Christopher Weeks

No idea!

I own a DeWalt battery chainsaw and it gets the job done. I wouldn't buy it again because of philosophical differences with the parent company, but it seems like a fine saw. And it's the only one I've used. I'd reflexively buy Greenworks today to be on the same battery platform as my other new tools and someone here (John, maybe?) especially likes them.

Eric Hanson wrote:Separately I would like to buy into the Greenworks 80v line.

I have two members of that line:
https://www.greenworkstools.com/products/80v-42-cordless-battery-crossovert-riding-lawn-mower-w-twelve-12-4-0ah-batteries-and-three-3-dual-port-turbo-chargers
https://www.greenworkstools.com/collections/80-volt/products/80v-20-cordless-battery-single-stage-snow-blower-w-4-0ah-battery-charger (for the deck)

They do what they're supposed to but are kind of no-frills. I'll get more things to go with the batteries as time passes.

Oh, I hope this ends up being a thorough discussion. I've recently experienced a crisis of faith about my full yellow buy-in and am casting about for future options.

Also, this helped me decode some of the discussion: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=power+tool+lines+by+color&ia=images&iax=images

Who has the pollution hydrology background to educate me on this?

1) I live on dozens of feet of sand (at least 60').
2) I have never seen a puddle near my house because water just percolates away as fast as the sky can drop it.
3) Sand is a very effective filter medium.
4) Everything works better at a massive natural scale, so the bio-buffer of using all the ground has to(?) be better than a barrel of sand.

What would happen if my septic tank cracked and just leaked straight into the ground? Or I designed a waste-treatment system that allowed a small amount of untreated effluent into the surrounding earth?

It seems like pathogens should get hung up in the sand at some point and then denature over time rather than completing the round trip to my well.

But I'm pretty sure this has been given a LOT of attention, and the consensus is that what I'm suggesting is all wrong and would be extremely dangerous.

So, what part of my vision/understanding is incorrect?

Possible green flags that seem like they'd give singles a leg up finding a match at Permies:

A thread they started in Gardening for Beginners, Polyculture, Forest Gardening, Seeds and Breeding or something similar with good discussion and pictures of their garden.

A thread they started in Homesteading or Projects (or similar) discussing an improvement they've made to their homestead or situation with follow-on discussion.

Some good SKIP badges: https://permies.com/wiki/skip-pep-bb

A history, even if you're newish, of contributing to other threads. This includes helpful suggestions, insightful questions, and companionable chatting.

Having earned some apples.

If I was new to this site and looking for love, I'd do some or all of the above before posting in Singles.

You can fold it and fold it and fold it and if you're careful, cut through all those layers with a rotary cutter on a mat, if you have that stuff. I've made strips like that for piecing quilt tops. For these, I've mostly used scissors slowly while the TV is on or I'm listening to podcasts.

Speaking to those last two posts, I've fallen in love three times. The first two women are now very fine friends. Only in the last case did things work out and we figured out how to build love. We work on it every day -- both patching the cracks and adding new dimensions. I agree that falling in love happens, and is amazing, but it's nothing compared to thirty years of building it.

I knit rugs from scrap clothing that I don't want to save as patches or other projects. I cut them into strips, as long as possible and then use ~5/8" dowels as knitting needles. These don't exactly meet criterion #1 because while all the clothes that went into these claim to be 100% cotton, there's poly thread or something seemingly in everything. But one *could* use this technique with all natural fiber, of course.

We've had a foot or two -- depending on drifts, since November. It's maybe a little lighter than usual this year. But it has seemed substantially warmer than usual. It was -30 when our furnace went out a few weeks ago, but that was a fairly temporary cold snap. Usually by now we'll have had a week solid where the high is -20. But even when we've had some night-time cold, it got up into the negative single digits during the day. It's been an easy winter to live with.

Sometimes it's twice a day and sometimes it's every three days. And sometimes I fill the dishwasher and let it do its thing and other times I handwash. When handwashing, I might only wash four things instead of the whole backlog, so I can't count that as "washing dishes" but enough instances like that must add up. It's complicated! (I chose every other day as my best guess.)