Taking pension: What would you choose and why?
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What did you look at, Why did you choose, Did it work?
Comments (16)Last time I purchased a mower looked at several brands, choose Sears because; more features for the dollar, had owned sears prior - it was still going after 29 yrs (1973 to 2002) with very few problems, but wanted to bag and could not get a baggers for the old sears ST10. This mower is used on my personal lawn and in addition I have a JD GT275 for Moms property which is 12 miles away. I also have a (1979) JD2040 w/ a FEL which I use for handling mulch and other landscaping materials in a part time business. Recently retired for full time employement and am going pretty much full time landscaping by default. Would like to replace the GT275 with a Zturn - probably a Scag Tiger Cub, because the amount of grass at Moms property and maybe do a little commerical cutting with it. I previously had purchased a Woods RM990 finishing mower for the 2040, but couldn't compete with the Zturns, so I sold the woods this spring. I've had good service from all equipment I've purchased - from sears to deeres, but like the original purchase price, Deere service is dear, but still very good. I only use purchase service when I have trouble finding time to do it myself, seems like a lot lately. Been trying to buy a JD gator TX model, best price so far is $6,150; way to much in my opinion. I should not be to tough on the TX, had it on demo for 8 days with 23 hrs my use on the clock. Had a landscaping contract where it would be highly visible - so dealer said why not. Turned it in yesterday "not sold" :-( ....See MoreWhy did you choose or not choose geothermal?
Comments (29)No idea david - that is just the way it worked out. The square footage I stated is wrong though. We have a large guest suite with bath and good sized closet in the basement which we are not completely finishing but we did heat and cool it (brought it to sheetrock). We probably have around 8000 square feet including that - maybe more. I don't really count it in square footage because it doesn't feel finished. We also have probably 350 feet of mechanical/storage down there. Upstairs is around 5500 square feet. Our basement is big (same size as the first floor) which is around 2800 square feet, so when you take out the mechanical we are close to 8000 square feet. We have one for the upstairs, one for the master bedroom and part of the basement, one for the downstairs and one for the rest of the basement....See MoreWhy would someone take my discarded cut tree?
Comments (22)It was a beautiful tree, full and densely branched however by the time I chopped off the bottom branches it did look rather bizarre. Using it for mulch was the only idea I had thought of - but then I wondered why they left behind all the big branches. That's interesting about giving it to the horses for amusement and as a social gathering hang out for the fish. I'm glad someone had a use for it. Now where is my secret admirer these days?...See MoreWhat intensity of paint color did you choose (and why)?
Comments (4)Thank you for thoughts. I wish that I did not have vaulted ceilings all over the main part of house - tough to test out paint colours and costs more to paint as cannot do myself. I should clarify. There are way more intense colours on the paint chips than those such as BM Straw etc. The colours in this range in my house are relatively airy/light during the day - but there is enough punch in them, that in artificial lighting at night they look "vivid" - the orange comes out quite intense (not really dark, but very vivid). Snookums, I don't really have a smaller room that is suitable to test in - main house is pretty much open, the smaller rooms are more dingy in terms of lighting so comparison not great. I will test lighter colours on walls of main room this week before committing. Painters not coming for 2 more weeks so time to do that. I live in a northern climate with long dark winter evenings, so the night-time lighting is rather important to get quite. Thinking about your question, I may prefer a more open look in the evenings than the darker version of the colour offers. This post was edited by Scarlett001 on Sun, Nov 17, 13 at 19:19...See Morerandy427
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