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Beef Of Ages posted:If the I married the most "my type" person imaginable and IDK which one it is but its certainly one of them. Hadlock posted:
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Apr 26, 2024 19:09
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don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
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I have the 40V Ryobi chainsaw with a 6Ah and a 4Ah battery. I've run out of power with the other battery not yet recharged once or twice but pretty rare. I also have one of these, and it's great for trimming: Sirotan posted:I just cut off a prob 6-7" diameter trunk from a tree with this and it took me maybe 3min of effort:
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Apr 26, 2024 19:12
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I got 2 telephone wires hanging what feels like fairly low across my backyard. Phone is CenturyLink up here, if I'm not a customer will they come out and remove these lines?
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Apr 26, 2024 19:43
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Hell I couldn't get Verizon to come out within 24 hours for a line blocking my apartment complex driveway. The power company came out within 30 minutes to confirm it wasn't power, that was nice. Is the wire there to serve your house? I've been wondering the same about the old phone line box that wasn't removed when they installed FiOS.
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Apr 26, 2024 19:51
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Guy Axlerod posted:Hell I couldn't get Verizon to come out within 24 hours for a line blocking my apartment complex driveway. The power company came out within 30 minutes to confirm it wasn't power, that was nice. Yeah the lines run to the garage and house. PO had quite a number of phones it seems, there are jacks everywhere.
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Apr 26, 2024 20:04
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If it's an electric wire you're supposed to remove it with an electric chainsaw.
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Apr 26, 2024 20:05
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Sundae posted:If it's an electric wire you're supposed to remove it with an electric chainsaw. bad, no
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Apr 26, 2024 20:14
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phosdex posted:I got 2 telephone wires hanging what feels like fairly low across my backyard. Phone is CenturyLink up here, if I'm not a customer will they come out and remove these lines? Time to cut it all out and Dispose of it
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Apr 26, 2024 20:15
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Guy Axlerod posted:Is the wire there to serve your house? I've been wondering the same about the old phone line box that wasn't removed when they installed FiOS. Rip that poo poo out
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Apr 26, 2024 20:24
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I called AT&T and asked them to send someone over to remove the unused aerial lines to my house. A guy just randomly showed up less than a week later, said he was in the area and just happened to see the ticket they had opened for my request in the system. Told me those request are given absolute lowest priority and if it had not been for happy circumstance I could have been waiting years. tl;dr you should just remove it from the side of your house and coil it up by whatever pole they are coming from, if you are feeling nice.
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Apr 26, 2024 20:45
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Safety squirrel would like to remind you those cables are carrying a (pretty safe) voltage of 30-50v before you start cutting them with scissors. It's probably inconsequential but just FYI There's some tutorials out there on how to charge your cell phone from a POTS line in an emergency using a $0.12 voltage converter chip from, wherever you buy that stuff, now that RadioShack is gone
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Apr 26, 2024 20:52
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Hadlock posted:Safety squirrel would like to remind you those cables are carrying a (pretty safe) voltage of 30-50v before you start cutting them with scissors. It's probably inconsequential but just FYI That's why you protect yourself by keeping at least 18" of electric chainsaw between yourself and the wires at all times.
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Apr 26, 2024 20:56
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Sundae posted:That's why you protect yourself by keeping at least 18" of electric chainsaw between yourself and the wires at all times. If all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like a... medium diameter branch?
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Apr 26, 2024 20:58
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Sundae posted:That's why you protect yourself by keeping at least 18" of electric chainsaw between yourself and the wires at all times. In theory if you're using an Ego powered saw, then yeah it's got a 56v battery and the grip should be insulated to at least 56v, and the line is a max of 50v If you're using an 18v Milwaukee or something, on paper it might not be rated to cut through live telephone lines
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Apr 26, 2024 21:01
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Don't use a chainsaw to cut telephone lines, that's stupidly dangerous! You have to use a polesaw instead
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Apr 26, 2024 23:42
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QuarkJets posted:Don't use a chainsaw to cut telephone lines, that's stupidly dangerous! You have to use a polesaw instead No, you use the polesaw to cut down the utility pole. That's why it's a "pole"saw, duh.
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Apr 27, 2024 00:07
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Cut the utility pole down but aim so that it falls on the tree and takes it out as well, gotta be efficient in today’s world
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Apr 27, 2024 00:19
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Thank you for reminding me of this. https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1305592893244166144 (And the follow up blog post https://mooncrew.substack.com/p/the-story-of-a-tree-falling-in-houston)
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Sirotan posted:I called AT&T and asked them to send someone over to remove the unused aerial lines to my house. A guy just randomly showed up less than a week later, said he was in the area and just happened to see the ticket they had opened for my request in the system. Told me those request are given absolute lowest priority and if it had not been for happy circumstance I could have been waiting years. Huh you know mine just fell off the side of my house shortly before I had the siding done. It's funny how that works. (they were already disconnected on the pole side, but lol if you think I'm letting people attach a lovely old NID to brand new siding)
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Apr 27, 2024 02:28
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Reminds me: have to head over to my son’s house with an appropriate ladder to remove three dish-TV antennas (& a snarl of coax) from the pent roof over the dining room
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Apr 27, 2024 02:59
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Just hire the cheapest tree guy on FB or Craig's list to take care of a nearby branch and fingers crossed, it takes the line down with it, but also hope it doesn't hit your house.
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Apr 27, 2024 05:45
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Question about framing since I can't find a clear diagram- I want to drop ethernet from my attic to the first floor. The interior wall I'm going to use on the second floor doesn't correspond to a wall on the first floor so it'll need to go from a stud bay to a joist cavity and then over a few feet. How do I make that transition? Can I just drill down from the bottom plate and expect to punch through straight to the joist cavity?
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Tiny Timbs posted:Question about framing since I can't find a clear diagram- It's a bit of a pain in the butt, but if you don't have a right angle drill for this sort of thing, I've had shockingly decent luck with a Dewalt right angle drill bit adapter and an extra long drill bit. Basically punch your hole for a junction box closer to the floor, then use a combination of the above to get the drill In and make your hole in the wall plate. Combination of harbor freight fiberglass push sticks, cable lube, and fish tape should get your wires down and through to the joist bay below. For getting around ceiling to wall transitions, I've just cut out a thin slice of the corner and patched it back up. You may have to make hole in the ceiling underneath to pull and route it up through there. Personally I'd just install a junction box in the ceiling and put a unifi wireless access point right there instead of going the whole way around and down Unrelated tip -- if stud detectors don't work for you, IR cameras are also magic for locating studs In sure there's a much better way, like the magnetic cable pullers that was talked about a few pages back
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Apr 28, 2024 16:29
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Catatron Prime posted:Personally I'd just install a junction box in the ceiling and put a unifi wireless access point right there instead of going the whole way around and down Yea this. Unless you really need cat6 over WiFi in that location for some reason this is waaaaay easier and effectively the same for 95% of people. POE to an AP.
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It’s all smooth drywall so I’m not going to be too fussed about patching holes. Thinking about it again though, I can take a more circuitous route from the attic, down two floors into the basement through a common wall, and then over a few joists and up into the first floor. That way most of the patching is in the basement ceiling and I won’t have to deal with a ceiling to wall transition. Or just say gently caress it and run it out the soffit and through the exterior of the house and be done with it in 20 minutes.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Or just say gently caress it and run it out the soffit and through the exterior of the house and be done with it in 20 minutes. No, Gary! Bad! That's a bad Gary!
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Tiny Timbs posted:Or just say gently caress it and run it out the soffit and through the exterior of the house and be done with it in 20 minutes. Well, I know what I'd do.
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Apr 29, 2024 04:07
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Ive had regular cat5 to my outside AP left exposed to the elements in northern MN for two years now and its still working for what its worth.
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Apr 29, 2024 14:46
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Look at some point in time we all become gary. Its how the last gary was gary, and the one before him.
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Apr 29, 2024 15:03
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Just make sure you use fasteners that won't rust. My mom had someone do this for her on her house a decade ago, they ran the cable out a wall and then used clips with nails under the lip of the siding to go around the house and up to a 2nd floor bedroom. The nails have all rusted and rust has run down the siding and it looks like complete poo poo. Cable still works fine though!!
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Apr 29, 2024 15:05
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Getting through the centurylink chatbot to an actual agent who was able to create a ticket for phone line removal was surprisingly easy. Maybe the 2 days spent with Xfinity bots trying to run credit checks and signup new mobile phones while I just wanted my service moved set my expectations low. They gave me a commit date just a week out so we'll see how the actual removal goes.
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Anyone know about installing shade sails over a deck? I'm looking to put some up over mine and I'm not really sure how big and beefy the posts need to be. I've already decided to go with steel posts, so there's that decided at least. The area I'm covering is 20' x 40' and I want to put the sail 12 ft off the deck. I'll have posts at the corners, but I can't put anything in the middle. I know that sag may be an issue, but that'll have to be addressed later. I've been looking around at a bunch of off the shelf components and I'm seeing people use 2.5" 12 gauge pipe for their sails and honestly that just does not seem like enough strength. I was thinking that, due to the size of my area, I should maybe get 3" schedule 40 pipe for my posts. Is that overkill? Bigger is better, in this case I would think, but it's also decently more expensive. I am going to talk with the guy at the steel supplier when I go, but I wanted to get a few more opinions first.
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We have a 16x20' deck I initially wanted a ~14x18' shade. So I got that last year. Turns out rectangles are hard to keep in tension especially as they stretch out. This year we're getting a more reasonable ~8x8x8' triangle I don't like how much of the sky it blocks, especially since ours attaches to the house on two sides Our friends put in a pergola thing off their house which is 20'+ up in the air which I really liked. Make sure it's at least 12' off the ground
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A bit late for chainsaw chat, but I bought a plug in electric chain saw at Aldi last year for like $20. It did the job for cutting down some small trees growing in places I did not want them. Am happy with it. I did however end up with a giant gallon jug of chainsaw lube that I will never use all of as menards was out of the smaller containers when I went there.
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I have a ~35x20 shade sail over my pool and it uses 6x6 steel square tube as the supports. The key to prevent sag is to have a twist in the middle so have two of the posts on opposite corners be taller than the other two. My heights ended up being two poles at 8 feet and two at 14.
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Qwijib0 posted:I have a ~35x20 shade sail over my pool and it uses 6x6 steel square tube as the supports. The key to prevent sag is to have a twist in the middle so have two of the posts on opposite corners be taller than the other two. My heights ended up being two poles at 8 feet and two at 14. 6x6, wow, maybe I'm actually underestimating the size posts I need... Do you happen to know the thickness of the steel?
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Mine is/was held up with 4x4" wood posts, I was thinking about downgrading to 2x2" 14ga if I went with steel 6x6" post is probably easier for roughhousing wild pool party kids to see, though Edit: the labor cost to install the posts is going to dwarf the steel cost, I doubt the steel tubing costs more than $400 unless you bought it through a vendor, or it's been hot dipped galvanized Hadlock fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 1, 2024 |
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SamsCola posted:6x6, wow, maybe I'm actually underestimating the size posts I need... Do you happen to know the thickness of the steel? The post size was required to meet ~100mph wind resistance as it is classified as a "permanent structure" for the permit I needed. I am not sure on the thickness, it sounds pretty hollow when tapped, so probably not super thick (helpful, I know).
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People always underestimate how strong supports for this kind of thing need to be. It’s not just about max load under sustained winds - you have to be aware of dynamic loading when the wind is gusting and blowing.
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Qwijib0 posted:The post size was required to meet ~100mph wind resistance as it is classified as a "permanent structure" for the permit I needed. I am not sure on the thickness, it sounds pretty hollow when tapped, so probably not super thick (helpful, I know). Sunk & concreted into holes how deep, may I ask? We're thinking of ripping out and redoing similar poles here, to include hammock strength. Lawnie posted:People always underestimate how strong supports for this kind of thing need to be. It’s not just about max load under sustained winds - you have to be aware of dynamic loading when the wind is gusting and blowing. yeah the statics for the....static....load is trivially easy to compute. not so for trying to see what a storm would do. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 19:57 on May 1, 2024 |
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