60+ year old thread.

You all ever notice what brand gets used in the laundramats?

 

Catch those drips with digital absorbing powder.

 

The only GE appliance left is the (semi-hated) refrigerator. BUT, it was the only one that would fit a size pre-determined in the 1970s. It eats parts, but at least I can replace them, and they are cheap. I'm looking (part time) to replace that sucker.
Wife tried to find the "local old guy" who fixed things like washers. He gave it up too. Most have passed. Like you won't find a mower repair shop anymore either.
I don't mind working on "investment" appliances like the truck. I know when to pay, or try myself. The washer used up my limits of being tipped over for inspection twice, with nothing found. Until it leaks again. Gone.

 

Not a drip.
Soak the floor, and wall. I dislike black mold.
Fan drying everything for second day.
And, there WAS a pan under it. Not ANY water would go into that freaking pan.

 

On an edible note, I am fixing to reverse sear the heck out of a huge Rib-Eye for us, with a baked potato, and wedge salad. Simple. Plenty of it!

 

Should have asked Mikkel to drive home from Leander!

 

Had to steal this @lynyrd3 . This is mostly for @CTSpruceMica Dennis. The SunJoe lawn tool.

$209 Sun Joe 15" Lawn Dethatcher & Scarifier with Removable 13.2 Gallon Bag, 13 Amp, Black/Green

Amazon.com : Sun Joe AJ805E 15-Inch 13-Amp Electric Dethatcher and Scarifier w/Removeable 13.2-Gal Collection Bag, 5-Position Height Adjustment, Airboost Technology Increases Lawn Health, Green : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Would I buy it again? Keep it? Yeah, with some grains of salt. And your yard is going to be a lot like a Michigan yard (blade grass) I grew up with, more than the St. Augustine I have here.

I thought I would use the verticutter first. Wrong. I tried dethatch, before I cut blades off the verticutter. - they are too close together for St. Augustine. And you saw what I did in the back. Wife was thrilled - I will be putting a dozen bags of top soil over those poor runners. At its HIGHEST setting - close to too rough on the SHORT grass out back. Lesson proved in the front, where the grass was nearing regular mowing height.

So, in the front - the pictures are counter intuitive - I ran the dethatch through the grass WITHOUT its pickup bag, left the piles, then mowed to the winter / spring height. So, smaller cut, two bags. AND, I removed the green new growth. Mower will be set up higher next mow, at regular height. Here we go....






Looks worse - because I removed the green top. Looks BETTER here, because stuff is out of the way. I sharpened the heck out of the mower, and it scattered as much as it picked up, but I can see the soil, and that's the point. I use a liquid Aereator, and I learned that NEXT YEAR, I will not touch the back until it's grown out.

Will I use the verticutter? Prolly, when things grow, and I cut blades off. That's for aeration. So, cutting a few stolons along the way probably won't matter as much when things establish themselves.

Will I keep it? YES, because this beats the rake hands down.

Will it work on Northern grasses? I am certain that with careful adjustment of what you pull out. it will work just fine. And you can aerate with the verticutter a lot easier than I.

Any questions, just let me know!

 

OK, St Augustine grass. I’m confused. I’m a California boy, born and raised here. When I was 12, my parents planted St Augustine in small clumps in the backyard. It took off like wildfire, filled in quickly, and in a few short years, was thick and cushy as a mattress. You couldn’t find the dirt underneath it was so thick, and of course, no weeds could take root without dirt. It was indestructible, impenetrable, green in summer, brownish in winter. My parents sold that house while I was in the Navy, it was torn down and a large apartment house stands there today.
Now the puzzle: Nobody here ever heard of St Augustine grass, and the experts claim it only grows in the South. So what was it if it wasn’t St Augustine?

 

Good morning fellow Porchatonians!!!

 

Better than duct tape, JB Weld can be sanded and painted.

Good morning. Music lesson this morning. Not much else planned. Should be a good day.

 

Morning 60+
Had a nice trip to the state of Illinois.Spent 3 days coyote hunting ,no luck . Shed antler hunting,found 2 and a dead head . Researched for future deer hunting . Nice country with really nice people !

 

Morning all:

Sounds like us Bill, sit in the truck and a coyote crosses the road 20 yds. away, sit on stand for archery hunting and we see them, go ice fishing at night and have one on shore barking at us, but when we try to hunt them we can't get any, hope you have better luck next time.
Any size to the sheds you found, Illinois has some big racked buck.

 

Good Morning Porch Pals & Sue! Washer to be here sometime this afternoon. That and putz is all I got planned.

 

wut?

 

Good morning. I hope everyone is doing well. For today I'll go visit my 87 year old mom again. She actually got off the ventilator in ICU yesterday. Many other issues with her so everyday is a new challenge. I'm going to start on my taxes. I retired last year so there's a bunch of payouts and other odd things that happened. It isn't right that we have to work so hard or pay someone so much just to pay the government their money. I think the government should provide tax software like turbotax free of charge. (Must stop now before migrating to a political discussion). I hit 180,000 miles on the truck yesterday which means it's at the 5000 mile mark to change the oil. Maybe I'll get to that. 180K is divisible evenly by 30K so I need to change out the spark plugs. Maybe when it's a little warmer in the garage. Have a great day everyone.

 

In California a dead head refers to Grateful Dead fans. They are easily recognizable and I have found them wandering around in all sorts of strange places.

 

The government DOES provide free tax prep that you can download. Go to irs.gov.

Are you changing spark plugs every 30K miles??? WHY? I've seen as many vehicles killed by over maintaining as I've seen killed by a lack of maintenance. Spark plugs are now designed and manufactured to last 100K easily. And I know what I'm talking about.

 

As I understand.. it depends on the plug.

 

@Oldie2007

Thanks for the hands on review. I'm going to pick one up...though I'm guessing a month minimum before I can even think about using it

 

I think for us mature folks it’s habit. When I was young (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I use to change plugs, points and condensers every 8,000 to 10,000 miles. Oil changes were every 2000 to 3000 miles. It’s just hard for us oldsters to change old habits. I currently still change plugs and tune the truck every 30,000. These days I’ve gone up to 4,000 to 5,000 miles on the oil (I use Dino oil). Old habits just die hard.