I LOVE my Stihl commercial grade weed wacker! But I have a lot of property and often spend 4+ hrs doing fence line and cleaning up around the house and trees and other terrain features I can't get my mower onto.
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things you bought that didn't work out for you
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Yep, that's what they are for. The coolness factor trumped reality in my decision, I have about 20 minutes of whacking at most. I do like it, it's just not practical.
Same here, but with a Troy-Bilt 4 stroker. Was always hard to start and parts kept breaking. After it sat for a few years I just chucked it. I wouldn't wish that junk heap on my worst enemy. I now have a Ryobi One+ 18V weed eater, blower, hedge trimmer and a ton of other tools that utilize the same battery. Yes, even a powered caulking gun and a hot glue gun!
Lol, my last mower was a new Craftsman I bought for $400. Junk. Just plain junk. I have reverted to buying 3 old mowers; a small one for the front yard, a bigger one for the back lawn and a riding mower for the "lower 40"..........and refurbishing them, all for less than 1 new mower.
We were given a Whirly Popper as a gift and while it popped corn great, it was a bit of a hassle to clean. I use a wok now.
Good morning pcake. I think I have the same monopod. I have the bogen quick release, some on my tripod. For many years I was a wedding photographer, I either was using my mono or tripod for inside church pics. I shot at a slower shutter speed to avoid dark backgrounds. So the ‘pods were necessary!
The gasoline powered one cuts much better than the battery powered ones do. But the battery powered ones are much more convenient and lighter, so easier to use.
Until you hit some invasive stuff it won’t cut.
I actually have a plugin powered one too and it falls between the gasoline one and the battery powered one in terms of weight and cutting power.
While I don’t often make purchases that are large enough to regret south of the occasional dubious Amazon instrument, I have noticed I have a certain problem with lunchboxes.
On several occasions, I’ve seen cute bentos for sale, decided that I want to start packing aesthetic lunches again, and maintaining the effort for just a few weeks until I remember it’s vastly easier just to skip lunch at work altogether rather than bother sitting down, nevermind the daily commitment of sacrificing a few minutes of dedicated prep time each evening that I’d rather spend on essential activities like napping and crying.
Also, on a whim I picked up a cheap egg bite maker this summer, thinking it’d make for a simple and satisfying meal prep tool, but all the silicone molds are less than one egg in capacity and the cleanup is more tedious and involved than frying up my eggs like a normal person.
… Food is frustrating.
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my opthalmalogist feels only farsighted people should wear progressives - that his nearsighted patients find them difficult and claustrophobic. ariex is farsighted and has worn progressives for years. i'm nearsighted, tried them twice and hated them.
see above. just wondering - are you nearsighted or far?
my son got a whily popper. for a couple months he used it all the time, then went back to the popper he used before it. it's been years, and the whirly pop is just another abandoned kitchen gadget for him.
Oddly enough, I'm far sighted. My optician says that a small percentage of people's brains just reject progressives out of hand. Guess I'm in that minority!
The ophthalmologist who gave me my last few prescriptions wanted the name of the guy who prescribed me progressives before I went to him. He said he should be ashamed of himself and only prescribed them because they were getting kickbacks from the manufacturer and no one with my vision issues would benefit from them. I wore those things for years. Once they were finally gone I had to relearn how to turn my head to look around at the world.
Myopic here. Im on my 6th pair. Dont know that my issue is a result of local opthamoligical incompetence- im on my third ophthalmologist- or my condition is simply a fact of life.
At least half the cars I’ve owned. Probably half the basses I’ve bought, too. In both cases my investment was pretty small.
If you stop holding a tripod to get something out of your bag, it stands there proudly. If you stop holding a monopod, bye-bye!
I went the other way with a Husqvarna home-owner grade trimmer when I moved to the mountains almost 6 years ago. It would have been great if I still lived on my .3ac in the city with relatively little vegetation, but it just didn't work for me here with several acres of meadow to maintain (fire hazard if not maintained). The commercial grade FS131 w/bicycle handlebars and a shoulder harness was a game changer out here.
Musicman Big Al. It looked incredible in videos and on paper, but once I had it, there was nothing I liked except its looks.
I have a large, cast iron wok. Flat on the bottom, but completely concave inside. Heavier than a vat of Les Pauls. I get it hot, add 1/4 cup of oil, and a couple of kernels of corn.
When the first one pops, I add 1/2 cup of popping corn, and cover the whole think with a stainless steel bowl.
When the popping stops, I tip out into a second stainless bowl (the other one is too steamy and hot).
Never burned. Never an unpopped kernel. No shaking. Easy clean up.
For the record, I don't actually eat popcorn, but 'er indoors loves it.
while since my injury in 2008, most basses caused me pain to play, i mostly don't regret the string of basses that i've owned and returned or sold as they helped me figure out what i could and couldn't play without pain. i do regret that two of them didn't work out - the red hofner violin bass and the aerodyne. but sweetwater took them back, so i didn't lose any money. i was just very disappointed.
I've detailed in many other places my battles with my old Epiphone Thunderbird, but next to that, the next bass-related purchase would probably be the TC MojoMojo. I was between that and the (full-sized) Spark Booster. People said the MojoMojo picks up where the Spark leaves off, and that sounded perfect to me. Nope, I was wrong, way more gain than I needed, could never make it fit for my uses. Sold it off, and never got the Spark (though with my current setup, it's not needed thankfully).
Non-bass related, Vans Half-Cabs. I'm a SoCal native who used to skate, and absolutely love classic Vans, even now, it's like it's engrained in my DNA. Ever since I started skating as a pre-teen, I used to drool over the Half-Cabs in skate shop catalogs. Maybe 6 or 7 years ago I saw a pair online for $35 new and jumped at the chance. For whatever reason, with all the fantasizing I did in my mind over them, it never once occurred to me that a skateboard shoe designed by a pro skater for a famous skate shoes company would in fact be designed with skating in mind, meaning very thick padding around the collar. I at least got my money's worth and wore them until they wore out, but I now know for sure that while they look cool on other people, they are definitely not for me.
Non-bass related, Vans Half-Cabs. I'm a SoCal native who used to skate, and absolutely love classic Vans, even now, it's like it's engrained in my DNA. Ever since I started skating as a pre-teen, I used to drool over the Half-Cabs in skate shop catalogs. Maybe 6 or 7 years ago I saw a pair online for $35 new and jumped at the chance. For whatever reason, with all the fantasizing I did in my mind over them, it never once occurred to me that a skateboard shoe designed by a pro skater for a famous skate shoes company would in fact be designed with skating in mind, meaning very thick padding around the collar. I at least got my money's worth and wore them until they wore out, but I now know for sure that while they look cool on other people, they are definitely not for me.
Things that I bought that didn't work out for me in the realm of bass:
Any bass that I have purchased that does not have the top of the horn / strap button in line with the 12.
Reaching way up there for the money notes feels incredibly unnatural to me.
For me it seems like a design flaw. I mean, why can't they move the neck into the body more, so as to get the horn / strap button aligned with the 12th fret? Just me I guess.
I returned an otherwise beautiful lightweight 5 string Strandberg for this reason. I was so bummed, because I really like the bass otherwise.
Oh and the big huge power block that only has 100 ma and 200 ma output.
Oh and quite a few of my bass pedals. Ha ha.
Oh and I don't like that greasy oil in the microwave popcorn either.
Any bass that I have purchased that does not have the top of the horn / strap button in line with the 12.
Reaching way up there for the money notes feels incredibly unnatural to me.
For me it seems like a design flaw. I mean, why can't they move the neck into the body more, so as to get the horn / strap button aligned with the 12th fret? Just me I guess.
I returned an otherwise beautiful lightweight 5 string Strandberg for this reason. I was so bummed, because I really like the bass otherwise.
Oh and the big huge power block that only has 100 ma and 200 ma output.
Oh and quite a few of my bass pedals. Ha ha.
Oh and I don't like that greasy oil in the microwave popcorn either.
Really small 2 stroke engines can be very unforgiving. The most common problems I’ve seen people have is over use of choke and/or prime, and way too much oil in their fuel oil mix. Once a plug is fouled you can pull til the cows come home and never experience joy, but remove the plug, splash a bit of gas or other solvent on it, blow it dry, replace it and it should fire right up. Even with that I always encourage folks to buy an extra plug or two when they purchase their new gadget.
I still have my first all-metal Manfrotto monopod. I like(d) it not only for its strength and durability, but also because in a pinch, it could have been used as a truly formidable bludgeon.
As for the progressive lens diversion, I like mine, but I'm also a stickler for getting the alignment and focus areas dialed in exactly to the ranges I want. More than once, I've sent pairs back, telling the optician, "No, they need to be adjusted like this..." I have an alignment chart I made and mark up to take along with me, so they could get a sense of where and how I was seeing things that needed fixing. For some technicians, this was revelatory in and of itself. 99% of their customers don't offer such detailed specifications and/or feedback, apparently.
They work a lot better when they're dialed in correctly, though.
