Recent content by AndyMan

For the past 2 weeks, the deer have been invading our yard, eating my fir trees. They leave the spruces alone, but are destroying the fir. Man, I wish it were hunting season. :mad:

Will your mower get its spring tune-up while the snow is still on the ground or will you wait for the grass to start growing again? Do you take it somewhere or do you get it ready for the season yourself?

My snow blower (a Yard King) has "one-handed action", where I'm supposed to be able to let go of either lever and both will stay down. This used to work fine, but now it only works if I do the lever for the auger first, then the lever for the drive wheels. When I do it in this order, I can let...

We have a wisteria growing up the side of the garage, and it looking for somewhere to go from there. It's starting to wrap around the gutter and doesn't seem to want to climb over the roof. I think it might want to come out, away from the house, but the lawn slopes away starting about 3 feet...

One warm day and my south-facing windowsills are full of ladybugs. Where did they all come from? Where have they been all this time? They must hibernate, but have they been in my window frames all this time???

Cleared out the driveway, with the help of the boys. Put away the snowblower. Went inside. Started the fire. Walked out to the driveway. It was already blown shut with snow.

It is gradually warming up this week, allowing the snow to slowly melt into the ground. This is good. Now they are calling for rain, which will cause the snow to melt quickly, overflowing the streams and flooding yards and fields. This is not good.

Anyone know anything about residential wind turbines? We've been approached about putting one on our property - a 5 KW turbine which should generate enough for our use plus extra which would go into the grid, and for which we would receive a check from the electric company. We would only use...

Everything else in the world has cup holders, why not a lawn mower? (except for the obvious problem of grass clippings in my Pepsi.) I'm thinking of a suction cup attachment beside me on the wheel cover. Think it would hold? Any better ideas? And no, I will not consider one of those college...

We had a new 6" of snow (on top of the foot or so of the old stuff) and the boys wanted to get out their ATVs. I used my big ATV and built myself a drag - a full sheet of plywood, eye hooks, chain, zip ties. Hooked the plywood behind the ATV and started dragging it in a path around the yard to...

Break out your best small engine joke. Here's one to get us started... So this guy takes his new chain saw back to the store and says "This thing's a piece of crap. You said it would cut three or more cords a day but it takes me forever to get through one." The store employee pulls the...

It's just not as much fun driving on unplowed roads and snowy parking lots with front wheel drive. So much harder to do donuts and skids and slides and all those fun things that the kids love and the wife hates...

Do you sharpen your wedges or simply replace them? Mine get pretty heavy use, and many are worn down to where they now have quite the rounded edge.

All winter my garage is full of car muck. You know, the stuff that falls off the tires and mudflaps and fenders after having driven in the snow. My way to get rid of it is to dump shovelfuls of show on it, spread it around, then shovel/squeegee out the whole mess. How do you do it?

JD - Your comment here reminds me of my brother-in-law, before he mellowed out in his middle age. He used to be freakish about conversational gaps. We would all be sitting around, chatting. If a moment passed in which no one spoke for all of, say three & a half seconds, he would jump up and...