Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

My Niece had her kids buy their father an el cheepo copter for Fathers Day. Their Dad never got home 'til about 9 so the family all gathered out on the deck to see the maiden flight. The copter went straight up and then out to the west. And kept going, and going.

In another instance a bloke was on the beach flying out over the water. The copter was last seen heading out to sea with the bloke running down the beach and into the sea yelling out " come Back come back". I dont think the copter understood Kiwi English.:thumbsup:

:laughing::laughing::laughing: Funny stuff there!

 

[Peter 315]

Around here they are going to send the thrash to O-H-I-O. My buddy has talked to a few trash collection companies about loading rail cars.

 

[Bird]

I am sorry. But at our house everything goes in the Blue Trash Can. If I believed that it was going to save the planet I would use the recycle box.
As for the Batteries. If it such a bad thing (maybe it is). When are they going to provide a way to dispose of them. My :2cents: is if you sell them. You should provide a way to dispose of them like used oil.

A lot of people in my neighborhood still don't use the recycling bin, but in our case, they've made it so convenient that we do use it. The company that does the garbage pickup weekly (Community Waste Management) provided each address with a large 2-wheeled recycling bin. We do not have to sort the recyclable items, just put clean, dry items in that bin; glass, plastic, paper, tin, aluminum, etc. So we use it and only have to put it out once every 2 or 3 weeks. For the other garbage, everyone provides their own "containers?". We just use black plastic bags; usually one a week. Some put out white plastic bags, some use garbage cans, on wheels or not. So the recycling for us keeps us from having to buy so many garbage bags, I guess.:laughing:

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good afternoon! ;-) Coffee time.

In the fall I made a garage/workshop space-- there is a thread somewhere about it here, as I was asking some questions about concreting. By December everything was finished but the ceiling. There are joists over it, and OSB on top of the joists for a floor above, and all the gaps are sealed, but no insulation there all winter. The walls are insulated-- OSB - fiberglass - OSB. We've had a not so very cold winter, and its stayed above freezing there from the heat that gets out of the shared wall with the house, but still cold. I have a propane heater to warm it up some-- 10°C and I feel OK out there, the dog would be happier if it were warmer as well, but he isn't complaining so much, since other dogs here don't have dog doors in to garages at all.

I made a resolution for Lent to give up having a mess everywhere, so last night I was working toward that, putting together a shelf and sorting tools out, and it hit me, that I have a bunch of 2" polystyrene boards for insulating the walls of our house (which we didn't get to last year), and they've been sitting outside all winter. So for the last weeks of winter, I've spread them on the floor above the garage, which ought to help a bit. I sure wish that had "clicked" sooner.

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My mom got the kids one of those cheaper RC helicopters for Christmas. It uses IR for remote control, and they just fly it inside. It is incredible how durable it is. My two year old gets it, and his method of flying is to jam the control forward and watch it fly straight up till it hits the ceiling, which causes it to loose stability and go careening across the room. One thing with it is that the transmitter is contanstantly transmitting, so I think for outside, if it would get out of range, it would just drop down.

I got another one from China on eBay, it has more advanced controls, though still IR. I tried flying it outside and it was trying to get away. I think the IR has at most a 30' range, and it seems like on that one it isn't transmitting continuously. I had to run after it to get back in range and bring it down.

A drone with camera would be really cool. I'd love to have aerial shots of the four seasons on our land, and capture the changes we are making over the years. Actually, what I'd love even more, would be a GPS programmable drone. Sometimes I stick the goats in an overgrown area quite a distance away-- it would be nice to send the drone up to photograph them and photograph the water trough. But anyway, our current plan is to get cattle this year and do intensive grazing with multiple moves for day, so this lazy approach of sticking goats on an acre and leaving them for several days is coming to an end.

Good morning or afternoon! Welcome 'fredomlives'. I remember reading your posts about the concrete and the garage... Could'nt tell you where the post was at, I think under "Projects". Glad to hear you're coming along with it. Post some pics of your tractor and the powered trailer, sounds pretty cool.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Shhh...it's a surprise...a new Frisbee, and tennis ball

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCO !!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

45° rain today

 

[freedomlives]

More photos, as well as a couple of the 128:
Goldoni 140 Super Special - Google Photos

The 2017 home improvements album with vermicomposting wastewater system as well:
Vermicomposting toilet system and renovations - Google Photos

I'm looking though to buy a Japanese tractor with FEL right now actually, because hand manipulation of hay gets old really quick, and lots of gravel would be nice to deal with paths on our pure clay soil.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

......."At the very bottom of Bucks County, PA is the GROWS landfill, bordering the Delaware River. If I went upriver from Philadelphia with my big boat I could give river tours all the way up to Trenton NJ where you had to turn around. But going past that enormous land fill constantly really woke me up. I had to stop being part of all those trucks working their way up to the top of the pile.
Just a mountain of trash."

I remember that pile and how it was growing exponentially back in the early '80's... Can only imagine how big it is now. Last time I went back east to Bucks Co, I couldn't believe how much in-fill had occurred. Most of all the farms gone and housing developments in their place. Didn't get a chance to go to Upper Bucks, wonder if it's also become city-like?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 35F @ 6:00AM. Partly cloudy skies this morning will become overcast during the afternoon. High 48F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

When I lived in the big city, I had a Czech woman for a housekeeper. She told me the story of how she left after the Russians invaded, carrying her unborn child, and sneaking over the East German border into West Germany. She eventually made it to Canada, and then into the US where she earned her citizenship. It was a huge change for her, and one of the sacrifices was all the time spent away from her family until Slovakia broke away from the USSR. Now she visits, with her daughter, but won't move back there. It must have been a big change for you, too, fredomlives! How are you liking Slovakia now?

Thanks for sharing those drone shots, Randy. I felt a pang of homesickness for the hills of southeast Ohio, where I spent many a fall day hiking under the colorful trees.

Google up "drone swarm", Drew. Looks like the military already has a pretty good start on drone militarization.

Figuring I'd sort of ease into the drone thing, I bought a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner yesterday, one with a camera on it. It'll be on probation until it can prove it won't get stuck under the sofa and can climb up onto the area rugs from the laminate flooring. :laughing:

Do you remember where you saw the link in the syma quad, Wng? For fifty bux it might be a good way to get my feet wet. There seem to be quite a variety of them on Amazon; which one to pick?

I recycle aluminum cans and glass bottles at a facility staffed by developmentally disabled people. I donate them, and in return don't have to sort them. The waste collection company here doesn't provide recycling bins, so the rest all goes into the same can. They have a list of what not to put in the can, but I figure if I'm paying more than a couple bux a day for pickup, they can sort that, too. Used oil goes into one of those five gallon buckets with the pour lid, and when I have two of them full I take them to a Pep Boys, where I also take used tires. I also try to buy my automotive stuff there, but it seems they seldom have what I need in stock.:confused2:

Cold but sunny yesterday, and the house finally warmed up with help from the solar boost. Not fun working in the garage; those steel tools are cold enough to make my fingers numb. Still managed to get the rear fender fit and all the bolts trimmed and polished though. Now it comes back off so I can install the wiring harness, and I'll get a start on that today.

My friend's widow is starting to clean out his shop, and she says she has a pile of Vanagon and old BMW motorcycle parts for me if I want them. Also three BSA engines that I'm sure a neighbor would like to have, so it looks like I'll be down there tomorrow. Really don't like the idea of dragging a bunch of junk home, but I will to help her out. I figure anything I can't use I'll just leave in the truck and take it to the junk yard next time I'm in town.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[toppop52]

Our local Mt Trashmore has made to around 300’ high and 1/2 mile across, it’s taller than anything else in the county.