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"Manly" stuff you can't/don't do (1 Viewer)

Ditkaless Wonders said:
Next weekend we go up to do our annual refurbishment and supply of our elk camp.  We will stock some food stuffs, fuel, feed and hay.  We will check the tent frames and refurbish those as required. We will test the stoves and repair or replace as necessary.  Its fairly easy to get up there on 4 wheelers this time of year.  Once the season starts and the snow flies its all we can do to get up there on horseback with our immediate needs packed in at that time.   We will cut enough fallen timber to fuel two stoves for 10 days and will get that under the horses lean-to to dry until we come up with the horses. We will also bring up water for our stay. Water can be had up there but it is a bit of an inconvenience during early winter in an area with a lot of beaver.  Better to have a guaranteed clean bit of water if one can. Still, it is bulky and heavy so best to do it now.  Some of the guys will do a bit of scouting, but the herds move about inconsistently during the rut and with snow patterns so I do not scout myself as conditions change day to day.  Still, there are fairly reliable seasonal patterns.
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Dude, take this manly talk to the DC Mom’s forum. Too manly. 

 
Bull Dozier said:
I have a light fixture in the bathroom I can never remember how to get the cover off to change the bulb.  Whenever the bulb burns out, it stays out until my mom comes over to remind me.  That's the starting point I'm working from here.

Looking at the videos, as long as I can figure out how my particular light is attached to the ceiling, I think I should be able to do it. We'll see.
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This is 2018.  Replace it one last time with an LED.  

 
Mr. Ected said:
I get that, I tried it for years, just couldn't seem to make it work. May need to try it again, with those expert instructions! :P
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The real key is keeping the palms tight.   You can't have any air getting thru on the bottom, but at the top you can change the pitch by opening a bit.  And blow gentle till you start getting the sound you're looking for. 

/manly

 
My dad is handy, but certainly no technician.  Over the course of my childhood I’d help him “fix” many things he knew basics of, but not minute details. Many of our adventures in repair involved a phrase from my father that I grew to fear because it rarely ended well:  “Let’s see what happens when we do this”.  It’s probably why I prefer to sub out most handy work to those with proper training and warranties for workmanship.

 
Ladders.  Never liked heights.  Fell off a 20footer once and lived to tell the tale.  Anything 1story and under I’m ok, but anything higher and I’m a wuss. 

Oh a F 2nd story roofs.  Did that once to put Christmas lights up and it took me till spring to muster the courage to go up and get them off.  

 
Despite being educated as a mechanical engineer and being very technical, I know very little about cars, and don't care to. 

The most work I have done on a car is to replace the wipers  

Seemingly 99% of the guys I know must study car manuals, know every model with the options, engine specs and HP by sight, and LOVE to talk about them. 

 
belljr said:
for serious - if you can turn off a switch, and know the premise of lefty loosey-- right tighty - its really pretty easy.***

***this assumes it was properly install the first time.  There are times where I was changing fixtures/ceiling fans/etc and come to find out it was done completely wrong.  Like no box etc
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Pretty much every time I have done this, this was the case. My first house I went to put a ceiling fan in and the master bedroom light had no box. Dude that owned my current house prior to me was a Master Electrician. After coming across all the stuff he jury rigged in the house over the last few years, I'd wouldn't hire that guy out to hang Christmas lights, much less wire up a whole house. This guy just grabbed random LED's and flood's from jobsites and installed them in the house, once you take the glass off the fixtures no two bulbs are the same in almost the entire house. I should have known when one of the only things that did come back in our inspection report was that none of the wiring in the breaker box was labeled correctly or up to code.

 
That one guy said:
My dad is handy, but certainly no technician.  Over the course of my childhood I’d help him “fix” many things he knew basics of, but not minute details. Many of our adventures in repair involved a phrase from my father that I grew to fear because it rarely ended well:  “Let’s see what happens when we do this”.  It’s probably why I prefer to sub out most handy work to those with proper training and warranties for workmanship.
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As opposed to when we grew up the ability to fix or make things has really gone through the roof.   Chances are about 95% that there is a video or two on Youtube about it.  Astonishing the things that I've found on there.  Other than that time I destroyed the dryer.  But we really needed a new one, anyway. 

The Duff Man said:
Despite being educated as a mechanical engineer and being very technical, I know very little about cars, and don't care to. 
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Yep - I've done one car repair job in my life; just don't care enough to learn more than changing air filters and wipers.  Just isn't worth the time. 

 
Jules Winnfield said:
I was driving by some ultimate frisbee national championships today and I realized, I suck at throwing a frisbee
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Yer good.  Frisbee in any form is not manly. Especially Ultimate or Golf. Same category as Pro Hackey Sack.  Recreation for liberals or stoners. Not manly and not a sport.

 
So I never did try to fix the light in my dining room, but I did spend yesterday in my front yard and Home Depot.  We had a huge garden we've never put much effort in to, so it had become overgrown with weeds.  We had three pines removed last summer, so not much will grow there.  We killed all the weeds and were just going to lay mulch down.  We measured, and went to Home Depot to get mulch and landscaping fabric.  I measured the area, then did the math at the store.  No f'n way could my math be right (it was 50% bigger than my first house, that coudn't be right).  So I estimated down for both mulch and fabric.  Two more trips to Home Depot were required, and it is still not completely covered in mulch.  

TLDR - I am incablable of completing any household task with only one trip to Home Depot.

 
Bull Dozier said:
So I never did try to fix the light in my dining room, but I did spend yesterday in my front yard and Home Depot.  We had a huge garden we've never put much effort in to, so it had become overgrown with weeds.  We had three pines removed last summer, so not much will grow there.  We killed all the weeds and were just going to lay mulch down.  We measured, and went to Home Depot to get mulch and landscaping fabric.  I measured the area, then did the math at the store.  No f'n way could my math be right (it was 50% bigger than my first house, that coudn't be right).  So I estimated down for both mulch and fabric.  Two more trips to Home Depot were required, and it is still not completely covered in mulch.  

TLDR - I am incablable of completing any household task with only one trip to Home Depot.
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Purchased this weekend at home depot:  Tile and grout cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner, paint brush, frog tape, paint, closet door knob set, medicine cabinet, rocker light switch, reciprocating saw, reciprocating saw blade, hinges, toilet, wax setting ring for toilet.  What they did not have, bracket for remounting a panel on a bathroom cabinet.  Seven trips because my wife kept changing her mind to add stuff.  Daughters bathroom is re-done.

No fishing for me this past weekend.

 
Fishing.  Just boring to me.  And I don't really care for the taste.  

Love hunting, can't really stomach fishing.  

 
Bull Dozier said:
So I never did try to fix the light in my dining room, but I did spend yesterday in my front yard and Home Depot.  We had a huge garden we've never put much effort in to, so it had become overgrown with weeds.  We had three pines removed last summer, so not much will grow there.  We killed all the weeds and were just going to lay mulch down.  We measured, and went to Home Depot to get mulch and landscaping fabric.  I measured the area, then did the math at the store.  No f'n way could my math be right (it was 50% bigger than my first house, that coudn't be right).  So I estimated down for both mulch and fabric.  Two more trips to Home Depot were required, and it is still not completely covered in mulch.  

TLDR - I am incablable of completing any household task with only one trip to Home Depot.
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Meh. Mulch is a tough one. No matter how much you buy, you always need 5 more bags.

So next time, if you need 30 bags, buy 35 bags. 

Then go back to home depot when you actually need 5 more than that. 

 
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