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so the flippers got it for 100k, spent three months putting the typical contractor special crap inside they didn't even take off the protective film from the dishwasher before taking the pics lol i wonder if the plumbing is actually hooked up any guess how much they put into it? can't be more...

I'm about to drop the backhoe and set up the auger for doing an extension to my vineyard (three lines of ten vines each - heavy poles at the ends, a couple lighter ones in the middle, and holes for the vines to plant in). I finally remembered to buy a new fuel cap the other day. Was able to try...

We have a "10 cu ft" trailer for the lawn tractor; its use is almost entirely as a weed hauler by my wife. She weeds or trims shrubs or whatever in the landscaping and tosses stuff into that trailer and when it gets full enough it gets hauled off; she doesn't have to make a hard-to-move pile...

I somewhat over-designed my system, with an eye toward the future: I have 10kW of panels, but the combiner box + main power cable + rest of system can fit another 50% amps, and I've got a spot where I can build another ground mount right by the existing one and add another 5kW panels &...

I use a wheelbarrow to bring wood from the tote shed (next to the garage, holds 2 totes of wood) to my wood box, which is built into the house - door to the outside is on the deck and door to the inside is right next to the wood stove. Wheelbarrow is also used when weeding and garden tasks. I...

Everything on the net points to this number being a scam phone number. Are you promoting a scam here?

AFAIK Texas taxes gasoline & diesel the same; CA taxes diesel at a much higher rate, but I can't find a fixed per-gallon value, though there must be one..

Gotta say I'm super pleased with replacing my '97 F350's headlights with LEDs. My old headlights were very hazy, one light finally died when the housing got half full of water, and previous to that there was so little light. The new housings I got have a super sharp cutoff line avoiding glare to...

I'm investing in this thread at 3 pages, very bullish on this. Considering identical threads have gone tens if not hundreds of pages, this one should be a beaut!

PGE pays time-of-day pricing to 100%, then $0.03 (three cents) per kwh beyond 100%. Our hot tub is used in the late evening, but it's cheaper to fire it up near the end of the morning "cheaper" power and keep the water moving & warm all day until we use it, rather than have it warm back up a...

I do. Everything "trues up" in February. My system was sized aiming at about a 90% bill reduction. If you go over 100% you waste it, as net metering pays absolute peanuts if you go over. tbh my main electricity use is in the summer, if it's a hot one or really smokey. If the air is clear and...

My favorite is a square-ish jug like the VIP racing jugs, but the top is spring-loaded. I just drop the jug upside-down and all the diesel drains out in nothing flat. Unfortunately its twin (I had two) slid into something else in the back of my truck and cracked - they're not particuarly...

I'm in northern California and there's often next to no solar production in January and February. Over the whole year I'm still where I planned to be, but with a modern house solar alone definitely isn't going to cover dark winter months, let alone further north where the days are that much...

(a couple days ago) I've had "remove that mistletoe from that tree" on my mental list for at least a couple years if not longer but it's way up in the tree - it's hanging from a branch a couple feet higher than the end of the saw: The problem is that the mistletoe was about 32' up and my pole...