If you’re paranoid about your neighbors stealing your water when you’re sleeping, you either need to see your doctor about some medication, or you need Nibco’s FaucetLock. The FaucetLock screws over existing hose bibs without tools and prevents water theft or tampering.
Fall’s here, and the leaves just keep dropping. Too bad the trees don’t drop their leaves all at the same time — no, to keep your yard clean you’ll have to rake many times before fall’s over. Plus, if you have trees like red oaks that hold onto their leaves over the winter, you’ll be out there raking in the spring several times, too. All this raking takes away valuable shop time. Would something like this $150 lawn sweeper from Agri-Fab make the work go faster?
This particular lawn sweeper cleans a 26″ swath and collects up to 7 cubic feet of dry leaves/debris in its replaceable vinyl hopper — unfortunately, it won’t work very well with soggy leaves. With its zinc-plated steel frame and polypropylene housing, the 52-1/2″ x 31″ x 33″ sweeper weighs in at 25 pounds.
Is a lawn sweeper the answer for keeping your yard clean in the fall, or will it just sit in the garage gathering dust? Let us know your experiences in comments.
Lawn Sweeper [Agri-Fab]
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A couple years ago we posted about Ridgid’s plastic nut basin wrench. Ridgid has since updated the 2006 model of this tool to be a “multipurpose under-sink plumbing tool,” and they renamed it the Faucet and Sink Installer. The notched ends of this tool still fit 2, 3, 4, and 6-tabbed plastic mounting nuts on faucets, sprayers, and ball cocks — but now the tool does so much more.
I found this “air drain blaster” for $16.48 at Drill Spot this weekend. It essentially replaces the (not so) good ‘ole plunger by directing a blast of air down the drain. It ships with four differently-sized drain attachments — one of which will hopefully fit your drain.
Air Drain Blaster [Drill Spot]
Street Pricing [Google Product Search]
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