Here’s one of them. This one was sitting outside for many many years, it has been in the yard since before I was married some 38 years ago. I turned it into a fountain last year. I sprayed the bottom with a little flex seal because it had a pin hole leak on one side and between the weight of the water and the rocks I wanted a little extra protection.
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Pretty sure this is one of our longtime members:
Congratulations on the feature!
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Thanks! I’m looking forward to seeing the print edition. Check out my website to see more info about the video feedback device and more videos:
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Excellent stuff!
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Thanks!
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Here’s the most recent video shoot with the Device:
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I’m about to lead a bunch of scouts to restore and rebuild this thing—does anyone have resources on rebuilding/recreating vintage farm equipment? It doesn’t have to work but I’d like it to look reasonably period-accurate and hold up to the weather.
I think we’re going to have to replace most of the wood but it doesn’t look like it was original anyway.
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Looks like a rough ride in more ways than one!
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I need some help in identifying and naming a DC connector please, folks.
I have an electric bicycle, the Honeywell Dasher that has a single-prong DC connector in the battery and I want to find a proper USB to (whatever this connector is) cable so I can use a portable solar charger on long trips.
The connector on the battery charger for the bicycle has “5A 100 volts” imprinted on the side, the tip is black, and the hole is keyhole-shaped like some amphibians’ pupils. It is female, while the battery is male.
Can anyone help me with the proper terminology for this connector so I can conduct a proper search for an adapter cable?
“USB to (whatever the hell they call this)”
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This is what we ended up with, mostly due to running out of time. The poor guy needed a new pot, stat. We bought the “half barrel” and gate handle hardware from home depot. We replaced the original screws on the handles with nuts, washers, and bolts. Drilled holes for install. Didn’t take long, looks good, and worked well to move it last night. We did 4 handles. Too big to attempt moving by a single person. Made moving really easy with two adults
This poor lemon tree. Totally charlie brown tree when we first got it and periodically it looses all it’s leaves! This year it was a windstorm while we were at work.
I’ll have to post a pic when it fluffs out later this spring
ETA the barrel-pot had 4 drainage holes an inch wide. We stapled some stiff plastic grid stuff over the holes and placed some rocks around them. Drainage should be good without loosing a bunch of dirt every time we give it a good soak in the summer months. Forgot the compost, we’ll dress it this weekend
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take a photo and do a reverse image search?
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those black “cables” are irrigation hoses?
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Yeah. Hooked up to the sprinkler system with heads that dribble water whenever that section of the system runs. Works well almost all year. I do a soak with the hose during the worst of the summer when I think the tree needs it. That entire front bed is drip irrigation
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That looks really nice. Adding the extra set of handles is clever. I’m going to use that if I don’t find something affordable in resin or heavy duty plastic by the weekend.
Potted citrus are temperamental, aren’t they? The key lime is the worst of the bunch: dropping all its leaves for no rhyme or reason, refusing to bloom and set fruit for a year, then blooming constantly. Meyer lemon goes a little pouty when it’s thinning out the baby lemons and after the fruit has ripened, but nothing like lime. But they’re all tough plants and worth the relatively minor hassle.
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I would usually start something like that by looking on Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive for old carpentry/farm advice manuals
Something like this for example:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39791/39791-h/39791-h.htm#Page_179
I don’t know if that one in particular helps but checking a few different ones out might help give an idea of the sort of techniques, joints, tools, etc that might have been used.
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