kurt

Wow.... a 10 year old thread revitalized..... It's one more thing. When I was selling industrial respirators and filtration equipment, we had a list of 187 micro-fibers, toxic dusts, or other nastiness everyone is exposed to on a daily basis. I'm sure you're right about ducts killing us, but telling folks to change out their ducts is gonna be a hard sell. Good luck.

It's a real problem in the profession. Lots of folks punch info into a computer program, drag a couple pics into it, and they don't know why. The rez thing is also a function of folks not knowing what they're doing or how to take a photo. If one knows what one is looking at and what they're trying to tell the customer, they can take a good pic. If not, they don't. Rez has little to do with it. Good pics can be pretty much any resolution. It's about composition and providing establishing and close ups, it's not necessarily about rez. I can imagine that rez is pretty important with the drones because of the inherent problems in getting the shots lined up right.

I don't think I need a pic; I know they take good pics. I've fiddled with a demo and I know a couple guys that have them to know the pics are good. My concern is the mayhem factor and how much actual use I'd get out of a drone. I'd probably need it a few jobs every year, with a few meaning something >2 and <10. Factor in the unknown of weather, and it might only come out of the box (for me) a few times a year. That might make it worth it, or not. I don't know yet.

I used to do shoot big rez until I talked to a good photographer about imaging and how to think about it. I try to get a good initial image instead of having to rework images. Saves lots of time and makes for better pics. Do most folks take big high rez and then manipulate their pics?

Who was saying it's not useful? I'm saying I wonder if there's a lot of opportunity for mayhem. If you're extra proud of your drone, and have useful information to share, tell us about it in less snide-like words. Also, pics are downsized because some folks post mega hi rez, and it eats up memory and function. Or something. Any pic is helpful.

I agree on the *useful for some roofs* part. It could be quite useful, but I have some serious trepidations about getting into it, not the least of which is that thing we've all experienced where some aspect of the inspection goes wrong. It seems like the drone thing would have lots of opportunity for going wrong. Or at least, making me look like a moron. Does your machine have the GPS hover feature?

When you're flying, are you looking at the monitor or are you strictly watching the bird? IOW, do you tape, then review the tape or is it real time inspecting?

Petrified works. How's the Smiths Penetrating hold up with UV?

I want, as is my wont.

That's funny, regardless.

Real Americans use explosives. It's not just a stump, it's an opportunity to display how much you love this country.

It's never a bad idea to consider explosive options. And yes, yews.....the morons landscaping solution.

My point is, there is no on the cheap stump removal. One pays with their wallet, their time, or their ass. Regardless, one pays. Having spent most of my life paying with the latter two and understanding the actual economic therein, I was making a simple plea for sanity. Advice one doesn't want to hear is sometimes the best.

One guy wants to tend a charball while whaling away with wedges and a maul for a couple months, the other wants to burn up chainsaws, the drive train and rear end of a perfectly good truck, and dig holes all day for (at least) an entire weekend. I guess I underestimated the stump busting masochistic streak in you guys. Machinery that makes life easier always fascinated me.....others, well.....everyone gets to do whatever it is they want to do.....

Don't bother trying to burn it out. All you end up with is a big chunk of charcoal. I've got a short history of leaving half burnt stumps in a few properties I've owned. Sounds good on the front end, but....they burn for a while, then it gets down to a charball, and all that char insulates the still green/wet stump. They don't burn for squat. A tree grinder service can get back there if you have an approximately 5'-6' passage. They can grind it down to a pile of mulch that's still a mountain of shit to haul, but they can at least get it ground down.

I've seen hard winters where multifamily buildings with 6" vents are almost closed, and 4" is completely closed by frost. 3" is the bare minimum. Admittedly, frost closure is pretty rare (I've only seen it a few times in my entire career, and it's always early morning/dawn, but if one thinks there needs to be an open vent 24/7/365/infinity, it better be a big vent coming out the roofline.

Anyone here actually dug out an old stump per Katen? If they have, they'd not be recommending it as a solution. It's the ultimate ball/body/equipment buster. I kinda like Blum's idea. Blast out the dirt with a power wash/hydro laser arrangement. Not sure where to get a hydro-laser..... But really, this is why the Good Lord created Heavy Equipment. Forego your daily coffee or whatever other discretionary budget items in your life, and become best friends with the guy that owns the biggest baddest skidder in your 'hood. Actually, we've pulled out bigger stumps than that with someone that knows their way around a good front end loader/backhoe arrangement. Dig, push, pull, lift, dig, pull, push....extraction. It's remarkable how easy it is with the miracle of hydraulics and heavy iron. Tear the yard and stump a new one, be done with it, and go back to running whitewater.

That's why a vent has to be 4" where it goes thru a roof.

Nightmare horrorshow. Spend money.

Download one of those documents to get an idea of what it's like trying to decipher City of Chicago codes. Fuggedaboudit..... What you want is HERE.... Click on the "More" button.... Go to division 29, where I found out I was wrong. "18-29-904.6 Extension through the wall. Vent terminals extending through the wall shall terminate a minimum of 12 feet (3.66 m) from the lot line and 12 feet (3.66 m) above average ground level. Vent terminals shall not terminate under the overhang of a structure with soffit vents. Side wall vent terminals shall be protected to prevent birds or rodents from entering or blocking the vent opening." There it is, almost identical to the IRC except for the 12' vs. 10' thing, and I've been told by every union shop in Chicago that you can't do it. Just goes to show...... Just because it's in the book doesn't mean squat. It's what the union guy says whenever they say it. I alternate between hating and loving this city. It's been a while since I've waded into that mess.....there's a few changes...

Maybe myth.... I've read that some of the shippers, after having been barred from dumping ballast into the harbors, figured out they could bring flagstone, bricks, or other items they could sell. The ballast on a ship isn't enough to pave a road or build a seawall; it was small time trading where the captain could make a few extra dollars. Truth or myth?

No. Roofline.

The milk and lime part certainly, but the most common belief is they used ferrous oxide mixed into the milk and lime, not ground up bricks. Farmers used rust for a lot of things, one of them being it was a natural fungicide. Barns in Europe were red for the same reason. Brick was really expensive; I tend to doubt they were grinding them up. Maybe, but I doubt it.

Forget the "we". Say "I". It's honest.

Or worse. My single bad review on Angie's List is about the basement water issues I missed. Panicked, I looked up the report, and I had found 2 spots with water entry, rotting wood and damaged drywall, and I told then to open up the wall to figure out where and why water was entering the basement. They didn't do anything that I told them to. We get them for a few hours. The rest of the time, it's a nonstop bombardment of stupid crap from realtors, HGTV, and popular media. They hire us, and they don't know why. It's easy to hang the HI. Happens all the time.