Looking at potential retirement homes and browsing modular/prefab places. I notice some say the overall price while others differentiate between modular pricing and modular+site pricing. I assume the latter refers to labor!
Looking at potential retirement homes and browsing modular/prefab places. I notice some say the overall price while others differentiate between modular pricing and modular+site pricing. I assume the latter refers to labor!
For modular, the former might be assuming you own (or rent) the pad it sits on?
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Yea, a lot of these are marketed towards retirement communities that were previously old gated mobile home parks, now they are "tiny home communities".
So one big argument in favor of pole saws is that people who aren't comfortable using a real chainsaw will cut shit up if they can keep the spinny blade 8' away from them.
Both my wife and my mom are just forces of nature with those longer chainsaws on a stick for cutting up and down limbs, but neither are comfortable with chainsaws.
Although our Echo battery powered chainsaws are much more agreeable to both than the old school 'fuck up and lose a leg' chainsaws.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
If I got a polesaw, would the saw end itself substitute as a decent enough saw that I could the money on a sawzall or chainsaw? My use case for any of the three would pretty much be tree branches, of varying sizes but generally not huge.
I mean it is a small chainsaw.
A sawzall shouldn’t be used outside on trees. That’s not really what that’s for.
Although I’ve seen sawzalls used for all kinds of shit.
The fuck I can't use a sawzall on a tree.
If it's small enough to be cut, it can be cut.
Would I use it to fell a tree? No, but any branch that falls on the ground is fair game
I mean it’s your sawzall. Cut a steel beam if you want. I’m saying you shouldn’t. Live trees have sap and moisture and other stuff, and the sawzalls aren’t really protected from that sort of thing.
If I got a polesaw, would the saw end itself substitute as a decent enough saw that I could the money on a sawzall or chainsaw? My use case for any of the three would pretty much be tree branches, of varying sizes but generally not huge.
Yes. The one I have has a 10" chainsaw on the end, and it detaches so you can use it as a regular chainsaw (electric though). I've used it on and off pole for jobs.
If you don't have a lot of large trees, a fiskars/equivalent manual pole saw is just a collapsible stick with a pruning saw on the end and a cord operated bypass lopper, and is very easy to use.
First house viewing is tomorrow with a second on Thursday. Since the housing market in my area is absolutely insane right now I am cautiously optimistic that someone will make an offer.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
If I got a polesaw, would the saw end itself substitute as a decent enough saw that I could the money on a sawzall or chainsaw? My use case for any of the three would pretty much be tree branches, of varying sizes but generally not huge.
I mean it is a small chainsaw.
A sawzall shouldn’t be used outside on trees. That’s not really what that’s for.
Although I’ve seen sawzalls used for all kinds of shit.
The fuck I can't use a sawzall on a tree.
If it's small enough to be cut, it can be cut.
Would I use it to fell a tree? No, but any branch that falls on the ground is fair game
I mean it’s your sawzall. Cut a steel beam if you want. I’m saying you shouldn’t. Live trees have sap and moisture and other stuff, and the sawzalls aren’t really protected from that sort of thing.
It's called a sawzall because it saws all. I don't see the problem.
Sawzall is a brand of reciprocating saws by Milwaukee. It’s akin to people referring to angle grinders as metabos
Sawzall is in the same vein as xerox or kleenex. I use one occasionally for tree stuff. I just make sure to keep those blades separate from my other ones. They do great for small limb work that is bigger than a lopper but smaller than requiring a chainsaw.
Well, turns out I need a wifi extender to get wifi working in all the rooms I want it to. Guess all the reno work has degraded signal transmission throughout the house.
Honestly I'd make the jump to mesh, as extenders aren't that reliable in my experience.
From what I'm reading on their site, the extender and the router make a mesh, but I'm a networking novice
Not really. True mesh routers have a backhaul channel that is used for internode communication.
Even with a backhaul channel you can run into issues with mesh APs. One of my clients has a Ruckus R510 wireless system (with a cloud controller in our office) that can failover to mesh mode. It's really obvious when it does. Communication speeds tank and latency spikes at random which is especially apparent in VoIP calls. We can go from doing 100+ mb/s to 10 when there is a lot of general wireless congestion.
Honestly I'd make the jump to mesh, as extenders aren't that reliable in my experience.
From what I'm reading on their site, the extender and the router make a mesh, but I'm a networking novice
Not really. True mesh routers have a backhaul channel that is used for internode communication.
Even with a backhaul channel you can run into issues with mesh APs. One of my clients has a Ruckus R510 wireless system (with a cloud controller in our office) that can failover to mesh mode. It's really obvious when it does. Communication speeds tank and latency spikes at random which is especially apparent in VoIP calls. We can go from doing 100+ mb/s to 10 when there is a lot of general wireless congestion.
That's a very different situation than a family hanging out and streaming stuff. For good coverage and speeds, an Orbi/Eero/Google kit is going to be the easiest, most effective choice.
Honestly I'd make the jump to mesh, as extenders aren't that reliable in my experience.
From what I'm reading on their site, the extender and the router make a mesh, but I'm a networking novice
Yeah, they say it turns the two into a mesh network. But Netgear says a lot of things. That extender is the best one I've ever worked with, but it's still garbage.
I tried 4 different brands of wifi extenders and an ethernet-over-power-lines-to-wifi adapter for my house and have had dramatically better luck with a set of google mesh nodes.
Only two good things happen when you have to repair a collapsed leach field.
Also those tubes are fifty five dollars each.
But it means not having to deal with eight cubic yards of rock.
And your truck got to cosplay as Cthulhu
:so_raven:
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firewaterwordSatchitanandaPais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered Userregular
Aaaaand I'm back under contract! On an even better property!
Third times a charm! 🤞
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ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
Anyone ever get poison ivy in their lawn? I didn't know it could spread from bushes to the middle of grass several feet away but apparently it can and now I have to find a way to kill it without killing the grass.
And you got really hose that shit down with roundup. In my experience poison ivy does not die easily. And for fuck sake don't touch it. My arms have been broken out for 4 months now despite 3 trips to a doctor.
I've heard cleaning with high proof alcohol like vodka can help get the urushiol off your skin. (As long as you wash it off before it's absorbed by the skin)
bowen on
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
And you got really hose that shit down with roundup. In my experience poison ivy does not die easily. And for fuck sake don't touch it. My arms have been broken out for 4 months now despite 3 trips to a doctor.
You can definitely kill it with boiling water or with vinegar but the spread in my yard is too much to handle for traditional methods. I bought some Brush-B-Gone at Lowe's when I went out to lunch. We'll see if that works without being as devastating as RoundUp but I am expecting some dead grass with this shit too.
If you're really sensitive to poison ivy, you can go full biocontainment: Put on a tyvek, n95, glasses, double nitrile gloves and boot covers and dig it up by hand, ensuring to get all of the roots. Lay the plants on a split garbage bag, then wipe yourself down with denatured alcohol. Doff the boot covers into the waste pile, then the outer gloves and then the coveralls. Then use alcohol to wipe down the tools and set them aside. Roll up the split bag and put it into a secondary bag, tie it closed. Carry to your trash can / dumpster, doff the inner gloves into the can and go take a shower. To doff contaminated gloves, the technique is to pinch your palm and slide out your dominant hand while holding the glove in your offhand, preferably so the glove turns inside out. Slide your pointer finger in the cuff of the glove on your offhand and flip that glove inside out, wrapping the first glove. The goal is that all contaminated surfaces are inside the glove ball.
And you got really hose that shit down with roundup. In my experience poison ivy does not die easily. And for fuck sake don't touch it. My arms have been broken out for 4 months now despite 3 trips to a doctor.
You can definitely kill it with boiling water or with vinegar but the spread in my yard is too much to handle for traditional methods. I bought some Brush-B-Gone at Lowe's when I went out to lunch. We'll see if that works without being as devastating as RoundUp but I am expecting some dead grass with this shit too.
Anything marketed as a "brush killer" will definitely kill grass. Check the label and see how long you have to wait to re-plant is the main thing.
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ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
I'm not sensitive (at least never have been) to poison ivy. I'm mostly concerned about my dog. She's kind of a dumbass and likes to chew on plants when I am not looking.
Get yourself one of those flamethrowers that are for "snow removal" off of Amazon.
Turn the Poison Ivy to ash. Water and fertilise the lawn.
Roots are too deep. It will come right back.
Lol, have you seen the Red Dragon 1,000,000 BTU weed burner?
It'll destroy concrete if you're not careful.
Unless you're going deep deep, you're just going to aerosolize it as bowen pointed out and the core root will still be there, waiting. Poison ivy is hell.
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For modular, the former might be assuming you own (or rent) the pad it sits on?
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Both my wife and my mom are just forces of nature with those longer chainsaws on a stick for cutting up and down limbs, but neither are comfortable with chainsaws.
Although our Echo battery powered chainsaws are much more agreeable to both than the old school 'fuck up and lose a leg' chainsaws.
I mean it’s your sawzall. Cut a steel beam if you want. I’m saying you shouldn’t. Live trees have sap and moisture and other stuff, and the sawzalls aren’t really protected from that sort of thing.
Sawzall is a brand of reciprocating saws by Milwaukee. It’s akin to people referring to angle grinders as metabos
Yes. The one I have has a 10" chainsaw on the end, and it detaches so you can use it as a regular chainsaw (electric though). I've used it on and off pole for jobs.
Sawzall is in the same vein as xerox or kleenex. I use one occasionally for tree stuff. I just make sure to keep those blades separate from my other ones. They do great for small limb work that is bigger than a lopper but smaller than requiring a chainsaw.
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I have this router: https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R7000P.aspx
And I'm trying to decide between these two extenders that I'm not quite sure which is better:
https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-range-extenders/EX7700.aspx
https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-range-extenders/eax20.aspx
Any thoughts?
From what I'm reading on their site, the extender and the router make a mesh, but I'm a networking novice
Not really. True mesh routers have a backhaul channel that is used for internode communication.
Even with a backhaul channel you can run into issues with mesh APs. One of my clients has a Ruckus R510 wireless system (with a cloud controller in our office) that can failover to mesh mode. It's really obvious when it does. Communication speeds tank and latency spikes at random which is especially apparent in VoIP calls. We can go from doing 100+ mb/s to 10 when there is a lot of general wireless congestion.
That's a very different situation than a family hanging out and streaming stuff. For good coverage and speeds, an Orbi/Eero/Google kit is going to be the easiest, most effective choice.
I've had more issues with 2 access points than my mesh network though because wireless is a shitshow no matter what you do.
You get to screw around in a backhoe
And drive around in a truck that looks like one of those snake prank cans went off.
Also those tubes are fifty five dollars each.
But it means not having to deal with eight cubic yards of rock.
Yeah, they say it turns the two into a mesh network. But Netgear says a lot of things. That extender is the best one I've ever worked with, but it's still garbage.
And your truck got to cosplay as Cthulhu
Third times a charm! 🤞
Because I love clover.
Yeah, this is a situation where saving the grass in the affected area is simply not an option.
And that’ll kill some grass.
You can definitely kill it with boiling water or with vinegar but the spread in my yard is too much to handle for traditional methods. I bought some Brush-B-Gone at Lowe's when I went out to lunch. We'll see if that works without being as devastating as RoundUp but I am expecting some dead grass with this shit too.
Anything marketed as a "brush killer" will definitely kill grass. Check the label and see how long you have to wait to re-plant is the main thing.
Turn the Poison Ivy to ash. Water and fertilise the lawn.
Roots are too deep. It will come right back.
Lol, have you seen the Red Dragon 1,000,000 BTU weed burner?
It'll destroy concrete if you're not careful.
Urushiol can become airborne and that is not something you want in your lungs.
It's illegal to burn poison ivy/sumac/oak in a lot of areas because of this.
Unless you're going deep deep, you're just going to aerosolize it as bowen pointed out and the core root will still be there, waiting. Poison ivy is hell.