Recent content by EddieWalker

The biggest surprise to me with my small farm is how much time I spend being a mechanic.

There are here in Winter but left a few months ago. It's fun to see a dozen or even two dozen of them feeding on a sock full of thistle.

I've heard this from other people and always wondered about it too. My experience as a Contractor, and also on my own farm has shown that the wood that is in contact with the concrete remains brand new looking. There is zero rot, zero deterioration, and in most cases, you can still see the...

How does gravel allow drainage? Wouldn't gravel allow more water to fill up the hole around the post?

Thanks. I hadn't really thought about what side to put the vents. What will happen is when I'm getting ready to start this, I'll create a thread on here and start asking questions. Every time I've done this, people have come up with better ways to do it then I thought of.

The way I have it planned, is I'll remove the sheeting from the upstairs bedroom and build inside the existing walls with cinder blocks. Rebar inside the blocks that goes down under the existing slab and is bent for a new footer that is deeper and wider than the cut in the slab. The rebar will...

AI has the potential to improve medical care dramatically. Instead of wondering if you are dealing with a C student from medical school, you will always have an A+ student in AI. It never gets tired, it remembers everything, and the potential to eliminate mistakes is probably its greatest asset.

I have two clients that have something like this. They are buried right behind their houses, in their back yards. Other than opening it up when they first moved in, neither of them has ever gone into it when a Tornado was in the area. It's usually just after dark, storming out with heavy...

I'm in Tyler, about 100 miles East of Dallas. It's getting stronger and working its way here. Forecast is still for after 1pm. Current threat for a Tornado is Level 3 at 11am. We don't have a storm shelter, or a secure place if a tornado hits. The closest one that has touched down was 5...

We just got Tornado warnings for our County. So that's something else to look forward to.

Yes, it's on it's scheduled for after 1pm today. Right now, it's still just outside DFW, and the radar is showing a lot of bright colors. Local news is saying 2 inches with flooding possible. I'm home recovering from Covid, and debating on mowing the grass before it hits, and risking...

Most of our storms hit in the evening. We can watch them form and build up from the West side of Ft Worth, and head out way all day long. I'm like you, my local news station has the best radar for my area. I don't use it on my phone because of all the adds they have, but on my home computer...

If you can keep water away from the base of the post after it's installed, it will last for decades. Every post that rots will rot because of water that sits at it's base. This is where the microbes are that eat wood, and the water works at diluting the chemicals that stop the microbes from...

If I bought one, the only place it would be charged is at home. We would only use it for trips to town and back, which I think is where something like this is ideal. Never having to stop at the gas station, never having to change the oil, just plug it in, drive it, and plug it in again. I...

My buddy just lets him put them on his land in exchange for some honey. He says it's really good, but he doesn't have anything to do with them. I just thought it was kind of funny that he sent me a text with the picture right after I had caught up with this thread.