Cheap replacement cover

[Norm]

How will I ever replace this a long search thru

google then a week waiting would mean cleaning it today....using the mower then cleaning the

wheel again....ugh !

   



Taking a look at the other cover....

looks strangely familiar....oh well time for some coffee....get out the red Folgers can with

the BLACK LID !

Trimmed the extra edge from the Folgers lid, took

a Irwin wood speed bit drilled the two holes for

the gear shaft and the wheel shaft.

....and so if you have a Yardman self-propelled,

and need a replacement cover and you don't drink Folgers coffee    send me a large SASE and

I'll mail you back one lid .  LOL !

(offer expires 09/26/2009)

[TomW]

Norm;

I guess I didn't realize anyone still made coffee using coffee dust?

Haven't had a can of Folgers around in years. Plastic now but coffee cans were great storage tubs for small stuff. And I have drunk enough to float the USS Enterprise over the years.

If I need any I know who to bug now!

Great example of doing with whats to hand.

Tom

[dnix71]

Coffee cans had other uses, too. I remember when emission controls were introduced in cars in the early 70's and some US car makers used coffee cans as vapor charcoal canisters.

[Norm]

Hard to stack these cans or plastic containers

without the lids....so each time I can find a

use for the lids gives me an excuse to get rid

of the junk that they contained....thinking

back...that was 3 or 4 years ago probably and

I still don't have a use for it...whatever it

was? ...so adios junk !

[TomW]

I hear you, Norm!

We rented a roll off dumpster and did about 25 years of "Spring Cleaning" a couple weeks back.

I got brutal and, just yesterday I could have used something we tossed but at least now I can see into the sheds and even find the floor in the garage.

Tom

[richhagen]

Nice re-use of material.  I've used those to cut out consumable plastic washers and of course to store stuff, and I even had one folgers plastic can with a plant in it.  Those bits and pieces come in handy.  All that and I don't even drink coffee.  Rich

[wooferhound]

I can't tell you how many Stage Lights that I have made out of coffee cans.

If you like them with a trash bag they make great flower pots too ?!

[Norm]

  My trouble is I can't stay organized for long,

bolts in one can, nails in another, etc....

but then as I work, I have a bolt left over,

now what did I do with the can of bolts....oh

well....put it in with the nails for now.....

in about a week or so I'm wondering how that can

of spagetti got in with the nails and so on..

[scottsAI]

Yes, same thing happens to me.

Now when something is added, toss equal volume out.

Still growing, slowly. Often too busy to find the stuff to toss, don't get around to tossing stuff later.

You can count the hours after I do toss something out, when I could use it.

Need a bigger storage area, how about 100' x 100' pole barn, think it will last awhile before it gets full?

Have fun,

Scott.

[Airstream]

100x100...  What height ceiling?

[scottsAI]

16 foot + half basement.

[Airstream]

Using Messieur Messmuses Monograph #9:

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With three paths front to back:

 1284 days to fill without blood/marriage relations helping;

 401 days if location evolves into family affair;

 284 days if friend-of-family infrastructure is invoked!

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I hope you kept the basement entrance secret!

That is a fine sized building.

^^ Shed envy spoken here if you couldn't tell

[scottsAI]

Not happening any time soon.

Looking for property to build net zero energy home when laid off.

Pole barn was built first as an experiment to the main house.

First step was 60' x 45', extend the 45' to 90 later.

100 x 100 was the wish, not sure can justify it. Sounds good.

[zeusmorg]

 Next someone will mention building a sterling engine out of coffee cans, oh wait I just did!

[Airstream]

Good friends of the family down in Missouri used a series of Morton steel buildings for their home & man'f shop & garage space; Some things learned...

The main living area is nice but bedrooms ended up small on window area, all baths and closets are islanded away from outside walls and end up dreary and dark, having shop & garage space outside access via west side low garage doors under eaves not gable ends) meant never enough air movement and they have to run air conditioning on low 8 months a year to keep moisture from being a problem, the steel is that good at trapping humidity.

There are some other issues that when all added together made the house a rental property, every year I'm asked to make an offer on it and every year I decline...

[Bruce S]

The tin ones do make great vaccum assist cans for Diesels and really nice vaccum boost for older cars and trucks. :-)

The "using them for flower pots" is an old ladies thing way back in volunteer garden days.

The tin cans from beans along with the plastic allows them to get a head start in growth; punch holes in bottom of the tins for drainage set inside plastic and plant out side when warm enough. Sides keeps weeds from taking over soil while tomato plants get bigger.

End result, + raised bed gardening nets me 3 dozen just harvested vine ripened beafsteaks that can't be beat my ANY store bought ones, no matter how pretty their's looks.

Bruce S

   

[scottsAI]

Always good to learn from others.

Started out with pole barns in mind, ended up using little from them.

Made a list of everything I don't like about typical homes. Long list.

Found solutions, integrated all together.

Walls papercrete: http://www.livinginpaper.org/

Steel Roof, collecting rain water, because its cheap.

Roof 12 12, solar heat collector.

Understand steel roofs are noisy during rain/hail, couple ideas for that.

Daylighting: light pipes sun into all rooms, lighting during the day.

Friends should look into wind induced ventilation. (assuming got wind!)

Add heat exchanger to keep heating/cooling of air.

Have fun,

Scott.