u/the_metaxist

My yard hydrant failed, and was too rusted to unscrew the pump rod. It was also 1-2" from my house so I dug it up. With my frost zone it needed to be buried 3-4', so i figured that'd be a quick project. 🙃 Lo and behold, it was not. It ended up being buried 8', for some god forsaken reason, there was a maze of capped off galvanized pipe coming off the line as well that I had to cut out. It got real sketchy at that depth, and I couldnt bench it out, otherwise id be digging under my foundation, under my front steps, or removing a tree. Instead I had to construct shoring for it, and set up a hoist system with some pulleys. The ground was so hard that deep and it was such a cramped space towards the bottom it took about 1 hour to remove 4 5-gallon buckets. I put in a french drain and drywell, and did everything I could to make sure i never have to touch it again. I also threw a bucket of bones from the butcher down at the bottom to freak out whoever has to do it next.

Have a regular cx, that i go out to every couple months. There's always new doors in places that don't make sense i switch locks from one door to the other, switch which way locks are facing, rekey doors in the same room to different keys, swap double deadbolts for single, and then months later swap them back. Id think alzheimers or something but he has a full time job as a professor, and travels out of state frequently to lecture at another school. 🤷‍♂️

1. Striped Coralroot (Corallorhiza striata). 2) Spotted Coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata). 3) Clustered Broomrape (Aphyllon fasciculatum). The first 2 are Mycoheterotrophs feeding directly from mycorrhizal and mycelial networks, that are tapped into trees they're in the family Orchidaceae. The last one taps directly into plant roots typically sage (Artemisia) and Buckwheat (Eriogonum), in this case it was Parsnip-flower wild buckwheat (Eriogonum heracloeoides).

I spent days last spring drilling holes, hammering in dowels, melting beeswax, etc etc. I've done many a bag and tub grow, but never proper logs, being in a desert climate i wasn't sure if itd work. After over a year with seemingly no mycelial growth I was planning on burying the logs next week for a hukelkulture garden, but low and behold!! (Golden Oysters)

Also any advice on log grows is more than welcome!

Last fall i chopped down some "saplings" that I'd neglected to cut for a few years. Got an electric wood chipper from harbor freight and ended up with ~200 gallons of wood chips. Spent days lurking the sub, and eventually made a plan. This is the 6 month results, I think its about ready?

Have a customer who acquired a few of those giant truck washes (like semi and rv size). They all suffered from a lack of maintenence, and the locks didnt function so I went out and replaced the mortise and AR deadbolt. Used either GMS or ilco for the sfic/housing. Sprayed everything with houdini and went about my day.

Got called back, lock weren't functioning this is what I found, completely rusted in 6-8 months. I know WD40 isnt a lubricant its water displacement so I was thinking maybe that'd help? The big issue is when the automated wash is running it uses muriatic acid, which gets aerosolized and ends up in the locks. Was wondering if yall had any ideas?