JCT777 Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Very nice. How did you get the lights that high on the tree? Why did you stop doing lights? Thanks, and here are my answers... I'd like to say I own a 25 foot ladder, or a firetruck, or a cherry picker...but getting the lights up onto the tree involved multiple throws from the ground until I got the end of the light string to stick at a place that looked good to me...and then walking around the tree multiple times while working the lights lower and lower. It had to be done at night with the other end of the string of 600 to 800 lights plugged in so I could accurately see what it looked like in progress. And I decorated 4 trees this way. My wife told me i was completely crazy (she was right, too). We stopped doing lights in 2007 because we started going on a post-holiday season Caribbean cruise/Florida trip every year in early January. We decided that having to prepare for the trip was enough work without spending the hours putting up lights (usually took me 4 to 5 nights of 4 to 5 hours each night) and then taking them down (about 6 to 7 hours total time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Impressive. Understandable too why you don't do it anymore as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SP Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 i was thinking bout doing that. But i dont know if i could get them in sync. I know they sell those outlets that has like 6 outlets on it and it does it to music. The pronblem is i would need 4 of them and i dont know if they would all be synchronized. This is what I am talking about..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombo82685 Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 This is what I am talking about..... yea i knew what you were talking about. They sell things that sync them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMolineuxLM1 Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Surprisingly this year i will have to put a picture up its kinda ghetto'ish as of sorta limited time into the project but next year it will be significantly better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Well, switched to all LED's last year including roughly 10 strings of icicle lights for the roof, but after getting new shingles and gutters this summer I didn't feel like potentially wrecking anything new therefore no roof lights this year. Probably will go back to them next year. Thanks to a few suggestions here on roof clips, I decided to pick some up and take care of the icicle lights. They went on nice and easy. No snowpack anymore though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMolineuxLM1 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Put them up today. First time since moving here 3 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombo82685 Posted December 2, 2012 Author Share Posted December 2, 2012 Put them up today. First time since moving here 3 years ago. you gotta start somewhere lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMolineuxLM1 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 you gotta start somewhere lee I put those eye hooks in so next year it will be easier to just string and place. Although next year it should expand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombo82685 Posted December 24, 2012 Author Share Posted December 24, 2012 bump for those who get snow tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quakertown needs snow Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 bump for those who get snow tonight... you and me & north/west Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boreal Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 As the snow began to accumulate this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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noctilucent Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 OK.....here's my modest display with my 0.8" of wet snow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quakertown needs snow Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boch23 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Didn't think I would get to take a picture like this, this year: http://www2.snapfish..._NAME=snapfish/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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