@nebish ha well, noise and pointless. They seem to blow more dust than leaves. I think the guys on leaf blower duty get paid by the hour.
When the leaves drop here I just rake them across the lawn quick and mulch them with the electric mower.
That makes sense if you have a small lawn but I about an 3/4 of an acre of lawn surrounded by different types trees which drop their leaves at different times so racking can take multiple afternoons.
I got a backpack gas powered leaf blower a few years ago, as a 20year anniversary gift from the company I work for, and it takes me a couple of hours to blow the leaves into the woods in my back yard. For me it is one of the best lawn care time and back savings devices I own. It is tremendously powerful and blows the leaves across the lawn making cleanup fast and easy
I am considerate and do not start using the blower before 10am. Since all my neighbors also blow their leaves nobody complains.
I'm baaack. OK, Merry Christmas to everybody. Glad to see the thread still up, and running.
Electric mower, not in my future. I've got four and one half acres, mostly trees. Oak, Pecan, Mimosa, Wild Pear, Wild cherry, China Berry (which I have a vendetta against), Ash, and Hickory to name a few of them. Not to mention that all the trees have muscadine vines growing to the tops. Tons of leaves. I mulch as much as I can with the lawn tractor or the self propelled.
I've sent letters to several states about the problems with electricity and water shortages.
Remember, you read it here.
California can place long troughs of aluminum sheeting, same type used in A/C duct work, painted black, along the abandoned airfields. Cover with plate glass and allow the sun to evaporate sea water pumped into the troughs. Collection runners along the bottom of the glass plates would send the water to holding points where the water is pumped into water towers. Note: being a condensate it should be like distilled water. As minerals and salts build up in the troughs, sections could be removed and cleaned by companies that would pay for the various minerals. Note: Solar cookers could be modified to hold coils with anti-freeze. The fluid is sent through a circuit with one way valves and heats up the sea water to hasten evaporation.
Electricity production? Think of all the abandoned military housing in California that has been allowed to deteriorate where refurbing and using as low income housing isn't feasible. Bulldoze it down, put in solar farms. Wind farms are also possible since much of this is close to the sea and open to the constant wind.
Hybrid type? make the troughs as before, but have a few solar panels to generate D/C. Have collection tubes inverted over the exposed positive/negative poles. The hydrogen and oxygen are collected in different areas. Hydrogen burned to produce steam, steam drives turbines, turbines produce electricity. Byproduct of burning the hydrogen, water vapor. Exhaust goes into a large exchange where cold seawater pipes cool down the exhaust producing water.
Desert areas that aren't federally protected, lay perforated pipes about a foot under the sand. Pump in FILTERED sewage from local communities. Plant trees and wild grasses between the pipes. The trees and grasses will help produce oxygen, hold the soil in place, and make could offset the local heat island caused by the city/town.
Again, cutting down a forest to make solar farms seems to be counterproductive.
Yep that was a good little impact - WOW - no injuries is miraculous - obviously the gates & warning lights weren’t working - will they try it again - mayb a little advance communication’d help this time guys
there was another collision in Texas a few weeks ago - midair, at a Dallas air show - a WW II-era B17 Flying Fortress, sliced clean in half - horrendous
welcome back Jerry, Merry Christmas folks - yes all cheers for Green Energy
That was the Texas Raiders B-17. May 22 I flew as bombardier, my son as the navigator, my brother and his wife as waist gunners. Same crew as those who crashed when the Airacobra hit them. I did have fresh batteries and a new SD card in my camera, so I got the run-up, and from releasing the brakes to landing and taxi to parking.
They weren't high enough, nor enough time to bail out.
OMGosh - it must have been an awful moment learning it was the same plane & crew you’d flown in/with (if I read your post right) - both aircraft were at the same altitude within a certain “air space” (?) - something that apparently wasn’t supposed to happen……we may never know
WOW - that video!
That’s for sure - both the train and the air-collision vids - also the still photo of the moment of impact at the air show - terrible - fortunate that wrecks like these are rare -
it’s a busy intersection w/trains frequently rolling thru
The truck got stuck on the tracks - was he cleared to haul a load that size, and at that time
were the red lights, warning bells & gate operational
once truck got stuck on the tracks, was there enough time to immediately inform the oncoming train to brake, depending on how far away it was
many ?s need to be asked - the outcomes of these investigations will be interesting
Here's the plane.
Engine run-up. Crank it up LOUD!!
A B17 flew to a NH airport many years ago for a veterans event - had tours, didn’t offer flights - friend who went said “you could hear the engines from here to Canada” on takeoff
must have been a huge thrill to go up in one!! Man to think that same plane got t-boned like that - awful✌️
Yes, one fine ride. We were at 2000 ft and the ride was smoother than most planes I've flown in. I hand held the camera for the entire flight and there was very little jitter on the video.
should be the link to the video of engine start from the bombardier seat. Says flight video is too long to upload.
Hopefully they find it was just a very tragic accident & don’t find cause for condemnation - the P-63 was banking left & looked like it didn’t see the B-17 - apparently those Kingcobras were also known to have limited cockpit visibility -
they might find the P-63 pilot strayed off his “show line” - that’s what some have said
It may be only four numbers ahead
but in war technology, the B-21 Raider unveiled last month is a quantum leap- squared ahead of the Flying Fortress
or the B-24 Liberator that came along, or the B-52 Or Any Bomber/Airplane
looks like a flying saucer - but does things its predecesors only dreamed of
article says the Raider is “a long range, highly survivable, penetrating-strike stealth bomber capable of delivering both conventional & nuclear munitions”
let us hope & pray it will never have to prove all that - that it just sits idle in a peaceful world, never to spring into military conflict
or have a crash landing laden with munitions setting off an unthinkable explosion
Fossil Fuel industry fights back!! Another blade for a wind turbine bites the dust!!
however “COP28 Nations Reach First-Ever Deal To Move Away From Fossil Fuels” (Bloomberg)
remarks, more of the same ol - nothing wrong w/green energy, it’s a good thing to strive toward as fossil fuels are phased out - the phaseout has been effective, more and more hybrid electric cars are on the road
..it’s really nothing new - this story has popped up periodically ever since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth - of great measures at summit heads of state announcing a move away from fossil fuels……etc
but this remains one of the all time smashups - the unedited one is great, the guy filming Cannot Believe This S***
These two women need to be TIED TO THE WHIPPING POST!!!!
This is NOT how one fights climate change!!!!
https://youtube.com/shorts/5YuPuGIbhP8?si=o1txp1ovbuvtEyPp
These two women need to be TIED TO THE WHIPPING POST!!!!
This is NOT how one fights climate change!!!!
Have to be more and more creative these days to make headlines. So many things to protest...
