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I have two big pine trees near my house. The 75 ft of first level gutter fills up with pine tree needles, cones, etc. I clean them usually once every 6 weeks or so.

Problem with the gutter guards/screens is the needles will still get stuck in the screens due to the tiny holes. You will have to go up and clean them out once in awhile. It probably won’t disrupt the flow of water coming off the roof though. The cones won’t get stuck.
You might want to look at one of the systems that doesn’t have the holes,
I’ve seen them before but I don’t remember the name.
Try Gutter Helmet that might be the one.

Did you consider removing the pine trees?

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Homeowners clean their gutters from the safety of the GROUND with flipgutters. I tried uploading this with windows media format just for fun.

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Go to google.com and type in:
gutter cleaning tools

This is what I found,

www.guttersense.com
www.improvementscatalog.com
www.nextag.com/gutter-cleaning/shop-html

These sites have extention handles to clean over two story homes.

Hi!

I am making a wood box to use as a showcase for a garage kit model I have done. The box, should have three sides in wood (back, bottom and top) and three sides in 3mm glass (front, left and right).

I would like to carve a 2-3mm low relief gutter, to fit the glass in the top and bottom sides, so the glass will stay steady and it will have a nice finishing as if the glass was rising from the wood.

My question is: how to make this job without the need to buy specific and expensive tools?

Thanks!

If you have a circular power saw (most handymen do and you sound handy) you could clamp a guide to the material like on this site http://www.justclamps.com/progrip_straight_edge_clamp.htm just over half way do the page under the heading of Saw Base, if the first run wasn’t wide enough just move the guide a 1/16" or so to suit.

I hope this helps