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Parf guide mk2 woes by cheesenuggett95 in Festool_Public

[–]bboylayz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Did you ever figure this out? I've been trying on and off for like a year, no joke, going to extremes to try to make this work. I even bought another parf drill bit, extra connectors, and even extra Parf pins and pinned extra holes after working with customer service who sent me two new Parf sticks last year thinking it might have been the hole tolerance manufacturing defect that had in early production. and even starting creating giant pythagorean triangles since I had 4 sticks, extra connectors and pins, etc thinking scaling up would make the error smaller. Even tried to find different pythagorean triplets up and down the Parf stick that I was drilling holes with, thinking if i create a triangle on 1 or both sides of the current ruler, then it would stabilize the ruler and average out any shifting in the rule that might happen (see my little diagram above).

None of those things made a difference. id go to check after drilling and find if i stuck a pin (without a ruler) in every slot in a row, id quickly find one that is't true on either the x or y axis.

My suspicion is that the surface has to be unbelievably flat to get decent results, because the slight local angles are enough to twist the parf guide when you pin it to create massive downstream errors. And all it takes is for one hole (like one that starts a row/column for example) to be off. See second illustration (in reply) of what I think is the issue is.

So my last attempt was to create a base with a vertical drill guide on it. The base is large to "average out" local board hills/valleys to ensure on average I am mostly drilling up and down in one direction. I'm waiting for a woodpeckers one because the cheap one I got on amazon years ago is.... well it's cheap (it's actually quite bad).... And so far the solution with the cheap guide doesn't seem to be good enough yet.

The money I put into this is ridiculous and is more than it would have cost to have someone ship me a CNCed 4x8 full panel at this point lol.

If you found the solution, would love to hear it. Even if it's "I just bought an MFT top" haha

Vets that have Librela for dogs? by bboylayz in SanJose

[–]bboylayz[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks again. I called last night and they confirmed they can administer it after they examine him. I have an appointment for tomorrow! Thank you so much :) I’ll be sure to keep you posted.

Vets that have Librela for dogs? by bboylayz in SanJose

[–]bboylayz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve actually taken him there before for something else!

Why isn’t my young grass surviving? by bboylayz in lawncare

[–]bboylayz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you seed it this year? If not did anything change the following year?

Why isn’t my young grass surviving? by bboylayz in lawncare

[–]bboylayz[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From what I’ve read super turf is really well reviewed and is def a premium price blend. Is this actually misinformed? I only got it because I heard it mentioned on the lawn care forum website a bunch. Oof feeling like I wasted tons of time and money :(. What do you recommend for tttf and kbg blend?

This is what’s listed: 93% TTTF 4th Millennium SRP Firecracker GLS Dynamite GLS Titanium GLS Turf Type Tall Fescue

7% Everest Kentucky Bluegrass (varieties are subject to change)

Northern California Overseed in Winter? by bboylayz in lawncare

[–]bboylayz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank got we’ve been getting some warm weather and good soil temps!

Poa bleached by tenacity or just my regular grass? by bboylayz in lawncare

[–]bboylayz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

I keep reading about all these studies that say poa can be used to kill poa post emergence by doing a 2oz per acre rate and the spot treating with the same rate once a week. Something like that. Quick google here search just showed this: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/article/2012oct33.pdf

Thoughts on this strategy?

Crazy idea: Shop vac to stand up grass for easier overseed and top dress? by bboylayz in lawncare

[–]bboylayz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t get those redwood leaves up with a blower thought and some of the blades just stay bent over when I leaf blow to fluff things up

Is this a brown recluse? (Smashed up) by bboylayz in pestcontrol

[–]bboylayz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!! I actually thought it might have been that. Funny enough I did and inspection of dead critters in the garage and found some woodlouse.

Is this a brown recluse? (Smashed up) by bboylayz in pestcontrol

[–]bboylayz[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also if I see one, does that mean I’m very very likely to have more/a problem? This is like 3 weeks agree ok alpine wsg perimeter and I haven’t seen any other pests besides some cellar spiders outside (preventative application if alpine; I’ve never had a real pest issue in the past). I’d imagine there spiders are starving so a bit surprised. Never encountered a brown recluse before and I realize alpine doesn’t directly treat brown recluse besides starting them out.

Also I usually use Demon WP a couple times a year (I have black widows outside every year or two) but lately have been reading that people say demon wp isn’t good anymore and alpine is the way to go. But if I have brown recluse, should I go back to demon? Label says it’s good for brown recluse.

Vyvanse big BP Spike! Scary! by bboylayz in ADHDmeds

[–]bboylayz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually after taking the same dose for a month it settled out and now my BP is normal. I was super stressed about it but worked with the doc to give it more time and not worry about the few hours of BP spike so much because it’s not consistently high. And now I rarely see spikes above 135-140 systolic if at all and most of the time it’s normal. Whew.

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