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    Ideas for planters/raised beds?

    Egg shells scattered in the garden help keep the rabbits out. They don’t seem to like walking on them.
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    Paintball gun

    Most paintball guns will be plenty accurate. Even the CO2 cartridge plastic pistols we started with in the late eighties were surprisingly accurate for what they were but they didn’t have much range. The “constant air” gun with a Daisy point sight I owned was very accurate. Everyone in the group...
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    Paintball gun

    Read Post #5. I haven’t killed a dog known to belong to a neighbor. A neighbor’s dog did get a chicken dinner. I haven’t seen that dog since. Saw it on the security camera a day or 2 after the chicken disappeared. That’s when I got serious about protecting our stuff. I set up trail cameras so...
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    Ideas for planters/raised beds?

    Not everyone has dirt suitable for farming. Getting up and down, if able, also helps a person stay active and limber.
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    Paintball gun

    Yeah, there are a LOT of dog owners who should get the treatment instead of the dogs. Most on my neighbors finally got the hint that I didn’t want their dogs tearing up our stuff and trying to kill our chickens. They started building runs or chain them up instead of letting them run loose. Law...
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    Ideas for planters/raised beds?

    I can get all of the glyphosate drums I want for free but I don’t think I would want my garden growing in one even though I know they have been properly rinsed. I mostly use them for trash cans and have been known to cut them up to make forms for concrete. Food grade drums cost money here. I...
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    Paintball gun

    Bruises the size of quarters and half-dollars all over the torso and arms. Ours were required to be tested not to exceed 300 fps. No need for more. Paintballs had trouble surviving the trip much faster than that anyway. More accurate than a person would think possible. Things may have changed...
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    Ideas for planters/raised beds?

    We are using tubs that cattle feed comes in (might be mineral tubs). We got some several years ago for free from a guy who had some cattle. We also bought some 4x8x1corrugated metal raised planter bed kits off Amazon. They were 2 for $100. Both have worked well for us.
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    Trailer tires.

    Tires will generally let a person know when they are going bad and should be changed. A person just needs to actually look at them now and then. I am not a tire guy but I have disassembled and reassembled a lot of tires over the years and never saw one that was in worse shape on the inside than...
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    Trailer tires.

    The only trailer tire problems I had involved the small bias ply tires that came on my jon boat trailer 30 years ago. Guaranteed one blow out on every trip more than 20 miles. One long trip from Fairbanks to Circle cost me 2 tires. I raised the fenders and installed radials. Never had another...
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    How to prevent jack from seizing up? Gets submerged every launch

    I have had to launch where I stepped into water getting out of the truck so pretty easy for me to imagine getting a jack wet. Shallow sloped boat ramp with long pontoon boat pretty much guarantees it. My rear axles have been completely submerged. I have never done a saltwater launch but have had...
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    I HATE AUTOMATIC BILGE PUMPS!

    Yeah, I’m not reading that crap just for curiosity’s sake. I spend more than enough time in CFR 14.
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    I HATE AUTOMATIC BILGE PUMPS!

    True, but I think a lot less than what gets in a ski boat during a active day on the lake.
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    Honda BF50L

    That looks like a serial number tag in the one picture. Most manufacturers let you search for parts using the motor serial number.
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    Suzuki oil change warning question

    Yes, several times and no, never. Never been an issue until this week. I tell whomever calls me how to reset and usually text them a link to the procedure otherwise it is an easy $50 for me to run to the dock and reset it if they choose to wait.
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