Just ordered a wide brimmed hat for yard work and fishing. I have worked and played all my life without sun protection, and I'm hoping it doesn't catch up with me.
In the past couple of years, my husband has been treated for several small skin cancers on his forehead and the top of one ear. He bought himself some "safari" hats that he wears when working outdoors. You'll have to model your new hat for us, Ed!!
Funny, but I was just looking at those. My neck just got real burned...again. I have a small hat with the flaps down the back, I'm looking at a larger one.
So to further the bad luck I've had with high-dollar items ordered over the internet (the cheap stuff I buy always turns out fine), I had to return that walk-behind string trimmer I ordered from Lowes website. I picked it up Friday and played with it a little bit that afternoon, and it worked just as I wanted. Started on the second pull. Then Sunday I used it extensively, and it died after about 45 minutes. I could not get it to start up again. I came inside and made lunch to let it sit for an hour, and it still would not start. It sat overnight and this morning started right up. I used it for 45 minutes and it died again. I called MTD Customer Service and they told me to take it back to Lowes. I hate modern engines. Everything is pre-set and there are no user adjustments available. And Quality is questionable. Given the symptoms, I suspect the coil was bad...in a brand-new engine. Maybe it worked out for the best. I think a regular weed eater might better suit my needs. I'm going to a local Stihl dealer tomorrow. I'll put the money I spent for the string trimmer into a nice Stihl with a couple of attachments. At least I can drive to the local guy if I have problems with it. Thank goodness I didn't order the walk-behind from Amazon.
It's so unfair. You can wear pants of any length you want...from ankle-length to halfway up your daggone shin. There's no such things as "wrong length." Don't get me wrong. I don't long to be Laura Petrie in pedal pushers. But for goodness sake, you can't be given so much latitude!!!
I bought moisturizing socks for me darlin', he has hard skin on his feet. You wear for one hour and they worked - so good ! They have a gel pad inside around the heel area
I don't know what you mean about the walk behind part of string trimmer, but I bought a gas string trimmer from Lowes a few years ago with a 2 cycle engine and it never ran right when new. After much frustrating attempts I finally got it fixed. The carburetor was apparently adjusted for California emission standards making it run rich. The plug's insulator was black and wet. I had to buy a special tool to adjust the carb since a screwdriver wouldn't do it since the consumer might destroy the planet . How to adjust was online. In the process I switched to ethanol free gas, cut a hole in the air filter over the throat of the carb so it would breath better, and went with 50:1 from the recommended 40:1 mixture. Runs like it should now.
I was telling the guy at Lowes that I long for the 1960s. I used to work on this stuff when I was just out of high school. Heck, you can't even buy a functional gas can these days. Not only can you not get the gas out of it without needing 5 hands, you can't get gas in the damn things. All designed by people who pay others to do their yard work. Here's a walk-behind string trimmer: It's a lawn mower with a weed eater head on it, with string nearly twice the thickness of a regular weed eater. It's meant for cutting large over-grown areas, where a regular mower deck would bog down in tall, thick growth. I bought it because some of the stuff I need to edge is real thick, but it ended up being too cumbersome to push from one tree/fence to the next merely for edging. Regarding Lowes, I started reading the reviews and the Q&A on various models when looking for a replacement. I was reading where the major brands are "dumbed-down" for the big box stores. You buy a Husqvarna, but the model built especially for Lowes takes the low-end Troy attachments! It's frustrating. So I'll get off my wallet and throw some money at the independent shop on the other side of the county and buy a Stihl.
Gotcha. I had an old mower that would run for a good while and die. When it cooled off it would start and repeat the process. I thought it was maybe losing compression after it got hot like having a leaky head gasket or cracked head. Good luck with the replacement.
Thanks, Ed. I just got home. Bought one of these: Also bought one of these to go with it: It can take a pole saw attachment, but I'm not gonna drop another $200 right now. I have a manual pole saw that should be good enough, except that every once in a while my neighbors and I do heavy maintenance on our 1/2 mile long private right-of-way, so the gas pole saw would come in handy...we're all about my age. This should last me forever.