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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Driftless Region
Casino cash: $-250000
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With an abundance of field stone I took delivery of 25 Ton of rock. I have an elevated drive in need of a retaining wall. It’s max 3ft tall and runs for 75 ft.
I had some quotes for 17K and I can’t stomach that price. My guy brought the rock delivery in a side dump trailer and it’s pretty spread out with some stones weighing 700 plus. My neighbor brought over his mini-backhoe and we got a great start. He is a contractor and proficient as can be with this machine. After about 4 hours of work, and half done, we took a break. He then told me “You go ahead and finish it up”. Now a little background: I am hilariously bad and a novice with heavy equipment and he knows this. Regardless that’s where I’m at right now. I just got done moving a total of 5 rocks in two hours and being ridiculously slow and jerky. My wife took a video and it looks like heavy equipment rerun school. Mad respect to those folks who can work this shit with mad precision. |
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#677 |
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Driftless Region
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And Lew your yard is gorgeous. You must be a master gardener because it looks fantastic.
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#678 |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West of the Equator
Casino cash: $609901
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Busted it today. Mowed, core aerated and put the saw tooth blade on the weed eater. That is a great tool. Bust through thick growth like butter.
Rain the next 3 days. Bring it on. |
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#679 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
Casino cash: $621900
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I’m running out of room but I’ll continue to cram shit in these small yards the best I can. ![]() |
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#680 | |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
Casino cash: $988244
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Our home apparently has a drip system calibrated to the right amount of water but my palms and some other shrubs are looking a bit sad. I'm on the verge of hiring someone just to get me oriented with my landscape. |
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#681 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
Casino cash: $621900
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Honestly most landscapers don’t water correctly here either. I know I tell my front yard landscaper to not touch my drip system, just trim my plants bitch! I only have him to stay in HOA compliance and the backyard landscape is enough to keep me busy. Palms need a lot more water in summer here and some fertilizer. How long are your zones running? Do you just have a single drip line to each plant? Let’s start there and we can get your plants looking better. |
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#682 |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
Casino cash: $621900
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Facebook.
Maricopa county backyard gardeners. Living the GreenLife. Tropical nursery here and owner is super sarcastic. He’ll ****ing call your shit out but he won’t bullshit you. Arizona backyard fruit growers. No one waters citrus correctly either. I put about 60 gallons of water to mine in an 8 hour window once a week in the summer. Long and deep, but infrequent watering is what they need. If you only have one drip line to citrus, your prior owner didn’t know what he was doing. It’s easy enough to add lines to drip systems though. I maintain and modify mine all the time for new plants. |
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#683 |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
Casino cash: $621900
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Easy way to tell what a drip line puts out. Put the drip in a milk carton and run the station for an hour.
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Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
Casino cash: $988244
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Any idea how I locate the system controls?* Lol I just figured out the pool and indoor thermostat automation. The seller left me with **** all for instructions compared to me leaving all the manuals and worksheets on systems for our buyer in Chicago. *keep in mind that I'm still gimping around on crutches for another 3 weeks minimum. |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
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#686 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
Casino cash: $1642630
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I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
Casino cash: $3410478
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anyone got a hack for keeping bugs away from infrared security cameras? they keep tripping the motion sensor.
i'm pondering putting a bug zapper bulb about 15 feet away - not sure if it's far enough away though
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#688 |
Molôn Labé
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: North Carolina
Casino cash: $8566872
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bugs love infrared, have the same problem here
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#689 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
Casino cash: $1642630
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This week, I am going to start my war on yard fungus. I have purchased fungicide. But thinking hitting the yard about every three weeks and watering less this year. If the fungus takes over, my yard is done. Then I will have to replace the grass and the fungus is still in the soil.
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#690 |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
Casino cash: $621900
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Got myself an early Father's Day present this weekend. More plumeria for the pool area! I plunge them in their pot first to see if they acclimate to that spot for their first Phoenix summer. If they do well, I plant them directly in the ground in that spot in late summer. If they do poorly in that spot, it's as simple as digging up the pot and moving the plumeria to a more shaded location. This was raised locally, so I am hoping it's acclimated to the Phoenix heat as this is full sun ALL DAY by the pool!
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