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If you have a distance that's too far for basic ethernet (100m max), you can consider a fiber repeater; you can either use it to connect a wifi access point and then use wifi cameras or use it to directly connect (possibly through a hub/switch) hardwired cameras. I have one that's specifically...

Just saying, there's a lot of immigrants in this country.

My mom's an immigrant. Came to the US in 1949.

Can you figure out who the 0.7ac property in back belongs to? You mentioned foreign-owned; at 0.7ac and being in FL far from them, perhaps they'd be interested in selling it. If you're interested in the main property I'd look into that possibility before purchasing to get an idea of their...

We have two fridges in the house. First one we got at a ding&dent store "cheap" for our house in '93; there's a scratch on one of the sides (which I've only seen when I moved the fridge to a different house x3 or if I pull it out to clean). This fridge has literally never had anything go wrong...

I have a small area which has a similar steepness. I do up/down, kind of zig-zagging as I go so I mow up, then turn the wheel just slightly as I back up and keep mowing overlaps as I go up and down. Areas near the steepest part I do both up/down and around until it's too steep then the steepest...

Strong agree. The "in the area" is more obvious when there's picture of a farmer's market in the local town before you get to the physical features that are 10 miles away, but IMO they still don't belong on the photo roll of the house features. Stretching photos IMO is absolutely dishonest; the...

foreign owned: right now. tomorrow? someone in a third-hand yurt.

There's an easement to one house going down the side of my property - right at the edge - and even that I find undesireable. My wife is always remarking about how neighbor lady tears down the driveway... we lost a cat 20 years ago on that driveway - got hit - there's now a cat-proof fence +...

Look at practically any professionally done photos of house interiors on zillow and look at the door width to height ratios. At first glance you don't realize why rooms look so big but once you see it you'll get it. Here's an example from a house mentioned above: From this picture my...

My thought was to use loppers to remove the bigger wood from all the branch wood and then probably raise the brush cutter, back tractor to some branches, and lower it on them. The ground was wet and slippery there till recently so I haven't given it a go, but I'm guessing that it would only...

It's not just using a wide-angle lens - they definitely stretch the pictures horizontally to make rooms appear more spacious. You need the wide-angle lens to get the whole room in the pic, yes, but it's not enough.

Basically set up a pulley at the position that a helper would take, such that when you throw the rope saw over the branch, "his" end of the rope goes to the pulley and then back to you. One of your hands is acting on the rope that goes from you up from you to the branch, and your other hand is...

I took down a bunch of brush and slim trees (~20' oaks that were growing in the brush so they're relatively straight and the branches thin) recently and they're currently just lying on the ground; I've been wondering if I can just drive over them with my brush cutter...

Another term I see: "chuck n' duck" My understanding is that this is the "self-feed", you chuck the limb into it and duck out of the way because as it feeds in (pulled by the chipper knives and their action) the branch will come after you may rotate violently and hit you. The self-feeders go...