Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[Back_Roads]

  MY Christmas lights have other holiday themes, so can be left out year round if I so choose Todays plan is to test out my new Kobalt 40 v c14" chainsaw, we will see if it does what I expect it to this afternoon.

Hi James.

I'll be interested in seeing how you like the battery powered electric chain saw.
I have a 37 year old Stihl 034 super and a corded electric saw.
I have been about picking up a battery powered saw for the small stuff.


Best Wishes - Tom

 Here are some helpful comparisons, I went Kobalt as I had a pole saw with same battery already, I would rate the Kobalt upper middle of the road, from my experience with the pole saw/ hedge trimmer combo I already had.
 Will keep you updated though.

[Jshooter71]

  MY Christmas lights have other holiday themes, so can be left out year round if I so choose Todays plan is to test out my new Kobalt 40 v c14" chainsaw, we will see if it does what I expect it to this afternoon.

Hi James.

I'll be interested in seeing how you like the battery powered electric chain saw.
I have a 37 year old Stihl 034 super and a corded electric saw.
I have been about picking up a battery powered saw for the small stuff.


Best Wishes - Tom

+1, let us know what you think of the cordless chainsaw, James… I haven’t thought of possibly owning one until now. When I was a kid, we fell, cut & split wood year round. We used to get tons of pallets, too. We used the cut and split pallet wood for kindling. My dad got me a corded chainsaw to cut the pallets instead of tearing them apart and knocking out the nails.

I have a lot of trees on my property and low limbs that need lopped or cut down often. I often opt out of grabbing the gas saw and grab my loppers, bow saw or corded sawzall. Which is really more work than grabbing the gas saw. 

[avator]

Mornin..
Rambo's wake up call came a bit early this morning. At 4:30 I heard Betty Lou tell him to shut up and go lay down. Her side of the bed is closest to the door and he was whining in her ear.
To deescalate the situation, I got up. It's always a good start to the day if Betty Lou gets to decide when to get up... 
Rambo ate and went out. Coffee made and enjoying the first cup. Boss and Betty Lou are snoring in harmony.
The main drain for the kitchen sink, washing machine and shower is draining slow.
Apparently that simple minded free loading individual that Killer had here helping him out, supposedly, had a habit of dumping grease and whatever else down the kitchen sink drain. She's the same one that nearly caught the place on fire a couple times.
This place was by no means set up with any regard to code.. it's backwoods podunk and no real regulations. There is a main drain line that leaches the gray water out to the sandy property. Black water drains into a septic. 2 separate drain systems.
The gray water drain pipe is 2 1/2" pvc and it's only buried 12" and less. It's a good straight run which is good news. I found the end of it yesterday and ran a snake up it as far as I could. I ran into a couple tight spots but was able to push through with little effort. The snake came back out with what looked like a white greasy substance on it. It helped but didn't fix the issue. The drain still runs slow. I'm going to run that snake several more times today and see if I can get it going better. If not I plan on using my small Honda tiller to loosen the ground and uncover the pipe the 50 or 60 feet back to the house to where it comes out of the ground under it. From there I'll see if I can unplug it or if I just need to run a new drain pipe.
Killer's nephew officially bought this place and we have the same arrangement with him as we did with Killer. Betty Lou and I will do the work and he will cover any expenses. He's a young man that works very hard on the pipeline. He said if we ever need help that we can just call him. He and his young wife have 2 very young children, one being a newborn, and I don't like to bother them with things we can do ourselves such as the Red Shed project. He offered to help with the clean out, hot tub removal and cutting the roll up door opening but I decided to do it myself.

[Insanity]

Up late no shot for me today so into the magazine I went. Brought some air guns to maybe murder a few squirrels in the back woods.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Mornin..
Rambo's wake up call came a bit early this morning. At 4:30 I heard Betty Lou tell him to shut up and go lay down. Her side of the bed is closest to the door and he was whining in her ear.
To deescalate the situation, I got up. It's always a good start to the day if Betty Lou gets to decide when to get up... 
Rambo ate and went out. Coffee made and enjoying the first cup. Boss and Betty Lou are snoring in harmony.
The main drain for the kitchen sink, washing machine and shower is draining slow.
Apparently that simple minded free loading individual that Killer had here helping him out, supposedly, had a habit of dumping grease and whatever else down the kitchen sink drain. She's the same one that nearly caught the place on fire a couple times.
This place was by no means set up with any regard to code.. it's backwoods podunk and no real regulations. There is a main drain line that leaches the gray water out to the sandy property. Black water drains into a septic. 2 separate drain systems.
The gray water drain pipe is 2 1/2" pvc and it's only buried 12" and less. It's a good straight run which is good news. I found the end of it yesterday and ran a snake up it as far as I could. I ran into a couple tight spots but was able to push through with little effort. The snake came back out with what looked like a white greasy substance on it. It helped but didn't fix the issue. The drain still runs slow. I'm going to run that snake several more times today and see if I can get it going better. If not I plan on using my small Honda tiller to loosen the ground and uncover the pipe the 50 or 60 feet back to the house to where it comes out of the ground under it. From there I'll see if I can unplug it or if I just need to run a new drain pipe.
Killer's nephew officially bought this place and we have the same arrangement with him as we did with Killer. Betty Lou and I will do the work and he will cover any expenses. He's a young man that works very hard on the pipeline. He said if we ever need help that we can just call him. He and his young wife have 2 very young children, one being a newborn, and I don't like to bother them with things we can do ourselves such as the Red Shed project. He offered to help with the clean out, hot tub removal and cutting the roll up door opening but I decided to do it myself.

Hi Bill.

I have some industrial drain cleaner that I used on the drain in my garage.
It was plugged up with 25 years of rust, auto oil & grease, road salt, mud & gunk.
I poured 1//2 bottle in the drain, let it sit for about 1 hour then ran the garden hose at a trickle for the rest of the day.
It worked wonders and the drain works great now.
I have to be careful with this stuff, it is very powerful.
I kept the garage open to clear the fumes.
I don't use it in the house.

Best Wishes - Tom

[avator]

Yes Tom, we have a product sold locally called Fire. It's very powerful and everyone is supposed to be out of the house and the house should be ventilated while in use. The problem with it is that it can melt plastic pipes. We have plastic pipes.

[maraudinglizard]

Yes Tom, we have a product sold locally called Fire. It's very powerful and everyone is supposed to be out of the house and the house should be ventilated while in use. The problem with it is that it can melt plastic pipes. We have plastic pipes.

Bill, try hot water and Dawn dish detergent before you go hard core on the plumbing. It does wonders and no nuked plumbing.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Good morning, I am suppose to get the delivery of of the new lawn tractor this morning. It is also suppose to rain off and on until noon and our high is suppose to be 56°F today, so I am going to just wait inside for it.

While typing this I just heard the answer machine message saying the lawn tractor will be here in approximately 14 minutes. I like early rather than a later delivery, COOL. 

I need to go to the bank sometime today, so now I won't just be waiting all day.

[avator]

Yes Tom, we have a product sold locally called Fire. It's very powerful and everyone is supposed to be out of the house and the house should be ventilated while in use. The problem with it is that it can melt plastic pipes. We have plastic pipes.

Bill, try hot water and Dawn dish detergent before you go hard core on the plumbing. It does wonders and no nuked plumbing.

Kris, that's exactly what we did, basically. We poured a jug of white vinegar followed by 2 2 1/5 gallon pots of boiling water down the kitchen sink and 1 2 1/2 pot down the shower. The grease plug began dissolving and we could see the white nasty stuff coming out the drain pipe that is 50' from the house. Then I cleared the ditch that runs it off into the woods. Again, this is only gray water from the sink, shower and laundry. We have a septic tank system for the black water.
The sandy ground around here absorbs the water pretty quickly. We just have to be careful when we get alot of rain. A normal rain doesn't matter too much.
Anyways, I filled the kitchen sink then pulled the plug. The water cycloned down the drain. It hasn't done that since we lived here. Before it just drained real slow.
I told Betty Lou that we need to implement a 2 load per day limit on laundry. At least through these colder, wetter months. In the heat of the summer months we never had a problem even with the grease plug in the drain.
Despite these issues, I still wouldn't trade this life for anything even remotely near the city. We have hot and cold indoor plumbing and no outhouse. We have all the cooking, cleaning, heat and means to keep food and beer cold.. other than that we enjoy a near primitive lifestyle. It's my idea of living the dream.

[bReTt]

Ah yes, plumbing issues.  Been there, done that.  A home built in 1930 with a hodgepodge of plumbing pieced together through the decades.  I'll spare all of the details but under the house is ABS and the drain field has been replaced.  All done by my hands.  It cost a lot and was a lot of work but WAAAAY less expensive then paying a "professional".  None of it was appealing but it certainly wasn't as bad as I had anticipated and it's very basic to do.  Nothing complex about it.  Water flows downhill. 😆😆😆

[avator]

Ah yes, plumbing issues.  Been there, done that.  A home built in 1930 with a hodgepodge of plumbing pieced together through the decades.  I'll spare all of the details but under the house is ABS and the drain field has been replaced.  All done by my hands.  It cost a lot and was a lot of work but WAAAAY less expensive then paying a "professional".  None of it was appealing but it certainly wasn't as bad as I had anticipated and it's very basic to do.  Nothing complex about it.  Water flows downhill. 😆😆😆

Yep, and don't chew your fingernails..   

[bReTt]

Ah yes, plumbing issues.  Been there, done that.  A home built in 1930 with a hodgepodge of plumbing pieced together through the decades.  I'll spare all of the details but under the house is ABS and the drain field has been replaced.  All done by my hands.  It cost a lot and was a lot of work but WAAAAY less expensive then paying a "professional".  None of it was appealing but it certainly wasn't as bad as I had anticipated and it's very basic to do.  Nothing complex about it.  Water flows downhill. 😆😆😆

Yep, and don't chew your fingernails..   

Very good advice 😆👍🏼

[bReTt]

  MY Christmas lights have other holiday themes, so can be left out year round if I so choose Todays plan is to test out my new Kobalt 40 v c14" chainsaw, we will see if it does what I expect it to this afternoon.

Hi James.

I'll be interested in seeing how you like the battery powered electric chain saw.
I have a 37 year old Stihl 034 super and a corded electric saw.
I have been about picking up a battery powered saw for the small stuff.


Best Wishes - Tom

Tom
I have a Stihl battery operated saw on the truck at work.  They are good for taking light cuts and the charge lasts long enough for the small tree work we do as linemen.  I dont remember the model # or voltage but I could get it for you if you are interested. I have actually considered buying one for the house to handle the yard work here.  It's nice to not have to wear eat protection while using it. 

[maraudinglizard]

  MY Christmas lights have other holiday themes, so can be left out year round if I so choose Todays plan is to test out my new Kobalt 40 v c14" chainsaw, we will see if it does what I expect it to this afternoon.

James, I have the Kolbalt 14" 40v and the 18" 80v, both are still going strong. I bought the 14" long before the hurricane to work around the yard. With my arthritis in full blast I could not take the pull starting and vibration from a gas operated one, also got tired of mixing gas to keep them running. Bought the 18" during the hurricane and that was the best thing I ever did. I already had fuel for the generator so I just charged the batteries off of it. I like the fact that you don't have to wear ear plugs when using either one.  I also have the pole pruner, lawn mower, blower, and weed eater in 40v. Best investment I have made in the last few years and would do it again.

[Madd Hatter]

I don't know what the heck is going on but everything has hit the fan for a few of our friends. 1 just found out he has bladder cancer. Another friend is in the E room with his dad who is in a lot of pain and waiting to be seen Then another friends dog has been diagnosed with cancer. All of this hit today.😳 Plus on top of all that my daughter's mother in-law is still in rehab to try and get her strength back. The friend who has bladder cancer was a chopper pilot in Nam and is only 74.

[Jshooter71]

I don't know what the heck is going on but everything has hit the fan for a few of our friends. 1 just found out he has bladder cancer. Another friend is in the E room with his dad who is in a lot of pain and waiting to be seen Then another friends dog has been diagnosed with cancer. All of this hit today.😳 Plus on top of all that my daughter's mother in-law is still in rehab to try and get her strength back. The friend who has bladder cancer was a chopper pilot in Nam and is only 74.

Praying for you’re friends and family, Robert.

[maraudinglizard]

I don't know what the heck is going on but everything has hit the fan for a few of our friends. 1 just found out he has bladder cancer. Another friend is in the E room with his dad who is in a lot of pain and waiting to be seen Then another friends dog has been diagnosed with cancer. All of this hit today.😳 Plus on top of all that my daughter's mother in-law is still in rehab to try and get her strength back. The friend who has bladder cancer was a chopper pilot in Nam and is only 74.

Praying for you’re friends and family, Robert.

+1

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I don't know what the heck is going on but everything has hit the fan for a few of our friends. 1 just found out he has bladder cancer. Another friend is in the E room with his dad who is in a lot of pain and waiting to be seen Then another friends dog has been diagnosed with cancer. All of this hit today.😳 Plus on top of all that my daughter's mother in-law is still in rehab to try and get her strength back. The friend who has bladder cancer was a chopper pilot in Nam and is only 74.

Praying for you’re friends and family, Robert.

 Me Too!

[avator]

Many of you know my story and from that know Killer. His sister texted me today and told me that Killer was transported from the nursing home to the hospital to have some fluid drained from his lungs. Last I heard he was doing well. We care for this man as we would a family member.

[Madd Hatter]

I don't know what the heck is going on but everything has hit the fan for a few of our friends. 1 just found out he has bladder cancer. Another friend is in the E room with his dad who is in a lot of pain and waiting to be seen Then another friends dog has been diagnosed with cancer. All of this hit today.😳 Plus on top of all that my daughter's mother in-law is still in rehab to try and get her strength back. The friend who has bladder cancer was a chopper pilot in Nam and is only 74.

Praying for you’re friends and family, Robert.

 Me Too!

Thanks people!