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VA seems to want all that ID stuff for just a regular drivers license, never mind a "Real ID". Liz was married, divorced, kept her married name for her kids sake, we haven't gotten married yet. The issue we are running up against is that her Birth Certificate doesn't match her married name. How...

You can't do it online when you have just moved to the state and you need new license and registration. Add in the fact that one vehicle is an inherited vehicle from NM, there is nothing simple about it. The hoops they make a divorced woman go thru to get her license are just impossible. After...

Top of the morning to everyone, It was 64F at midnight, presently 55 under cloudy skies with a little patchy fog. Forecast high is 56 with cloudy skies all day. Didn't get tree taken down yesterday, will try again today. Need to get it down today as Sat and Sun are forecast to be windy and...

In reading about different Mini-split installs, the only thing I have seen on the outside units is if the prevailing wind blows into the discharge side then a wind block of some sort is recommended. Also to be installed high enough as to not be buried in snow, if you get any. With any AC unit...

Good morning all, The day is starting off cloudy, with some fog presently 52F after overnight low of 45. Forecast to be cloudy all day with a high of 57. Light rain to start late this afternoon, with a narrow band of heavy rain coming thru overnight. Still searching for paperwork. Most all...

My neighbors took the Amtrak train from Boston to Seattle. They said the food was terrible, he is ex-military and called the food unpallitable, and they were glad they brought some of their own. The worst was from Boston to Chicago. They took it for a fun adventure, they were miserable and said...

Good morning all, hope your day is getting off to a good start, It is 36F under sunny skies after an overnight low of 30. Forecast high of 48, light winds and clouding up this afternoon. Still can't find the paperwork we need, especially frustrating as we were reviewing it 2 months ago...

Goooood Morning TBN, It is 36F under mostly sunny skies, after an overnight low of 29. Forecast is for skies to cloud up this afternoon with a high of 46. Paperwork did not go well. We can't find a key document for a tax filing. Searched every nook and cranny on the first floor, today the...

The problem is that JD is caught between the farmers (equipment owners) and the EPA. JD has to ensure their equipment meets EPA regulations for a certain period and if somebody messes with things not knowing what they are doing, unfortunetly JD has to answer to the EPA if their equipment no...

Good Morning all, It is presently 41F under cloudy skies after an overnight low of 41, we received 0.68 inches of rain last night. Forecast is for a high of 46 with skies clearing late this afternoon. Yesterday ended up being a quiet day, talking with Liz, watching a few movies on the telly...

MR Cool makes lines in 16' and 25' lengths, if you get the 16' line, how much extra are you going to need to curl up? Although I have noticed that most places selling MC only seem to stock the 25' length which does seem excessively long unless you are going to a 2nd floor. I did find at least...

With the MR Cool DIY units, the outside compressor, the lines and the inside unit all come precharged. The "quick" disconnect fittings on the lines are a special make before break fitting. Meaning that when you first start connecting the fittings, rubber seals on each fitting meet up and seal...

Where are folks getting the "Mr Cool" units? When they first came out you could order them online. Now it looks like you need to go thru a distributor. The nearest listed distributor to me is almost 3 hrs way.

Good morning to all, It is presently 33F under sunny skies after an overnight low of 31. Forecast high of 45 with rains moving in tonight. Chain saw resharpened, tree cut up and mess removed. Got the drone out and charged up but never took it out, found too many other things to do. Liz had...

I can't get those speeds with Starlink, I can't get those speeds with the fiber we have on our street. The fiber company here wants $150/month for a max download speed of 100mb/s for residential service and $8500 to connect to our house. So Starlink is cheaper and faster than our fiberoptic...

I was so tired of the limited internet access I was getting with the hotspot on my phone, I just set the dishy on the ground and fired it up. I had some tree obstructions, but I had good internet access finally. It was about 10 months before I could get the dishy to it's permanent mounting...

Good Morning, Presently 44F under sunny skies, after an overnight low of 36, forecast high of 48. Tree that broke that was hanging in another tree, came down the rest of the way. Time to sharpen the saws up and get it cut up. The tree also came down on a fence we had put up to keep the dog from...

Looking forward to hearing your results. I'll be wishing you success.

There are interlock devices you can put on your panel so that only one of the two breakers can be on at a time. It does mean that the emergency breaker must be next to the main breaker. https://interlockkit.com/

Several others have reported him. I heard that one Sunday evening the sheriff and the county inspectors showed up to see what he was doing. He was given a ceast and desist order, the feds were called in the next day due to his work in the wetlands. His attitude seems to be to just pay the fines...

A jolly good morning to everyone, It is 46F and foggy here, which is the overnight low. Forecast high is 53 with clearing skies. With a bit of digging I found what I believe to be all of our DVD's and VHS movies as well as most of our CD's. There are some CD's missing so the hunt will continue...

I had similar thing happen to me after visiting a NAPA auto parts store. I would be calling my credit card company and getting a new card number.

Shop is about 530 sqft, std 8' ceilings, 2x4 fiberglass insulated walls, built in the early 90's I believe.

Be careful with upsizing. I had 3 AC contractors come and size a mini-split for my shop. One recommended a 12K unit, another a 15K unit and the last an 18k unit. I went with the 15K unit and it is too large. Heats and cools fine, but it doesn't run long enough to control the humidity in the...

Good Morning all, Skies are gray, it's a little foggy, suppose to clear up by the end of the day. Presently 56F after an overnight low of 54, forecast for clearing skies with a high of 58. Trip to Maine for next week has been canceled until end of Feb. All this hifi talk has me frustrated I...

I am getting ready to have a pole barn built here in the Eastern Shore of VA. The rule of thumb here is hole diameter 3x pole diameter. A 6x6 pole goes in an 18" hole. Pole is sitting on bed of crushed gravel, 4' deep then the hole is filled with concrete. I am leery of pouring concrete around...

Goooood Morning, Presently 63F, very windy last night and we had an overnight low? of 68, with cloudy skies. Forecast high of 64 with rain this afternoon. Yesterday ended up being an energy conservation day. After the dog had breakfast and her morning walk she did an imitation of BEF's cat and...

I didn't have any moles in Maine, but we are infested with them here in VA. We used a trap like this one when we lived in CT, looking for something like it to use now. https://www.victorpest.com/victor-mole-trap-0645

Good Morning all, another day on this Paradise we call earth, It is presently 58F under hazy skies, forecast high of 62, light winds and clouds increasing. Started yesterday with a long overdue session with the washer/dryer, all caught up now. I hate it when that happens... trimmed off the...

You can use something a point to point WiFi to bridge the signal from the house to the steel building, but you need the starlink ethernet adaptor to do it. Here is an article about it. You can put the transmitter in your house, but the receiver must be outside the steel building...

That is a reported issue. I bet you setup your home SL system on your phone first and then later setup your RV SL system. Others have reported the same issue.

JRH02- The Starlnk phone app should connect with the starlink router via wifi, cell signal not needed.

BEF- When I retired, there was no hiding from the 'honey do' list. I also found I was never busier, I have said to friends, "If I knew I was going to be this busy in retirement, I would have stayed working!!" At least I am busy doing what I enjoy, hopefully you will as well.

You are doing better than me. I ordered UPS batteries from Amazon Prime a week an a half ago, said they would arrive last Friday. Tracking shows they are still 2 days out minimum and I am supposed to go out of town on Wed. Not sure there is any advantage to having a Prime membership.

Good morning all on this third rock from the sun, It is presently 50F with fog after an overnight low of 44. Forecast high for today is 57 with clear skies. Felt better yesterday and was able to get the maintenance done on my chain saws. Feeling good today and the downed tree will get cut up...

Life doesn't get any better than that!!

Good Morning!! Happy New Year to all and may 2023 be better than last year. Presently it is 50F and foggy after an overnight low of 48, forecast high of 53 with clearing skies. Still under the weather from the Shingles shot. Never made it out to the shop to work on the chain saws. All I did...

I used Weather Underground until IBM bought them out and commercialized them. IBM did the same thing with The Weather Channel and Intellicast. On my phone I use Weatherbug. It seems to do a pretty good job and can create a list of locations you want to keep and eye on and select a default location.

Just keep an eye on your battery. Some of those cheap HF solar panels don't have good voltage control, if any, and can cook a battery dry.

Good Morning, hope all is well with everybody, It is presently 60F after an overnight low of 51 under cloudy foggy rainy skies, forecast high is 58!!?? Rain started about 3:30 this morning and we have received 0.27" so far, due to rain on and off all day. Yesterdays forecast high was 57, got...

I'm thinking of something along those lines. I have a ton of pines that have no branches to snag for the first 50-80 ft. NO way am I tossing a throw bag that high!! I was actually thinking of something more like this: https://www.forestry-suppliers.com/p/83259/84691/notch-big-shot For a few...

You are not unemployed, you are retired, which brings with it a whole new set of 'jobs'. Congratulations on making it to Retirement!!

I have had good luck with the CTEK line of battery maintainers. Most of their models won't charge a dead battery, but they are very good at safely maintaining a battery. I leave one on my sports car from Nov to April and it doesn't hurt the battery. The present day equivalent to the model I use...

Good Morning all, It's presently 46F under clear skies after an overnight low of 36, forecast high of 57. I love it when a plan comes together!! I must have walked around the tree a dozen times sorting out which way it wanted to come down, how hung up it was in the other tree, how well...

Yup, the tree is within 100ft of the water which puts it in the Chesapeake Resource Protection Act which requires a permit to do ANYTHING within that zone. If you are outside the 100ft zone, no permit needed. There are only 3 tree cutting services here on the Eastern Shore of VA. Only 2 have...

I have a 7Kw peak, 5.5kw running Honda inverter generator. We have a propane cooktop, electric oven, propane furnace or heat pump for heat and a 220v well pump. If we have a power outage in the winter, I set the T-stat to only run the propane furnace and I turn the breaker for the oven off and...

I have both, the issue is getting them up the tree high enough to do any good. I am very leary of putting a ladder against the tree to put the ropes up. I have visions of OHSA not approving, not that I care. The more I look at the situation, the cheaper the $3000 for a tree company to come out...

Yup, I am all too aware of the dangers involved and the reasons for a situation like this being referred to as a "Widow Maker". If I can't find a way to do this in a safe controlled manor I will wait the 2 weeks, and $100, to get a permit and hire a tree company with the equipment necessary to...

Top of the morning to everyone, Presently 35F after an overnight low of 29 under sunny skies, forecast high of 54. Should be the last sub freezing night for a week or so. One item on the 'honey do' list now. Wife (Liz) was outside with the dog yesterday and noticed a broken tree hung up in...

A Jolly good morning to all, Presently 30F under clear skies, after an overnight low of 26, forecast high of 47, winds light. Wife never came up with a 'honey do' list so it was a quiet and relaxing day. We shall see what today brings. Ronjhall- What camera/lens are you using to get those...

If you are going to get a second tank just for the generator, you might see what it cost to have one buried. That way it won't be exposed to the cold and it should do a better job of keeping the pressure up.

I have been doing more research, the American CLS splitter has priced themselves out of reach for me. I think it is down to the Timberwolf or the Spitfire, unless somebody comes up with another option. I have 2 more months before decision time, so lots more reading to do. I'm lucky in that the...

YIKES!!! Be careful, glad you weren't outside when that happened. Hopefully no more damage happens and the bead blaster survived. Be safe out there.

A pleasant good morning to everyone, Presently 28F under mostly clear skies, after a low of 24. Forecast for clearing skies and a high of 40 today. Wife made it home safe and sound yesterday. No idea what is on the plate for today, haven't been handed the 'honey do' list yet. Boat is not an...

Pricing is my dilemma as well. I don't have a powered log splitter at the moment. If price was no object I would get a Timberwolf or American CLS and be done with it. I do have a 16lb splitting maul that works very well, but I don't have to swing it too many times nowadays before my back says...

Just remember the dishy needs to have clear sky facing north/northeast. I am assuming your solar panels are facing south, if so, position B will put the dish facing too much into the end of your house. It will work but I suspect there will be a fair number of 'obstructions'. The sooner you can...

The good thing is, if it doesn't work for you, you have 30 days to return it and get your money back. Time to start planning on where, and how, you want to install it. It typically takes a 6-10 days to arrive and you will want to have as much in place as you can before it arrives.

Good morning, It is presently 32F under clear skies after an overnight low of 22, forecast high of 34, winds light and variable. I love it when a plan comes together.... Yesterday I cut down the 80' pine tree that was leaning towards where my shop was going. We had just over 1/2" of rain and...

Which FLIR model do you have as they seem to have dozens of models?

Best Effort means you will be the first to be throttled during congested use. Most times it should be fine unless you are doing serious gaming or streaming to more than one TV. Although "3Ts" can tell you better how it actually works, I have regular "Residential Starlink". At first I saw...

What do you have now for a wifi router, so we can recommend something better?

Merry Christmas and good morning to all, Not sure what I am doing up now at O-dark thirty. It is 24F with clear sky's, forecast high of 32 today. Winds have backed off greatly, presently blowing 5-12mph with gusts to 20. Flickering power finally stopped about 9am yesterday, after starting their...

I know it is a first world problem, but I got tired of the power flickering causing the refrigerator and heating system to keep cycling on/off. The refrigerator wasn't getting down to temp, the heating system couldn't keep the house up to temp. Soooo I shut off the main power breaker and fired...

With my flickering power situation, I don't trust the power to stay on long enough to brew a pot of coffee. 🤬

A chilly good morning to all, It is 12F here, winds have dropped down some, still blowing in the 15-25mph range. Forecast for a sunny day with a high of 23 today. Power still dropping out. Since about 6 pm yesterday the power has been dropping out for 2-5 seconds, on for 1 sec, off for 1 sec...

Temps here still dropping, presently 22F with winds still blowing mid 20's with gusts to upper 30's. We are getting 10-15 second power outages every 15-20 minutes, have been for the last 4 hours. Not show stopping but sure is annoying. Especially waiting the 2-3 minutes for the internet to come...

That is the problem, the cheap ones are not ergonomic for me and I find them uncomfortable to run. I have been looking at them and standing in operating position I find something typically is in my way, most times it is the wheel/tire. I also find most of the cheaper ones to be too low for me...

The prices I am getting are for 3-pt splitters w/PTO pump, table grate and 4 way wedge. Timberwolf TW-3 -- $3650 American CLS -- $4420 Split-fire -- $3610- I think this is the price in USD, it might be in CAD, still need to clarify. My tractor has a hydraulic flow of 16.9 gpm so...

Nice puppy, what is the breed/mix? I made the mistake of showing your puppy pics to wifey.... now she wants one!!!

Good morning from the Eastern Shore of VA, Presently it is 54F here, sunshine with winds blowing mid-20's mph with gusts to the mid-30's. Forecast to be 11F by sundown. Sipping coffee now, breakfast about to be served, then it will be time to go survey the property and see what branches/trees...

The -3HD is a VERY nice unit, a serious commercial machine, list price is about $9K for one setup like you have. For this homeowner that is just too much $$$. The -3 comes in at about $3700 optioned the way I want. The American CLS is a nice machine, I just received a quote from them, they are...

I just moved to a property that has 12 wooded acres and I hope to get my wood stove installed soon. I am looking for a log splitter to help in the wood gathering/prep process. I have rented a few of the Horizontal/Vertical machines and I don't like the ergonomics of them so they are off the...

Most OTC hearing aids are nothing more than just cheap amplifiers. Most of what you can order online are true hearing aids that can be tailored to the needs of each ear. I have a 70% loss in my right ear and a 15% loss in my left ear. OTC will not work for me. I have been researching online...

Good morning, Lows overnight were 33F, that happened at midnight and temps have been rising since under cloudy skys. Presently it is 50 with forecast high of 54. Rains due in about 10am this morning. Earlier in the week they were forecasting ~2" of rain, but they have dropped that back to only...

We are too remote for cable TV, but we do have satellite TV and it includes many Sirius channels, but that means leaving the TV on. We are on the fringe of any FM reception, even with a good antenna in my shop, that has vinyl siding, reception is poor. I did pick up some bluetooth adaptors and...

Goooood Morning TBN, Presently 26F, which is the low of the night. Lots of sunshine with temps heading for the mid 40's. SWMBO says we have some shopping to do, no idea what that is going to entail. Found the cables and moved the house CD player to the stereo cabinet. Hooked it up and now...

The only thing about the new Intel plant, it will be 3-4 years before any chips make it out the door. Also, Intel doesn't make any chips for cars. At one point they made a bunch of stuff for Ford, but they don't any more.

Morning, Another bright sunny cool morning. Low this morning was 30F, presently 37, forecast high of 42. There is a thin layer of ice on part of the creek. Chimney man actually showed up early. Reported chimney was in good shape and it would be easy to drop a flex pipe down to the wood stove...

Good Morning, The low this morning was 33F, presently 35 with sunny skys, forecast high of 44. Did more cleaning and sorting in the work shop. Found the power cord for the CD player, and some CD's... more tunes to work by. Better half due home today, finished up her honey do list yesterday...

Morning Mates, It was 30F here first thing this morning, presently 33F with forecast high of 44F, abundant sunshine. Did more cleaning of the shop, found the CD player but can't find the power cord. The cord has a nonstandard plug where it connects to the unit. Unit is 17 years old and company...

Great man cave for me and wife is fully behind it. Especially since she wants to turn one of the bedrooms into a craft room and she will need work tables and cabinets built for all her stuff.

Good morning to my TBN buddies, It is 44F here this morning under clear skys with forecasted high of 48, winds have dropped off to just a slight breeze. Irrigation piping drained, not touching the system again until spring no matter when the parts come in. All garden hoses drained and put...

If you go to Starlink.sx and put in your location it will show you your POP site, as well as what satellites you should be connected to. It is not the most intuitive process to enter your location though. The other thing is if you go to Speedtest.net to run a speed check, before you hit the GO...

I'm in Virginia and I am routed thru the POP in New York. I find if I use Speediest.net to check my speeds, there is a lot of variation depending on which server I am connected to. It was even worse when I was connected to the Atlanta POP.

Good morning to everyone, It was 41 when I got up, presently sunny and 44 heading for a forecast high of 53. It's windy, blowing at 15 gusts to 31mph. It took several trips back from the shop to the house to gather up everything, but stereo is up and running, bluetooth adaptor hooked up so I...

I will cycle my glow plugs depending on temps. Once down to about 25dF, twice between 0F and 25F. Anything below 0F and I will cycle them 3 times. Seems to start easier and less smoke with this regimen. If it is below -15dF.... I stay in the house. Every winter I swore I would install power to...

Good morning/afternoon, Just finished breakfast, getting a slow start to the day. Overnight low was 35, forecast was for low of 29. Presently 46 with forecast to top out at 51. It has been raining since about 3am and we have received 0.38" so far. It is gloomy, cold and raw out side... plan on...

YEA for the "ignore" function... I just removed a bunch of dribble from the site for me.

And a jolly good morning to y'all, It was 26 here this morning, forecast about 43 for a high today with thickening clouds. Woke up to about 40 geese in the creek squawking up a storm. Might have been due to the 3 bald eagles flying around. I have some irrigation pipe exposed I am going to have...

My wife just bought a new RTV 900, we are waiting for delivery. I showed her your pictures and she now even more excited to get it.

Good Morning all. Yesterdays forecast for today was mostly cloudy with morning temps at 29 rising to 44. I woke up to temps in the mid 30's with bright sunshine with forecast to hit 40. I have one gutter left to clean of the leaves and one section of yard to clean up, if all goes well I should...

Wife surprised me and cooked up crab cakes tonight based on a recipe she got from a restaurant on Ocracoke Island. Ohh so GOOOOOD!!!!

Not a ham radio callsign. "I accelerate" When I was 16 a Lamborghini Miura passed me that had that as a license plate. I tried to keep up with it.... not a chance. Seven years later a bought a '67 Miura for $14K, had it for 38 years. Parts availability became too much of an issue to keep it. Oh...

Northampton, near Exmore. I have found the "Project Farm" videos interesting, informative and have spent way too much time looking at them. I used a slide rule senior year in high school and the first two years of college. Could never remember how to use the dang thing as I didn't use it all...

Good morning from the eastern shore of Virginia. It was 43 and partly cloudy when I got up this morning, heading for a balmy 44. Today's mission- get the leaves off the lawn and out of the gutters before the rains and freezing temps arrive later in the week.

I just picked up an Ambient weather station, it is their top of the line unit. I think it can monitor up to 8 temperature sensors, I'm monitoring 3 at the moment, Indoor, Garage, and Pump house.

This site will give you hours of reading on floor coverings. Might add more confusion than answers with all the options. https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/forums/flooring.20/

Are you going to be driving on asphalt, concrete, gravel, in the woods??

We here at TBN are more than happy to help you spend you money!! :)

Sthil electric chain saws don't get the best reviews and they are by far the most expensive. Based on these reviews I am considering either the Makita or Dewalt. Also, because of the low speed torque of an electric chain saw, most protective chaps are NOT rated for electric saws.

When I first got the DD, I couldn't get a sharp bit out of it to save my life, found it frustrating to use. I found some YouTube videos that had some tips and tricks to using the DD and I found them helpful. Now I get pretty good results. Unfortunately I didn't save them to pass on. It takes a...

Dishy is mounted to the furthest out pole on our 100' dock. Only place to get no obstructions. Starlink router is sitting in a box with battery backup, starlink router, starlink ethernet port adaptor and fiberoptic adaptor about 120' from dishy. Nearest outlet is the GFCI one at the shore end of...

I can't connect to my system via the Starlink app, so I suspect it is not powered up, weather/obstruction is not a factor. My starlink system is plugged into a battery backup supply. The GFCI outlet that the battery backup is plugged into, tripped and shut off power to the system. Apparently the...

Is there any way I can check on the status of my starlink system remotely? I'm out of town and the wife at home is complaining of no internet.

We have used 30GB so far this month, received the email yesterday.

Except some of us will never have 5G as there is just not the population density to justify it. No cable company offers service where I live and while I do have fiber optic running down my street, the cost is higher and the speeds are slower than Starlink. So it's Starlink for me.

I have sketchy Cell coverage at my house and use Starlink to do WiFi calling all the time, which is basically VoIP.

My brother in law just passed in New Mexico and I had to help deal with his estate. We had to notify SS that he had passed, and provide them with Death Certificate. They made it clear that if they had made any payments after his death, they would be getting them back. We were told to get 20...

Hmmmm I have a 2015 X5, the 3.0L gas version. Generally disliking the vehicle as well, regret buying it, but I am getting 32mpg with mostly highway driving. When my wife was searching for a SUV years ago, she went with the Pilot over the Highlander due the Pilot having more room for the...

Banning small gas engines, banning gas cars I believe in 2035, some cites are banning gas cooktops/stoves, yet they are asking folks not to charge their EV's this weekend as the grid can't handle charging the EV's and the AC loads on the system.

I have a ton of obstructions, especially since the leaves came out on the trees. Makes it frustrating to use my SL as some times the internet connection is very fast, other times there is basically no connection. I average about 3.4 hrs of total outage a day due to obstructions in the summer. I...

Eddie, you said you had 200 amps available, to you need 200amps??? To run your 2hp pump and other assorted things, I bet you will actually need less than a 100 amp service. Unless I missed something in this thread. What are you going to power at the end of this line??

Our local taxi company had a fleet of Prius vehicles. They didn't trade them in until they had between 400K-450K miles on them. Reported no battery issues with any of them.

I don't have a Bolt, but based on your comment about the Bolt, I started researching them. They do make a compelling argument for an around town grocery getter rather than taking my 12mpg truck. Now I just need to find one to test drive.

- Battery recycling- Both Tesla and VW have come up with methods to recycle the lithium batteries in their cars. I don't know about Tesla, but VW is saying they can get at least 95% of the materials back from the battery to be reused. - Two years ago I read a report that looked at the...

That is because it is more dangerous than a two-stroke because of that torque you mentioned. Look and try to find chain saw chaps that are rated for an electric chain saw. Most chaps on them now state NOT rated for an electric chain saw. There are only 2, maybe 3, chaps that are electric...

The grid problem will become your problem, unless you are off the grid, because the problem is lack of power generating capacity, not distribution. New plants are 10+ years in the making. They just took a large nuclear plant offline in Michigan, not to be fired back up. What is it going to be...

The electric grid can't handle going to 25% electric cars, some area's can't handle it now. Electric grid gets something like 78% of it's energy from fossil fuels. Not sure what we are really saving by buying EV's. Tailpipe emissions are lower, but still uses fossil fuels to recharge the...

I tried using a similar bag once, won't happen again. I found it hard to load well and then it was a pain to empty it. The top had some flaps to cover over the opening and they just kept getting in the way.

You could always by a used electric mower, GE made the Elec-Trac in the 70's. You could get them with several different attachments. https://www.tractordata.com/lawn-tractors/000/3/4/348-general-electric-e12.html

My neighbors were both in their mid 70's when I saw them do something similar. The wife was in the bucket trimming tree's up high and her husband was at the controls of their front loader. When I realized what they were doing, I walked away, I couldn't watch.

Kinda hard to control my HVAC, or anything else, with Google or Alexa since I won't have either of them in my house. Nor will I have a "Ring" or "Blink" or any other 'cloud' system in my house.

No phone app changing my T-stat. If I can change it, any hacker can change it. Not for me thank you, security on T-stats, garage doors etc is poor at best and generally no way to update the security in these devices.

That price, $350-$400, is the price that I am seeing online for the MHK2 unit. Does there need to be a base unit wired to the air handler to communicate with the MHK2 unit? I asked my dealer and he quoted me $350 for the MHK2 unit, plus installation costs of $50. I am going to pass on the MHK2...

I am about to have a Mitsubishi multi zone mini-split system put in my workshop/garage. There was no mention of the MHK1 or 2 thermostats. What is the list price for that add-on and what does that buy you? I have been using the handheld remote in my other Mitsubishi mini-split system for the...

"Here... Hold my beer" comes to mind! :)

Everyone I have talked with has said their Verizon LTE unit has an ethernet port on it and they are surprised mine does not. I got mine in Dec and the only port is the USB-C port for charging it. I am wondering if cell companies are getting cheap like Starlink and pulling the ethernet ports from...

My Verizon LTE does not have a ethernet port jack on it, my range extender is a wireless WiFi repeater. I am seeing the same speeds if I am connected to the LTE pack or to my repeater/extender.

I have Verizon LTE at the moment, so I can't speak to T-mobiles service. The LTE only does 30+ down for speeds and like you commented, the range is only about 30 ft. I added a WiFi extender and it has had no effect on speeds and it covers my entire 2700 sqft house now. My WiFi extender uses a...

Yup, my Honda is super quiet, not sure how they do it. I park the unit about 20 ft from my bedroom window and I can't hear it running when I am sleeping. You are correct, only 7Kw, but that handles everything except my air compressor. It is push a button to automatically start the fuel injected...

One of my Maine neighbors has the noisy Kohler, the other a Generac, the other a cheap portable construction generator and I have a Honda inverter generator. My Honda is the quietest, followed by the Generac, then the portable generator and the Kohler is the loudest and drowns out all the other...

My step son was in a car accident and he is now confined to a wheel chair. He was using a portable generator for back up power but that is no longer an option for him. Wife wants to buy him a whole house standby generator and run it from the 500 gal propane tank that is there. I am still working...

Which is why if the number calling is not in my contact list, I don't answer the call. I have my voicemail set to max number of rings before it picks up. If they don't leave a message, they don't get called back. It has taken some time using this system, my telemarking calls have dropped off to...

My understanding is that NONE of the ISP's have yet received any of the gov't subsidies. The new FCC commissioner has put it all on hold as he felt the initial subsidy awards were not done in a fair manor based on faulty data and they are all up for review.

My wife worked in the paint dept of a large hardware store. They carried 4 brands of paints and they discovered if different employee's calibrated the paint machines, they got different results. So they had the same person calibrate all the machines each week on Sunday's, which was the slowest...

I think you will find the 50 Gigs/month on the hotspot is separate from the 25 Gigs on your phone. Just don't give your daughters access to the hotspot and keep the 50Gig to yourself.

Hmm, the local Verizon store I went to was a local owned store, it was not a Verizon owned store. It is part of a chain, but it is not a company store.

I tried to order the Verizon LTE Home online and it told me it was not available in my area. I went to my local Verizon store, they said sure no problem, signed me up and handed me the hot spot unit. I'm getting 30-35 down and 3-6 up, works for me. I would prefer to have 5G speeds, but there...

As I understand it there was some folks from NASA who lived in the area and NASA helped fund the install so the employees could have quality internet access at home. My house was previously owned by one of those NASA employees, but he wouldn't pay the bill to get from the street to the house...

Yes, fiber is 'on the street', that is the cost to trench and get fiber to my house, my driveway is 1/4 mile long. There are 11 homes on my 2 mile dead end street and only 3 that I know of have signed up for fiber service. We are rural enough that the folks at the local Verizon store don't...

I have V LTE HI and depending on plan depends on if data is unlimited or not. I had a choice of 20G, 60G, 100G or 200G of data, then after that speeds would be severely limited. Limited to the extent it is basically unusable. We are rural enough that 5G is not available and they don't expect it...

I checked out the Verizon LTE site, it also indicated no service available at my home. I went to the local Verizon store, they said, no problem. I got the service and am getting 32Mb/s down and 12Mb/s up. This is LTE service, there is no 5G service in my county, or the next county over.

My neighbor is 93, been running tractors all his life. He told me when I first met him 15 years ago, he never needed to run loaded rear tires, never saw a reason to. Last tractor he bought 2 years ago was an 'off the lot' tractor that already had the tires loaded. It was the same size as his...

No email from Starlink, but I just checked my account and as of this morning it was showing MTL '21, this evening it is showing March '22.

The only port on my V LTE modem is for its power. I'm considering this unit, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076ZHXK6J?tag=cb-052395-20 Should kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. If it doesn't cover the whole house, it has a port I can use to connect to a mesh system. Although I might have a...

Spent some time looking into a mesh system, so far all that I have seen require a WAN connection. My Verizon LTE box doesn't have an Ethernet port so I can't connect to the WAN port on the mesh system. Unless I am missing something.

Thanks for the WiFi repeater/extender suggestions. They look like what I need, I will look into those. They are cheap enough to try to see if they will do the job or not.

I thought about doing this, I have extra routers, but there is no Ethernet port on the Verizon LTE box that I have.

We don't have T-mobile here, I just picked up Verizon LTE Home Internet. If I am in the same room with the unit I get 35Mb/s down and 12Mb/s up, if I go to the farthest point in the house from the unit, I get 0.8Mb/s down and 0.3Mb/s up. Works good enough for us in 80% of the house. If I could...

Seems to me there was a post on reddit that power was reduced to the 50-60 watt range, but I can't find it right now. I believe the full PDF on the new dish included power rating. EDIT: Found the full PDF on the new dish. Power specs on the new rectangular dish are listed as being the same as...

I have fiber on my street, not to my house. Max speed to a residence is 100Mb down for $150/month. Install costs for buried fiber cable is about $8500... not happening. Same company will provide 2Gb download to business. :( My only other option is ViaSat... again, not happening. Come on...

I would love to get the Verizon LTE HI, I am using Verizon cell service, but the Verizon web page says that the LTE HI service is not available in my area?? Maybe it is time to go to the local Verizon store and see what they say. I need to do something before we move into our new home just...

I played this game for a few years. Trying to find a combination of boots, coveralls, gloves and hats to keep my warm while cleaning snow in my open cab tractor. I finally spent the $$$ to get an aftermarket cab. https://www.covermytractor.com/products/products_list/tractor_cabs On a sunny day...

I have read that robo calls only let the phone ring 4 times and then they hang up and try another number. If no response to that number after so many attempts they will consider the number a dead number and remove it from the list. If you answer, or the call goes to voicemail, then you are...

Brandi, could you tell me more about the collapsible pole you are using.

I have found a fair number of library's in my area have the Kill-A-Watt meter that you can sign out for a week rather than buying your own. Might be worth checking into.

The launches were delayed due to them wanting to wait until the laser equipped satellites were ready. There was a launch on the Monday the 13th that included 51 laser equipped satellites. All future launches will include laser equipped satellites.

They make 'hangers' just for this purpose with a minimum radius to prevent damage to the FO cable.

What connectors did you use on the FO cable? What was the size of the conduit? I'm wondering what size conduit one would need to use with LC connectors.

Starlink had a successful launch of 51 satellites w/laser communication for Polar orbits on Monday. It will be a few months before they are online.

Have a look in reddit "HomeNetworking" I have seen some good ideas there. I need to get a connection between my shop and house, about 400 ft apart and no line of sight so I am looking at fibre optic as well.

I believe the system is presssurized due to temp change. When that happens to me, I put a PVC cap over the end of the hose and hit it with a hammer. The PVC protects the hose fitting and the cap helps prevent you from getting sprayed with the hydraulic oil.

They START at $22.5K, too rich for my blood.

Blade tip speeds should be around 18,000 ft/min, which works out to about 200 mph. At that speed even grass is very abrasive to the steel blades. I sharpen the blades on my z-turn mower every 10 hrs for best cut.

Depending on your location it could take three days, how long it takes to ship or it could take 10-12 months. Some area's are reporting that when they signup, they get a message their area is full and may not receive a dish until sometime in 2023!!! I signed up in April and the message was I...

I have seen tests showing the original Starlink router/dish used 80-110 watts. The latest version of the Starlink router/dish are showing usage in the 60-80 watt range.

I have a 10 year old Mitsubishi mini-split, Love it. Use it for heating in the shoulder seasons and AC in the summer. Wood stove provides heat Dec-April. No issues, only maintenance, which consists of cleaning filters monthly, takes 5 min, and cleaning the blower once a year. We have a small...

The Starlink birds are small enough that they will burn up upon re-entry and no pieces will make it back to earth.

I have read of some folks in Michigan getting their dishy's. I have also read some speculation that the chip shortage is hampering production. There is also some speculation of production switching over to a new smaller dishy. The first shell will be filled out before the end of the month and...

I just saw that ViaSat lost their injunction against the FCC and Starlink to immediately halt satellite launches. They are still continuing with their suit to halt satellite launches, but the trial won't come before the courts until October at the earliest and I am hoping Starlink will be out of...

I had Vonage VoIP for a while and had none of those issues. Who is your VoIP provider?

I too am a side sleeper, I slept on a sleep number mattress for a month at a friends house. Once I had the setting where I wanted it, it held the pressure there and never readjusted. I prefer my memory foam mattress to the sleep number mattress. If the Purple mattress really sleeps cooler, my...

I have 3 driveways on my property to plow and a 1/4 mile long dirt road. Wife needs to be out before 6 am for work. I have a 2500 truck for towing my boat that I put a Fisher 8' V plow on. Not cheap but it lets me take care of our plowing on our schedule rather than waiting for others to show...

Where I last worked, all the table saws were the SawStop saws, I was told the insurance company required them. The cartridge that stops the blade is a one time use only and is trashed to stop the blade. I believe it costs about $125 to replace, as others have said, mighty cheap insurance to save...

According to a 'concrete association' website, concrete has a R value of only about 1 per 8" of concrete. My guess is a ground temp of 60dF would be a good start for Texas.

Do a search for Chaps that are rated for electric chain saws. Most say they are NOT rated for electric chain saws. Very few are rated for electric chain saws. I don't understand what the difference is, but most Chaps makers are adamant that their Chaps are not rated for electric chain saws.

I don't. For me a smart home is the ability to monitor my shop if the garage door is open or if the lights are on and have the ability to close the door and turn off the lights from the house. It is the ability to have lights turn on/off either on a schedule or if someone is present in the room...

Part of the problem is that most folks don't know how to properly setup a firewall to do that, me included. Hence no internet connection for any of my 'smart' devices.

I have a 'smart' home, full of automation and controls, I love it. BUT it is a stand alone system and is NOT connected to the internet, never will be. No Alexa, Ring, Siri, Google Nest etc for me.

The problem is that most of the folks who would be cashiers are staying home as they are getting more on unemployment than they would get if they went to work. This will continue until the 'extra' unemployment benefits run out in the fall, unless they are extended again.

There was some discussion on the Starlink Reddit forum that some mesh systems play nicely with SL, some others don't. I don't have a mesh system so I didn't pay much attention to the discussion.

EA has been fairly honest/accurate with their delivery estimates, give them a call.

Thank you for the PDF. I found some possibilities here. https://store.montanasatellite.com/categories/starlink/accessories.html

That takes me to my account sign in page and then I end up at the same "order summary" page. Thanks for your attempt to help, I think I will wait a week and try again. Since I just ordered the Starlink, I suspect it will be 4-6 months before I actually see the dish so I have plenty of time to...

On the "home" page in my account is only "Order Summary", there is no "Account Summary". Maybe I just need to wait a bit to get fully activated or something.

Where do I find these? I was under the impression I could find them in my Starlink account for purchase, but I couldn't find anything for sale there.

I just signed up to get Starlink, where are folks getting mounts for the dish? I have too many tall trees around my house to use the tripod that comes with it and I will need some sort of roof or eave mount.

I just bought our retirement home and found out that there is fiber optic running on our road, but it is not connected to the house. The provider wants $150/month for 100Mps download speed. This is the max speed they offer, with the fiber optic cable run to the house. I thought that speed was...

Just bought a new home, they have fibre optic cable running down our street and I called to get a quote to install it at my house. Price for service was $140/month for 100Mb/s download speeds plus $6750.00 to run the cable to the house. Cell coverage is spotty and I'm still looking for internet...

I can't help you in your area, but here in Maine, none of the traditional rental companies rent any 3pt hitch equipment. But the local Kubota dealer rents most anything you need. Have you called the local tractor dealers to see if they rent anything?

I have always drop started my 2 older Homelite saws and my Echo saw. But my newer Stihl saw has too much compression and the saw tends to flail around too much for either the drop start or the wedge in the thigh method. The instructions call to put the saw to the ground and put your toe of your...

Which is going to have the higher currents, the DC or the AC. That should answer your question. If DC currents are going to be higher, inverters at the solar panels, if AC currents are going to be higher, inverters in the house. You want to minimize your losses.

I am getting ready to move to a new home. The present owners are using Viasat with max of 25mb/s download, which I found odd as there is fibre cable internet service running down the road. Then I find out even with fibre, max speed is 150mb/s, at $148.00/month including equipment rental, and it...

Except for an FAA ruling that drones are considered airplanes and taking down a drone has the same penalty as taking down an airplane. Not a chance I am willing to take.

I have a 12K Btu Mitsubishi unit, only thing I have done to it in the 8 years we have had it is to clean the fan 3 times. Doesn't provide much heat below 20dF outside so we fire up the wood stove anytime temps get below 25dF. Newer units will provide heat to 0dF.

My sister already has this. About once a month she spots a drone outside her living room window looking in. Cops can't/won't do anything about it and I can't shoot it down.

I bought the backhoe for my DK40 from Orchard Hill. Lets say I will NEVER do business with them again.

China has been doing this for years, it is coming here.

I have had the Davis Vantage Pro 2 for about 16 years now. I have changed the super cap and the temp/humidity sensor. Everything else seems to be working fine. I have been looking for a system for my sister. Not wanting to spend the money for the Davis Pro I was looking at the Ambient system...

This is what I did for my DK40SE HST. I use it mostly in the winter when I am moving snow. As long as the sun is out, there is no need for a heater, although it did come with one...