It is the offseason. I am just curious what everyone is wanting or getting from Amazon since today and tomorrow are Prime Days where members get an extra discount. [Reply]
Originally Posted by loochy:
It's for digging to find the sprinkler valves in my back yard. I have a wire signal locator, but there is a point where the wire goes too deep under the ground and the signal finder doesn't work anymore. So I'm going to have to start digging where the signal ends, but right now the ground is too hard for a shovel.
Wow. Good luck. :-). This could turn into a real PITA real quick. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by ptlyon:
Wow. Good luck. :-). This could turn into a real PITA real quick. :-)
I know generally where it is because I drew a map over a land survey when they were installed, and I've tracked the wire up to a tee point. I'll be dealing with maybe a 5x5 area, so I should be alright. I'm pretty confident I can find the others too.
If I get desperate enough I'll try the dowsing rod thing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by loochy:
It's for digging to find the sprinkler valves in my back yard. I have a wire signal locator, but there is a point where the wire goes too deep under the ground and the signal finder doesn't work anymore. So I'm going to have to start digging where the signal ends, but right now the ground is too hard for a shovel.
I had a new valve and line installed last week and the crew was using a jackhammer on the earth the ground was so hard
I nearly shat myself when I heard it thinking they were tearing out my driveway but nope just the earth [Reply]
Originally Posted by Smed1065:
Got a ring doorbell
I have a doorbell story from this past week.
My doorbell broke a while back, and it made me sad. It was a recordable doorbell, so I could put different song clips on it. I'd installed it back when I remodeled my kitchen in 2007, so it had a long life.
I wanted another recordable doorbell, and my wife didn't want a video doorbell, and I couldn't find anything at all. Everything these days is either a video doorbell or it's a basic ding-dong doorbell.
Eventually I gave up and started looking for vintage doorbells, because I thought it would be cool to match up the doorbell with the past era of the house. I was talking via email to a guy who sells refurbished vintage doorbells, and I mentioned my sadness about not finding a recordable one.
He emailed back and said, "I see one on ebay" and sent me the link. It was the exact same model that I own, new in the box from 17 years ago. Exactly the same.
So I bought a brand-new 17 year-old doorbell and I'll just replace the broken one verbatim.
I'm kind of shocked that I can't find a new version, though. With my old one (and now my new one), I have to climb up a stepladder balancing a laptop on one hand because it has to be hard-wired via a 12-inch wire to upload songs. A little wifi would be nice. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hog Rider:
So Prime day is a day for shopping. I had no idea.
Y'all get excited about shopping. You make my wife proud.
Carry on shoppers.
What decade are you posting from where you've never heard of Amazon? [Reply]
I was thinking about grabbing a laptop or something but not seeing anything that interests me. I'd at least want it to run a game or something. [Reply]
