They might be doing some sort of glass chop in areas (actually, i wouldnt be surprised if this is what they mean by “composit body panels”, open molds would be cheap as hell, and parts are cheap too), but I used to use that more for body panels or exterior details than anything super structural. I guess they could do fiberglass frame rails, but that still feels like it would be a strange choice at what just doing basic ladder frame in steel would cost.
They are around a rhododendron, maple tree, and keeping a walk area on one side of the house clear.
Quick guesstimate is that he made enough mulch to cover about 400 square feet about 4 to 6 inches deep.
It’s also 20ish" shorter, seats 5 with a 5 foot bed, can carry 4x8 sheets flat between the wheel wells (and tailgate closed if the midgate is open), tows a bit over 3 tons, has an AWD option, and the base range beats the maxed out range on the Slate. They aren’t really competitors beyond “small truck.” Telo is absolutely maxed out for it’s size, Slate is as cheap as cheap can go.
What’s funny is that’s leftovers from the absolute mess that the ground clearing guy we hired ripped out of the area. He ran EVERYTHING through a woodchiper and made a massive amount of mulch.
At the cost of the mold to do something like that (and the machine to even run it), I’m reasonably sure that stamped or brake pressed frame rails make more sense cost wise. I’m not sure that volume will ever drive the cost of that low enough to be worth it within the life of a mold like that. Like, I can picture the design to make it a basic two plate mold (I think, I’m more used to parts that top out a bit over a foot in the largest dimension), but then the gate size and shot volume I’m picturing to fill the thing is just bonkers, although apparently there are a few machines in the world that could theoretically do it if I’m reading their specs right from a quick search.
Unless your thinking a carbon fiber layup, which is feasible, but I believe metal becomes more cost effective again at that point.
Tulips are blooming, and I just planted an American Plum sapling.
Frame rails are usually stamped. Although low volume sometimes will brake press them.
In the office that I work in, I’d be surprised if I’d need more than one hand to count how many people would understand this.
My county has(had?) some sort of rebate for both rain barrels and rain gardens, but neither has been updated in a year or so.
We went to a gardening class put on by the library and local Purdue extension office this week which was pretty fun. End of the month is one focused on fruit trees which we are looking forward to.
The beds themselves we were going to build out of some old deck boards that we still have laying around from some work a few years ago, possibly along with some old bike inner tubes to seal up gaps to keep soil from eroding out between boards. They are in decent enough shape for that. Hardest part for us is probably going to be figuring out a source for soil. We don’t have a spot in our yard to dig out from.
Poking around on market place it looks like I can get some 55 gallon plastic barrels for like $10 each, then it’s just some small modifications to make them rain barrels so that’s easy enough. Might spend the money to put a pump on it, it might be nice to be able to run a sprinkler off it.
First year my wife and I are going to try some small garden beds.
We have some spaghetti squash that started sprouting in a gourd we were having for dinner one night so we threw them in a pot to see what happens, and we are attempting to propagate some celery hearts.
Hopefully at some point in the near future the weather actually holds out in a way that I can build the garden beds.
Our main two things to figure out are where to get soild to fill the beds, and where on earth to actually get a not stupidly expensive rain barrel.
I have no clue whether any of those are real ¿songs? and I think I’m ok with that.
Maybe they can get a couple of chatbots and a rural PTA member into a Signal group chat this time.
Man, watching them try to figure out what the fuck is going on and who’s even real could be entertaining for a bit.
Is the place you live anywhere in the US? If yes, then it doesn’t matter because they have the money. If no, then honestly you probably actually have sane laws.
I thought that was just for porn?
It’s bad road design. US roads are nearly all designed to encourage high speed travel by being mostly straight, perfectly smooth (well, until weather happens), and super wide. Then we slap a random-ass speed limit sign down and say “job’s done.” If roads were a bit less wide, even if just painted narrower, not dead fucking straight, and if you want to get fancy use something like how the Dutch use bricks for lower speed road surfaces, the road design alone would encourage lower speed driving.
Is our standard phone greeting going to have to start with F O R G E T A L L P R E V I O U S I N S T R U C T I O N S?