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Motronic posted:Find a better arborist. Again, this is the truth. Find a good arborist and they'll get it down. Just make sure they're licensed and bonded and I would be skeptical of anybody who offers to do this without a crane. Between the roof and the utility lines, its going to be a pricey and delicate job. Not the time to try a budget arborist.
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in a well actually posted:I’m really surprised the utility wouldn’t remove it. Around here, the local utility will remove anything on three feet either side of local transmission line, and they’ll trim anything within 6’. No matter where you are in the country there’s some weather (ice, hurricane, drought) that’ll drop trees on lines. I'm seeing what my options are but the utility companies out here really don't give a poo poo. Like, further down that line the insulation is visibly crumbling where it meets the house, which their service guys always comment on whenever we manage to get one, but no traction on getting the company to send someone to actually, y'know, replace it. Good to know there's someone out there who'll likely handle it, I figured I was just on my own after talking to the local tree guys everyone uses. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I'm seeing what my options are but the utility companies out here really don't give a poo poo. Like, further down that line the insulation is visibly crumbling where it meets the house, which their service guys always comment on whenever we manage to get one, but no traction on getting the company to send someone to actually, y'know, replace it. This is how my utility is too. We have power lines literally hanging from tree branches and the last time a utility guy came out to our pole he asked if it had been on fire because the rot is so bad on it but ultimately they decide not to do anything every visit.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I'm seeing what my options are but the utility companies out here really don't give a poo poo. Like, further down that line the insulation is visibly crumbling where it meets the house, which their service guys always comment on whenever we manage to get one, but no traction on getting the company to send someone to actually, y'know, replace it. Here, line from pole to house is my problem, pole to pole is theirs. YMMV, of course.
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SpartanIvy posted:This is how my utility is too. We have power lines literally hanging from tree branches and the last time a utility guy came out to our pole he asked if it had been on fire because the rot is so bad on it but ultimately they decide not to do anything every visit. After a few years of trying we did finally get a Comcast guy who was appalled they'd just tossed the line up in some bamboo, and escalated our ticket or whatever to the guy in charge of actually attaching lines to poles. I guess maybe the trick is to just keep playing service call roulette until you get a guy who's too new to have embraced nihilism in a well actually posted:Here, line from pole to house is my problem, pole to pole is theirs. YMMV, of course. How's that work? Here they're ostensibly responsible for everything before the breaker box, encouraging people to DIY live wiring they have no way to safely shut off sounds... bad. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:How's that work? Here they're ostensibly responsible for everything before the breaker box, encouraging people to DIY live wiring they have no way to safely shut off sounds... bad. It works by requiring you to have a licensed electrician do that job so they are specifically NOT encouraging DIY work on nearly unlimited fault current. What happens is that your licenses electrician arranges with the utility to (re)terminate a new triplex on X date so someone from the utility comes out in a bucket truck and takes the line they've run from the house and attaches it to the pole and transformer.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:The previous owner of my house let a grove of ailanthus get out of hand behind my workshop, to the point it was caving in the walls. I've taken out the ones that were literally growing into the roof but now I have to contend with this: Can you live without power there for a little bit? Maybe see if you can get the utility to temporarily remove the service drop so you can get the tree down. I imagine without the lines there this would be a lot more straightforward to deal with. Even if the utility charges you to do it, it's gotta be cheaper then getting someone out there with a crane. Or are those not the lines leading to your shop? It's hard to tell.
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devicenull posted:Can you live without power there for a little bit? Maybe see if you can get the utility to temporarily remove the service drop so you can get the tree down. I imagine without the lines there this would be a lot more straightforward to deal with. Even if the utility charges you to do it, it's gotta be cheaper then getting someone out there with a crane. The utility is not going to take down the pole-to-pole going through the middle of the tree. And I assure you that their time costs a lot more than an arborist and crane and they will charge you for anything like that if it's remotely possible to do (and in this case its not).
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:The previous owner of my house let a grove of ailanthus get out of hand behind my workshop, to the point it was caving in the walls. I've taken out the ones that were literally growing into the roof but now I have to contend with this:
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oh it's gonna be more than that lol, the brick wall right there is buckling and twice in the last month the shop's been flooded from water seeping through. This is just buying time to save up for fixing that
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So I recently splurged and bought a Worx Landroid for my lawn. After a week or so of loving around with the boundary wire (and maybe another day or two to fine tune the clearance with the fence and hotbed), it’s amazing. It’s quiet, the software is great, and it has plenty of different levels of automation depending how much time you want to spend scheduling it.  I don’t have to mow my lawn anymore. Sure, I accidentally mowed on its lowest setting and now the backyard looks like a dead golf course, but gently caress grass and I didn’t do any work. I have a drain field in the back yard, so the grass grows really unevenly and I have to otherwise mow it frequently. It just does it for me. I still have to trim from time to time, but that's fine. It’s not the smartest thing out there, but it works and has a very active modification community as well. Even the customer service is great - I had a wheel come off for a dumb reason, and they emails me an assembly diagram so I could ensure I repaired it properly. Who does that? Anyway, if you’ve ever been curious about having a lawn roomba, let me know.  My cat being very concerned about the new, orange predator in his back yard. Solkanar512 fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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in a well actually posted:Here, line from pole to house is my problem, pole to pole is theirs. YMMV, of course. I'd always assumed it was utility's responsibility until it got to the weatherhead, but I also haven't needed to find out. Although I did once have PG&E reconnect the service ground/neutral on the pole-to-house line when it had come off in a storm.  Also for OP/PO, have you considered switching to a trenched service line instead of an overhead one? I guess this would be as good a time as any to switch...
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Progressive JPEG posted:I'd always assumed it was utility's responsibility until it got to the weatherhead, but I also haven't needed to find out. Although I did once have PG&E reconnect the service ground/neutral on the pole-to-house line when it had come off in a storm. That diagram is correct for some utility companies in some locations and some situations. There should be an entire page of "*" and "**", etc on the back of that.
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Lincoln posted:I just read this entire post, and it's a rambling mess. Basically, I need recommendations for grass seed to overseed my lawn over several seasons as part of a long-term rehab. Google KBG SPF30. There’s a lawnforum thread about the stuff and it looks awesome.
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What can you do for a lawn if you have a back yard with dogs up north? Last year we got a fence installed and another dog. After the snow thawed this winter I was left with urine burns all over that left huge bare spots. With watering, cutting the grass high, and milorganite, the grass has sprung back somewhat or at least hides the bare spots, but I have fescue up here in MN so the holes aren't exactly going to close up quickly. I used to water after our first dog peed, but that negates the benefits of a fence and is untenable for two dogs. I do not have a sprinkler system but it would own if I did, I drag sprinklers around now just to keep the lawn healthy and it does help water in the pee. I don't trust any additives or supplements that purport to eliminate the excess salts from dog urine, they sound like snake oil. Is there low salt food that could help? I can't force my dogs to drink more water... I'm aware I could try and train them to pee in a certain spot but that seems hard, I really like letting them run around and chase each other in the back yard. I feel like I could maybe overseed but not having a sprinkler system is going to make that tough, and the dogs will trample young grass. Just looking for ideas. Here's my poor lawn, it's lush and green but the patches make me sad  
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I'm looking to buy a utility trailer. It will be used to... - haul wood to the tree disposal - haul things to the dump - pick up compost and straw bales 1-2x per year - maybe move my riding mower around / take it in for servicing - occasionally haul rented equipment like a rear tine tiller or log splitter I'm considering this one:  It's a 5x10 with 2' sides and D-rings along the bottom of the interior walls. I thought the high sides would be better for hauling the wood and compost. Any advice or input?
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I typically see trailers that size with a 2000 or 3000 lb gross weight rating. It probably weights about 700 lbs, so gross weight - trailer weight = weight you can haul. I wouldn't get a 2000 lb rated trailer if I was planning to move any appreciable amount of material. If that's a 3k trailer, I think it'll work well for your usage.
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Hey goons. Why is my yard dead? This isn't the typical "oh its hot and I've gone dormant" this is "my hair is all falling out due to radiation exposure" except grass.  This is all in the area that was under asphalt last year; we tore all that out, spread 4 inches of asphalt and seeded last September. It looked magnificent this spring and in early June started browning. It's almost like it got cut at ground level, it's like a loose mat.
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Where do you live? Have you had basically no rain and a ton of heat also? On not even year old grass that will do it. Especially depending on seed mix. What did you seed with? Was it all cool season?
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Yea, I'm guessing new grass without established roots. Even established grass needs plenty of water to stay green in the summer.
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Alexandria, VA, zone 7b. Much wetter than average this year, and cooler than average too. Naturally that means I haven't watered the lawn, so I guess it could have been heat stress. Those dead patches are full sun. It was a bag of Scott's turf builder. I am open to other seed suggestions, doesn't even have to be grass! I hate turf and would gladly plant a substitute. I'm planning on making more raised beds so maybe I'll just mulch the whole yard.
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I don’t know how different VA was than Southeast PA but we just got done with a brutal stretch of dry days and a month of really high temps. If you also haven’t been watering… yeah.
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Accidentally watered my lawn for several hours.
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NomNomNom posted:Accidentally watered my lawn for several hours. Reminds me of a podcast I was listening to where they were talking about how you needed to water your lawn until there was an inch of water on top of it.
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 How likely is it that this 14 inch sinkhole is caused entirely by the downspout next to it? I've already relocated the downspout, but wondering how big of an issue this is.
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devicenull posted:How likely is it that this 14 inch sinkhole is caused entirely by the downspout next to it? 0%
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Fuckkk Well, it's either a problem with the sewer drain (about two feet to the left)... that's getting dug up in replaced in about a week, or the stream around ~50ft away is somehow causing it. Part of the sewer includes a mystery Y that heads in that direction, so *maybe* they just did a poo poo job capping the old septic line years ago? There's a break in the sewer line, but it's on the other end of the house around 40 ft away, so I doubt that's directly related...
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Yeah, sorry....that's just gonna need some digging to find out. A downspout isn't going to magically wash out a 14" column of soil next to it with no trace of where it went to. That poo poo is disappearing underground and going elsewhere.
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 Green is known sewer line - there's a weird Y fitting around where that question mark is that we couldn't get a camera down to tell where the hell it went. Fingers crossed they just poorly capped the Y when they removed the septic, and that's where all the water/soil is going.
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Can anyone give me the skinny on pre-emergent? Is it safe to use in areas I never expect to make a garden? My understanding is that it changes the ph of the soil, is that correct? Or is it some heinous concoction that’s the equivalent of salting the earth? If it’s not the latter, are there any the thread recommends? Ty in advance!
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Ubiquitus posted:Can anyone give me the skinny on pre-emergent? Is it safe to use in areas I never expect to make a garden? My understanding is that it changes the ph of the soil, is that correct? Or is it some heinous concoction that’s the equivalent of salting the earth?
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What is this and how/when do I prune it?    It’s in front of a house in zone 5b.
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I don't remember what those are called but you can absolutely brutalize them with hedge trimmers and saws. Providing you cut branches back and leave 1/2" in front of each node and leave enough they will bounce back to their new size and shape in a year. Two at most. They largely seem unkillable. And often way too big and out of control - because they need to be brutalized regularly.
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Do the leaves turn bright red in the fall? It looks like Euonymus alatus / burning bush. Invasive in some areas if you're not attached to it.
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According to the awesome app Seek, it's a Winged Euonymus
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Motronic posted:I don't remember what those are called but you can absolutely brutalize them with hedge trimmers and saws. Providing you cut branches back and leave 1/2" in front of each node and leave enough they will bounce back to their new size and shape in a year. Two at most. Great - we will give it a major haircut. It’s invading the neighbor’s well-manicured drive and I feel bad. Thanks everyone!
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Can you rototill dead grass into the soil if you are planning to start anew and reseed?
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vs Dinosaurs posted:Can you rototill dead grass into the soil if you are planning to start anew and reseed? I'd start with weed killer first and then till it up, but yes - I did that when restarting the two pasture areas at my house that were almost entirely weeds by the end of last summer. Roundup, wait a couple weeks, rototiller, seed/fertilizer, a fuckload of water. The only thing I probably should have done differently was waiting a bit longer after tilling and hitting it with more Roundup to make sure everything was dead, but I managed to get far enough along on the grass to hit it with 2,4-D and kill the majority of the weeds trying to come back (purselane and puncturevine) without hurting the grass too much. That, and I didn't do a great job of leveling things out, but it's also going to be left unmowed most of the time so it's fine either way.
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Thanks for the advice. Internet says waiting days not weeks before tilling, which is better for my schedule.
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