Originally Posted by DryPowder
Originally Posted by slumlord
Originally Posted by wabigoon
Hire a mechanic.

The American farmer….self reliant, ingenious, risk taker, fearless, not easily defeated by calamity….

but hires a mechanic to change a car headlight

It's called, picking your battles.
I pick em every day

I rarely hire anything out, I have lots of smart friends if I get into a pinch and they have me to reciprocate. My buds don’t forget favors.
Nice to have a bud put a new 3-1/2 ton heat pump in for me while I was in the hospital for a week.
For only unit cost, and ran thru my account on my EPA card.