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gently caress YEAH. post pics post pics post pics
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Aug 18, 2014 13:29
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That Allis-Chalmers WD is awesome! I hope you can get it running. If not, electric power might be the way to go.
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Aug 22, 2014 03:08
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Wow, I'm willing to bet that half-track will be worth its weight in copper!
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Aug 22, 2014 03:37
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You could build one hell of a battery pack frame on that AC chassis if that engine is hosed. Motor/tranny linkage would be dead simple too. It won't be though. Those engines are tough as hell and can be brought back pretty readily. Just start soaking everything in penetrant or atf or something.
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Aug 23, 2014 17:55
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Keep on keepin on apatite fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Aug 23, 2014 22:44
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Chiming in to say I've really enjoyed this tread, and thanks for sharing!
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Sep 18, 2014 15:56
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apatite posted:close your eyes and imagine there are pictures here I see sunlight through trees, dogs, and fungus.
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Sep 19, 2014 02:45
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Everyone seems to be expecting another huge winter for the northeast. I kinda hope it is.
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Sep 19, 2014 15:35
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Your dogs must have a blast all day every day. How often do they get ticks or other biting bugs, though?
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Sep 19, 2014 15:52
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Your dogs must have a blast all day every day. How often do they get ticks or other biting bugs, though? We use the K9 Advantix stuff, so basically never unless we forget to put it on them     That is not my arm    Back Yard Flowers    Today was one of those rare days I can actually get photos off of my phone apatite fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Sep 19, 2014 16:15
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Oh, you have touch-me-nots! I love those. Squeeze a few seed pods for me.
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Sep 19, 2014 22:36
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I am out here squeezing my touch-me-not pods for you, but it is making me feel dirty. Need to go back through pics, some are doubled but there have been tons of different fungi and those are just the ones I thought to take pictures of..
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Sep 19, 2014 23:34
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apatite posted:As long as that means "10 feet of snow per day" and not "weeks of sustained subzero temps" like this year, I'm down like James Fuckin Brown Seriously. I was getting sick of taking the trash out each night and having my beard and mustache freeze in the 30 seconds i was outside.
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Sep 20, 2014 04:11
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apatite posted:
This is actually a luna moth caterpillar! Polyphemus is much bigger, has a brown head and no stripe down the side. Still super cool!
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Sep 20, 2014 14:26
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Saturniid19 posted:This is actually a luna moth caterpillar! Polyphemus is much bigger, has a brown head and no stripe down the side. Still super cool! Thanks, edited my post!
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Oct 8, 2014 16:38
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apatite posted:Trying to cut down on propane usage from the fridge, we got this insulated military surplus stainless steel ice chest at a garage sale, it works really really well. 6 blocks of ice from the store lasted a week and a half and were still keeping things quite cold Wow, nice! I was watching a mini doc type thing on Youtube last year and there was a guy with an off-grid house who used a basic chest freezer as his fridge. He uses a thermostat (what I was assuming is a PID attached to an Arduino or something) to monitor the temp, with a relay to kick on when it gets too warm, and off before it crosses over into "freezer" territory. He claimed between that and the top loading design (lots of cold air just drops out of a conventional fridge/freezer when you open the door) it uses a tenth the electricity of a conventional fridge. Found it (about 8 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DSQ0W2lwtw
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Wow, nice! Have spoken to many people that take this approach and it works very well. Holding out until we get a bigger battery bank though.. I have almost everything needed to put together the wind turbine just running short on time right now. PV array will double in size next month 
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Oct 15, 2014 18:55
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Winter must be coming on pretty fast there, right? I imagine you have less than a month before it could be snowing.
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I've thoroughly enjoyed reading the thread cover-to-cover over the past couple weeks and it's gelled a lot of ideas I've had about what I'll be looking for in our next property. This thread has made me nostalgic for a property my grandfather owned: it was 65 acres if I recall and had a hand-built cabin of at least 250 square feet with a second floor/loft big enough to stand up in most of it. We had electricity and free natural gas due to a lease on his land, but no plumbing, so we had to fetch the water from the creek and poo poo in an outhouse because I piss wherever I drat well please. The creek was persistent through the year and had several good waterfalls, the biggest which was something like 12 feet tall. Unfortunately he sold it a few years ago and I was nowhere near being in a position to buy it off him because it would've made an amazing place to live how I want. Until we can save up to buy some wooded acreage of our own, I'll have to live vicariously through your trees and mushrooms and bugs and dogs and awesome scrounged projects. I started a pretty successful garden for the first time ever this year and learned a lot. I seem to be at least somewhat gifted in caring for plants. I'm really itching to tap our silver maples in the back yard. One is 26" in diameter and the other is 31", so I should be able to fit 3 or 4 taps in each. I'm wondering if the 10gal stainless kettle I have for brewing would nicely for boiling the sap (albeit 10 gallons at a time) or if I'm going to need more surface area for the ungodly amount of sap I'm going to get from my trees.
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Oct 16, 2014 23:42
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FAT SLAMPIG posted:Seriously. I was getting sick of taking the trash out each night and having my beard and mustache freeze in the 30 seconds i was outside. That's half the fun of having a real beard in the winter though! I look like a drat viking after I get done shoveling, icicles and all.
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Leperflesh posted:Winter must be coming on pretty fast there, right? I imagine you have less than a month before it could be snowing. It's been pretty warm up here in the Northeast. We're still in the 70's here in CT during the day, which is pretty shocking for October. Everyone's been saying it's going to be a lovely winter again, though.
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Did you eat a bad mushroom, trip out and become a tree?
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Nov 4, 2014 19:19
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I feel like if you touched/ate this, you would see some extremely odd things before shortly expiring.
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Jeherrin posted:I feel like if you touched/ate this, you would see some extremely odd things before shortly expiring. Negative, hombre. That one crawled right up on my hand and rubbed himself all over me for a bit before departing. You do have to be very careful though they are super fragile creatures. It is best not to touch them but more for their benefit than yours  http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/amphibians/spotted-salamander/ quote:Despite being fairly large and having an extremely broad range, the spotted salamander is actually pretty hard to, well, spot. apatite fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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Nov 5, 2014 00:03
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Glad to see you still around and keeping busy. A while back you were underemployed weren't you? While you might have liked your extra free time, it's probably nice having things not be so lean now, eh?
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I've been wondering what happened with the authorities? I remember they had been alerted to your house?
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Mofette posted:I've been wondering what happened with the authorities? I remember they had been alerted to your house? Everything is on the up-and-up. Nobody was "alerted" to anything but there were some misunderstandings on both sides apatite fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Apatite did you see the weather reports for the next week? Hopefully it's not as cold as the polar vortex crap was last year. It was awesome taking my trash out and having my beard and mustache freeze up on me in 10 seconds. Best of luck keeping warm man.
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apatite posted:Everything is on the up-and-up. Nobody was "alerted" to anything but there were some misunderstandings on both sides  quote:Now I can pound on stuff in the vise as much as needed without worrying about breaking it
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If you have running water on your property, you have a high water table and your well can be very shallow. By the same token, you have to be a lot more careful about your own runoff (to avoid contaminating the stream) and making sure your well water is clean (because it's coming from high water table groundwater and not a deep aquifer). I think that probably means that you have a lot of options in terms of well placement, and if you just filter & treat your water you're good. I think you're using some kind of septic system, right? Have you had a septic field assessed and placed where it won't leach into your stream/groundwater?
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Leperflesh posted:If you have running water on your property, you have a high water table and your well can be very shallow. By the same token, you have to be a lot more careful about your own runoff (to avoid contaminating the stream) and making sure your well water is clean (because it's coming from high water table groundwater and not a deep aquifer). We are actually using the sawdust toilet setup, with so much bedrock we would have to have one of those above ground engineered mounded pump-style septic systems and it would just be a nightmare IMO. Did check into it but the cost/benefit ratio didn't work out. The compost bin is really far away and on the other side of a giant rock ridge so in theory even the runoff from that should not effect the groundwater. All the recommendations I see even for shallow wells say you can have it like 150' from penned animals, which seems WAY too close to me but I'm no scientist. I try to be very very paranoid about contaminating the stream and we have a portion of the side yard that gradually slopes down that way over a distance of a few hundred feet. Sometimes the dogs poop there (fuckers!) so last year I did a lot of work with a shovel to make a huge berm and turned some old skidder ruts into a pond of sorts. This way any runoff from that portion of the yard goes into this small containment pond rather than directly into the stream. Sounds like we are thinking about the same, shallow well is no problem just don't contaminate it, have it tested frequently and don't be a dumbass. Thanks!
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