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Well I got the pump apart and got the replacement parts. Most of the parts fit correctly. Taking the keg pump apart, I got to see the inner workings of a keg hand pump. You obviously push down on the pump handle and it pressures your keg. It pushes the air from the pump through a Thomas vent...

I was interesting in rebuilding my 8" barrel keg pump and was thinking of getting this kit from keg works. https://www.kegworks.com/barrel-keg-pump-repair-kit/ My question is, how do you get the tower cylinder unscrewed from the coupler to get to the gasket and duck valve between the two? Anyone...

I grew my first year cascade hops last year within 15 feet of a black walnut. The trunk is about 3 foot in diameter. My cascade did very well. I had 3 bines total that got to about 20 ft. The hops were close enough to the tree that I had to cut one branch down that I was afraid might start...

I had japanese beatles on my first year plants also. I used Pyrethrin based insecticide on them and was extrememly suprised on the good results. I didn't notice much of an insta kill on the beatles, cause you basically sprayed the stuff and the beatles just fell, like they do if you spray them...

Hmm, its kinda hard to hate an animal who likes beer so much, he would rather drown in it than to leave. :P

My cascade hops took 2-3 weeks. Part of the problem was they shot out laterally for a while and than came up. So they were growing but were growing sideways.

I have some damage on my lower leaves also. I looked pretty closely to many of the leaves and found 0 bugs. The damage on the few leaves was in the center of the leaves that have the problem. One thing that I now realize that could have caused this is the amount of heavy rain and hail...

They both look like catepillars to me. The smaller ones look to have stuff on thier back to protect from predators. I belive a close up on the smaller one's head might be helpful in indentification. Also, confirmation on the number of legs might help. Catepillars are eating machines, that is...

My first year cascade has 3 bines so far. One is probably 20 ft, one is 15ft and one is 6ft. It looks like a 4th one is branching at ground level from the 15ft one. The tall one is at the top of my garage and string. SO i assume it will start wondering around? All the bines are pretty...

Do you have them just growing up the side of your garage, or do you use string or something else? My setup is very similar to yours and I was looking into other way ideas on how to get them to go up the side of my garage.

I noticed most people are using the twine technique or fence to have thier hops grow up. Im doing that this year for my first year cascade. I currently have my plant up against the back end of my garage. Probably about 15 feet for growth. Next year I would like to either use the classic...

Great info GVH, thanks for the input. Its my first year growing hops. I think I will use my dehydrators I have if I get any. I currently don't use whole hops but use pellets. So next I will find someone to give them to.

Im going in two days. I have done a little research on this yself. I was looking for places near the new strip that was walkable or almost walkable. One that I havent seen mentioned is ellis island steak casino and brewery. Its near the strip. Ive heard the beer is ok, the beer is real cheap...

Thats funny. My walnut tree is the first to lose its leaves in the fall and the last to get its leaves in the spring. Half the time I think its dead cause it never has leaves. Than I run over 100s of walnuts with my lawn mower and sprang my ankle walking in my yard and remember its still alive. :P

I have a pretty large walnut tree. The reason why I thought about putting the hops by it is currently the area beneath the tree is over run with weeds, growing vines, and a couple of ornamental bushes. I was hoping to put the hops there not only to use the tree as a anchor for a climbing rope...