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This is insanely cool and I love it all.
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Love it, give no fucks and live like a modern viking. Seriously though with all that rock, it's time to invest in a good stone drill and some explosives. Teach that poo poo who's boss. Either that or get a pickaxe and get swole as gently caress as you dig out the spaces you need for your cistern and such. Have you found any really red earth on your land? Or any iron ore bodies nearby?
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Nov 27, 2012 05:55
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apatite posted:We have used a hammer drill to put some anchors into a rock for our pole mounted photovoltaic setup, and I was amazed at how well it worked. It was quicker than drilling through mild steel which seemed odd but what do I know? Iron mine you say? Excellent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomery You have an awful lot of wood on your property just begging to be made into charcoal. E: seriously, look how loving cool this is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxs7ZV5Ly8 Slung Blade fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Nov 28, 2012 |
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Nov 28, 2012 07:01
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The pickaxe sucks to use but it does work OK. Going to put the cistern on the porch for now, sucks to lose the space but winter is here and we still aren't ready... There is some redish earth, but not "really red" although there is a giant abandoned iron mine about 20miles away. What kind of awesome project are you proposing here?? 
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Rotten Cookies posted:I've always dreamed of building my own place. And between you and Slung Blade, I don't even feel like it's that far fetched at all. Man, I'm just a dude who had a house built in the country, apatite puts me to shame. And yeah, I would totally start building a mill pond. So many uses for a good torque shaft.
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Dec 10, 2012 07:45
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TooLShack posted:Do you keep a large food store if you get snowed in for a long period of time? That's what deer and traveling salesmen are for 
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Dec 21, 2012 07:41
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Man, that is a *lot* of loving snow. You looking into some kind of garage / building for all your vehicles? There is nothing worse than having to brush/scrape off your car every drat morning.
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Dec 28, 2012 17:19
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Holy poo poo that is a lot of snow, man. Way more than I've ever had to deal with, with the exception of the odd "once-every-decade" or so storm. You're going to need some serious snow moving gear to keep that road clear if that's what your weather is usually like. Still, it's beautiful. Thought about building up your toyota frame into a Nodwell type tracked vehicle?  Lift it up a bit, rigid up the axles, take out the steering bits and use the brakes to control the tracks. Oh, and build the tracks of course. Your dad is an awesome guy to come help 
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Jan 8, 2013 04:35
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apatite posted:sudden loss of a third of our income  apatite posted:Been trying to get a cheap metal entry door for the porch off a nearby craigslist but the guy flakes out like the most seasoned CL user. It had been listed for several days when I called and he still had it. That's because he was out of town for 'several days' and told me to call back on Saturday. Called this morning and he still has it but won't be at home for most of the day, 'try calling back this afternoon' ..... That sucks, there's always some poo poo happening with deals like this. Is there a building materials recycler's in your area? There are a couple business here that take old doors, windows, house fittings and all kinds of stuff for re-use. Check them out, you might get lucky.
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Jan 13, 2013 08:01
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apatite posted:We posted about winter pelt warming carpets at the same time. Surely this is some type of awesome sign of things to come. Line your walls with the skins of your enemies! Drink home made mead from their bleached skulls in the sun!  Oh and hey, to link in some blacksmithing content that you were talking about in the other thread: if you are going to use mineral coal, make a side blast forge instead of bottom blast. Way less complicated to operate and build. Bottom blast is great if you're going to use mostly charcoal.
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Jan 26, 2013 07:21
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Man, I wish my property was half as interesting as yours. It's so beautiful there.
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May 19, 2013 08:12
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Actuary X posted:apatite, your land look so much like where I am, you could be on the other side of the hill from me. I know it looks like that from here to Canada, but still. I have always wondered why we don't just build the outer walls of a log cabin with a second layer, and fill the chamber in between the walls with dirt, or clay or something. Like a sod house, but with a proper wooden skin.  Sure, it would massively increase the amount of labour, but excavators would make pretty short work of it. Window boxes would have to be made to withstand the pressure and such, but you would have to depth to make them octuple chambered if you wanted to.
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May 25, 2013 04:28
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Oldsmobile posted:Start building a small yet livable log house next to your current building and you'll learn enough to start building something big and nice the year after next. poo poo, just build a couple log storage sheds. I'm sure they'd come in handy. Log garages all over the place for all your vehicles and equipment.
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May 26, 2013 17:18
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drat it looks peaceful there 
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Aug 19, 2013 17:09
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apatite posted:Well I've been doing lots of things but none of it is very picture worthy. Hey cool, I have that same wagon. I've got my glyphosphate weed killer tank and a honkin heavy car battery in it. Easy enough to pull around my flat little yard. Tires kinda suck though. Any of yours leaking yet? With all your heavy, wet snow, I would put some little wood or steel skis on it next to the tires once you get your welder working. Might make things a little easier.
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Nov 10, 2013 08:49
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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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Magnus Praeda posted:That looks both needlessly complex and fragile. Also probably a bit spendy, knowing dremel. It'll probably be totally fine and reasonably high quality. Coming with thirty replacement sharpening stones. But no replacements for the fiddliest of tiny screws that hold said stones in place that you absolutely will lose after replacing the stone once. No one will offer this screw for sale on the internet anywhere. Go buy a whole new unit. I loving hate dremel and rotary tools in general.
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Jul 13, 2015 15:31
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Dr. MonkeyThunder posted:If that were the case I wouldn't be talking poo poo. Where does an 800lb gorilla plant weed? Wherever the gently caress it wants to.
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Jul 23, 2015 16:33
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Ikantski posted:Yeah, I wouldn't be worried about it exploding, more about if I forget about it and it drains and the residue burns in the empty pipe. I actually built something the other day to help cut my maple wood that I thought you would approve of. I've got an unlimited supply of poplar logs but they're a pain in the butt to cut one at a time so I made a 6' high, 18" wide cradle so that I can zip through a bunch at once, it's handy. How's that work exactly? Load the cradle to the top with logs, climb a ladder, jam the chainsaw on the top of the pile, squeeze the throttle, jump off the ladder, use the resistance given to the saw by the wood to slow your descent like a circa 1790s Royal navy sailor coming down from the crow's nest to join a fracas? Because that sounds pretty baller.
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loving awesome.
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