What did you do in the garden today?

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Started a new thread specifically about herbs.

Thread 'All about garden herbs' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/all-about-garden-herbs.1548427/

Constantly trying to expand my knowledge here.

Awesome idea!!! I'm looking forward to learning more as well!

 

[Ascholten]

Roper?
If I remember properly that's a spin off of either Whirlpool or GE, both the same really. That thing should be a tank, and there are lots of generic parts. The only real problem should be belts and the occasional heating element, which are pretty standard. I think Admiral is another of the spin off brands. Any AC/r shop really would have those items too,

When you DO get repair parts, spend the extra couple dollars on the American stuff, yes it really IS worth it. sometimes not so much from a longevity standpoint but a 'failure mode' stand point. American parts, since we have to deal with UL and stuff like that, are built to fail in a much safer mode. (safer meaning less likely to cause a fire, kill you with flying shrapnel etc etc)

 

[esturtz27]

Roper?
If I remember properly that's a spin off of either Whirlpool or GE, both the same really. That thing should be a tank, and there are lots of generic parts. The only real problem should be belts and the occasional heating element, which are pretty standard. I think Admiral is another of the spin off brands. Any AC/r shop really would have those items too,

When you DO get repair parts, spend the extra couple dollars on the American stuff, yes it really IS worth it. sometimes not so much from a longevity standpoint but a 'failure mode' stand point. American parts, since we have to deal with UL and stuff like that, are built to fail in a much safer mode. (safer meaning less likely to cause a fire, kill you with flying shrapnel etc etc)

This is so odd but roper was loper... which was a factory my mom worked at as the nurse when I was a kid. You are right they were bought by ge. The element went bad in the dryer no biggie easy to fix.
I would buy more American (we are subaru folks made in Japan built in indiana) but it's just so impossibly expensive to get the good stuff

 

[WthrLady]

@NewBoots
we got generic benedryl for the dog for really really inexpensively. I think it was 100 pills for $4, now that the dog has passed, ds takes it before his allergy shots. (It's people benedryl from the pharmacy, dont' worry, I'm not giving my kid dog medicine)

 

[Ascholten]

This is so odd but roper was loper... which was a factory my mom worked at as the nurse when I was a kid. You are right they were bought by ge. The element went bad in the dryer no biggie easy to fix.
I would buy more American (we are subaru folks made in Japan built in indiana) but it's just so impossibly expensive to get the good stuff

You should be able to go to appliance repair shops and get the better stuff. Air Conditioning and Refridgeration places as well. You will need your EPA permit for the freon's but not for the other stuff.

I'll give you an example.

My two air conditioning units, would just for some reason EAT capicators, every few years im replacing them. The American caps, would just ground out. grum grum grum, the motor gets hot then eventually trips out, the house heats up, thermostat may or may not flash a fault... either way I go outside and trouble shoot, go ooh, bad cap on the compressor, lets replace it. good for 3 more years.

Well the American one was out so I went with the chineese one. when IT died, on BOTH units, so it was a PRODUCT PROBLEM.... the capicator actually melted down, I mean it was like a friggin ceramic lava poured out the top of this sob. UNFORTUNATELY the control board is right under the capacitor so that lava poured right on top of the control board and took that out too. So now it's not only an extra 23 dollars for a new cap but 400 dollars for a new control board. When the first one went, I went to the other unit and actually moved the capicator so it was not over the control board, and sure enough a few months later, it went too and did the SAME THING. China does not have Underwriters Laboratories or the equivalent that they HAVE to abide by... one of the reasons their stuff is cheaper. but when it does go... it can go in a very BAD way.

I can tell you a story of a small refrigerator compressor, chineese s41t, that as it turned out, did not have the internal thermal trip on it like US models do, hence why it was cheap at Lowes.... compressor froze but did not trip out, and when it did finally blow out the back of the unit, filled the house with toxic smoke. (Think the freon and burned motor windings and oil at several hundred degrees or so) Looking back through my electric logs, it took HOURS and HOURS for this thing to finally reach this failure point.

MY point being, an American unit with the extra safety stuff, would have taken itself offline and eventually shut itself down for good.

The Japaneese cars, yes, those things will last forEVER as well. VERY high quality. The Japaneese culture as a general, embrace quality, when you pay for their top end stuff, you truly ARE getting TOP END STUFF. Their cars are no different, the parts are inexpensive but the things last about forever unless you wreck them.

Aaron

 

[BigBlueHen53]

You should be able to go to appliance repair shops and get the better stuff. Air Conditioning and Refridgeration places as well. You will need your EPA permit for the freon's but not for the other stuff.

I'll give you an example.

My two air conditioning units, would just for some reason EAT capicators, every few years im replacing them. The American caps, would just ground out. grum grum grum, the motor gets hot then eventually trips out, the house heats up, thermostat may or may not flash a fault... either way I go outside and trouble shoot, go ooh, bad cap on the compressor, lets replace it. good for 3 more years.

Well the American one was out so I went with the chineese one. when IT died, on BOTH units, so it was a PRODUCT PROBLEM.... the capicator actually melted down, I mean it was like a friggin ceramic lava poured out the top of this sob. UNFORTUNATELY the control board is right under the capacitor so that lava poured right on top of the control board and took that out too. So now it's not only an extra 23 dollars for a new cap but 400 dollars for a new control board. When the first one went, I went to the other unit and actually moved the capicator so it was not over the control board, and sure enough a few months later, it went too and did the SAME THING. China does not have Underwriters Laboratories or the equivalent that they HAVE to abide by... one of the reasons their stuff is cheaper. but when it does go... it can go in a very BAD way.

I can tell you a story of a small refrigerator compressor, chineese s41t, that as it turned out, did not have the internal thermal trip on it like US models do, hence why it was cheap at Lowes.... compressor froze but did not trip out, and when it did finally blow out the back of the unit, filled the house with toxic smoke. (Think the freon and burned motor windings and oil at several hundred degrees or so) Looking back through my electric logs, it took HOURS and HOURS for this thing to finally reach this failure point.

MY point being, an American unit with the extra safety stuff, would have taken itself offline and eventually shut itself down for good.

The Japaneese cars, yes, those things will last forEVER as well. VERY high quality. The Japaneese culture as a general, embrace quality, when you pay for their top end stuff, you truly ARE getting TOP END STUFF. Their cars are no different, the parts are inexpensive but the things last about forever unless you wreck them.

Aaron

I can testify about Japanese quality. I was in dire financial straits once, long ago, and had to sell a nice, new car I'd been making payments on and expensive insurance payments as well ... but then I needed to BUY a decent used car, cheap .. and then my neighbor across the street put a For Sale sign in his second car ... which turned out to be a 1985 Toyota Tercel he let me have for $1,000 (this was in 2003, as I recall), and when I drove halfway across NM to go see my mom I was AMAZED to discover that thing was getting 50 MPG!!! I would have kept it forever except I hit some rough roads and knocked the muffler loose. I traded it in on an '04 Ford Focus and the dealership gave me $5,000 trade-in value on it. I suspect they fixed the muffler and shipped it south of the border where it is living happily ever after as an Uber car.

 

[NewBoots]

Yep. I just wanted to get that recall out there. I've never even heard of the brand.
@TJAnonymous

I got a couple of boxes of Golden Harvest 1/2 pint jars with lids and they seem good so far.

Well, my plans for tomorrow are to put the "organic fertilizer" into the beds. Rabbit and chicken. We'll see if I manage it. I dint see my rabbit poo breaking up in the beds. It seems to stay solid. Should ido something with it first? Not sure what, maybe bash it in a bucket with water??

We dump the trays into a big covered bin till we're ready to use the mix of doots, urine, and litter. It gets pretty nasty in there but we haven't had any trouble once it's shoveled at the base of individual shrubs and trees or dumped into the raised beds. We just water it in good. Mind you, I wouldn't use it in the house.

Mashing them with water is going to be a HUGE stinky mess.
DO BE AWARE, rabbit turds, they tend to piss on them too, so they are very HOT !! Just like fresh chicken crap, so be very careful about dumping unripened / uncured right into your plats.

I used to just throw them in, they eventually crumble down. Heck, let the chickens eat them, give them a chance at the nutrients the rabbits missed first time around

If you want to bust them down go ahead but the adding water, I just see a horrible mess on your horizon.

Aaron

Yeah I wouldn't mix it with water before putting it anyplace unless I just couldn't break it up any other way.

@NewBoots
we got generic benedryl for the dog for really really inexpensively. I think it was 100 pills for $4, now that the dog has passed, ds takes it before his allergy shots. (It's people benedryl from the pharmacy, dont' worry, I'm not giving my kid dog medicine)

Yeah I and DP both take it at night so I buy it generic in huge bottles.

Tomorrow is salsa day!

 

[chickengr]

They made things to last back then, they had pride in their worksmanship. Now they make things to break in a few years tops so you HAVE to get new. Look at appliances. When my parents died, they had a freezer in the garage that they got on their HONEYMOON. (They were married for 62 years). It STILL worked. Today, if you get an appliance that lasts 10 years you did well.

Aaron

today you buy a new car that costs as much as a small house and it lasts as long as it's guarantee (about 6 years). here they forbid you to drive old cars in the center of athens and salonika.

 

[PopoMyers]

If you catch them soon enough, the meat is very tender too and you can actually eat them

How soon would that be?

 

[chickengr]

6 mo cockerels have tender meat. bresse are ready to butcher at about 4 mo if I remember well. I guess it depends on breed.