Six months later is wild" - yeah @avery629, things fall apart fast once nobody's paying attention.

Right? The water thing is huge. I put out a cheap plastic birdbath, one of those shallow ones that sits right on the ground. Doves and robins go nuts for it every afternoon.

Let me guess, you also found a $20 bill in a parking lot and got a steak that was actually cooked right at a diner. Stuff like this just makes you wonder how much of the "you gotta pay more" talk is marketing. Maple can be a real pain and $9 bits usually turn into smoke and screaming. You might have gotten the only one that was ground on a Tuesday morning by a guy who actually cared. Either way, I'd probably buy a lottery ticket while the luck is still hot.

Man that wind is a killer, I had a 150 foot deck layout go crooked on me the same way last spring. Feels like a simple tool should work but the sag just kills you on long spans.

Wait are people actually out here warping rotors just by tightening lugnuts in the wrong order? I've worked on cars for 15 years and never once used a torque wrench on lugs. I just trigger tighten with my impact gun in a circle and have never had a rotor warp or a wheel fall off. The star pattern thing might matter on race cars or maybe if youre using cheap thin rotors but on normal daily drivers the clamping force of the wheel itself holds everything flat. I think this is one of those internet mechanics myths that sounds good on paper but doesnt really play out in real garages.