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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Lanx
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BrutulTM
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Yeah, I've had the local government trapper use them on my place before. We called him because one of our calves got eaten by coyotes. That guy is a coyote killing son of a bitch. We have friends and neighbors come out quite a bit to hunt coyotes and usually it's "we saw a couple but they were 500 yards away and running" or "we got a shot at one but missed". This dude came out for one day and got 9 coyotes, and he can do that anytime he wants. Mostly he shoots them, sometimes from a plane, but he does use the cyanide traps sometimes as well.
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If anyone is in the mood for some country bumpkin reading about culling pests, give this a shot - A Good Keen Man
I spent a few months hitchhiking around New Zealand in 2009 and asked my Kiwi friend if he had any books to recommend before I went over there. This was one book and I read it cover to cover on the flight over. It's a pretty quick and effortless read and really scratches the country itch. (The other book was Once were Warriors and was good, but depressing)
I spent a few months hitchhiking around New Zealand in 2009 and asked my Kiwi friend if he had any books to recommend before I went over there. This was one book and I read it cover to cover on the flight over. It's a pretty quick and effortless read and really scratches the country itch. (The other book was Once were Warriors and was good, but depressing)
I was scarred for years as an elementary-age kid when my grandfather put one of those guillotine traps in his yard. I asked how it worked and he found the other end of the tunnel and put a hose down it to flush the mole towards the trap. When it got there, I shit you not the head shot out the end of the tunnel and landed in my lap.
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I've had some luck killing groundhogs with these things. Light one and drop it in the hole when you know the groundhog is in it and cover the entrance hole with a board or something. It stays in the ground, breaths the gas, dies. Don't even have to deal with the body.
Fogel
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I've had some luck killing groundhogs with these things. Light one and drop it in the hole when you know the groundhog is in it and cover the entrance hole with a board or something. It stays in the ground, breaths the gas, dies. Don't even have to deal with the body.
Look at gopher hitler over here
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When I was in the military, we did some volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity and spent a couple weekends doing roof tearoffs and re-shingling singlewides. About a month later, a wind storm came through and took almost every shingle off one of the houses (lol).
I ended up doing roofing for 6 months after I got out and wouldn't pretend to be a pro, but I learned enough to be comfortable with the well house cover I'm doing. Except I just remembered that story at 4am this morning and also that we get wind storms at my house all the fucking time and now I'm worried about one of them stripping the roof of all the shingles I'm planning to tack on tonight after work.
What's the tl;dr on making shingles more wind resistant?
I ended up doing roofing for 6 months after I got out and wouldn't pretend to be a pro, but I learned enough to be comfortable with the well house cover I'm doing. Except I just remembered that story at 4am this morning and also that we get wind storms at my house all the fucking time and now I'm worried about one of them stripping the roof of all the shingles I'm planning to tack on tonight after work.
What's the tl;dr on making shingles more wind resistant?
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Bandwagon
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Just black jack? That's what I was thinking. Add a few rows just below above where the above shingle bottom goes.
God I hate this messy shit.
Nope, fuck that and you sound like my Neighbor. He puts metal rooves on everything.
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I’m not sure. My last house had a roofing weakness at one area when the wind would blow a certain direction and speed. It also had short flashing at that point and it leaked in and fucked up my ceiling so I had roofers come tear it out and put taller flashing in. I told them that the speed and direction was the same both times it leaked and it was rare. They had a tube that said “roofing cement” on it and added some to the bottom few rows of shingles in that area and said that would make them never move. I don’t remember the brand, just remember it was separate from the normal black shit they were using.
As you can tell I don’t know much about roofing. I’ve helped with it a few times and fucking hate it so avoid it.
Roofers Choice 15 Plastic Black Roof Cement Caulk 10.1 oz. RC015004 - The Home Depot
Roofers Choice Plastic Roof Cement is suitable for commercial and residential use. Easy to apply with a roofing trowel, putty knife or caulk gun.
www.homedepot.com
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Borzak
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Work on houses is dropping down a gear or will soon. Large contracting companies now getting allotments of romex and wire and such from the supply houses, from a friend thats an electrican. Oh boy. Email came in today I was CC'd on making sure all contractors working at the refinery have XX stuff required before starting a project and extra. No having something delivered at the last minute. Everyone suddenly in procurement mode.
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Thanks for sharing that. That was an exceptional and easy to understand explanation of the lumber pricing situation. I think I’m gonna save up so I can buy a proper mill in the mid-future.
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Going to ask a probably stupid and strange question that I'm not really sure how to google. I have a door would open a 180 degree swing. I want it to stop at 90 (because there is shit it could hit past 90 that would get damaged). Is there anything I could use that would stop the door?
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There are door stoppers that attach where the hinges are that you could use to stop the door at 90d.
You have a lot of leverage on them to punch a hole in the wall, though. Might want to put one on all 3 hinges. They do have a habit of wrecking the wall or the frame if people are kicking doors open.
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yup, i have these on all my doors
put them up high, so you don't accidentally hit your shin
also they will over time "dent" your moulding, obviously, so theres that, but it's better than having that springy thing