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Wrar posted:Unfortunately this largely depends on where you live. I know in Seattle most small buildings some have ac and fixing it isn't important like it would be in Texas or Florida. My lease (in TX) specifically states "HVAC failure is not considered an emergency" and not to bother them with it after hours. (not word for word, but paraphrased...). It took 3 days for them to fix mine last summer... and I'm on the top floor. They gave me a giant portable in that time, but it only kept the bedroom somewhat comfortable. .... the city has something else to say about that (can't be above 80 inside if it's below 100 outside; if it's above 100, the AC must get it at least 20 degrees cooler inside - IF a/c is provided by the landlord), but the state itself doesn't. Landlords aren't required to provide any form of HVAC by the state. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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STR posted:My lease (in TX) specifically states "HVAC failure is not considered an emergency" and not to bother them with it after hours. (not word for word, but paraphrased...). It took 3 days for them to fix mine last summer... and I'm on the top floor. They gave me a giant portable in that time, but it only kept the bedroom somewhat comfortable. I sent in the the request after hours last night and the guy called me back within about an hour (around 10 pm or so) he just showed up and I guess the compressor coils were dirty or something, did something with a hose and it's running again and seems to be blowing colder he said he'll be back in about an hour to check it again and make sure it can get back down to temp. Seems odd because it's been able to maintain about 68 with no problem all summer, but this is the first real heat we've gotten here all year. We shall see if it fixed it. Down to 80 now from an average of 85-86 all yesterday.
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I had one apartment where the AC really sucked. My apartment was always mid 70s and it was annoying. I put in a thing for them to check it out and they replaced something and it was sort of better. Then I moved to a better apartment and it was always 68 degrees in my apartment and it was amazing.
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Jun 19, 2018 21:37
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Y’all need spades, not shovels.
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Jun 19, 2018 21:42
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But we've already got shovels in spades 
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Jun 20, 2018 00:24
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Dagen H posted:But we've already got shovels in twain
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Jun 20, 2018 00:30
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Yeah, a "proper quality" spade to me is one with a forged head.
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Jun 20, 2018 00:37
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It’s me I put a pipe on the end
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Dunno. I only weigh 210, not particularly huge. At least Fiskars will send me a new shovel.
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Jun 20, 2018 01:39
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Are you levering off of the end of the handle? No shovel can do that. Maybe take smaller bites?
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Jun 20, 2018 01:43
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Anyone ask Windows98 his advice?
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Don't use a shovel to pry up a palm tree, I think I got it now.
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Jun 20, 2018 02:22
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FogHelmut posted:Don't use a shovel to pry up a palm tree, I think I got it now. Nah, but a lot of problems that a shovel alone can't tackle can be solved by adding a bit of rope and leverage 
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FogHelmut posted:Don't use a shovel to pry up a palm tree, I think I got it now. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Nah, but a lot of problems that a shovel alone can't tackle can be solved by adding a bit of rope and leverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAgsjJaCjC0&t=63s
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Jun 20, 2018 02:33
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Holy poo poo, why did they think that was a good idea?
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Jun 20, 2018 02:38
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You need a spade if you're gonna dig a pit, David!
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FogHelmut posted:Don't use a shovel to pry up a palm tree, I think I got it now. I had some lovely bushes to remove and my neighbor lent me his Lance of Longinus, a 5lb splitting wedge welded to the end of 6 feet of 3/4" steel bar. Slam that fucker down into a root and it goes through it like it's not there, and doesn't give a gently caress about levering your whole body off the ground prying stuff up. A++ would lance again.
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Nuevo posted:I had some lovely bushes to remove and my neighbor lent me his Lance of Longinus, a 5lb splitting wedge welded to the end of 6 feet of 3/4" steel bar. You know how sometimes you didn't know you needed a tool until you saw somebody else with one? Yeah. 
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Nuevo posted:I had some lovely bushes to remove and my neighbor lent me his Lance of Longinus, a 5lb splitting wedge welded to the end of 6 feet of 3/4" steel bar.  Gotta get me one of those root-killers.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Nah, but a lot of problems that a shovel alone can't tackle can be solved by adding Particularly applicable to palm snags. Also, never cut into a palm snag. If you absolutely HAVE TO, stand upwind. Trust me on this one. 
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ausgezeichnet posted:
You can pick up a post hole digging bar from home depot for like $50 which is basically the same thing. I've bent mine like once. It bends right back.
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Brigdh posted:You can pick up a post hole digging bar from home depot for like $50 which is basically the same thing. I've bent mine like once. It bends right back. We called those "rock bars" when I was in high school, because you had to use one when you ran into a rock that your auger wouldn't pull out. The one I was using was made form a wagon axle, and was probably 50 years older than I was. I got pretty good at using it when dad and I refenced my great-uncle's property adjacent to ours.
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Nuevo posted:I had some lovely bushes to remove and my neighbor lent me his Lance of Longinus, a 5lb splitting wedge welded to the end of 6 feet of 3/4" steel bar. I was once roped into helping tear down a pigeon coop. Dude whose property it was had acquired a slightly-larger-than-a-can-of-coke solid steel cylinder (coaxially) welded to the end of two metres of steel pipe. No one knew where it originated but it was clearly both much older and more experienced than any of us. That fucker made short work of the demo. For wooden, nailed-together stuff it was a godsend.
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Nuevo posted:I had some lovely bushes to remove and my neighbor lent me his Lance of Longinus, a 5lb splitting wedge welded to the end of 6 feet of 3/4" steel bar. Is this what it looked like? I haven't used it for anything yet but now I want to find things to apply it to. 
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shy boy from chess club posted:Is this what it looked like? I haven't used it for anything yet but now I want to find things to apply it to. I'd call something like that the "destructo bar of DEATH".
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Darchangel posted:We called those "rock bars" when I was in high school, because you had to use one when you ran into a rock that your auger wouldn't pull out. The one I was using was made form a wagon axle, and was probably 50 years older than I was. I got pretty good at using it when dad and I refenced my great-uncle's property adjacent to ours. Cool, I just looked them up here and they're called fencing bars locally. Might come in handy for my brother as he wants to pull up a palm tree.
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So when a halberd and a railroad spike fall in love with each other...
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So when a halberd and a railroad spike fall in love with each other... I got a hitch pin out of some piece of heavy equipment (like a grader or a bulldozer or something) that I always wanted a real handle on. It was a hardened steel cylinder the size of a 24-oz beer can with a 1" hole in one end for a crosspin. Just hand-held, I used it for flattening and hammering all manner of things. I decided to use it to drive a hatchet when splitting wood and it shattered the back end of the hatchet. I always wanted to make it into a 12-lb sledge and ruin delicates with it, like an engine block or something.
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Herv posted:This should do it for those fence posts. tiddly little thing like that would be fine for occasional fencing work, but you really want to go bigger if your project is more than 2-3 spans.
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IPCRESS posted:tiddly little thing like that would be fine for occasional fencing work, but you really want to go bigger if your project is more than 2-3 spans. Agreed. 
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Memento posted:Agreed. What do you call a machine like that? I wanna read about it 
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Jun 21, 2018 16:38
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A bucket-wheel excavator. Specifically, that's the Bagger 288.
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Lego makes one that might actually be the right scale for fence posts. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Bucket-Wheel-Excavator-42055 Though I guess the design makes more of a trench than a hole. But if you dig the trench deep enough, then use another machine to fill in around the fence posts, it could work!
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 Warhammer 40k come to life. This qualifies as a horrible mechanical failure quote:"When the original BORAX reactor was retired, the engineers decided to blow the control rods out of the core with compressed air just to see what would happen. It's not often you get the chance to do something like that. What happened was not so much an excursion as a fizzle."11:53 AM"Lichtenberger hit the EJECT CONTROLS button. KABOOM! Up she went with the force equivalent of 70 pounds of high explosive in the reactor vessel. A total energy release of 80 megajoules had been expected. They got 135 megajoules instead, and this inaccurate prediction instantly qualified the test as a nuclear accident. The little reactor that usually shed energy at the rate of 1 watt ramped up to 19 billion watts with a minimum period of 2.6 milliseconds. In all other tests of explosive steaming, the thing would send up a geyser of water droplets, sparkling in the western sun. This time the core melted instantly and homogenized into a vertical column of black smoke. A shock wave rippled through the floor of the control trailer.Walter Zinn, standing in the control trailer, shouted “Harold, you’d better put the rods back in!”“I don’t think it will do any good,” Lichtenberger shouted back. “There’s one flying through the air!”" CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Nuevo posted:A++ would lance again. My parents have one that my grandfather made. I think it started life as a truck axle. It's an inch and a half in diameter and five feet long, with one end ground to a point and a piece of half-inch plate the size of your palm weled to the other end.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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I see your bagger and raise you The Captain. Heaviest machine ever to move on land. Yes, that's a wheel loader underneath it. Eat your heart out, Jawas.    Horrible mechanical failure is it burned in 1991. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I see your bagger and raise you The Captain. Bagger 288 regularly moves and was moved 14 miles under it own power. Bager 293 is the Guiness World Record Holder at 14,200 tonnes
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I see your bagger and raise you The Captain. Aww, reminds me of these guys: 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Heaviest machine ever to move on land. Yes, that's a wheel loader underneath it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcmGKsHZXZ8 Big Muskie, a dragline. 220--cubic-yard bucket, compared to The Captain's 180 yards. My cousin works at a coal mine, one of the lakes I fish is near a coal mine, I've seen slightly smaller examples in action. To get back on topic, here's one of the slightly smaller ones having its cables replaced, and one of the cranes holding the boom up fails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrn6ellbtpc
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