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From what I remember my landscape friend said most stamped decks would last years if anybody ever cleaned out the wet composting grass clumps . It’s an awkward job but slows the rust out by about a decade . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com

@mimico_polak don’t forget the winter rental for Collingwood skiing and sledders running east . Collingwood thinks it’s Whistler right now for pricing. We used to rent a Wasaga /Stayner place for the winter for sledding and skiing . Then a Wasaga place for windsurfing in the summer . If Tony’s...

At one point strippers were very cash rich if they didn’t have a drug problem. I knew a couple that did ok with slum level rentals . Rule one , don’t rent to strippers . Happy to do some recon work with you ,I can talk Reno’s with strippers . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com

Look at what the municipality and landscapers are buying . They do not want any downtime if avoidable . Sadly they do not have a five K budget cap either . Good used “might” be a good option. When I needed a lawn tractor I had a Kubota , small diesel and built like a full size farm tractor ...

Mom’s condo needing the top level of the parking garage redone , twenty five yrs of salt had eaten the rebar and compromise the concrete . Assessment would be fifteen K per unit , payable in three installments in case it went over budget , then your last cheque could be more . Board member had...

Condo boards are made of recruits from usually within the building , you may be a teacher or dentist , doesn’t mean you know how a building should work. The list of condo board directors that have a cousin Vinny in the paving business is a mile long . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com

The Toronto power of sale numbers are housing investors that are literally declaring the project over and walking . Adding the condo fees into the financed costs and looking at the time to break even let alone turn a profit and the party is over. Brampton so I am told by my broker pal is mostly...

Canada post delivered to my door a package that REQUIRED a signature, not anyone’s , mine. Package left sitting on porch . It was insured for eight k , box sitting there . Fully functional firearm . Idiots . Now CP apparently won’t transport firearms . And today I get the announcement that...

I got a notice yesterday in my mailbox that I can now add an app to my phone that will tell me if I have mail in my mailbox . A company loosing hundreds of millions created an app so my lazy ass doesn’t need to walk to the mailbox. Am I really old or is making a hundred foot walk once or twice...

Dog training is like new parents , often the bad kid , isn’t bad , his parents are idiots . We have trained several ourselves , my mom ran a kennel , but we may do formal training to help with socializing her . Never a bad idea . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com

This girl followed me home this week , eleven week old golden retriever . Mom was an English cream and dad an American red . She’s been hilarious to watch figure out stairs and being scared by pinecones . Happy house again . Sent from my iPhone using...

Don’t drink and mow ? Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com

Theres an influx of houses hitting the market around me, all seem to be reselling after 3-5yrs of ownership . New interest rates banging up against the inflation rate and take home pay #'s ??

If you watch F1 , you’ll see Einhell on the front wings of the Mercedes team , all of the cordless tools of the Mercedes team are Einhell . Nice display in Atlas Tools in Concord and Etobicoke, Tegs in Hamilton, Millbank hardware and other actual tool stores . Making a battery adapter is risky...

My brother is responsible for getting Einhell to market in Canada , it’s an enormous German brand of power tools and a complete garden / lawn system sold in seventy countries but good luck getting traction in a Milwaukee/ Dewalt world . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com

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If you have a battery eco system , makita / Dewalt , look at an electric. Not good if youre a lumberjack but limbing and getting rid of smaller deadfall , they are pretty handy . I’ve had a corded electric for years . And you don’t need a huge chainsaw , twelve inch bar takes down a twenty four...

Good start , maybe consider getting some oak plugs and countersinking the screws for neater look . You’ll have trouble getting red oak to stain close to the plank floor , use white oak next time . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com

And with today’s bewildering new global tariffs on eighty countries for forced labour ? Swiss cheese and Australian wine? Is MacDoc being forced to pick grapes ? Japanese market down, China down, most of the EU markets down. Is anything safe ? I dropped ten K over night on a “balanced”...

Skookum, haven’t heard that since I spent a lot of time in lower mainland BC . Colloquialism of the day ! Fair dinkum Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com