Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

It took a gallon & a half to put two coats on just this end wall of the shed. That wood has so many surface cracks that just soak up the paint like a sponge.

It's plywood with grooves cut in it to make it look like individual boards.




No primer, because I painted some test spots on this shed last year when I was working on the barn, and the primered spots immediately stripped off with the wire wheel but the paint-only spots just smeared a little bit. The red latex barn paint sticks better than the oil based primer.

 

[Oxbow]

Hey @Duck whatever happened to the chic you met at the Halloween party that you hooked up with?

I remember you 2 really hit it off while setting next to the keg on your riding mowers. You were talking bout your deck size and she had mentioned she wanted to see you mow. Next thing I know you guys fired up your mowers and left. Next morning we drove past your place and saw her mower parked out front.

Always wondered bout that night.

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Wasn't that the gal that was calling him her 4-Stroke Mulcher at the annual Eager Beaver Lawn Care Symposium that fall?

 

[Humble pie]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that was her.

I remember Duck holding her hand while they were looking at the Murray lawnmower display. Duck was seriously interested in that new line of Murray push mowers
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Business is really picking up for him. He bought a brand new roll back to recover customer’s broke down mowers.

 

[Shogun Warrior]

Business is really picking up for him. He bought a brand new roll back to recover customer’s broke down mowers.
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He could haul his motorcycle and dump leaves at the same time. Pretty sweet setup. It's probably not easy to cut around trees though.

 

[Duck]

Business is really picking up for him. He bought a brand new roll back to recover customer’s broke down mowers.
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I would definitely cruise that around town.

Have you ever heard a V-twin Briggs with straight pipes?

 

[Electric Chicken]

I would definitely cruise that around town.

Have you ever heard a V-twin Briggs with straight pipes?

So Harley uses Briggs motors.

 

[Duck]

So Harley uses Briggs motors.

No. But maybe they should. They'd be more reliable.

 

[jmon]

When your seal driver is 1300 miles away!

 

[mndriver]

When your seal driver is 1300 miles away!
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If it works and gets the job done, it ain’t dumb.

 

[Duck]

I don't really need a back porch light because I put one on the shed 20 feet away shortly after we moved in here in 2003.

But I got sick of looking at the one on the house.



Busted screws on the box, so they held the fixture on with duct tape. The motion light never worked. You have to go in the basement and reach up between the floor joists for the manual switch for it.



So today I was digging through my junk pile in the shop and realized that I had everything I needed to put a waterproof switch on the conduit and replace the entire fixture too.





But I still probably ain't ever gonna use it because of the one on the shed. Fuggit though.

 

[mndriver]

I don't really need a back porch light because I put one on the shed 20 feet away shortly after we moved in here in 2003.

But I got sick of looking at the one on the house.

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Busted screws on the box, so they held the fixture on with duct tape. The motion light never worked. You have to go in the basement and reach up between the floor joists for the manual switch for it.

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So today I was digging through my junk pile in the shop and realized that I had everything I needed to put a waterproof switch on the conduit and replace the entire fixture too.

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But I still probably ain't ever gonna use it because of the one on the shed. Fuggit though.

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Nothing like redundant redundancy

 

[Duck]

Nothing like redundant redundancy

In case one burns out and I'm too lazy to go get the ladder.

 

[tommyh]

that siding looks like what we call T-111

 

[Duck]

that siding looks like what we call T-111

Thanks. I didn't know what it was called.



It takes GOBS of paint because for some reason they put that rough texture with mill lines perpendicular to the water flow.

I hate it and I'd never install it again and wouldn't have used it when I enclosed the north half that used to be a screen room, if the rest of the shed hadn't already been sided with it.

If I ever put any kind of siding on another shed and I don't have to match what's already on it, I'm using pole barn steel.

We had a few sheets leftover from the construction of the pole barn in 2008 and I used the only sheet of gray just to keep weeds down next to the house.

Then 8 years later, a big limb from a tree fell & poked a hole in the roof.

After I washed the dirt off that piece that was lying directly on the dirt for 8 years, it was spotless like new except for a damaged corner where the lawnmower bit it.

I used half of the sheet to fix the roof and today I can't even tell where the hole was.

That's damn good powder coating.

 

[Sinister]

Does anyone know if these come assembled somehow or do I have to bolt stuff on should I actually buy one of these.

DR Field and Brush Mowers

www.drpower.com

 

[Duck]

Does anyone know if these come assembled somehow or do I have to bolt stuff on should I actually buy one of these.

DR Field and Brush Mowers

www.drpower.com

No idea.

Mine is a Swisher and I had to put the wheels and the tongue on. It was in a huge crate that will not fit in a pickup. Coincidentally I happened to have an 18 wheeler at the time.

I was deadheading home from Milwaukee and stopped at Northern Tool in Menominee Falls.

 

[BlackBart]

This is why I don't like working on f*ing gravel.

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Try puttin a hunk of plywood under it next time

 

[Duck]

70 degrees on the top shelf of the refrigerator. 55 in the freezer. And it's supposed to be hot as fuck tomorrow.

I've got both of my big coolers in the bath tub (because the ice will melt and the coolers have drain plugs I can pull.)

Each cooler barely fits in the bath tub so I've got them stacked.

80 lbs of ice in each one.

I'm definitely not looking forward to getting that thing out of the house and a new one in there tomorrow. I haven't even put the air conditioners in yet.

I've got air conditioning in the shop but not the house.

 

[Shreck]

70 degrees on the top shelf of the refrigerator. 55 in the freezer. And it's supposed to be hot as fuck tomorrow.

I've got both of my big coolers in the bath tub (because the ice will melt and the coolers have drain plugs I can pull.)

Each cooler barely fits in the bath tub so I've got them stacked.

80 lbs of ice in each one.

I'm definitely not looking forward to getting that thing out of the house and a new one in there tomorrow. I haven't even put the air conditioners in yet.

I've got air conditioning in the shop but not the house.

We just had to replace the AC in our house,after 29 years might as well do the furnace also.

 

[mndriver]

Our ac died this week too. Part of why I came home Friday was to get a new one installed.

the landlord came over and we put one in he had laying around.

set the machine to 70* and in a couple hours it was down to 66* according to my thermostat for the furnace.


Been kind of nice turning the noisy things off at night and opening the windows the last couple days.