Archive for the Outdoors category.
Our sprinkler system is nearly 20 years old. When working on the yard lately I noticed the area near these pipes was wet on the ground and then within a couple of weeks it was leaking tremendously like you see in the beginning of the embedded video .
A friend was going to throw out this propane cooker a couple years ago. I asked for it with the intention of repairing and restoring. Three years later… here we are.
I had an old Dish 500 dish on the side of the house from back in the day. As a FTA satellite hobbyist I loved the look of it hanging there but hated that it wasn’t doing anything. So a quick mod got it pulling in a couple channels. The mod is simple enough to be done by anyone with a little handy work.
Let’s talk about DIY Solar Pool Heater Black Hose. Its that time of year again. The weather is warming up and the kids are ready to jump in the pool but it’s still cold! Here I’m going to tell you about my experience building a DIY Solar Pool Heater Black Hose.
So yesterday after noon we took the pole and the concrete and set the pole in the ground for the C-Band dish.
Quick back story, I was driving through the neighborhood and for many years I’d admired the satellite dish that a neighbor had in his front yard. A couple weeks ago I was riding by and he happened to be outside and I stopped to ask him if I could have it. Luckily I had stopped when I did because he said he was getting ready to cut it down and send it to the scrap yard! Fast...
Spring is here and the weather is warming up but the pool is not. It takes until about May in this part of NW FL for the pool to get warm enough for me. But thats way too far away when its early April currently. The Half Ass Craftsmen came up with a plan to build a solar pool heater to speed this heating process up. Now this isn’t a new idea but we weren’t sure how well it r...
With the advent of LEDs bringing cheap, compact and low energy lights to the world at a rapid pace, I have been trying to find uses for them in less than normal applications. A recent project, inspired by a trip to Epcot center, found an interesting use for LEDs, fiber optics and concrete. I have an old satellite dish pole in the yard. I also have an old boat grill that went...