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About 10 years ago I was flying from Paris to Athens and the plane developed a mechanical problem and we had to land in Berne, Switzerland for repairs. The approach and the take-off was a little scary but the scenery was the most spectacular I have ever seen. I don't think I have ever seen...

Neiklot - as some have mentioned here that the cost of living in the USA depends upon where a person chooses to live. Some areas are outrageous expensive and some areas somewhat cheaper. Something that is causing our cost of living to escalate rapidly over the past few years is the fact that...

Hey Joel - I know that every slide hammer I've ever seen has a round cylindrical shape but I wonder if it is absolutely necessary. How about a piece of 38mmx38mm solid steel square bar 100mm long w/a hole drilled through. Or any shape would work as long as it has the mass required to act as a...

Yeah, you have left us holding our breath. C'mon we need pictures and description of the finished repair.

Welcome to the forums. Please stay a while and tell us something about your life in China.

I'm not a very emotional guy but the Sandy Hook event made me break down and cry. I was working outside that morning on the goat barn and did not hear anything about the attack until later in the afternoon when I loaded my rifle and ammo in the truck and headed off down the road to the shooting...

You'll do just fine.

Yeah, I have a hard time with our SS knives, too. They either will not come to a good edge or they don't hold a good edge very long. You're correct, all of Pierre's knives were steel and not stainless. He even had a few Damascus Steel knives. Do any of our members here have any experience...

I have tried this with somewhat limited success. Find a piece of #10 or #8 copper wire and strip the insulation off. Cut a 1" length of it and sharpen one end to a dull point. Use some fine steel or copper wire to strap this piece of wire to the side of your soldering iron tip. Make sure you...

Just a comment about sharpening knives. When I was younger (a million years ago) we had a neighbor who was a butcher. He was from France and immigrated to the USA in 1952. He was probably in his late 50s when I knew him. He must have grown up in a very rural part of France because his ways...

I'll be interested in the response you get. I have the same problem. I've tried all sorts of herbal teas and homebrew concoctions with no success at all. I have resorted to keeping away from all liquids and anything that has caffeine in it after supper. It helps a little, sometimes.

I have always been interested in spinning. Even as a kid I would go near someone who was spinning and examine the wheel and watch the process closely. Maybe it was the treadle, maybe it was the whorl spinning around, maybe it was the spinner sitting there making yarn out of a pile of wool...

About 15 years ago my daughter and her family lived in Billings, MT. We would go out there once a year to visit and they would come once a year to our place. My SIL took me to a place about 30 miles north of Billings to scout a future hunting site for him. I sat at the base of a tree about...

Oh gosh! At that age I doubt that I would have even known there would be fat in the soap. Now that I think about it I would imagine that it was rendered pig fat because they always had the stinkinist pigs in the world. And they always had deep fried pork rinds and cracklins. :P My maternal...

I guess I'm still a little puzzled about how our grandmothers and great grandmothers made hard soap. One of my earliest memories is a visit to my granny's farm in Whitesburg, KY (S.E. Kentucky - 1948 or 1949 - I think I was 5 or 6 years old) and her trying to teach my sister and me how to make...

Thanks everyone. Your info. is pretty much the same info. I found. ThrottleJocky - your link does not work for me. If the homebrew lye does not make bar soap hard, then how did our predecessors do it before commercial lye was available? Lye based drain cleaner usually has aluminum shavings...

I have saved a 5 gal. bucket of fresh ashes from our wood stove. I would like to try to make my own lye from it for making soap. Can anyone dive me instructions on how this is done? Thanks.

There are some very good tutorials on U-Tube but there are so many of them you could spend the rest of your life viewing them. Just pick one this time and do it. Maybe next time try a different method to see if either one is better. It's really pretty easy. Good luck and enjoy that wonderful...

Our chickens are very seldom in the coop. The only time they go in there is to lay eggs and to sleep. Rain, snow, hot sun - they're outside and loving it.

I think Farmer Jamie has given you the best advice. Relax. Chickens are very easy to have and to keep. I used to go to BYC once in a while but I found that it's crowded with up tight people who seem to be control freaks. Why I even found a thread there a couple of years ago about taking...