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Post #439,720 by pwhysall 8/28/21 5:12:41 AM 9/2/21 2:29:35 AM Reply	Sweet! Living at the seaside is just brilliant. ETA: There's a lot to be said for being able to hear the surf when you're going to sleep. Nature's white noise machine. Edited by pwhysall Sept. 2, 2021, 02:29:35 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #439,754 by crazy 9/2/21 6:55:08 PM 9/2/21 6:55:08 PM Reply	I don't have that My house is about 300 ft vertical and then another 3 or 4 blocks away from the beach. I have no idea if I will have seagulls. I hung out there for a while and didn't see any. The road to our semi-private beach for the neighborhood goes directly into a concrete ramp into the ocean. We can launch a tiny boat easily there and go drop crab pots a mile out. This is an amazing time. I'm hanging out at a hotel in Port Angeles waiting for the owner to move out so I can take possession. Closing is in 30 to 60 days but he wants to be gone and I want to move in. So I'll pay him rent for it that time frame and experience the house before closing which means I'll have more information which is always good. I love where I am and I love where I'll be so there's no downside. I told the owner I would pay him motel rates at the high season right now but then it all disappears in 3 weeks. Then I'll pay your mortgage and he really wants it. So he's got to kick out roommates and a guy in a motorhome that may not run. He may have to kick out some guy and have his motorhome towed. Or he hands me the keys and I have the motorhome towed. Or I charge the guy rent but I'm not sure I want anyone living on my property. Strange times.
Post #439,757 by drook 9/2/21 7:29:23 PM 9/2/21 7:29:23 PM Reply	Damn, you gots a compound -- Drew
Post #439,759 by crazy 9/2/21 7:38:25 PM 9/2/21 7:38:25 PM Reply	Check email
Post #439,760 by drook 9/2/21 7:50:28 PM 9/2/21 7:50:28 PM Reply	Gmail? Not seeing anything -- Drew
Post #439,783 by crazy 9/5/21 11:23:51 AM 9/5/21 11:23:51 AM Reply	Is it a bad idea to drive a small Kia SUV over a septic tank and a green field? I've got land. Not a lot but more than I ever had before. I have a six-car gravel front area, concrete slab leading to my front door on with the house that faces sideways, and a deep lot with a huge locked shed in the back that has all my crap that I dropped off. When I dropped it off there was a dolly here. Big wheels wagon. It's gone now. And my back hurts. But I want my stuff that is currently in the back shed. Is it safe to drive my small SUV, kia niro, over the septic tank and green field or it is it bad and I should not do it?
Post #439,784 by CRConrad 9/5/21 12:18:20 PM 9/5/21 12:26:38 PM Reply	Should be OK AFAICT -- except that septic tank sounds fishy. Walk it first and check for huge sharp rocks or tree stumps. But most shit smaller than a foot-long sharp shard oughta be drive-overable. Walk it mainly to find the drive-aroundable route for bigger stuff. (One reason to keep one's grass cut short[ish]; lots of folks nowadays saying there aren't all that many more.) That's about not damaging the car. The other risk is of course getting stuck; all reason says that's more a question of tyres than vehicle. The (not De) Niro is front-wheel-drive, AIUI, but four-wheel-drive shouldn't be required. I mean, sure, if your backyard is a plowed field, then at least don't do it on a very rainy day and with ultra-slippery summer racing slicks... Hm, come to think of it: Besides wet dirt, wet grass is also slippery as fuck. (The other reason for cutting it.) [EDIT:] Oops, forgot the septic tank. Whaddayamean "over* a septic tank"? Is there no way around it?!? You're talking old-fashioned concrete thingy then, I take it? Here in the Nordics they're made all outta plastic nowadays, and I certainly wouldn't drive over plastic. Check the specs on that fucker, or find a route around it. [/EDIT] All in all: Walk it first to check for big hidden obstacles to avoid, don't pick a very wet day when shit is more slippery than usual, and you should be fine -- except for the septic tank. Check that thoroughly. ___ : As Robert learns in the TV commercials, IIRC. -- Christian R. Conrad* The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi Edited by CRConrad Sept. 5, 2021, 12:25:46 PM EDT Edited by CRConrad Sept. 5, 2021, 12:26:38 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #439,785 by crazy 9/5/21 12:52:50 PM 9/5/21 12:52:50 PM Reply	Jeez, for the man who knows everything that advice sucked. Do it, don't do it you are safe you are f*****. I think I got to go buy a dolly. It is the only path through the driveway to the shed in the back. Either I can go over it or I can't. There is no concept of maybe. The Kia can easily handle the bumps. It is a matter of will I crush anything and cause damage. Can't take chances on that.
Post #439,790 by CRConrad 9/5/21 8:18:35 PM 9/5/21 8:18:35 PM Reply	Send me photos, plans and BOM for your septic tank and I'll give you exact and specific advice.
Post #439,787 by Another Scott 9/5/21 1:58:03 PM 9/5/21 1:58:03 PM Reply	Yes, you're right to be concerned. https://chattanoogaseptic.systems/is-it-ok-to-drive-over-a-septic-tank/ tl;dr - don't drive over it. HTH a bit. Careful with the back. Good luck! Cheers, Scott.
Post #439,788 by malraux 9/5/21 2:10:29 PM 9/5/21 2:10:29 PM Reply	Need to be careful with septic fields Any sort of construction, etc. needs to have the machines avoid the drain field. I wouldn't drive over one. Something small like a skidder, maybe, if there were a plywood path to distribute the weight. That said, newer fields are PVC, not clay pipes. At any rate I wouldn't want to compact it at all. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #439,789 by crazy 9/5/21 4:42:28 PM 9/5/21 4:42:28 PM Reply	Okay understood That's why I ask.
Post #439,792 by boxley 9/6/21 11:17:32 AM 9/6/21 11:17:32 AM Reply	bad idea "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #439,793 by boxley 9/6/21 11:19:18 AM 9/6/21 11:19:18 AM Reply	buy a wheel barrow, you will need one anyway then haul your stuff "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #439,810 by crazy 9/8/21 4:40:18 PM 9/8/21 4:40:19 PM Reply	He left behind an industrial hand truck If I need more than that I will buy a dolly with really big wheels. I will not roll over the septic field with the vehicle.
Post #439,761 by pwhysall 9/2/21 9:40:05 PM 9/2/21 9:40:05 PM Reply	You'll have seagulls Noisy arseholes that they are.
Post #439,769 by crazy 9/3/21 9:14:34 AM 9/3/21 9:14:34 AM Reply	Re: You'll have seagulls I like them. Hanging out at the hotel parking lot 6:00 a.m. in the morning and they are everywhere here. I don't mind them at all. Except. 30 or 40 years ago I was working on the boardwalk. The seagulls picked up large objects and dropped them wherever I was. They were trying to smash clams as far as default behavior is concerned. But they would pick up bottles and then drop them next to me and they would explode. One day a bottle exploded next to me and I thought the parking lot guy threw a bottle at me. I raged. I went after this guy and I was going to kill him for throwing a bottle at me. He explained it was seagulls. Those f****** will drop bottles to open stuff up and eat it and we then painted pictures of seagulls everywhere so the seagulls flying above did not think they could drop a bottle there, there would be a seagull there to steal their food from them.
Post #439,770 by pwhysall 9/3/21 10:13:04 AM 9/3/21 10:13:04 AM Reply	They're the one aspect of living here that can wear a bit thin
Post #439,771 by boxley 9/3/21 12:02:56 PM 9/3/21 12:02:56 PM Reply	are they still called shytehawks? "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #439,772 by pwhysall 9/3/21 1:07:19 PM 9/3/21 1:07:19 PM Reply	"still"? Never were. "Shitehawk" is a synonym for "gobshite"; afaik, it's never used to refer to our avian friends, no matter how fucking annoying they are when they start squawking at 0330 in summer.
Post #439,774 by drook 9/3/21 3:32:58 PM 9/3/21 3:32:58 PM Reply	Ever since seeing this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4BNbHBcnDI Thing #3 does a killer impression of the "Mine mine mine" voice. -- Drew
Post #439,782 by crazy 9/5/21 2:54:03 AM 9/5/21 2:54:03 AM Reply	I think they're always laughing When I was staying at the hotel there was a perch that they always played King of the Hill on. It was the hotel sign. And I told him to shut the f******. And they listen to me. I toss some french fries, they come eat them and they stay quiet. I'm now in the house. I have achieved. Don't know how long it will last but I'm going to enjoy it while it does.

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