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Well, I finally got the chicken run and house finished!! PHEW!!! Just in time too... Goin saturday evening to get my chickens from the farm where I got them. I am Just wonderin, What breed is best to raise for meat birds? I am getting leghorn cockerels this time. They were a good deal as he let...

An EUC is a statement that you will be the "END USER". That means that if you buy it, you wont send or sell it to a country that is not an ally of the US or our allies. I have to warn you, if you buy something that has an EUC, be prepared to wait the first time you go through with dealing with...

Deb, You should just put an ad in the paper that youy are looking for a certain type of wood and that they can bring it to you. I know that I can always use extra wood as I have a small wood chipper and process all of my small stuff for bedding cover, and if I slow down the feed, I almost get...

Deb, I don't know how it works where you live, but the Military donates trucks, equipment, generators, old fuel tanks, etc to the Dept of Agriculture. The DoA then signs this stuff out to local volunteer fire depts to use for free. After so long, usually a year, The DoA will have an auction to...

If you burn wood as I will be, you always need to be on the lookout for good sources of fuel for your furnace. In our town, the city has started a "brush pile" where the locals can drop off any trees, weeds, ETC that they have cut down. I went up and talked to the city and after signing a...

I just got an email from a guy that I have been trying to make a deal with on a wood stove. well, he called and I think we have made a deal that will benefit both of us. He has a two year old free standing wood furnace that he will be removing from his house this weekend. He is remodeling his...

Well, Got the tiller fixed and actually got something done today. Tilled the whole garden, moved the water tank(old military surplus 500 gal fuel tank)with a lot of help, set it up on the stilts and filled it up from the creek, laid out the rows and hills and basically got it ready for planting...

We are in the process of having our family become self sufficient. We are expanding our house, and doing it as economically as possible. We are starting a chicken coop so that we can provide eggs and meat for ourselves and others around. We arew gonna put in a truck garden as soon as I get the...

Well now that I have posted some things on here, I thought I would put "me" on here. Here goes: 01. Name? Tony 02. Gender? male 03. Disneyworld or Disneyland? been to both, aint gion again. 04. What is your favorite color?orange 05. What is your favorite kind of gum? Don't chew it 06. How...

When you plan a new house or a remodel, take the time to consider a backup generator. I decided that I wanted to install one and then started to search for one in the open market. OMG! The cheapest one that I could find that would carry the load for my house was 10K !!!! I knew that there was an...

Another thing I need to make note of and could be a big difference in the cost of your project. GAS!!! As I was planning, I made a master list of things that i knew that I would need. I live 65 miles from the closest Lowe's or Home Depot, so running to get one connection or a box of screws was...

With getting the kids to help, they are involved in the process of picking out the colors of everything from the colors of their rooms to the tile in the bathrooms to the color of the kitchen sink. Also, it give them an idea of what they want in a home after they enter the real world on their...

I wanted to interject a thought here. Even though I have been striving to save as much money as I can on this build, I never go with anything substandard. The old saying applies here: If you don't have time to do it right the first time, how will you find time to do it over? It has cost me time...

I wonder if there would be any interest in setting up a barter network in Soutrhern oklahoma? With fuel being as high as it is, how would we work this? I will be planting my starter plants soon and will most certainly have more than my whole family can use and put up for later. Also will be...

It is my pleasure to share my experience with everyone. I am just a guy with a family, works everyday for a wage to support my family and do the best I can to improve life around my humble abode.:) In these days, with gas approaching $4 a gallon and Milk about the same, we have to be ever...