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a bin like this will only slow them down a couple minutes. some smaller plastic, inside of a tool storage box. like you sometimes see hanging from a job site crane. they are vary strong, can hold off a bear even. but still cover all gaps with a sealant and real duct tape, the metal coated stuff.

i am just retired. so my life is upside down right now. trying to be a day walker, i have been working the night (4:pm to 4:30 am) for the past 10 years. but after the rain stops i plan to get a antenna up in my back yard. just a tec right now, but trying to learn so i can up grade to a general. as my job has for the most part put my life on hold. only 50-55 hrs week for a time before that 80+ hrs was normal. --truck driver.

i was surprised myself. as I had known it, the 911 calls went to the chp. or maybe a thing about my iphone? (i was in fresno, ca. hit the emg call button, and it called the calaveras county sheriff. i had a couple bums refusing to get away from my truck while i was unloading, and yes i did ask politely first, then told them to to leave, they refused. till i said i am calling the police and pulled out my phone.) yes bums like to attack truck drivers as we unload alone most of the time. this job is 24-7-363 days a year. but now i am retired 🙃 so that is not a problem for me any longer.

no quite so KD3Y, the 911 call does not go to the local police department or even the state police. at least here in ca. as my cell phone on calling 911 goes to the county sheriff were i live. and at times i can be 500+ miles away from that county. making the 911 service worthless.

i live alone, in the hills away from any city. but my mom (83), lives in a very bad city in ca (just 60 miles from me). no way can she handle any radio. heck she has trouble with a phone. so not sure what i can do radio wise. nor do i have any contacts close to her with a radio. like so many of us out here.

well i have a couple older protectors, how do i test them to know if any good? i do have some new on order anyhow. but just hate to trash these if any good. i live in a area that does not get much lightning. but the dryer summer (heck just got zapped good last week-late jan)air does build up static. i get zapped just getting out of my truck. touching metal shelves at stores, etc. maybe just me, i must have a electrifying personalty.

real pure gasoline stored in a sealed metal can is good for up to two years..longer? add in a stabilizer much longer. the killer of pump gasoline now is it is diluted with grain alcohol. that garbage goes bad in as little as a month as the alcohol absorbs humidity out of the air and promotes a fungus growth. all of which turns gasoline into a varnish.

sad i ran out of money, but was working on a gen and was going to add in a number of 48 volt dc batteries. (4 of them would cost about $7 grand USD). rewire part of the house for "special" outlets. the refer, some lights, and wall sockets. solar is just way too costly to bother. (at age 62 would never even get one quarter of my moneys worth out of it). would cost $20-30 grand USD to set up. at least the batteries can be moved into my rv. use the grid most of the time,(keeps the power supply bank topped off) then when the gov of ca turn's off our power i can run the gen and/or the battery bank for a couple weeks.... more?

this sounds good, as the west wall of the house is all concrete, but i would like to trench out next to the house for drainage. gets wet under the house. but this area is a good 8 inches above the south side concrete. why? could be native rock levels said to pour that way?. wont know till i get the old concrete cut for said trench. good 30 ft long, by 1 ft wide removed. will install a grated drain channel next to the house for runoff and roof water. as to underground flow? land under the house is high at the south west corner. low at the north east corner. which floods under the house when it rains heavy, up to a good 10 inches deep. underground seepage? plugged drain on the N,E corner (outside the house). another project, to just dig up that pipe and replace with new. and i need to get the whole breeze way between the south wall of the house and the garage redone, to get proper flow to drains. but that is a couple years away. (money thing). all-n-all, just lots of hard labor, work i need to get done, but body has failed me right now. and no cash to hire it out.

been at the DR's office today, i have a bad problem with my neck. lots of pain. but on a local water service. a well would be very costly to drill here. can these grounding rods be right next to the foundation of the house? (within a foot?) maybe under a concrete patio/walkway? not sure about 30 inches down but might be better than trying to pound 6 ft down. but the 20 foot 6 inch deep trench sounds the best for me, right now. at most any price the copper is cheap. compared to the alt. but working at home is on hold for me. will try and get some things done, but cutting the concrete will require a contractor. read lots of $$, but as this neck problem has just crept up, x-ray today says problem. mri end of the month. worst case they get to cut me open.... again. but hay maybe i get Christmas off this year?

only place i could even try to dig around the house, would be in the crawl space under the house.. aka, inside the foundation. but trying to dig down 30 inches.. i have to say not possible. and as most would be belly work. all of the concrete on the south side i would like to remove and redo as one pour. the west side would like to widen the patio. but both require big equipment to come in and dig it out. aka: lot$ of ca$h. the north side walkway is there to stay. i am trying to dig a test trench to find my sewer pipe (has a leak). and parts of the front yard have only a inch or two of dirt then large rocks. (size?) part of the front yard has the living rock sticking out of the ground, when i say rock, i do not mean pickup sizing. i mean stuff that if "small" will crush your truck. if big, it is just part of the earth. this mast is a temp thing. i would like to build a free standing tip over telescopic style (50 ft max) but that needs to be a bit away from the house "deeper into the back yard". do to other plans. but still the rock problem. and some of the trees in the back yard have died. no hoa, but viewing problems possible from the apts next-door. as-is they through crap into my yard. i need to find the house ground. and see about tying into it. as there is no wire going from the meter box down the wall to the ground. if using the original connection? that would be in a wall. i need ex-ray vision there. i need to learn more about proper grounding before i put up my mast. guess i get to do a belly crawl this week to check out that wire on the water spigot.

i just got home, been up for 24 hrs now. back to work by 6:am sat. dark in ca already so i can do photos on tuesday or wed. (my weekend). but for now my mast is laying down, need to buy the guy wire and turn buckles. but the plan is to build a pass through, one window is next to were the mast is to be. easy to lock down and have it secure from unwanted entry. heck it will be far more secure than the glass ever could be. the power in poles are both the same but one has the extra supports, who ever did the job (predates my owning the place) kept the "factory" pole, as it is in the wall of the house. it takes the weight/strain of the incoming wire. the "down" pipe the power goes into is on the outside of the house.just a couple feet from each other. the pipe just pops through the roof, and drops down the outside wall to the meter box. this small ex to the house is the laundry room. roof sits a bit lower there. house is on a slight hill. back wall one can touch the rain gutter, not so in front you need a tall ladder. easy to climb into the windows on the south and west walls. north and east wall you need a step stool to just look into them.

ok, to me the "pole" is my mast. not the service pole. that service pole is a good 30-35 feet away angled across the driveway. the mast is along the rear of the house. (like were the green ladder is in the photo) as the end of the house is were the high voltage line arrives on the roof. (to something that looks like your photo). the end of the house with the power in. ground is concrete, (south wall), and i use the back door for access in and out of the house. the wall with my mast (west wall), ground all concrete out to 5 feet, north wall, ground is concrete house to fence about 4 feet. east wall (front of the house) porch mid way is a concrete block/slab, and "standard" 3 ft wide walkway with flower bed to the wall of the house to the driveway, (south east of the house). as to the "eve" as the mast is along the wall were the rain gutter is. i built up a bracket to drop below the rain gutter to attach to the mast. as i do not want to drill through the roof. as to the fresh water piping in the house. yes made of metal. house built in 1952. so the water out, is a clay pipe. wiring is two wire, cloth covered. i get a lot of static shocks, heck even when i touch my pu truck. but the wall switch boxes are metal. (if i could afford it i would rewire the whole house). new gas piping is metal, just were it comes up out of the dirt there is pvc over it, shovel protection? water protection? it is in the flower bed on the front of the house. but same end of the house as the power, cable, land line phone all come to the house. (all wires on on the south end of the house. anchored within a couple yards of each other). power up on the "stick" others just to the edge of the roof. all on the outside of the wall, including the meter and fuse cabinet. this box has been a up grade some time back as the org went down through the roof and was inside. so i have two of the power sticks up there, one in use one to hold the support cable. i will try to get some photos posted up here, but has to wait till next week. as friday is my monday. will only see the house while the sun is down till tuesday. heck i am supposed to be in bed but woke up , i am trying to get used to a new work bid, it is a 12 hr off set to what i have been doing for the past 3-4 years. ( i am a day walker now). W -----3----------------------- | | S | | -2- | N 1 | | --------4-----------5------------- E basic shape of the house. 1,power/cable/land line phone to the house. 2, back door, 3 my mast. 4 gas meter. 5 front door (blocked) lots of windows around the house, ridge line of the roof runs s to n.

love it. maybe a arc guard? just a bent flap of plastic, folds over when the plate moves to connect. flips up what the connectors are pulled back. lucky for me i do not live where lighting is a problem. but if i had that many coax's to connect. this would be great insurance.

power main to pole is about 20 feet. all concrete walk areas. power is on the south wall,(narrow patch of dirt there). the location for the pole is on the west. there is one door, (used as main access to the house) and one window between them. can run under the house. the cable co grounded to a water spigot. just out of the wall into the house. but there is a wire tied into the gas pipe, it is were the piping comes out of the wall. the line coming up from the ground has a wire coming out of the "cover" pvc but connects to nothing. (new gas piping up from the street just about 3-4 years back). there is only the big meter box and the flat dish thingy. no auto shut off device seen. earthquakes just do not happen here. might one day but not the norm. but seeing as the power company not a sub contractor put in the new gas piping in the street up to my house (and others for a couple miles around here). i hope they at least did what the county says must be done. when i can afford a proper tower, it will be a bit farther away from the house. this pole will be bolted to the concrete, attached to a eve of the house (6 ft level), and guy wires up about 28 ft.