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deer and rabbits will decimate them. use holy tone early spring as a feed. then after they bloom. try to keep them to about 6 main branches if they are high bush. undyed double ground hardwood much is what we use around them. Also drip irrigation.

I saw a ton of videos on twitter (x). there was even a few where they were bricking in representatives houses. building a wall around and then filling with manure. Twitter is a great place to see what is going on in the world with out interference...as long as you trust the source.

Yes, that was for cutting stumps and legs im guessing .....

lol yep it was like riding a bike that wanted to go where it wanted to lol. you held one and off you went lol. There are so many attachments, everything from plows to sickle bars to a crazy buzz saw. shows some of them.

david bradley walk behind tractors. I had a few and a ton of attachments. When they ran they were a beast, when they didnt you collected others to rebuild them. I truly wish i didnt sell them off. They were fun at times lol.

well there are times you want to clear cut too....if it was previously high graded and all you have are firewood trees left then cut and re start. Piling up the tops will keep the deer out and let trees grow. If i was going to clear cut though....I would use 5-6' tall tubex tubes and buy...

It was probably high graded and they took the best and left the worse. Instead of doing a select cut and leaving trees to provide good genetics. Sadly if you do not higher a forester that is what often happens.

We did CREP, just finished 15 years. we were allowed one small access lane to mow and the rest we planted trees on. We were not allowed to mow and had to spray invasives or keep them under control. It was with our department of ag, so i would contact them and see if there is a time they...

Importing and modifying a new mini excavator from China is the post your looking for.

how is the bear situation? do your run electric fence?

We live very rural. Have a house with people who suffer allergies. The only breed i recommend is a standard poodle. Our boy is 5 months old and will hit 90 lbs when fully grown his dad is a beast. really sturdy dog. Please do not go doodle (i have a golden doodle) many groomers are refusing...

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My buddy has an LS and loves it not sure the model sorry, I did just see they were offering a free loader with most tractor purchases.

Lehman's Own Galvanized Well Bucket is in our emergency kit. we have a deep well, so its would be a pain to get a hand pump in there.

company deals/incentives, and i want a good down payment. plus i do not want to buy something new go out of town and have it stolen so I have a couple of months to wait.

Well back to tractor sales :) lol , I went to a local (30 mins away) kubota dealer to see what they had in the way of UTV/Side by Side. They had one really nice diesel on the lot but i noticed they had 20 bx23s with bucket and hoe all lined up with a lot of other equipment there too. I wasn't...

I was driving home yesterday and saw a two huge spools of fiber(found out later it was fiber) on our road. Apparently they are running fiber. A local state rep has been taking frontier to task in the paper. Has over 400 documented complaints and im sure more on the way about their service...

my wife and kiddo will be driving it too, so not fast is going to give me peace of mind. I dont mind moving slow if i can get the work done. Those are impressive pictures!!

yes unfortunately, but we are looking at getting a utv, and tractor. if we get a decent package we would do both but if not, ill rent machinery and go with the utv. looking at the kobota full size with diesel, just saw a great video on it. the bed folds up and has room for 4 or folds back and...

When do you think the deals will start, late spring/early summer or sooner lol .

since my wife and i are talking about buying a tractor and side by side this year, at least the side by side are there gps trackers that you all use to help return items if they are stolen? if so what do you recommend? we are running android so i think air tags are out of the picture.

Hi might be getting a 3 seat ranger in the spring. My biggest concern is it being stolen when we are at work. We run android not apple. What type of gps trackers or tags are recommended.

so we have electric heat pump mini splits for heat and ac, propane stove (looks like a wood stove) to supplement heat and works if the power is off, 3 brick lp burners in the basement near the well and near the water lines for the kitchen, and a shtf wood stove in the basement. We cook on lp.

Finally got to use it, it works wonderfully. I am able to get our driveway plowed in three passes instead of shoveling for an hour. or trying to throw gravel all over the place with the snowblower. I highly recommend it. More snow is coming Thursday and Friday.

I bought it because I have a backup camera on my truck I can see where the plow is clear as day in it. It was pretty easy to set up too. Now that I have it and do not have to mess with the snowblower we have not gotten any snow yet lol. we live on a dirt road the drive way is modified. When I...

I just picked one of these up for my truck. SnowSport 180 Utility Plow | Rear Hitch Mount SUV Snow Plow

I dont think you need to remove them as the tubex tubes act as a green house promoting growth, (lets them break dormancy earlier.

get some 5' tubex tubes. they last and last and last. its what I have to plant everything in to keep the deer off of them.

look at places that do maple syrup, or sell maple syrup equipment. Stack Pipe through the roof this might get you to a place.

Could but waiting the next few months for a better deal, and saving up a bit more $$ will put me in a better position to negotiate. I also need to try to fix my 318 to trade that in too.

So I will be looking at a tractor with fel in the up coming year, I can hold off until spring/summer, looking at kobota, deere, ls, as these dealers are near me. Deere is closest and has the largest repair/parts facility. looks like waiting is the smart play then.

with the billing and turning off the wrong dish that we had issues with it was sometimes hours or less then a day. It took me forever to figure out how to send a ticket in.....thumbs down when you search for an issue lets you open up a ticket....

global outage today we were down over an hour. not sure if they are repositioning satellites due to the last launch.

That is the same bracket we have, from the starlink shop we just bought the adapter and the install kit. It was super easy to install, we have it 30' up in the air on the side of our house.

Just forgot to update everyone we got our starlink in June and had 89mps right out of the box. We have not had any issues and its amazing what good internet can do. Dropped frontier and their 1.5 mps as soon as we could. if you average the difference starlink only cost us about 10$ more then...

I ran a warre hive for a few years until a bear got through my fence. Biobees and beesource were great resources. I also put them in the box and left them alone. adding extra boxes in the spring to have them store food/supplies.

Before we went with CREP, which was to help out the Chesapeake bay, we also had someone from Duck Unlimited come out to see about putting in a wooded pond to help migratory birds, but decided to go with the Crep route due to the added value of the trees we would be planting. CREP will tell you...

Not permanent, we signed a 15 year lease could have done a 10 but the rate was better for 15. They cost share 1/2 the cost of trees and labor for planting in highly erodible land. We enrolled 3 acres in it and it will be done next year. We can do what we want with it once the lease is done. we...

Marhar agree 100% we just got our chicks in yesterday. My daughter has been a mother hen to them and she is having so much fun with them. Its an experience she will always remember.

We have ducks, and i love the eggs, my wife no so much. So our old coop we tore down and rebuilt a nice little one perfect for 4-6 chicks. Just enough for us. I like them, they are great garbage disposals. We went with some heritage birds this time and some different color egg layers since we...

I pay 115 a month, yes, its the only things available they have us over a barrel. There is no cell signal at our house.....

it is, but that would only be 15$ more a month then 1.5mps frontier dsl......

So if you had family/friend in a grid that had availablilty instead of wait, you could get them to buy the dish and add portability and have it at your house while you pay bill. That is until your ship came in. It might be worth a try.

are two good videos of the viaduct. Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct – Nicholson Heritage Association they are finishing up a visitor center, which was the old trolley stop. I love that the bridge is not lit up at night. It really flows and fits the landscape. Its is still used daily by the trains...

Thats awesome!! we have 60% of our county still without power. that was a nasty storm. Heavy, we had ironwood come down, ash trees you could hear shattering in the woods. Hopefully we will get power back soon before we loose everything in the fridge.....

IM definitely out of your grid, but I wasnt sure if they allowed out of grid moves, I saw on a few reddit forums that they were allowing transfers. Appreciate it!!.

Glad its working out if it ever doesn't lol I would be glad to take over your account and dish, We are still in the holding pattern of mid 2022, not sure when that will get pushed back.....

does changing the shipping location change your date, or can you just mess around with out it updating every time. I would hate to loose my place in the cue.....

Is there anyway to see what cell your in?

So frustrated, a work friend just got his dish, he put in an order after I was talking to him about it. He is a town over. :(

Will you be adding any lighting protection from the mount to the ground?

Cant wait to hear how its working for you!!!!

Still chugging away with frontier at a whopping 1.5mps, hoping for that starlink golden ticket soon.

biobees and beesource are great places to learn about bees, if you have the money the flow hive is nice if you just want to leave the bees alone and let them do their thing a warre hive is great. Electric fence is needed to keep bears away etc. look at psu bee fence it is a good resource...

Honestly I will, because its where I get a cell signal on my phone. Looking at the six strand its $8oo for the length I would need..... so we just need to budget a bit more for it.....

T mobile is the tower that is "closest" to us, but we are down in a bit of a valley, so I would have to rig up a system at the top of our hill, and run cable back 1500 feet to our house due to all the trees and no line of sight.

I am in Susquehanna County, but was just pushed back. I know of one person near scranton who got it but no one near me. I was pricing out fiber cable to do something similar to what Alan posted his son did but its almost 1k just for the fiber.... So we wait, and wait, and wait.....

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but it looks like a pallet :) (lol that thread has been going on forever lol)

Same with us pushed back to mid 2022, I am going to look at hiking up our "hill" and finding the nearest tower and try and see if i can connect to the tower. I know with the opensource app its a tmobile tower.

Thats awsome!! how do you like dome living? Hope all is well!!!

not sure if other people mentioned it but its sounds like the last foundation they are recommending is a rubble foundation. I have used them before and have had no issues in pa. My first I dug down below frost level, and sloped one side to daylight. Put in some 2b and packed it. then put in...

That would have to be the way we go then. I am going to give it another month, but then really have to look at setting up that system.

Our other issue is no cell service at home, if we were going to try to get a cell signal, we would have to set something up on the hill behind our house and run fiber to us, about 1/8th of a mile or so away. starlink I keep hoping will come through for us.

When i put mine in, it still has mid to late 2021, my account says the same thing. Glad I preordered, but it cannot get here soon enough. frontier is one of the worse isp out there. They just refuse to do any upgrades and are just putting band aids on the line hoping someone else will solve...

How does he power the cell service from the hill down. might be something I have to do too....

We had the same issues. After three rescues we went with a breeder one who was highly rated and recommended. The dog we have now is the best dog I have ever had. Not sure if I want another one after her and there are only a few years I have not had a dog. Shes just that great.

I used to until a bear crushed my hive and took all the honey when my electric fence shorted out. Beesource and bio bees are great resources. I used to run a topbar hive called a warre hive. I caught some swarms too. Look up PSU's guide to fencing in your bees to keep them safe. Cornell has...

So you add a dedicated ground to the dish itself? I will have to pick up a ground rod, and some wire. thank you I didnt think of that.

I know of people in other towns that have it, but we are still waiting. We get no cell reception at our house and have frontier who sent us a letter saying 2mbs is the absolute best you will get so stop complaining about the speed.....Starlink will be a game changer, and we just patiently wait...

North East PA still waiting too.....

So...my next question what to do about the starlink router, where it will come into the house will provide excellent coverage, but the lack of a firewall should i be worried? what optional equipment do you recommend with the router they give. i appreciate it.

Just wondering, with starlink do you need to buy a router or does it come with one?

Still waiting, it seems as if our internet has gotten worse while we wait. I do not want to shell out for another router if starlink is on the horizon.........

I am looking at doing the same thing, but we are thinking of going with aluminum decking that has the channels built in. Figured it would save the wood and I would not have to stain it ever again.

Chainsaw mill, with a ripping chain is still a big pain. it takes forever and your loosing a lot of wood due to the kerf. get someone with a band mill they can have it done in a day.....

Too wet and when they dry they will shrink and you will have to go back and re do a lot of work. Best bet make a simple solar kiln. It will save you a ton of work down the road. I have done a lot of green wood projects but for sheathing I would make sure its dry and stable. Amazon has simple...

Just an update. I pulled off the top, and spend about 6 with a hours wire wheel knocking the thicker rust off. We think they had a salt water pool with the corrosion we saw. Then I pressure tested the stainless steal manifold (two pvc caps 1 1/2'' and a schrader valve on one. Put it in a dunk...

I built a deck on our pool last summer so that our golden dude could swim its been so much fun.

I ordered a dechlorinator that i plan on spraying in first to get rid of any chlorine residue , then I will tackle clean up. Thanks for the tip about the stove black I was looking at the higher temp paint. I plan on putting the chlorination unit after the stove. I am just working out where it...

Yes, he turned off the filter or had a power outage, and the fire was kept burning.... The stainless steel is fine and holds water under pressure. When the water came back on it leaked and everything got wet. Yes! I pulled every firebrick out because all were cracked. When I pulled them that...

Sorry folks had to type quick and head to an inservice. The Only USA Made Wood Fired Burning Swimming Pool Water Heaters - The BEST Wood Pool Heater available with longest reputation shows the model 80. it has a stainless steel heat exchanger. The rust was inside the fire box as the flue was...

HI folks just bought a second hand wood fired pool heater a wws-80 (warm water solutions). The previous owner said that there was a melt when he did not keep the water circulating though the pipes (1 1/2' pvc) and water went everywhere. To move the beast (its very well made) I had to remove...

Pit chow, had two. One was attacking the other. Had to take the one that was attacking the other back to the shelter after having her for 6 years. The next year the one that was being attacked killed my basenji mix. I am still horrified by the damage a pit/chow can do. If i can go back and...

Dan I switched to google fi, its cheap and allows internet calling. Even with our poor frontier dsl, i can make calls over it with zero cell signal at home. Might want to look into that.

Honestly I really poured over reviews before buying my harbor freight one, but its awesome. Went together easy, the wheels are strong, and the drawers slide out really easy. I would not hesitate to get a few more, they go on sale a lot and they started doing a lot of new colors too.

Thats what we call it too...winning the lottery. It would just be a huge order of magnitude improvement over what we have. I cannot wait to dump frontier.

Golden Doodle. Dog has brought such joy and kindness into our lives. She doesn't shed, and is truly a part of the family. Has enough poodle to sound tough when needed, but man that golden shines through. She is great with kids, and other dogs. She will point out in the woods, and has great...

Just and update, We went with the flooring and could not be happier. The floor looks amazing, and the installer was perfect. So very happy with the work and the flooring. Natural finish, maple, character (has knots but the rest of the house is knotty pine so it works great.

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I appreciate it. I will be heading over saturday to talk to one of our local dealers, I want to see if I can open a box to see what type of typical quality to expect. I truly appreciate the information!!!and that floor is awesome!!

That looks awesome!! great install. This is for our bedroom though and my wife has allergy's. We worry about off gassing etc. Hardwood is what the boss wants lol. I did find the bsl warrenty 25 year finish, and life time structural.

Hi we are getting ready to get the last of the carpet out of our house. We looked around at different places and found BSL Floors They have a really nice character grade maple (knots, we know we have knotty pine in most of the house) in natural for a pretty good price 4 1/4 was 5.19 a sq ft...

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We feel between, prime, netflix, locast and disney + we would have everything we want, plus there is youtube. All those streaming services would be new to us as we cannot stream at home, so we have a lot of programs that we can watch.

I hope ours golden ticket gets punched soon. We will save about 135$ a month by dropping direct tv, and frontier and going with streaming services. I really hope it happens soon.

I have an older hudson sawmill, it has an older briggs and stratton engine model 185432 type 0235a1 Currently it will not turn over. I am going to replace the fuel lines this weekend, as they are looking old. I have a new spark plug for it too. I have found a few places selling parts for...

Hi folks, Looking at an engineered snap and click floating floor for our modified A-frame. This would be in the second floor. We found a color that works for the room along with the fact that it needs to come out into the hallway were we have a knotty pine great room. Its at LL (Lumber...

You can see it on the right of the greenhouse.

Hi all I have done tile before, but its been a few years and products change. We did a pretty big remodel, moved the kitchen to our large mudroom and the mud room to our small kitchen. I am planning on doing a brick look tile herring bone pattern ceramic tile. I have 2x10 joists on 16'' spacing...

Hi all I have had a few lawn tractors but my 318 can run a few things I have not had any experience with. Reugg manufacturing(Ruegg MFG - Agricultural Hitch Kits for Various Tractors) makes two things I am looking at. Once is a 3pt hitch the other is a cat 1 draw bar that will hold 6 suite case...

Hi all, I am in the planning stages for a large barn. I have an area almost ready to go which is mostly level close to power and I have just bought a sawmill. I was looking at timberframing, but its something that while I would love to learn I know I just do not have the time to learn atm. So...

I do a lot of carving, spoons mostly and also turn on a spring pole lathe. Have taken classes with a lot of well known spoon carvers too. Any questions please ask.

I was interviewed by a local TV station back in July. As Mike Stevens (the person doing the interview) said "He is looking for interesting people doing interesting things". I guess that makes me "interesting" :). I was awarded a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Grant in Folk Art. I was the...

Hi all I have a deere 318, with snow blower. My previous before the 318 tractor was an LT160 ran for ten years. Great little tractor sold it to a guy who was going to rebuilt it. Love the tractor (318) but i have not been able to cut my grass this year due to the mule drive shreadding...

Yes!! Teachers want their students to surpass them, we have been there and done that and are able to hopefully guide them to greater things. A part of us is passed down. I started off self taught with spoon carving, then I started attending spoon gatherings. A bunch of us would get together...

It was awarded by the PA Council on the Arts. It is a state grant, there is a large selection board, they have told me I submitted one of the best proposals they have every had come through. This is specifically a Folk Art Grant. Folk arts are traditional, cultural based arts. The grants are...

Hi all thought I would share some great news I received. I put in for a PA Council of the Arts grant to study Turning on a Spring Pole Lathe (a traditional non-electric tool). There is a bit of a revival with this tool, and I have been turning using it for the last year. This summer I will be...

Hi all, I have a 3 rail fence with field fencing backing it up to keep my dog in her area. The JD 318 I bought is larger then the gates I built for my Lt160. I also have one gate that needs to be repaired....so I plan on taking out that gate and one section of fence this will give me 12' from...

I bought a 318 with 649 hrs on it two owner garage kept two months ago. Got it home cut the grass twice then could not get it started. I then did the following. 1. took it almost all apart (except for the motor) 2. replaced fuel lines (20' needed) 3. replaced all the clamps 4. checked and made...

There is an mc519 the tow behind bagger cart that I am looking at. I have a JD 318 with a 48'' deck, the guy said this one is off a 50'' mower deck. Are there adapters for it? or can I get away with the 50'' on a 48'' deck. has all the hook up parts and pulleys. thanks!!

Hi All Sorry I do not have a ton of info on this, but my little lt160 bit the dust last year. I have been looking at different new tractors and hate the reviews, and do not have a lot of $$ to spend on a non-throw-away lawn tractor....so I asked a buddy of mine to keep his eyes open for me. He...

Oh Boy where do I begin. Lt160 deere. (16hp kohler) I was cutting the grass and noticed the engine shifted (yes moved). What happened was two of the engine bolts worked free. This caused 1. the muffler pipe to break off then 2. the drive belt began wearing of the drive belt you could smell...

Sorry cut and pasted a bit, but these look awesome! I think my favorite is the roof top tent. Moby1 Expedition Trailers LLC They look amazing, With 4-5″ of travel on independent trailing A-arm and coil suspension with adjustable shocks Options include; Roof Top Tent with capacity of up to 4...

Two peas in a pod — and a tree house! - Times Leader My daughter and I were interviewed by a local paper. I did some volunteering work at our local library, and the head librarian knew a reporter looking for someone to do a story on for their fathers day edition. We were asked. We really do...

For the last year I have worked on carving spoons. I sold a lot on Etsy (see my signature) last December and used the money to buy a website and trademark my name. The plan for this business is to sell at craft fairs, and local fairs and to split the money that is made. ｽ will go to my...

I just got an email from grizzly about .45 pistol brass if you are looking for some. BL1274 RWS .45 ACP Pistol Brass - Small Primer Pocket - 500ct Bag We have just received a shipment of over half a million RWS .45 ACP brass for resale to our customers! This brass has a RWS headstamp and has...

Hi all. I have an in-swing entry door. I had an issue installing it due to the tile being higher then the threshold. I am still having that issue. I hired a person to come in and fix the issue. What he installed was an automatic door sweep. Well it scraps on the tile and the first night...

I wish I could take credit for this but I cant. Bodger's Ask & Answer • View topic - My home made stick rounder was where I found it. I was looking all over for something to make tenon, fast and cheap. I even tried making some tools that Roy from the woodsmith had posted on the pbs shop site...

I want to run past you my plan for my kiddo痴 tree house. She is four this year and wanted one last year but I just didn稚 have the cash saved up for the lumber and supplies. This year I am ready though. Platform will be 8遅8 and built out of 6x6痴. I plan on sinking 6x6 posts into the ground...

Ram 1500 to Gain Diesel Engine | AutoGuide.com News Looks like tommorrow they announce. The engine will be the very same one just launched in the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which in that platform makes 420 lb-ft of torque, is set to achieve 30 mpg on the highway and can tow up to 7400 lbs Seemed...

I need a new random-orbit sander my portar cable 332 finally died. I tried a ryobi from home depot but the unit would stall when turned sideways and would stall when putting pressure when sanding. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a random-orbit sander that doesnt stall when...

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I wanted to make something like this, Elmbark quiver in Pottery, Basketry & Fiber-arts Forum or N舸er | RAMON PERSSON But I could not find a way to do it so....I started out by using the template from this website Sl?den i skogen -. I then tried developing a few patterns based on this design...

I wanted to clean up the mess of cans we have in our basement and rotate the supplies. I looked online and saw a few boxes but they were 10-15 dollars a piece and made out of cardboard. I messed around with the boxes and finally found a design that workes. I would imagine if you had plywood...

Hi all, I have a water weep on our property (a place where the water pushes up through the ground) not really a spring but it is wet all year long. Its almost at the bottom of our property so it has to be coming from all the run off down our hill. I was wondering about making it into a spring...

I am thinking of how much firewood I have on hand, and How much I should be cutting from my woodlot every year. I am wondering if anyone has made a wood fired electric generator? It would save my propane for cooking/heating. I would like to be able to have the unit outside. Just wondering if...

I like to keep busy, not in a manic way, but just active. I find woodcarving keeps me busy and relaxed at the same time. Helps having a blade whisking around. (FIY all the spoons are carved green, from tree to blank to most of the time carved in a day or at most a week.) We had one snowstorm...

I was working on a bread bowl or trencher for a while now. But I was not having success in a few areas. I was struggling with having the form follow its function. I was just not understanding how it was all supposed to go together. So I went and did an image search and found a lot of bowls...

I started building a jackleg fence due to a couple of reasons. 1. we want to control where the deer will run, especially during archery season 2. we want to control if anyone is trying to drive deer this happens during rifle season 3. discourage people who say "oh I didnt know I was on your...

My daughter (3) (she has just a little recurve from gander mountain, but it helps her get the right form), and I have been shooting our bows a lot this summer. One of the problems we run into is that our deer target falls over, or when moved I cant get it to stick into the ground due to the...

For a while I have been hinting around about this project well its time to share. This shed started as one of those projects where I though 鼎an I do it and then I thought I might as well try? I wanted it to look like an old fieldstone shed/spring house near my friend痴 house. This became one...

I started this project in August of 2011. I dropped a hemlock tree that was the right size that I needed. I then used a Granberg mini mill to square it up using my husky saw (353). (here is an example from another mantle I am making for a friend of mine his mantle will be 99鋳 long and as big...

This year I had to replace my barn doors. They were rotten from years of snow and ice sitting at the bottom of the door. The doors were also heavy! They were rough cut(rc) hemlock and then on the back of the door ｾ plywood. My plan was to make Dutch doors. Not because we have horses but...

Well I hauled the log in with my little tractor. I though I would post how I built a hollowing stump and what I made from it. Its a useful tool. I made a hollowing stump. I can use this to raise metal (basically tin can lids to make a poppy shape) disks into a bowl shape. I took the end of a...

Hi all I am throwing around an idea to invite some friends over to have a PVC bow shoot. My daughter (3) wanted one so I made one for her and my wife, and now i have one too. They are real easy to do (Bows of Many Colors). or Kids' bows on the cheap--Part I Amazon.com: The Impossible Bow...

Whew what a rush!!! I had three swarm traps/hives ready for today. I run my hives using the warre system. I was out spraying my crep planting (conservation tree and shrub planting area to naturalize and control run off(its about 2 acres) when I though I heard that sound, you know the sound...

Gever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do | Video on TED.com great video Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do -- and why a little danger is good for both kids and grownups. Video is about 5, but he is writing...

Hi all after finding some issues with stone coated metal shingles(http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/238303-stone-coated-metal-shingles.html) we decided to go with a standing seam roof. The previous link shows pictures of our roof. 1. its a 10/12 pitch (a-frame) 2. we have 3...

I am going today to get an estimate from a second company to replace our roof. 1. its a 10/12 pitch (a-frame) 2. we have 3 skylights but are going to get them removed 3. full tear off 4. synthetic underlay with ice and water dam of 3' from edge 5. new ridgevent 6. 20 square Our previous estimate...

I am looking at an atv, I would like one for plowing the driveway, and running up to the top of our property where we have some tree stands. I will not be using it all the time, and I just cant justify dropping a whole lot of cash on something that will be only used on my property. As I was...

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/225243-shiitake-growing-logs.html the shitake thread has helped me realize that there is a lot of property that I can use to farm, even if it is covered by forest. The main forest farming things that I have been reading up on are 1. gensing 2...

Solar heaters. I have to thank garygary for all his help. He really walked me though some areas where I was stuck. Parts list 2- 4x8 sheets of plywood 4-2x6x12 pt lumber 2-2x4x12 pine 2-4x8 sheets of Twin Wall Polycarbonate Sheets Twin Wall, 8mm Clear - GEMPLER'S 4-12 sealing strips for the...

Hi all I am building a .....water distillation device, and have a bunch of copper fittings ready to order from grainger, does anyone have any promo codes for free shipping or anything else? thanks

Hi all I am looking for a few suggestions on food plots for various parts of my property. The top of our property is a pole line, there is a lot of golden rod up there. I am going to be cutting down some of the sappllings and making a snake fence. I would like to put some type of food/bedding...

I have a 3 year old little darling, who is all girl. Pink and purple are her favorite colors. I am also working on making her a country girl who is able to "do". Then again "I do" I think were her second and third words (she made me wait for daddy):) We were driving past a pole barn that was...

I am almost done with the stone on my field stone shed (one-two bags of mortar and I am done. but I have been able to get the sil-plate down and the corners done, so its just fill in work now. My shed is 110'' by 110'' to the outside of the stone wall. please let me know if I am doing...

Hi all, a friend of mine is helping an elderly neighbor clean his yard. Seems he has about 100 pallets to which I may be getting 20-30. I figure I can build something for the kiddo out of the pallets. I was thinking about??? 1. best way to attach the pallets together screws, nails, bolts? 2...

Busy Summer. This year I was able to get a lot done. 1. Put field stone on our house. I used type S mortar. The joints were pointed and then brushed with a dry paintbrush. The fieldstone was mostly from a sometimes creek(sometimes it runs) that flooded this spring. I picked most of the...

Hi i have a deep well pump, I was wondering if there was a solar powered kit, that had the panel, (i would supply the battery), and other electronics that would let me run my well in an emergency. I was looking at hand pumps and they will start around 1k without the pipe. Looked at well...

We are switching out our wood stove(putting it in the basment to heat down there), for a nice looking LP jotul stove. We will be putting the stove in our great room(where we need to heat not the mudroom where the wood stove is now). We were brainstorming what we can do and its a 6' piece of...

FHWA-HRT-04-098--Covered Bridge Manual-APRIL 2005 National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program manual No Tech Magazine: Bridges is where I found it at No Tech Magazine: Wooden Stave Pipes The last link showes wooden stave pipes, the pictures were just awesom. Just some nice info I...

Recieved some information about managing weeds, and thought I would share. NRCS-Pennsylvania CRP and CREP Resource Page Conservation Reserve Program | Pennsylvania NRCS CREP program information, weed management factsheets, link to USDA Conservation Program factsheets Available Factsheets and...

Figured this would be the best place to put this. I just recieved a letter saying that the craftsman air compressors listed have a potential safety hazzard, they were built by the devilbiss air power company. Brand Craftsman Model type...

Hi looking for a 42c deck for an lt160. Mine has taken a beaten, going to try to weld it but I want a back up in case.

TSC was having their dollar days, they had a lot of tires on sale. I bought some tires that have a 300lb load rating. I want to make a better garden cart that i can pull some stone out of the woods with and that by bolting on two V shapes haul a log out if needed. I am just wondering that if i...

I am looking to suplement my heat, by making a solar air heater. I have found plans that use, aluminum cans and gutters. Then a fan is hooked up to pull the air out when it is warm enough. I figure this would run all day long when we are at work, heating the house nicely. Two Solar Air...

I was wondering if we should add some new forums. Gardens would be a good one Alternative energy would also be a nice one to have. Any other ideas?

Thinking about moving our woodstove the basement and getting a gas stove for the great room. this would leave a 6'' chimney open. what is the best way to seal it up (not perm) so that i am not getting drafs/air coming down the chimney.

As posted in a previous post, our woodstove has issues. The chimney is too short, and the doors let air in. it createds a pressure wave coming over the aframe and can suck smoke into the house and force it through the stove. with a wife and child that have allergies this is not good. Since...

We have a 1300sqft modifed a-frame. We have a wood stove in our mud room, and then right off that a great room with 20ft ceilings. The mud room and great room have no other types of heat. the rest of the house has electric baseboard heating, and in the basement we have 2 3-brick lp burners...

After looking at mig welders for a while, and watching prices I finally bought my welder. its the Item# 628575 Sale $161.99 Northern Industrial 125 Flux Core Welder with free shipping. (from northern tool) My reasons for this model. 1. I know what i will be welding, 1/8'' angle iron. Will...

Hi all searching through the net and found an excellent site that has a ton of pond resources. from building to where to buy. its all run by psu. Fisheries Publications — Cooperative Extension — Penn State Cooperative Extension Lots of big pdf's but the info is great if you are thinking about...

Hi all, with a name like forgeblast you bet I have a forge! After promising to post pics here they are. My forge is an old steel wheel barrow shell, mounted onto an old gas grill frame (the wheels are nice, and the handles hold tools), with a blower mounted under it (surplus supply). I also...

Planted 5 Jerusalem Artichoke roots to see if they would grow. I now have a bushel of Jerusalem Artichoke sitting in my basement. Any good recipes out there, any favorite way to cook them? thanks in advance.

Steve Bedair's Wood Chipper Came across it and was really impressed.

Hi all. I am looking at a hobart 125 ez welder that is "A" reconditioned---I know the A will give me 1-2 years left on a factory welder warrenty, does the A mean anything else? I have had pretty good luck with reconditioned tools and this welder is 125.oo less then new and is perfect for what...

I was watching a show and they showed a guy making his own brooms. He had a really cool broom vise. I have grown broom corn before, and have a bunch of handles pealed. Does anyone have an plans on how to make a broom vise? Or know where to find them. I figured if anyone would know it...

I have an lt 160, 42c deck. the deck is on its last legs. Its held together by prayer, curses, and bolts. Its getting to the point where i have to replace it. I can find the shells, it means just moving everthing over, at least those parts that i have still on it. (the wheels up front fell...

Sorry if this dual posts, I posted one last night it didnt show up..... We have a deep well, 265'. The pump keeps tripping the breaker. I replaced the breaker...kept tripping, bought a new breaker kept trippping. So i have an older pressure valve, swap out the valve and pressure tank (i had...

I bought some rare northern native tobacco, actually it was the iroquois native tobacco that they developed. I planted three tobacco plants this year since a friend of mine does sweat lodges (his religion not mine) and wanted the tradional tobacco. My problem is how do I harvest it. When is...

No trespassing signs | Log Home Builders Association The link leads to this (see below in quotes), there is also a link for the signs. I thought it was very intersting considering the posts about code enforcement, and sometimes the lack of code enforcement. I wonder is this for real? "We...

Hi all, I am stripping the house of its "stucco" and then painted stucco that was chipping. I have found a lot of reasons why it was chipping and realized that the stucco was to hid poor block laying. To counter this i am putting fieldstone over the exposed block (we have an a-frame that has...

Hi all im getting ready this summer to put fieldstone on my house. I have a 4'' angle grinder with a diamond blade to cut the flat pieces, i have a wet tile saw(small one), and i also have a diamond blade on an old circular saw. I am worried about corners (outside corners) where i will need to...

Hi not the same old post of what kind should i get. I had a catalog delivered and it has in there an old time bell kit like the garages used to have. I though some of you may like it i may get one we will see. its at kotulas.com driveway signel bell ~70 50' of hose ~50 300' of hose ~200 hose...

Just to let you know that smith and wesson had a recall on the 22a. Mine would not shoot, would jam, and missfire. I contacted them a couple of times but didnt hear back from them. That was my fault since the 22a has its own contacts that you have to get ahold of. Once i sent an email to the...

Anyone here have a sunward solar hot water system. For us with a wooden base stand and shipping to our house it would be about 8k after state and fed tax credits it would end up being about 3k. Thats not a bad price if it delivers as promised. Just looking for some reviews. thanks.

We began to think about the CRP or CREP program for our property when we bought our place about 7 years ago. this is a good example of the type of land we enrolled. It is marshy so its a chore cutting it, plus in pa the winter seems to grow rocks, i have spent a lot of money fixing blades...

Nice day have most of my coop done and am ready to make the rafters for the roof......am having a brain freeze on how to do it. i have the ridge/rafter board running down the middle of the coop, it is 12'' off the top of the walls, since it is in the middle it is 2' to the end of the rafter. I...

Hi all i was just paid for work that i did this summer. I try to buy a new tool every year and this year i am looking at a band saw. I was wondering if anyone had experience with a steelex brand bandsaw. looks like a 14'' floor standing band saw can be had for around 200.00 If i go with one...

Hi we are on a septic tank and i have been having some water back up into the basment floor drain. When ever we flush a toilet there is a burp or bubbles comeing up and then some water backs into the basement. Its been 7 years since we had it pumped out. Is it a vent issue(vent clogged on...

Hi all, If you have a smith and wesson 22a there is a safety recall on the slide. Its not as close to their standards as they though and they are issuing a recall. Go to s&w web site fill out a form and they will send you a prepaid mailer to fix the issue.

Hi all i have a modified a-frame that has t111 for siding and an exposed concrete block for the basement. (the house is an "A" stiting on a square or box) The previous owner, did not have the gutters long enough or put any drainage leading away from the house. Since that time i have made sure...

Hi we have electric baseboard heat with a wood stove supplement. The heater in our one room is not turing off at the temperataure that the thermostat is set at. It just keeps on until it is very very hot. I replaced the thermostat and it it still doing the super hot on. Any suggestions or has...

We traded in my old truck for a new car for the wife. its a 2009 jetta se, has 215 55 r16 tires on it. Since it has all the airbags traction control etc, she will be taking our little one to the baby sitters. I have a set of 215 60 r 16 (not truck tires these came off a cougar) snow tires in...

Hi all we were busy they year and would like to share what we finished. We needed a new bridge to cross a sometimes creek. sometimes it rains and when it does sometimes it runs. These are the connectors they are pallet shims i picked up off ebay. The bridge will have a roof put on it...

We had a frost that was more of a freeze on Tuesday. My grape vines where starting to throw out leaves and now they are all shrivled up. I have the hardy woden and ontario varities from millers nurseries. Will they bounce back or are they gonners? thanks Forgeblast

Hi all, I am thinking of painting our stucco with the elastomeric stucco paint. The top of our house is textured t111 in dark brown (an a-frame design house). The bottom is in some spots cracked beige stucco. (bought the house with the stucco color already there.) I am looking at going with a...

Hi all i have a peavy cant hook, wood is lodged into the metal part and someone cut it flush with the metal. The spike in the front of the hook is still attached. Does anyone know the "proper" way to remove this, i worry that heating will ruin a temper, should i just bash and hope or is there...

Hi all I am looking for 1/2'' npt stainless steel washers in 304 or 316. I just cant find them anywhere and figured the project spot was the best place to post. I am building a homebrewing sculpture (stand, rig etc...) called the Brutus ten. I have most of the parts but do not have the...

Hi all we are going to enroll about 1.5 acrs into CRP the part of the property is partally swampy and the other part is field like (stumps, multiflora rose, brambles etc). The price of gas and toll on my little tractor to cut the field just doesnt make sense. So i will let the feds pay me to...

Hi all, i have a deep fast well at the house, but i want to eventually be able to hook up a hand pump to it. What size galvanized pipe (the plastic will freeze and break up in the winter) do i need to start buying. Is it a standard size or is every pump head different. I thought i heard that...

I have been looking all over for a sleeve hitch attachment for my lawn tractor. Many of the site say that they cannon handle the possible weights. But there has to be someone who makes an aftermarket one. I did see the johnny buckets which were pretty cool, but i could use the sleeve hitch...

Hi all i just bought a grain mill for homebrewing. It has a file like texture on it. I am guessing that i could not use it for making flour or for rolling oats. What kind of gap would i need to do this currently at (.045)? Would i need smooth faced rollers for making flour or for making oat...

Hi all i have an ariens 932 snow thrower with a 7 hp techumseh motor. the motors dead, i want to replace it but i cannot get the main drive pully (sheave) off. i have taken the pins out (two) and the square key, i have wd'ed and it still will not budge. is there a "trick" to it? thank you for...

Hi all i am going to have my woodlot cleared of the beech and poplar that have been growing instead of the ash, maple and cherry. Once i get them cut i want to install some deer fencing and i will be buying some seedlings to make sure that i have the trees i want growing in the area. i have not...

Hi does anyone know of any "grey market tractor" dealers in or near pa. I have found some in texas but i know there has to be some closer. thanks Forgeblast

Hi all i have three dogs. In the summer they only want to come in to drink a ton of water and then are back outside. (they have a fenced in area to run and play). i want to make an automatic dog waterer. there are many different designs, most use a float valve which they will eat, i can see...

Hi all looking for a place that sells, barley seed that can be malted. Either 2 row or 6 row. I cant seem to find anyplace that sells them on the net, and there is no store near me that i could find that sells it either. Anyone have any idea where to buy some. Thanks Forgeblast

Hi all looking for a place that sells, barley seed that can be malted. Either 2 row or 6 row. I cant seem to find anyplace that sells them on the net, and there is no store near me that i could find that sells it either. Anyone have any idea where to buy some. Thanks Forgeblast

Hi all i just recieved a bulldozer 410-e electric fence but i have no manual. Does anyone have a copy of it? please PM me if you do. thanks all Forgeblast