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Post by Pete on Jan 15, 2024 23:33:17 GMT
Was fooling around with Google Maps & wondered if my area would show, Yep, the arrow of course points to my house. The larger house is the landlady's place. The trees near my house are 40 ft tall pines. To give the image some perspective my sidewalk is 50 ft long.
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Post by Hank on Jan 16, 2024 7:53:33 GMT
Does it date images?
If the pines are 40' how tall do you think the tree by your sidewalk is ?
So the power lines run with and next to the road?
In the neighbors front yard, the circle?
To small, hedge missing.
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Post by Pete on Jan 16, 2024 12:59:12 GMT
Henry, dunno if those views are dated or not. Guess my wording prompted your tree question when I'd said 'near my house'. There are 3 trees near my house. One at the back corner & two close together to each other at the sidewalk. All are 40 ft pines. Yes for your power-line comment. The trouble there is that the power & phone lines run thru the 2 pine trees & several times high winds have knocked down dead branches that fell on those lines, broke one or the other & cut off phone/Internet service or power. In fact in the last high-winds I found a 4 ft branch laying in the yard. Ha! That circle in the yard got me too. When I first saw it I thought, what the heck is that? Then I realized it's a shrub. No, the hedge isn't missing. As long as my house & about 7 ft high. |
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Post by Hank on Jan 17, 2024 16:58:07 GMT
Oh from the top I thought was a leafy tree!
I do when looking again see the line going to your alongside the driveway.
Had the heights mixed and thought the in a long row.
So hedge close to house, wind break.
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Post by Hank on Jan 17, 2024 17:01:05 GMT
So both circles, shrubs?
I had thought one was your burn hole.
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Post by Pete on Jan 17, 2024 18:15:19 GMT
Henry, got permission for the next time I trim that hedge to trim it down to an easier to do height. I'd say about 4 ft. At its current 7 ft height it's quite difficult. Even though I've got a hedge-trimmer that extends that far.
You're right, that other circle, a concrete one, is the burn pit. It's about 4 ft in diameter. That's where I burn hedge clippings & such. After spreading 'em out around there for drying out first.
That parking area you can see is 60x40 ft. Been busy out there a few times in the last week or so snow-blowing. Gotta vary my pattern depending on which way the wind is blowing so I don't get covered with wind-blown snow.
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Post by Hank on Jan 18, 2024 1:50:44 GMT
Have you got the power turn on the shoot?
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Post by Hank on Jan 18, 2024 1:55:59 GMT
That is an iffy thing shortening a hedge.
Maybe not entire width at once. And take some of thickness so light gets in, then it will green up inside.
Although no-one sees it.
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Post by dave2 on Jan 18, 2024 3:02:38 GMT
Nice and open. Plenty of open space to wander around.
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Post by Pete on Jan 18, 2024 12:54:39 GMT
Henry, not sure what you're asking about the discharge chute on the snow-blower. But yeah, it's engaged when I'm clearing snow.
The snow blowing on me comes with light, powdery snow shooting out & the wind blowing it back on me if I'm moving into the wind.
As for the hedge: right, no one sees it. Except for the end sticking out past my house. In the past it's been OK with the landlady if I only trimmed that portion. Letting the rest grow wild.
But, the hedge has gotten so high with rest of it that in fall its thousands of leaves fall on my roof, into the gutters & onto the patio. Lotsa cleanup for me.
So she's OK'd me trimming it way down to prevent all that.
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Post by Pete on Jan 18, 2024 12:59:46 GMT
Dave, yep, lotsa open space & privacy too.
My house sits back from the road by about 100 ft. On a road that no one but neighbors use so there's not alot of traffic. Nice quiet place.
As for space: a good deal more than with our last place. Used to live in trailer I owned in a park where there was only about 15 ft of space between the many trailers. Here the "closest" houses, besides the landlady's, are at least 100 ft way on every side.
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Post by Hank on Jan 19, 2024 1:03:31 GMT
The Snow chute, most have crank to turn the chute but some are Powered.
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Post by Pete on Jan 19, 2024 12:59:48 GMT
Henry, the snow-blower that I use has a crank to position the chute. And I use it often.
Normally I go up & down the driveway. When reaching the end of a path I turn around & go the opposite way. So the chute needs turned so as to blow the snow into the yards. Rather than onto our vehicles or onto the road.
The other day the auger quit working 'cause a big chunk of gravel got jammed into it. Which I didn't know at the time 'cause the auger was packed with snow. Put the blower in the garage to let that snow melt. Next day I saw the rock & had to use a hammer & chisel to remove it.
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