What "man jobs" have you done today?

Terminal_Boy · 29 May 2022 at 10:11

LuckyBenski said:
100%, it was getting a bit wordy but I wanted to say "read: never once"

It certainly runs better now than it did when I first started it. Yet to actually try mowing with it, we're taking it up to the new house tomorrow!

Have you looked at the cutting blade yet?

I‘d imagine that it’s a blunt as a badger’s bum. Nothing 30 seconds with a sanding disk on an angle grinder wouldn’t fix though.

LuckyBenski · 29 May 2022 at 10:30

Terminal_Boy said:
Have you looked at the cutting blade yet?

I‘d imagine that it’s a blunt as a badger’s bum. Nothing 30 seconds with a sanding disk on an angle grinder wouldn’t fix though.

Yep, gave that a go with a file. It's a mulching blade so a lot of it is "meant" to be blunt... I think?

Terminal_Boy · 29 May 2022 at 10:43

Nah, all blades have to be reasonably sharp or they rip and bruise the grass.

Regular or high-lift mower blades are angled to throw all the cut grass into the sack or out the discharge chute sharpish. Mulching blades are more shallow so that the cuttings spend longer in the cutting deck getting chopped up.

413x · 29 May 2022 at 12:41

Half way through cutting the hedge.
It's a box hedge and old owners let it get far to uneven.
So each year I cut into it a bit deeper.

It's so much effort. It. Goes. Through 6 battery charges.

If it was just trimming the new growth I think I'd get it done in 3.

LuckyBenski · 29 May 2022 at 13:45

Mowed the lawn with my £25 lawnmower :cool:

It works!

{SAS}TB · 29 May 2022 at 14:28

Knocked up a "bug hotel" from off cuts in the garage and odds and sods round the garden

PlacidCasual · 29 May 2022 at 19:22

Took the tractor for a spin around the field with the flail to kill the weeds. Cleared the weeds out of the duck enclosure with the strimmer.

dlockers · 29 May 2022 at 19:32

Looks good, @{SAS}TB. This you and the kids or does the wife just hate you?

{SAS}TB · 29 May 2022 at 19:47

dLockers said:
Looks good, @{SAS}TB. This you and the kids or does the wife just hate you?

I was at a bit of a loose end

Hyburnate · 30 May 2022 at 14:44

Wasn't quite today but got the house painted and the new windows in. Flowers in (is that a man job?

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Just need to afford a new front wall, sort the side of the house to unlock me being able to get new soffits, facias, gutters etc

Still undecided on colour, I've got white windows but wondering if I go with cream soffits and fascias to tie in with the stone work up top...

ChrisD. · 30 May 2022 at 20:19

I've started removing the Wisteria in the garden which has been put in the most awkward place. Essentially I have to cut it back every week so I can get past (to the right in the picture) to get to the garden gate so it'll never flower, essentially it's no more than a green and out of control bush really. I'm going to replace it with some climbing roses, which gains me mrs points.

dlockers · 30 May 2022 at 20:45

Descaled the coffee machine. Anyone had to replace the door spring on their Cafe Corso? It is wedged with a baby spoon at the mo

theone8181 · 31 May 2022 at 08:30

ChrisD. said:
I've started removing the Wisteria in the garden which has been put in the most awkward place. Essentially I have to cut it back every week so I can get past (to the right in the picture) to get to the garden gate so it'll never flower, essentially it's no more than a green and out of control bush really. I'm going to replace it with some climbing roses, which gains me mrs points.

Why not just remove the panel closest to the house and leave it to grow on the other 2?

ChrisD. · 31 May 2022 at 08:54

theone8181 said:
Why not just remove the panel closest to the house and leave it to grow on the other 2?

The brick on the right is the garage, I took the pic from the back door.

theone8181 · 31 May 2022 at 13:05

ChrisD. said:
The brick on the right is the garage, I took the pic from the back door.

Sorry that panel nearest the garage, as I assumed that's what you were catching.

ChrisD. · 31 May 2022 at 13:22

theone8181 said:
Sorry that panel nearest the garage, as I assumed that's what you were catching.

The problem with Wisteria is that it will not stay on just one or two panels. It grows so aggressively during the summer it needs cutting back weekly otherwise it blocks the path, even if it were only on 2 of the panels. It really needs more than a single trellis to thrive and flower properly.

theone8181 · 31 May 2022 at 20:20

ChrisD. said:
The problem with Wisteria is that it will not stay on just one or two panels. It grows so aggressively during the summer it needs cutting back weekly otherwise it blocks the path, even if it were only on 2 of the panels. It really needs more than a single trellis to thrive and flower properly.

Move that panel to infront of tye bbq and hope for the best, or maybe (with fingers crossed) transplant it to a side fence out of the way?

dlockers · 31 May 2022 at 23:37

ChrisD. said:
The problem with Wisteria is that it will not stay on just one or two panels. It grows so aggressively during the summer it needs cutting back weekly otherwise it blocks the path, even if it were only on 2 of the panels. It really needs more than a single trellis to thrive and flower properly.

It is beautiful though.

ChrisD. · 1 Jun 2022 at 09:02

theone8181 said:
Move that panel to infront of tye bbq and hope for the best, or maybe (with fingers crossed) transplant it to a side fence out of the way?

Not possible due to the layout of the garden.

dLockers said:
It is beautiful though.

It is, but so are rambling roses.

Cantankerous · 1 Jun 2022 at 10:43

Re-did all the silicone in the bathroom. Even though I do it at least yearly, I'd forgotten just how annoying it is removing it, so many little bits to clean up.

I tried WD40 this time to remove the old stuff. Worked surprisingly well and didn't have any issues cleaning the surface afterwards. And the new stuff seems good so far.