Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

I知 a fellow weather watcher, I like to study raw data and compare it to the model runs. Fun guessing along. I have a bit of knack forecasting short term from looking at sky conditions and radar runs. I知 often more accurate than the weather services for 24-36 hours. My wife use to watch weather when there was precip about, then ask me, 展hat痴 it really going to do?

Toppop- At the next Weather Geek Anonymous Meeting I'll wear a beige fedora :wink:, I have a bad mustache, a decent "ghetto button," and I usually do not talk to myself. Learning to read weather is a lifelong passion.

Some individuals really do have a "gift" for weather casting; maps or not. I still am leery about forecasts from those who speak to parking meters and telephone poles.

I have always been weather fascinated. I actually subscribe to a weather service to get additional maps and to confuse myself even further. I can relate about pre-predicting the ProMets. 24 - 36 hours is really good. Some people believe that I can "prognosticate" , but in reality I just go to the dump (i.e. "transfer station") to get the real "weather" from my neighbors who rely on "weather/climate" for their livelihoods.

 

[txdon]

:shocked: You must've had a plan for all those extra pavers, Don. Did you get enough of installing the ones you did and decide not to follow up on the rest? Asking because, even though I've seen pavers being installed, I've never done the job myself. Don't want to bite off more than I can chew...

After running out on my first batch of 10,000 pavers from Acme Brick in Texas, I had to go to another supplier in Mexico. The quality was sub par and about half were defective so I bought twice as many, a discount was given after I brought back several pallets but then they told me just to keep them. I was able to use the defective ones whenever I did not need a full paver. In the end I had several pallets left over.

The job is easy if you compact the soil (preferably gravel then coarse sand) before you lay the pavers and have a good cement boarder. Divide the project into sections each surrounded by a cement boarder about 8-12 inches wide and no more than about 1,200 pavers. There are pavers made to walk on and pavers made to drive on, be sure to use the appropriate paver. The pavers are made to either have a gap or lay touching each other (knobs and tampered). If you can, get the ones that butt up against each other. I used the straight edge pavers that required a quarter inch gap and cut about 50,000 small styrofoam spacers before applying the setting paver sand in-between the pavers. I'm going to have to rest now the memories are making me tired.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I'm going to have to rest now the memories are making me tired.

Thanks for that, Don. I'm going to have a strong drink now, your description wore me out so badly.:drink:

My last house had a large area of pavers, the kind with very small cracks between them. I was always having to pull weeds and grass out from between them. Any way to stop that?

 

[txdon]

Thanks for that, Don. I'm going to have a strong drink now, your description wore me out so badly.:drink:

My last house had a large area of pavers, the kind with very small cracks between them. I was always having to pull weeds and grass out from between them. Any way to stop that?

20% vinegar.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

"It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button,"

More on the Hawaiian false alarm.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

20% vinegar.

I was hoping for a permanent fix that would avoid dealing with weeds altogether. I'd opt for concrete before I went back to spraying pavers again...

 

[sseelhoff]

"It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button,"

More on the Hawaiian false alarm.

Had anyone given Sodamo the all clear?

 

[txdon]

Had anyone given Sodamo the all clear?

Apparently not, still checking for his all clear post.

 

[txdon]

Has anyone installed a hinged flagpole. I was thinking of a flag pole between two c-beams (faced outward) with two bolts - remove the bottom bolt to pivot the flagpole down.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Has anyone installed a hinged flagpole. I was thinking of a flag pole between two c-beams (faced outward) with two bolts - remove the bottom bolt to pivot the flagpole down.

Been some treads on that i believe.