What Are You Buying Right Now? (non-OT version)

Kayak

TTC said:

I have stored a small bundle of 18 foot long 8/4 mahogany boards for a long time. Some of them are 20 inches wide. Bout time I did something with them 

On a PC (pre-COVID) camping trip, a friend showed up with firewood he had cleaned out of his recently deceased fathers garage. All neatly stacked and he’d cut them into 2 foot lengths to fit in his car for the trip back to his own home. All 8/4 air-dried walnut. I did snag some, but the ribbing was worth the expensive coals to cook over. Now that I think about it, we were **** to him....

GrateEggspectations

nolaegghead said:

send any excess hardwoods to me.  I'll PM you my address

I think tthere may be some confusion about the type of hard wood that you are looking for, NOLA. Did you first try Craigslist?

dbCooper

Toilet handle tomorrow.  Workaround in place so we don't have to venture to the basement.

GrateEggspectations

dbCooper said:

Toilet handle tomorrow.  Workaround in place so we don't have to venture to the basement.

I like it. Very industrial and avant-garde. 

Botch

GrateEggspectations said:

dbCooper said:

Toilet handle tomorrow.  Workaround in place so we don't have to venture to the basement.

I like it. Very industrial and avant-garde. 

Wait til you see his Karcher bidet replacement... 

Battleborn

Heard there was a shortage of Jesus Chicken sauce, went and panic bought a supply to last me a year. 

JohnnyArms

Finally bit the bullet and pulled the trigger on a golf simulator for the basement. Took about 5
seconds from when my told me it was okay to loading up my Amex. 

ColbyLang

JohnnyArms said:

Finally bit the bullet and pulled the trigger on a golf simulator for the basement. Took about 5
seconds from when my told me it was okay to loading up my Amex. 

Lots of questions here....will pm you 

JohnnyArms

ColbyLang said:

JohnnyArms said:

Finally bit the bullet and pulled the trigger on a golf simulator for the basement. Took about 5
seconds from when my told me it was okay to loading up my Amex. 

Lots of questions here....will pm you 

Happy to help. Researched for years and finally found the setup that I wanted. I ended up with a FlightScope Mevo + as my launch monitor but know more than I possibly should about all this 

xfire_ATX

Ive been waiting on this since early Feb
https://www.ibiscycles.com/bikes/hakka-mx



A bit of money fell into my lap last week so Im going to finally get the Ego Battery Powered mower this weekend.  Making a last cut with the gas mower today and giving it away to a young couple with a new house.

SonVolt

Hope wheels are more durable than they look. 

TEXASBGE2018

xfire_ATX said:

Ive been waiting on this since early Feb
https://www.ibiscycles.com/bikes/hakka-mx



A bit of money fell into my lap last week so Im going to finally get the Ego Battery Powered mower this weekend.  Making a last cut with the gas mower today and giving it away to a young couple with a new house.

My buddy had one of those. With even a speck of dew on the grass it would bog down and not cut. He would only get about 25min of actual cutting time too if his grass was taller than about 2". But that was a few years ago. Hopefully they have improved the performance

fishlessman

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

Legume

fishlessman said:

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

I have a friend that has two and swears by them. I just bought one based on that but I haven’t had it long.  Seems better than any other electric I’ve had before.

Eoin

fishlessman said:

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

I have a Husqvarna battery leaf blower and it's very good, but it does drain the battery quickly, so you need a good size battery.

Ozzie_Isaac

fishlessman said:

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

I have the Dewalt one, it meets my needs and I have a bunch of Dewalt batteries already.  It replaced a 80V blower whose battery died and they no longer make replacements.  The 80V was much more powerful, the dewalt has much better modulation.

xfire_ATX

fishlessman said:

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

I started with the weedeater- love it.
This summer the mower- Neighbor has one swears by it
Next summer the blower, I will keep my electric for the Vacuum function

SWMBO needs some time to forget the tools in between.

EzraBrooks

fishlessman said:

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

I have one.  I don't use it for leaves but for cleaning off the patio, driveway and sidewalk after mowing.  It is the best battery power tool I have ever used.  It is powerful and the battery lasts a long time between charges.  It has made me consider replacing my gas mower and weedeater with Ego when it is time.

nolaegghead

I have the ego blower and string trimmers.  They are excellent products.  The only reason I didn't get the mower was price.  I found a deal for a Greenworks mower with 2 batteries for $199 (new) on woot.  SWMBO is skeerd of the string trimmer because it's "too powerful".  I'm like, it has a speed control in the trigger, derp.

Eoin

nolaegghead said:

I have the ego blower and string trimmers.  They are excellent products.  The only reason I didn't get the mower was price.  I found a deal for a Greenworks mower with 2 batteries for $199 (new) on woot.  SWMBO is skeerd of the string trimmer because it's "too powerful".  I'm like, it has a speed control in the trigger, derp.

A thinner cord might make her feel more comfortable using it.

nolaegghead

Eoin said:

nolaegghead said:

I have the ego blower and string trimmers.  They are excellent products.  The only reason I didn't get the mower was price.  I found a deal for a Greenworks mower with 2 batteries for $199 (new) on woot.  SWMBO is skeerd of the string trimmer because it's "too powerful".  I'm like, it has a speed control in the trigger, derp.

A thinner cord might make her feel more comfortable using it.

Yeah, I'll try that.  In the interim she won't let me get rid of a wimpy Black and Decker string trimmer (20v LiION) that she uses when she does the lawn. 

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

Eoin said:

nolaegghead said:

I have the ego blower and string trimmers.  They are excellent products.  The only reason I didn't get the mower was price.  I found a deal for a Greenworks mower with 2 batteries for $199 (new) on woot.  SWMBO is skeerd of the string trimmer because it's "too powerful".  I'm like, it has a speed control in the trigger, derp.

A thinner cord might make her feel more comfortable using it.

Yeah, I'll try that.  In the interim she won't let me get rid of a wimpy Black and Decker string trimmer (20v LiION) that she uses when she does the lawn. 

Happy wife and all that.

Ozzie_Isaac

fishlessman said:

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

Lowes has $20-$50 off Ego stuff right now.

nolaegghead

The ego stuff ain't cheap, but I'm convinced they have the best battery system out there.

The blower has a turbo button that makes it go into insane crazy-balls mode.  It will chew the battery up in about 12 minutes if you keep it on that.  But not necessary, although it takes some thought to not just run it like that all the time.  I would put money on it moving more air than my Echo gas blower.

GrateEggspectations

nolaegghead said:

Eoin said:

nolaegghead said:

I have the ego blower and string trimmers.  They are excellent products.  The only reason I didn't get the mower was price.  I found a deal for a Greenworks mower with 2 batteries for $199 (new) on woot.  SWMBO is skeerd of the string trimmer because it's "too powerful".  I'm like, it has a speed control in the trigger, derp.

A thinner cord might make her feel more comfortable using it.

Yeah, I'll try that.  In the interim she won't let me get rid of a wimpy Black and Decker string trimmer (20v LiION) that she uses when she does the lawn. 

Just be happy that she DOES the lawn. My wife does lots that I don’t do, but yard work is not something she would touch with a ten foot pole!

nolaegghead

Actually she likes to do that lawn, and we split the job with our neighbor, but she's been so burnt out from this Covid sh*tshow that I've been doing it so far this year.

...and the neighbor just got his shoulder replaced yesterday so he won't be doing it for the next month or more.

U_tarded

fishlessman said:

anyone have experience with the battery ego leaf blowers. probably never use it on the yard but thinking of one for the boat, dock, and deck. mostly pine needles

I have the ryobi version because it shares a battery with my hedge trimmer I was gifted a couple of years back.  I used the battery one for leaves under bushes and for patio/driveway cleaning after mowing.  I had plug in electric before and the cord was a hassle. 

StillH2OEgger

SonVolt said:

Hope wheels are more durable than they look. 

I can't/won't comment on this particular model, but the battery powered Worx mower I have is remarkably light weight.

Canugghead

Too cheap to buy a new one, also I'm not sure if brick n mortar Costco is allowed to sell this during our current covid lockdown...

Acn

I read this because I hate I hate having the tons of unread posts showing up on the main screen, but this definitely makes me think that one of the best things I did here was make sure I had somebody to deal with the lawn.