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Living room and part of the kitchen has had the trench area leveled to the rest of the floor. This floor leveling compound is a real BEAR to work with. Its supposed to have a working time of 10 minutes, its really less than 5. I'm sure that's just fine for pros, but an amateur like me would like some more time! I ended up mixing it in small batches - about 3 from a bag - so I could get it poured, feathered, and tools cleaned up before it setup too much. With that said, it really does do a great job. Living room laminate goes back in tomorrow!

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Building this outhouse at our camp has been keeping me from my Jeep but it’s been a good project! Almost done. I have to build a cover for that little window. There’s a nice view of the lake out there for whoever’s on the throne! Figure there should be a cover though in case anyone has a shy bladder/butt
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Fking fire truck blew a coolant hose below the turbo yesterday on a call.not much room to reach up there and get it out.trying to find a 1" hose is not what i wanted to be doing on my sunday. Gal driving didn't notice til she parked it. Hopefully the 9 liter(?) International 6 is ok. That wouldn't be a cheap fix
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We moved in first week of February to a completely wild backyard (about 5/8 of an acre bounded by creeks) and had a guy come mulch the brush and trees.

This is what it looked like a month ago when I raked the mulch into piles.

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Then spring rains came and a bunch of brush came back...about 10% of which is poison ivy.

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It also provides plenty of habitat for ticks so we can't even go back there without boots and long pants and a good coating of DEET, and it hides copperheads really well, such as the one I almost stepped on last week chainsawing a tree into firewood.
I dispensed about 42 gallons of glyphosate solution on Friday and plan to mow and bag it tomorrow, then when I can find time next week I'll seed it with bermuda (too late for fescue to survive the summer) and spray it with insect killer.
 
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freedom_in_4low said:
We moved in first week of February to a completely wild backyard (about 5/8 of an acre bounded by creeks) and had a guy come mulch the brush and trees.

This is what it looked like a month ago when I raked the mulch into piles.

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Then spring rains came and a bunch of brush came back...about 10% of which is poison ivy.

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It also provides plenty of habitat for ticks so we can't even go back there without boots and long pants and a good coating of DEET, and it hides copperheads really well, such as the one I almost stepped on last week chainsawing a tree into firewood.
I dispensed about 42 gallons of glyphosate solution on Friday and plan to mow and bag it tomorrow, then when I can find time next week I'll seed it with bermuda (too late for fescue to survive the summer) and spray it with insect killer.
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Have you considered goats? I kept 4 for a year and they knocked the poison ivy way back. You can rent them too.
For our tick situation we let the chickens and ducks roam around eating them and I spray a rosemary & cedar based repellent around the yard perimeter. Keeps mosquitoes away too. It’s not 100% but it’s the best way I’ve found to minimize those nuisances!
 
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Granite said:
Have you considered goats? I kept 4 for a year and they knocked the poison ivy way back. You can rent them too.
For our tick situation we let the chickens and ducks roam around eating them and I spray a rosemary & cedar based repellent around the yard perimeter. Keeps mosquitoes away too. It’s not 100% but it’s the best way I’ve found to minimize those nuisances!
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Thats organic. He may even find a local to work a deal with for the goats.
 
Granite said:
Have you considered goats? I kept 4 for a year and they knocked the poison ivy way back. You can rent them too.
For our tick situation we let the chickens and ducks roam around eating them and I spray a rosemary & cedar based repellent around the yard perimeter. Keeps mosquitoes away too. It’s not 100% but it’s the best way I’ve found to minimize those nuisances!
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We have. The rub is that we do have an HOA and livestock animals like goats are not allowed, though we can have hens, but no roosters. We do plan to get chickens to help with the ticks once I get the yard under control and have time to build a coop...probably later this summer.

We are thinking though that we'll use goats to clear the rest of the property, about 3.5 more acres, maybe next year. I haven't had any luck finding anybody that rents them locally but for a space that size I'll probably buy some and just sell them when they're done, and repeat every couple of years as necessary. We're at the edge of the neighborhood and back up to area zoned for ag so I figure we'll have a good start of a few weeks before anybody's able to piece together where the goat noises are coming from.
 
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I'm building a tear drop trailer, square back style. The body structure is progressing and I'll have to decide on how to skin it soon. There are several options ... I just have to pick one.

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I was fussing over what type of hinges to use for the doors ... and then it hit me! These will look fine after I blast and powder coat them.

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The post re-plumb house re-assembly is plodding along. The living room laminate is back in, so the living room is back together. Wife tore the Dining room apart to clean out the cement dust. Well, hell. What with everything out of there, I might as well repaint the ceiling like I did the living room ceiling just before the plumbers did their thing. Then wife decides that the built-in shelves that we use for our ancestor altars/shrines/whatevers needed a color change, so she started putting KILZ on those. Dining room is now partially back together:
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I haven't been able to work on the shed for several weeks, but I got the door done today:
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Doorknob and deadbolt are next, then it'll be time for paint. After paint, I'll put the trim on it which I'll paint ahead of time. Then its done except for shelving inside.
 
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