What home improvement work did you do today?

Nice!!

 

Yeah...It's kinda tough to do anything on your own in my neighborhood.
If you do it better be up to snuff for the neighborhood!!!
Back in the Day I did a lot of my own work.
These days we pay the approved contractors.
While that sucks for the wallet it sure makes it better for my back!!!!

 

"my favorite tool is my wallet" Makes more sense for a lot of people.

 

Finally got around to swapping out the shed door since passing the inspection a few months ago.

 

My 4" irrigation gate valve decided to seize up this week. Yay
Should have it fixed up tomorrow

 

We have year round irrigation.
-10°F winters and water don't mix.

I've got a large 10" pipe that goes over the valve up to the surface so I can turn it with a valve key.

Just like this one.

 

Yep, northern probs..

It's wild seeing water pipes running outside when I've gone to Hawaii, AZ etc..

 

A lot of new commercial builds I’m seeing have fire sprinkler lines insulated and heat taped as well when they’re outside

 

Back in 2017 I think it was, the whole city was in shambles from a few deep freezes

 

Yep.
Last time I was in Phoenix I saw frosted up car windows and roofs

 

A lot of temp repairs were made because the shortage of parts. Then full repairs once the madness calmed down. This was before I worked at the U; but there are tons of stories of water fed air handlers that blew all over campus because they use 100% outside air to condition and the water couldn’t take it. All which could have been solved by adding glycol to the water loops

 

@NWPirate what ya watering all year? Animals? From the limited view looks nice. If you don't mind, I woudn't mind a couple photos of the use case!

 

Yep, horses.
Thanks
I'll try and snag some pictures today

 

Pasture pets on the left soaking up some sun after a 35° night.

100 yard rifle range on the right.

 

Looks like paradise! Thanks for sharing.

 

It sure is, no prob.

 

Annual pressure washing time. A little before and after.

 

Did a lot of manual labor today, lugging buckets of stone for drip edge carefully to not touch the seeded areas. Felt like I was training for some hardcore ballerina/weight lifting mash up.

But for my home/my MIL, I was grinding stumps! I bought this stump grinder maybe almost 3 years ago now, at least a solid 2, off of a landscaping crew that thought it was too hard to run. It is a Toro SGR13 with a 13hp Honda engine and Green-teeth on the wheel. It was about $800 all in after having it completely run through, and I have ground literally hundreds of stumps. It came with only about 50 hours on it and honestly didn't need much to get it running like a top. I have caught a lot of shit for this thing because 1) it's tiny and slow and more importantly 2) it's not self propelled and takes a lot of physical effort to run this thing. The first photo stump took me 1:15. The small stump photo is what I generally am doing, I only do a few larger stumps a year, but my body won't forget them. All that said, I love this thing, it's helped my woods become much more toddler/learning to ride a bike friendly, and I haven't smashed up blades on my rotary since I bought the thing.
When I'm 50 or 60 I'll upgrade to something easy on me, but until then I'll enjoy the workout.

 

Picked up 6 yards of high quality vegetable soil and then had to move it about 500 feet up our hill to the raised bed. The Polaris Ranger with the dump bed saved the day for sure.

 

Umbrella shadow? Or a really large dildo maybe.

 

Sure.