Glory in my pain - Brit rehabs a filthy trailer.

BatteryOaksBilly said:
Good stuff!!! You should be proud of all ya'll have done!!!
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Indeed. It's been a slog, but it's going to be worth it. We've done a provisional arrangement of the bedroom/tote storage room and it looks like we can ditch the rental storage entirely with a bit of sorting and consolidation so that's $160 a month back in our pockets. Mine is empty and returned and the big one should be done in the next couple of weeks.
 
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NCLivingBrit said:
We also gutted the bushes around the house, cutting them back to almost nothing. I burned all the detritus last night, took a bit of care to get all that green wood to burn but I was able to nurse it without resorting to accelerants.
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Where’s the fun in that???
 
BBD280 said:
Kitchen looks great.... I'd rather have a friend than a dollar anyday.
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I'm about out of both, fortunately my girl is community minded. Me, I've run off most folks in my life at this point.
 
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teamglock2002 said:
Brit, ya'll have come a long way way from what you started with. Congrats !!
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Thanks. Between the job hunt not going so well and the extra expenses we didn't plan for I'm a pauper but at least we can see improvement in the house. I'm going to raid my storage unit and meagre gun safe today and list some stuff in the BST.
 
looking good man. Something you may want to think about using outside and around the house instead of cutting overgrown brush while it's still actively growing is triclopyr (Garlon) brush killer. It's safer than Glyphosate/Roundup and effectively kills more vines but doesn't kill grass. It also kills small trees/shrubs if you can manage to get it into the bark so with cut stumps just paint it around the outer circle of the bark (cambia area) and it will kill it down to the roots.

https://www.ortho.com/en-us/products/weeds/ortho-max-poison-ivy-tough-brush-killer-concentrate

One thing about when we bought our home as a foreclosure: the previous owners had planted EVERY invasive species: Japanese privet, bradford pear, etc. They even let honeysuckle grow up and take over the railing on the deck for 'decoration' lol.
Garlon knocked back all that crap. Now I use it on our new property to kill poison ivy and small sweetgum saplings. Just keep it away from the good plants on a windy day.

It's the same stuff you see power companies using on right-of-ways and such. Breaks down in soil and 'supposedly doesn't affect humans and animals' since it's a plant-based chemical. IDK.

But......it is a Dow Chemical invention, the wonderful makers of Agent Orange lol.
 
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Ikarus1 said:
looking good man. Something you may want to think about using outside and around the house instead of cutting overgrown brush while it's still actively growing is triclopyr (Garlon) brush killer. It's safer than Glyphosate/Roundup and effectively kills more vines but doesn't kill grass. It also kills small trees/shrubs if you can manage to get it into the bark so with cut stumps just paint it around the outer circle of the bark (cambia area) and it will kill it down to the roots.

One thing about when we bought our home as a foreclosure: the previous owners had planted EVERY invasive species: Japanese privet, bradford pear, etc. They even let honeysuckle grow up and take over the railing on the deck for 'decoration' lol.
Garlon knocked back all that crap. Now I use it on our new property to kill poison ivy and small sweetgum saplings. Just keep it away from the good plants on a windy day.

It's the same stuff you see power companies using on right-of-ways and such. Breaks down in soil and 'supposedly doesn't affect humans and animals' since it's a plant-based chemical. IDK.

But......it is a Dow Chemical invention, the wonderful makers of Agent Orange lol.
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We didn't actually want to cut the bushes back as far as we did but they were planted too close together and had murdered each other. This way they should grow back and not choke the life from the others.
 
NCLivingBrit said:
We didn't actually want to cut the bushes back as far as we did but they were planted too close together and had murdered each other. This way they should grow back and not choke the life from the others.
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not sure what kind of bushes you're dealing with but those damn "Ligustrum Japonica" privets that we have can be cut down to the ground and still grow back within a year if done early in spring. I hate them with a passion.
 
Ikarus1 said:
not sure what kind of bushes you're dealing with but those damn "Ligustrum Japonica" privets that we have can be cut down to the ground and still grow back within a year if done early in spring. I hate them with a passion.
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Yeah no idea, I know sod all about gardening, sorry.
 
NCLivingBrit said:
Yeah no idea, I know sod all about gardening, sorry.
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FWIW gardening is when you actually plant something. What you're doing is landscaping / laboring / sweating. I suggest making it as easy as you can.....did you see my thread about the backpack sprayer? I wish I had invested in one a while back.
We still have overgrowth that I am gonna need to spray/cut/slash/burn before we list our house in the spring.
 
Ikarus1 said:
FWIW gardening is when you actually plant something. What you're doing is landscaping / laboring / sweating. I suggest making it as easy as you can.....did you see my thread about the backpack sprayer? I wish I had invested in one a while back.
We still have overgrowth that I am gonna need to spray/cut/slash/burn before we list our house in the spring.
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We don't want to totally end the bushes, we just wanted them cut back. I don't think I did see the sprayer thread though.
 
Well the kitchen is almost done. I'll snap final pics soon. Everything else has been consolidation and unpacking pretty much.

Money has become a big issue though, so it looks like pretty much the entire meagre contents of my gun safe are up for sale, along with a bunch of knives and such. It sucks, but hopefully it will be worth it in the long run.
 
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