What did YOU do today?

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Same machine I have. It'll do the trick!

I‘ve almost put a 10# spool of .035 flux core through it since I got it used. It’s needed a little love but it works great. I got it for use as a “portable” welder when the Harbor Freight welder dad got lasted just long enough to get out of warranty. With a 10# spool and the bulk of this thing it’s not super portable, but it works. It’s more portable than my Lincoln PowerMig 200 with gas bottle though, lol.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Haven't had internets for just over a day at home, I looked at all the things and nothing was wrong, I changed nothing and suddenly it works tonight? no idea...

Last night I marked the posts for the lean to for height, today I cut them off then put some ties on most, then I made some T's for the center since they're $10 each I made my own out of scrap... plasma cutters are fantastic... Not quite done for the night but might post a pic of todays progress compared to last sundays end pic... My brother will likely come over tomorrow and we'll get some of the rafter and perlin work done, maybe even some sheet metal...

 

[Blmpkn]

I found out that per maine state law, it's 100% legal to place political signs ANYWHERE within the public ROW. This hilariously INCLUDES private property, so long as a few simple conditions are met.

I have some incredibly entertaining plans that make use of this information.


Know your rights folks hehe

*edit: size of signage allowed is also pretty damn outrageous...

Up to 50 square feet

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I found out that per maine state law, it's 100% legal to place political signs ANYWHERE within the public ROW. This hilariously INCLUDES private property, so long as a few simple conditions are met.

I have some incredibly entertaining plans that make use of this information.


Know your rights folks hehe

*edit: size of signage allowed is also pretty damn outrageous...

Up to 50 square feet

What are the rules for removing said signs? Can I just follow and yoink?

 

[Blmpkn]

What are the rules for removing said signs? Can I just follow and yoink?

As long as the few conditions are met.. there really isn't a single thing you could legally do lol. Absolutely boggles my mind

The basic rundown of conditions are as follows..

-Needs to be within the public ROW. The public ROW is 33' from the roads center line.

-Sign needs to have the name & address of the individual who placed it OR the name of the organization who placed it, as well as the date it was placed.

-Signs can only be placed during certain times of the year, and only for a certain period of time... 6 weeks before an election, and must be taken down no more than a week after the election.


There are a few more as well If you want to put a sign up on land you dont own.. like.. can't be put on trees, telephone poles, or traffic control devices. Can't put one on the side of i-95 or put one so it can be seen from i-95.. same (or similar message) signs need to be spaced at least 30' apart.. yadda yadda yadda. Not all roads technically have a public ROW either.. just most of them lol. State routes and roads that connect to state routes are fair game.. and that's like... all our roads up here.

So yeah... with how these statues are written... it's 100% legal to walk right onto some random persons lawn and place whatever you want for signs. Tampering with the signs is a civil violation that carries a 250$ fine.

Not even allowed to pick the sign up to mow the lawn. It's gotta stay there until the person who placed it comes and gets it..

There's been bills run through the state-house to re-write the statutes and make it so these atupid assed signs can ONLY be placed on private property.. by the property owner.. but they all fizzle out.

I'd really rather them just get outlawed 100%.. but.. first amendment and all that gotta take the good with the bad sometimes.

 

[Blmpkn]

Hold up...


I should find out where all our elected officials live

If I can legally get signs on all of their lawns that read the name of their rival... perhaps they'll finally agree with each other to do something about these stupid plastic menaces!


Talk about a literal grass-roots political protest

 

[JoshT]

What are the rules for removing said signs? Can I just follow and yoink?

Tampering with the signs is a civil violation that carries a 250$ fine.

Not even allowed to pick the sign up to mow the lawn. It's gotta stay there until the person who placed it comes and gets it..

They can't do much about an act of nature. Don't know what to tell you officer, that lightning bolt came out of no where and burned the sign to a crisp. Looks like it also struck a guy sitting across the street holding a camera, smelled horrible.

 

[racsan]

I liked it when yard signs were of paperish material, just a squirt of lighter fluid & a match , “poof”. gone. Now they are all corregated plastic. Which in some ways is better, can use it like sheet metal or to block off a open window in a barn. Got a huge 4’x8’ one a few years ago right after election day. Along with some zip-ties it made a decent dog house.

 

[Blmpkn]

They can't do much about an act of nature. Don't know what to tell you officer, that lightning bolt came out of no where and burned the sign to a crisp. Looks like it also struck a guy sitting across the street holding a camera, smelled horrible.

Lightning strikes are both tracked & recorded by the NWS iirc..

.. but that's how you get the person who placed ONE sign, to post multiples lol... 'muck about, and find out' as they say..

Road frontage minimums to build a house are 150' in most places up here. Lots of people have much more than that too.. every house on my road for example has at least 300'.. so that's 10 signs my road is private though.. so thankfully I don't need to worry about any of this

Dont forget that law enforcement loves reasonable suspicion.. and it's well within their power to place surveillance more or less wherever they want to see what's happening on the public ROW..

They've been using game cameras to catch people doing harmless burnouts on traffic-free back roads in the middle of the night around town lately ..

..All the while we have tweakers running around town all strung-out.. tresspassing and terrorizing folks just trying to have a cook-out in broad daylight.. standing on the side of the road.. pants-less.. waving their appendage at traffic..

The police would be ALL OVER it lol. They definitely have their priorities straight

 

[Blmpkn]

I liked it when yard signs were of paperish material, just a squirt of lighter fluid & a match , “poof”. gone. Now they are all corregated plastic. Which in some ways is better, can use it like sheet metal or to block off a open window in a barn. Got a huge 4’x8’ one a few years ago right after election day. Along with some zip-ties it made a decent dog house.

What kills me is 'everyones' desire to outlaw single use plastic items..

I can't get a real straw from dunks anymore.. yet its totally fine for landfills to get packed full of these eyesores after every election

 

[JoshT]

Lightning strikes are both tracked & recorded by the NWS iirc..

.. but that's how you get the person who placed ONE sign, to post multiples lol... 'muck about, and find out' as they say..

Lightning is just one possibility. I can't say for certain exactly what made it spontaniously combust, or why the NWS might have missed that lightning strike.

Looks like you missed this part...

Looks like it also struck a guy sitting across the street holding a camera, smelled horrible.

Presumably the guy with the camera was also the one planting the signs and baiting people to tamper with them.

Also trail/game cameras aren't foolproof. They have a habbit of failing, getting obscured, or corrupting data.

Sounds like you might need to relocate.

 

[Blmpkn]

Lightning is just one possibility. I can't say for certain exactly what made it spontaniously combust, or why the NWS might have missed that lightning strike.

Looks like you missed this part...



Presumably the guy with the camera was also the one planting the signs and baiting people to tamper with them.

Also trail/game cameras aren't foolproof. They have a habbit of failing, getting obscured, or corrupting data.

Sounds like you might need to relocate.

I'm moving north ASAP. Ditching this town of nearly 9k lunatics for one that barely has 1000.

Less people, less politics, next to nothing for taxes, no tourists.. and out of the most overbearing County in the state.

The American dream!

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I use signs to block the wind and snow blowing thru the chain link fence surrounding my rented property. The top rail is used to tie down the tarp covering my RV and makeshift workshop.
I have also considered using it under my race truck to smooth the underside.

 

[sgtsandman]

If someone put a political sign in my yard, regardless of whether I agree with it or not, it's getting yanked and trashed. As far as I'm concerned, property rights should prevail over legally placed signage, if placing of such signage has not been approved by the property owner. A piece of publicly owned property, that is legally accessible by the general public, is a different story but private property, that's trespassing and vandalism.

 

[Roert42]

Might be a little morbid in relation to political signs. I always felt the same way about people that put up memorials on the side of the road or at the edge of someone's property.

I get it, you brother died in a car crash, but in a day or two this is just going to look at like pile of trash on the side of the road.

Why don't you put it in your own yard where you can look at it and appreciate it.