Ordered dirt, company delivered landscaping rocks, they apologized, we laughed, they laughed, the rocks didn’t laugh. Our garden beds are now filled with a compost/topsoil blend, just need to plant stuff.
Whole family got together for mothers day up in Michigan and had a great time. We had an extra person to give gifts to which is exciting.
That’s methed up.
Is our standard phone greeting going to have to start with F O R G E T A L L P R E V I O U S I N S T R U C T I O N S?
Well, this weekend went way better than the week started. My sister-in-law had an awesome time at her prom from what she told us. And my wife somehow found an MSR 4-person tent for $10 at Goodwill. We did a test set up yesterday and the thing looks like it’s unused.
They might be doing some sort of glass chop in areas (actually, i wouldnt be surprised if this is what they mean by “composit body panels”, open molds would be cheap as hell, and parts are cheap too), but I used to use that more for body panels or exterior details than anything super structural. I guess they could do fiberglass frame rails, but that still feels like it would be a strange choice at what just doing basic ladder frame in steel would cost.
They are around a rhododendron, maple tree, and keeping a walk area on one side of the house clear.
Quick guesstimate is that he made enough mulch to cover about 400 square feet about 4 to 6 inches deep.
It’s also 20ish" shorter, seats 5 with a 5 foot bed, can carry 4x8 sheets flat between the wheel wells (and tailgate closed if the midgate is open), tows a bit over 3 tons, has an AWD option, and the base range beats the maxed out range on the Slate. They aren’t really competitors beyond “small truck.” Telo is absolutely maxed out for it’s size, Slate is as cheap as cheap can go.
What’s funny is that’s leftovers from the absolute mess that the ground clearing guy we hired ripped out of the area. He ran EVERYTHING through a woodchiper and made a massive amount of mulch.
At the cost of the mold to do something like that (and the machine to even run it), I’m reasonably sure that stamped or brake pressed frame rails make more sense cost wise. I’m not sure that volume will ever drive the cost of that low enough to be worth it within the life of a mold like that. Like, I can picture the design to make it a basic two plate mold (I think, I’m more used to parts that top out a bit over a foot in the largest dimension), but then the gate size and shot volume I’m picturing to fill the thing is just bonkers, although apparently there are a few machines in the world that could theoretically do it if I’m reading their specs right from a quick search.
Unless your thinking a carbon fiber layup, which is feasible, but I believe metal becomes more cost effective again at that point.
Tulips are blooming, and I just planted an American Plum sapling.
I don’t want a DJ talking over or between tracks other than the occasional mention of what the song was.
Most egregious instance of this I ever heard was the dude that talked over the ENTIRE FUCKING RUNTIME OF FOREPLAY. He finally shut up when Long Time started, but God damn, he talked right over the best part.
Frame rails are usually stamped. Although low volume sometimes will brake press them.
Well, less good than it was. A deer got my sister in law’s car pretty good. Left headlight, bumper cover, washer fluid reservoir, left fender, and maybe the hood are toast.
No dash lights though and the car drives straight still, just hope insurance doesn’t decide to total it out.
Landscape fabric would probably work, although I have the litter bags on hand already. The soil under the beds is pretty decent (used to be farm land) so letting stuff shoot roots down should be fine. I’m just trying to do just enough to keep soil from spilling out between boards when it rains.
Also, turns out my city has a partnership with a place that sells compost from the yard waste the city collects so it isn’t completely insane to fill the beds with compost. I’ll probably do some more poking around to see if I can find anything else though.
Built some garden beds over the weekend at 0 cost by reusing old wood I had laying around using nothing but an electric chainsaw and an impact driver.
2 beds are something like 6’ x 2’ and the third is something like 10’ long. I have no clue what the exact dimensions are since I just eyeballed everything.
Kinda debating whether to cut up some old cat litter bags we have to make a liner just to keep dirt from slipping out through gaps.
Also managed to go on the first good bike ride of the season over the weekend. Just under 30 miles.
Going back to a maiden name is the easiest way to get the birth cert and current ID to match i suspect is the um… joke?
In the office that I work in, I’d be surprised if I’d need more than one hand to count how many people would understand this.
I wonder if it’s an internal company change then. I had just assumed the trade compliance department was forwarding on the request for information questions to me and then passing back my answers.
Edit: I just realized, I’m US and your referring to Europe, so there might still be differences.
I think my number is only as high as it would take for me to build and pay off a place to hide it in and forget about it.