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It sounds like you already know way more than I do about water & septic stuff on your land.
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Great thread. When I read threads like this I can't help wonder why you chose such a cold place where the cold can literally kill you. Is it because it is overall better - lack of bugs, poisonous animals and the summer heat causing more problems than the winter cold does? I was thinking a more moderate climate would be more suitable. Is all land in warm states taken or expensive?
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For me at least, I actually like the cold. Cold brings peaceful quiet, even in the middle of a huge city. Heat brings madness.
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Nov 13, 2014 18:43
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Pilsner posted:Is all land in warm states taken or expensive? Either that or they're too warm (c.f. Louisiana). The nice places in the country tend to get settled early, oddly enough. It's not impossible to get a decent chunk of land in a place with a pleasant climate year-round; it's just a hell of a lot more expensive than if you go to upstate New York or something.
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Nov 13, 2014 23:05
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apatite posted:The land here is crazy cheap!! I have looked recently at property in CO, VT, NH and ME..... you can not touch a place like mine for anywhere near the same price. Nowhere even close. It is incredible if you just look at pricing but we have lovely laws, a lovely business climate, high taxes, no jobs and as pointed out, it is cold as gently caress for a long time, every single year. What about mosquitoes? Hopefully, your area doesn't have any. My country, on the other hand, managed to suck more adding a new mosquito-born illness to add to the three we had before. Now we have the full set, Malaria, Dengue, Yellow fever and Chikungunya.
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Yeah, i'll take some snow shoveling over months of 95f+ any day.
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Nov 24, 2014 22:36
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I had a quick scan but couldnt see a mention about the current water situation. Are you bringing water in or are you using the creek as a source then boiling/purifing? If you need a store of water for other things then these Ram pumps are pretty neat. This guy has a few vids across a few years that include improvements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG0laNqJWY0
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Still jealous, that's a great looking little waterfall.
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I saw this recently and thought of you in the woods in the cold for some reason.
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toplitzin posted:I saw this recently and thought of you in the woods in the cold for some reason. Who has a split-front commercial toilet seat in their home?
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Magnus Praeda posted:Who has a split-front commercial toilet seat in their home? who says it was a split-front commercial toilet seat. Nothing a hack saw can't create in a few minutes, the socks just cover up the cuts.
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Just read this whole thread in like, 3 days. drat, apatite. I live in the city and my husband refuses to move more than 20mins away from it, which means if I want land I have to find some around here and it will be at a premium price. All the really nice forested hills have been bought up by developers and are being turned into horrible suburban sprawl and strip malls and such.  Fortunately my husband is a tolerant man who allows me to dream my big country-girl dreams in our little city house. We have a baby apple tree on dwarfing rootstock on the hill by the driveway, a mulberry bush that came with the house, an herb/veggie garden in the front yard, and chickens in the back yard. This upcoming spring I'm expanding the garden and planting raspberries on the hill under the massive old maple (Norway maple... haven't tapped it, but one of these years I might try!). For a < 1/10th acre city lot, we're managing to cram a lot of homesteading in anyway. Unfortunately the winters have been really unpredictable here in PA and I'm really worried about my gardening (and the chickens!). Temps for the next week are forecasted in the 20* range during the day and down toward 0 at night. I like having four seasons, but I hate this cold. Do you have your maple sap lines ready? 
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Faerunner posted:Unfortunately the winters have been really unpredictable here in PA and I'm really worried about my gardening (and the chickens!). Temps for the next week are forecasted in the 20* range during the day and down toward 0 at night. I like having four seasons, but I hate this cold. Don't worry about it. You can just put a bulb in the hen house and the garden will be fine. I'm in eastern PA and just harvested the last of my onions before this latest cold snap.
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hey apatite, hope you are staying warm for the next few days
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Motronic posted:Don't worry about it. You can just put a bulb in the hen house and the garden will be fine. Yeah, there's a heat lamp in there. I'm trying to balance keeping them from freezing against making it TOO warm in the coop and reducing their resistance to cold temperatures. I don't want them used to a 50* coop when it's 20* outside. As it stands they didn't even go out to their fenced-in run to get food and water today, or not from what I can tell. The coop is tiny and I'm also worried that they'll get bored in there and start picking at each other. Gonna have to find some more interesting things for them to go after... today it was squash slices in their little suet feeder.
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apatite posted:The land here is crazy cheap!! Where is here again?
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One of the few pockets of freedom in an otherwise over controlling nanny state.
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Jan 8, 2015 23:54
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Do you keep the drum open so that the evaporation offsets some of the dryness that comes with winter? Or are you more worried about the humidity causing bigger problems and keep it closed?
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Jan 9, 2015 17:57
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If you are keeping a big drum of warm but not boiling water sitting around all the time, do you add anything to the water to keep it from growing colonies of horrible biological contaminants?
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Jan 10, 2015 01:05
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Drinking stream water will acclimate your immune system over time. Still more hygienic to boil it especially if you have guests. Hopefully the supply line is at the top and the draw is at the bottom of your barrel, or you have some way to keep any stagnant patches from developing.
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You also might want to test for heavy metal contaminants, which boiling won't do poo poo for and can also accumulate in your system.
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apatite posted:"The average American family of four uses 400 gallons of water per day. On average, approximately 70 percent of that water is used indoors, with the bathroom being the largest consumer (a toilet alone can use 27 percent!)." [source: http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/pubs/indoor.html] U use a water heater? This is like a Robert Redford movie as a thread
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apatite posted:A respectful fear of the world is useful for self preservation, but a line needs to be drawn somewhere. People (myself included) swim in disgusting water all the time so using my nice clear stream water to take a shower doesn't seem so bad to me, but smelling chlorine all the time sounds pretty awful. Naw man that's fine, I didn't realize you weren't just drinking it, washing your dishes with it, etc. If you boil it before you drink it that's obviously fine. I only brought it up because of Legionnaire's disease, which thrives in water kept between 77 and 113 degrees F. Most hot water heaters hold the water at a higher temp than that: at least 120 degrees, and often as high as 140.
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Leperflesh posted:Naw man that's fine, I didn't realize you weren't just drinking it, washing your dishes with it, etc. If you boil it before you drink it that's obviously fine. Legionnaire's disease isn't too much to worry about in a tank like that. It's probably present but becomes more of an issue when the water is aerosolized, like in A/C units (or the vegetable sprayers in grocery stores) . I disagree with the statement that you build an immunity to whatever you're drinking. The biggest concerns that come to mind would be giardia (especially if animals use the water source), cryptosporidium or other parasites, and bacteria like E coli and Salmonella (again from animal sources). It's probably not a huge deal of you're not drinking it constantly but personally I would want to boil the water or treat the water somehow to ensure it is safe
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The obvious solution is to build a well drilling rig out of an old jeep and some motorcycle and tractor parts.
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Laminator posted:Legionnaire's disease isn't too much to worry about in a tank like that. It's probably present but becomes more of an issue when the water is aerosolized, like in A/C units (or the vegetable sprayers in grocery stores) . Well it's explicitly the reason why hot water heaters are supposed to be at a minimum of 120 degrees, but I'm no Legionnaire's disease expert, I'm just posting what I read on the internet about it.  Anyway he said he's boiling the water before he drinks it and unless he's drinking the shower water I doubt it goes through the skin so it's probably not an issue.
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Motronic posted:The obvious solution is to build a well drilling rig out of an old jeep and some motorcycle and tractor parts. Don't think that I don't check this site every week...... http://www.drillcat.com/UsedRigs.html
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apatite posted:Here is one thing I've been working on Holy poo poo, this rules. Maybe you can use it for radiant heating.
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There are a billion reasons you should purify your water somehow. I have a well, and everything in my pipes runs past an ultraviolet unit to kill most of the bacteria. Then a limestone filtration tank takes out the sediment. The water is hard as gently caress but drinkable. You may want to look into scrounging up a couple of similar units, MacGuyver of the Forest. They will improve your quality of life substantially.
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apatite posted:Feel free to speculate on how this thing is going to collapse on my head and kill me with ebola/poison/communism and how it doesn't meet code and I'm a terrible human being. All it has to do is keep snow off - tested in a crazy snowstorm and it works good for that but will still add some halfassed walls to keep the wind down while boiling. I'd only be worried that with a flat roof the inevitable snowdrift accumulating on top will collapse it and ruin your sizzurp.
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I wish we got hard maple here, but it's not native, and too far north too. Seems like a great all purpose hardwood.
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