So do you think the toads have gone to hibernate for the winter yet?
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Naw. Not around here.
I have a huge problem in my yard now that the weeds are drying out and getting yellow, and that is the goat heads. The thorny little basterds that are just everywhere and absolutely caking the tires on the mower. They hurt like hell to step on.
I am thinking of torching them, like just burning the whole field and then try to sweep them up or vacuum them up.
Pretty big job though
Pretty big job though
Are Goat Heads the same thing as sand burs ?
Devised a little something to deal with them at the sandy lawn at the Florida property.
Devised a little something to deal with them at the sandy lawn at the Florida property.
Pretty sure sand burrs grow vertically.
The ones I have grow like a vine and they grow really tight to the ground to choke out any competing weed or plant
They reseed very aggressively
On the vine they are big and easy to see but once they dry, they sharpen and can puncture mower or bike tires easily.
They are literally a pain, and stick to your shoes and track everywhere.
They are literally a pain, and stick to your shoes and track everywhere.
Yeah those look like the same plants as the sand burs. Sand burs have little hooks that stick in your feet if you step on them. Hurt like hell and real hard to get the barbs out of your feet.
For starters put old cotton T Shirts on the lawn tractor tires to drive over them and pick them up while mowing.
For starters put old cotton T Shirts on the lawn tractor tires to drive over them and pick them up while mowing.
Next I made a 2 foot wide x 8 inch diameter cardboard tube (used for round cement footing forms from Lowes) and covered them with 3/4" tall cut pile carpet. Put a T Handle steel handled frame on it so I can roll it over the yard by hand to pick up the sand burs. That actually worked really good.
Take a wire brush and sweep off the burs from the carper tube when they get built up, then go again.
Then one of the last things I got was a push type 22" bagging lawn mower for catching the burs and picking them up too while mowing.
If you can get the bur seeds picked up then they won't regrow the next crop coming up.
@Rainy Day Auto
Take a wire brush and sweep off the burs from the carper tube when they get built up, then go again.
Then one of the last things I got was a push type 22" bagging lawn mower for catching the burs and picking them up too while mowing.
If you can get the bur seeds picked up then they won't regrow the next crop coming up.
@Rainy Day Auto
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R4Sedan
Larry
Happy Monday Morning.
Good Monday morning MOPAR people!!
Busy day yesterday, chasing down a recharging issue that I've had for awhile.
Did some painting, and fixed the rollers in the rear quarter windows.
Today is the last work day. Going to do some odds and ends left and call it done.
I have a few parts coming in that were deemed wrong. I'll do them as I get them.
All in all its been a great time!!
Busy day yesterday, chasing down a recharging issue that I've had for awhile.
Did some painting, and fixed the rollers in the rear quarter windows.
Today is the last work day. Going to do some odds and ends left and call it done.
I have a few parts coming in that were deemed wrong. I'll do them as I get them.
All in all its been a great time!!
Learn a bit did ya?
dukeboy440
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Morning
Well got the rear underside of the floor done on the cuda really like that chasis saver paint went on really nice. Definitely want to wear a respirator with it though very fume heavy
My younger son wanted me to join Ancestry.com... When I looked at the sight, they didn't know the difference between my dad and my grandpa....
I know at least that much... Why would I pay to join the sight so they can sell my information to others and not have any new information for me????
Think my dad did it when it was free, not sure. I have all the info on CD roms and boxes of documents/pictures, glade he identified who was on each photo. no one wanted it. I have some updates to do to it also.
How do you apply that, brush or spray gun???
Yep and enjoyed every minute!!
Kind of a messed up story. I guy I purchase NOS stuff from did a 23 and Me DNA test, pretty cool right! A few months later gets summoned to court for 18 years of child support for a kid he had no idea about. They contact the other members that are a match!
Or give your DNA profile to the FBI to put in their database....
There's always a catch...
I only give my DNA to willing female recipients....
I only have two kids that I know of...
If there are any more, I don't want to know....
He had no clue!
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