero viper engine parts fit them. You can get Chinesium headers that might or might not boost performance at all anyways. They're jtec ECU driven so there are a few people who can tune them but there's not really much left on the table as far as I know.

They make 300hp and 450ftlb stock so plan on getting that much power forever.

They have the same bellhousing pattern as the Cummins (with the Dodge specific flywheel housing) but a different torque converter due to revving much higher than the Cummins.

You can fit them to the following transmissions. The stock Chrysler 47/48re/rh, the stock HD NV4500, and a later Cummins NV5600 I think. That's really about it.

They are H U G E. They will not fit in most things because they are long, tall, and wide. And like 800lb. I decided I would like to have frame rails, a radiator, a firewall, an HVAC box, and the throttle pedal and driver's feet in my truck more than I wanted this engine in it, so I sold it.

Sgt Fox
Dec 21, 2004

It's the buzzer I love the most. Makes me feel alive. Makes the V8's dead.

Big Taint posted:


The dust collector for the blaster came, so she’s mounted up. Got the casters on and some little LED lights that stick up inside. Mounted an outlet strip on it. I’m hoping that I can run the vac and one of the compressors on the garage circuit, and the other compressor off an extension cord somewhere in the house. The dust collector is a lot bigger than I expected! :lol:


What model dust collector did you buy?

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

slidebite posted:

Don't do it... European "treat" be damned.

:lol: you got pranked pretty good, fartypants.

Big Taint
Oct 19, 2003

Sgt Fox posted:

What model dust collector did you buy?

The Harbor Freight one.

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

My awesome pair of barn swallows, who flew within feet of me while mowing picking up the insects that I rousted, got driven out of their nest by cocksucking sparrows. I'm unreasonably upset about nature being a dick. Just 2 days ago, the male was right over top of my wife and I, sitting on a porch light talking. Just this morning the female didn't even fly from the nest with eggs when we were on the porch.

:mad:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Babby came home yesterday :toot:

My firstborn is extremely proud of being a big sister and runs around the house hootin and hollerin BAB BEEEE whenever the younger makes a peep

FAT32 SHAMER fucked around with this message at 23:42 on May 24, 2020

KYOON GRIFFEY JR
Apr 12, 2010



Runner-up, TRP Sack Race 2021/22

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Babby came home yesterday :toot:

My firstborn is extremely proud of being a big sister and runs around the house hootin and hollerin BAB BEEEE whenever the younger makes a peep

congrats :3:

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Babby came home yesterday :toot:

My firstborn is extremely proud of being a big sister and runs around the house hootin and hollerin BAB BEEEE whenever the younger makes a peep

Good to see mum and bub are fine, considering what a shitshow the US is at the moment

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



You Am I posted:

Good to see mum and bub are fine, considering what a shitshow the US is at the moment

Yeah everything’s a gently caress and we split from the hospital exactly 24h after she gave birth

Wrar
Sep 9, 2002


Soiled Meat
Glad y'all are doing good. Congrats on dadding again.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof
Some rear end in a top hat broke into my truck and stole my wallet and fanny pack ad 2AM. They didn't take my sunglasses though so I guess that's cool?
They bought like $1000 worth of gift cards from various stores before I even work up this morning. Also swung by Checkers because all that stealing sure makes a guy hungry.

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

Sucks. Outright losing or leaving my wallet in my vehicle is a real phobia of mine. Routine before I go to bed every night is to make sure the vehicles locked (use the remote and listen for the horn) and eyes on my wallet.

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
I start having difficulty breathing if my wallet isn't in my pocket, hand, or line of sight. The only time it's not on my person is when it's in my pants on a pile on the floor beside my bed.

Scathach
Apr 4, 2011

You know that thing where you sleep on your arm funny and when you wake up it's all numb? Yeah that's my whole world right now.


That sucks about the wallet. People are dicks.

Congrats on the new mini-me! Glad your family is doing good.

Today we did yard work but ran out of line for the weedwhacker. I ended up leaving more than half the yard unfinished, had to go out and pick stuff up, and when we got back the neighbor had mowed the whole thing. I love this neighborhood a lot.

Also cleaned the truck out. Did y'all know your carpets might be another color besides mud and dirty oil?







Sgt Fox
Dec 21, 2004

It's the buzzer I love the most. Makes me feel alive. Makes the V8's dead.

Hmm, never saw that in their stores. Will have to add to the list for the next time I go to the USA.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

slidebite posted:

Sucks. Outright losing or leaving my wallet in my vehicle is a real phobia of mine. Routine before I go to bed every night is to make sure the vehicles locked (use the remote and listen for the horn) and eyes on my wallet.

I thought I had locked it but I don't beep the horn because it'll wake my kid up.
I thought my wallet was in the house but I forgot I ran out earlier and must have left it in the car.
Don't think. Just lock.

I'm just super glad he didn't take my garage door opener because I'm already going to have to spend a bunch on hardwired cameras to make the wife happy.

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

Sgt Fox posted:

Hmm, never saw that in their stores.

I work with someone that has a 2nd job at HF and they said the same thing.

Galler
Jan 28, 2008


I highly recommend you all do the needful very soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j5e-y2JCgo

e: now with the correct video

Galler fucked around with this message at 06:30 on May 25, 2020

LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

Jesus christ pets are awesome until you do something stupid like leave the house with the windows open and they bark for a god drat half an hour at 11 pm on a sunday night. gently caress my loving new neighbors right in the rear end.

This dog will not shut the gently caress up. What the gently caress are you barking at? There's nothing happening except my hatred for you. I'm trying to decide if I have the will to molotov cocktail the 2nd story room you're barking from right now. Seriously shut up.

I guess I have to do something with sound because sleeping through this is not going to happen.


edit: One hour. That little rat loving dog yipped out the window for one full hour. Is there any value in being a good neighbor and having a polite conversation tomorrow? Or should I be like every other rear end in a top hat and leave a horrible passive aggressive note on their door or something?

Oh god it started again. It was quiet for three minutes while I typed this. God dammit.

LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 06:48 on May 25, 2020

McTinkerson
Jul 5, 2007

Dreaming of Shock Diamonds


How good is your aim? A tennis ball covered in peanut butter will occupying the little guy for quite some time.

MomJeans420
Mar 19, 2007



They may have no idea their dog does that when they're gone, it's always worth a shot asking them to do something about it.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


As someone with a yappy rat dog, there's nothing you can do about them. They're gonna yap. They could probably close the window though.

Krakkles
May 5, 2003

KillHour posted:

As someone with a yappy rat dog, there's nothing you can do about them. They're gonna yap. They could probably close the window though.
Bullshit. If you didn’t do the necessary steps as they were growing up, they make collars that will automatically shock when they bark.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


bolind posted:

Just mounted remote controlled blinds in our skylights in the hall. Perched atop an 11 step ladder, working above my head. Very happy it's done.

Now hopefully the Scandinavian summer sun rising at 4:30 will stay on the outside and allow me to sleep in, just a little bit. Waking before you toddler is not natural.

I have 20 ft ceilings and 2 separate smoke alarms started their low battery beep. I thought they were AC powered but the step-ladder, and a macgyvered device of two brooms and some duct-tape fashioned like an oil filter cloth type removal tool did the trick. Now to refit the fuckers with real ladders.

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:
In my experience, it will continue for months until the neighbor gets sent to rehab and you find out 80% of the people there were her squatting drug friends. And then it will be glorious peace.

Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

holy poo poo new phones are expensive. My old iPhone 6s is finally dying after its second battery so I just ordered a 256gb 11 Pro to replace it... $2K for a loving phone now... Thankfully its on a handset plan and I can claim a big chunk of it on work expenses but its still going to be $100 a month for plan and phone when all is said and done!

meltie
Nov 9, 2003

Not a sodding fridge.

Ferremit posted:

holy poo poo new phones are expensive. My old iPhone 6s is finally dying after its second battery so I just ordered a 256gb 11 Pro to replace it... $2K for a loving phone now... Thankfully its on a handset plan and I can claim a big chunk of it on work expenses but its still going to be $100 a month for plan and phone when all is said and done!

:hmmyes: expensive phones are expensive.
The same company has less expensive options in their line-up that you could have chosen.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

LloydDobler posted:

Jesus christ pets are awesome until you do something stupid like leave the house with the windows open and they bark for a god drat half an hour at 11 pm on a sunday night. gently caress my loving new neighbors right in the rear end.

This dog will not shut the gently caress up. What the gently caress are you barking at? There's nothing happening except my hatred for you. I'm trying to decide if I have the will to molotov cocktail the 2nd story room you're barking from right now. Seriously shut up.

I guess I have to do something with sound because sleeping through this is not going to happen.


edit: One hour. That little rat loving dog yipped out the window for one full hour. Is there any value in being a good neighbor and having a polite conversation tomorrow? Or should I be like every other rear end in a top hat and leave a horrible passive aggressive note on their door or something?

Oh god it started again. It was quiet for three minutes while I typed this. God dammit.

My neighbor's dog does the same thing, when he lets it out to poo poo or play or whatever, it just sits on the other side of the fence right outside our bedroom window (maybe 10 feet away) and barks non stop, waking us up at 5am or whenever it is when the neighbor gets up to do his lawn care business. The pisser is that we actually have a really good relationship with this neighbor, he recently got the dog and has no clue how to deal with it. We've said to him more than once, dude your dog is barking right outside our bedroom window, and he just keeps shrugging his shoulders saying I'm sorry.....But I don't want an apology, I want you to stop your dog from barking, figure it out. It sucks because I really like the guy, we talk all the time, he just doesn't know how to control his big dumb dog and it's frustrating.

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

Galler posted:

I highly recommend you all do the needful very soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j5e-y2JCgo

e: now with the correct video

Holy shitballs! Alton Brown is quarantine posting? Subscribed!


LloydDobler posted:

Jesus christ pets are awesome until you do something stupid like leave the house with the windows open and they bark for a god drat half an hour at 11 pm on a sunday night. gently caress my loving new neighbors right in the rear end.

This dog will not shut the gently caress up. What the gently caress are you barking at? There's nothing happening except my hatred for you. I'm trying to decide if I have the will to molotov cocktail the 2nd story room you're barking from right now. Seriously shut up.

I guess I have to do something with sound because sleeping through this is not going to happen.


edit: One hour. That little rat loving dog yipped out the window for one full hour. Is there any value in being a good neighbor and having a polite conversation tomorrow? Or should I be like every other rear end in a top hat and leave a horrible passive aggressive note on their door or something?

Oh god it started again. It was quiet for three minutes while I typed this. God dammit.
Yes. Talk to them. They may genuinely be deaf to it or have no clue it's bothersome.

I am sick and tired of lovely pet owners, neighbors be damned. By all means, talk to them first. If they seem either like assholes or don't give a poo poo, check your town bylaws and call law enforcement. Typically they'll ask you to log times they bark and it probably helps your case if more than 1 person does so it probably wouldn't hurt to talk to your other neighbor and see if they are effected by it.

I called bylaw on an old neighbor of mine 3 years ago at my old house because their kid literally had no exhaust on their tyte jdm and would fire it up at 5AM every morning to go to work. Rev the bag off it for 30 seconds and leave. I talked to them, they said the right things like "Oh, I didn't know.. I'll get a muffler!" and never did. gently caress that. They started getting visits. I spoke to the cop telling him I felt bad bothering them for something as mundane as this and he said "You never need to apologize for people interfering with the ability to enjoy peace and quiet at your home. Even if this was the middle of the day, this is excessive and not allowed. Seriously, don't apologize for this and report it anytime." Made me feel better.

Flash forward to present day.

My neighbor has 2 dogs, one massive (seriously, probably obese @ 200lb) malamute and a Shiba Inu. The Malamute is one of the best dogs I've ever seen. Super quiet, very, very rarely barks and when he does it's for a reason. They neglect him in the sense he doesn't have a kennel (goes under their patio for shelter) and they never play with him or take him for walks. Coincidentally just last week offered to take him for a walk and she said no, he's got arthritis pretty bad, and it's true. He's 12+ and probably on his last summer. But he's a total sweetheart. The Shiba used to be a yippy dog but has gotten much, much better as shes aged.

Now, same neighbor is in process of a divorce so husband got thrown to the curb a few months back and her sister moved in. She brought a true rat dog... I think it's a Chihuahua and as soon as she puts it out it barks. Non-stop. Fortunately, they are typically pretty responsive and as soon as it barks for more than a few seconds they bring it back in. But recently, when they leave the house for a few hours, they put it in the backyard and the non stop express of barking begins. For hours. I go in my back yard or patio: Barks. Neighbor does the same: Barks. Someone walks down the alley: Barks. It's insane.

When that first happened a few weeks ago I was going to talk to them that day to nip it in the bud, but just as I went over to talk after they returned I heard one of the kids having an utter meltdown and didn't want to impose. The following weekend it happened again and just as I was going to go over when they returned I saw the Ex dropped by and load up furniture. Not a good time.

Yesterday, success. They left again from 1 to about 4 and it was non-stop barkathon. It was a beautiful day and the neighbors were playing in their back yard so it was incessant. Around 6 I was grilling on our patio and she went out onto hers and I took the opportunity. I said "Hey, when you leave for hours can you please not leave your dog outside? She goes bananas non-stop." Her reply: "Sure, I can try putting her in the garage."

Awesome, that should be perfect. Thanks!

Assuming the works, solved. I try to be good to my neighbors and have a good relationship. I have a snowblower and I'll blow their sidewalk and driveway after a big snowfall, use my weed trimmer around around the beds in their yard and move her garbage bins back up to her house if they are left out and it's windy. But, being nice isn't the same as a pushover. I'll follow my own advice if it continues. I don't want to see her get fined but sometimes it takes a visit from someone official to say "What you are doing is not only inconsiderate - it's actually illegal. Deal with it."

At the very least in this case the owner should be able to close the window.

tl;dr - Yeah, talk to them. Depending on the response you can decide how to escalate.

slidebite fucked around with this message at 15:59 on May 25, 2020

Tomarse
Mar 7, 2001

Grr



In a bucking of the usual annoying dog trends one of my neighbours have a tiny dog and I have never heard it bark/yap once.
I can hear the kids frequently getting shouted at through 2 lots of external walls and 10 metres of air but that doggo is a proper good boy!

quote:

new phones are expensive. My old iPhone 6s is finally dying after its second battery so I just ordered a 256gb 11 Pro to replace it... $2K for a loving phone now... Thankfully its on a handset plan and I can claim a big chunk of it on work expenses but its still going to be $100 a month for plan and phone when all is said and done!

It’s the top of the range apple phone - exactly what do you expect it to cost? The SE2 is £400 for an outright purchase here (isn’t that about $700 AUD?)

bolind
Jun 19, 2005



Pillbug

Humphreys posted:

I have 20 ft ceilings and 2 separate smoke alarms started their low battery beep. I thought they were AC powered but the step-ladder, and a macgyvered device of two brooms and some duct-tape fashioned like an oil filter cloth type removal tool did the trick. Now to refit the fuckers with real ladders.

I once worked in a building that had the foyer at four stories tall, and old school incandescent bulbs in lamps in the ceiling.

Changing them used to involve renting a cherry picker on a weekend, but then one of the janitors fashioned a device out of a handful of broomsticks and half a tennis ball. Turns out that the shape and friction of the tennis ball was perfect for unscrewing the bulbs.

Then he was fired when there was layoffs. But management in that place were shitheads so he’s probably saving another company thousands now.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

meltie posted:

:hmmyes: expensive phones are expensive.
The same company has less expensive options in their line-up that you could have chosen.

Flagship phones have gotten much more expensive lately.
There are much better cheaper options than there used to be though.

My Pixel 2 still works great and despite the burn in on the screen I don't plan on replacing it until it dies, or unless Google's new flagship is reasonably affordable come October when my Pixel 2 stops receiving updates.

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OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Some rear end in a top hat broke into my truck and stole my wallet and fanny pack ad 2AM. They didn't take my sunglasses though so I guess that's cool?
They bought like $1000 worth of gift cards from various stores before I even work up this morning. Also swung by Checkers because all that stealing sure makes a guy hungry.

this is what you get for owning a fanny pack

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