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I am curious to the cost of start to finish for these smaller birds. I am wanting to possibly raise them for the pelts for my own purposes of tying fishing flies. If you have experience raising them, please let me know what the costs figures are for taking them from chicks to adult, attrition...

I stopped by the GoodWill today with my wife and we walked out of there with several good buys. #1 I found a brand new and complete MR Beer home brew kit for $15. I was just looking at these on line last week and was getting ready to spend the $85 on the exact same kit. #2 My wife found a 2...

Let's throw some ideas up for all to see on how to add a little extra money in the pockets of fellow SS's. I will start with this idea. Take a patch of ground and grow giant sunflowers. You can sell the heads at farmers markers for natural bird feeders. A small an inexpensive wire hanger can...

I was looking at some old books today that I forgot that had. In one of these books was a series of pictures that showed all the different ways that farmers used to use tractors for. They were basically a mobile power plant used to do all kinds of things. In some of the pictures you could see a...

I have been bopping around on the net today and was looking up the average electrical usage of appliances. The biggest user in my house is the hot water tank. I will be doing a cost analysis on the switch to see if it is worth it in the grand scheme of things around here. One of the other big...

I came up with a new idea today while I was thinking about the wasted energy going out the stove pipe and into the wild blue yonder. So, what if I took a piece of ceramic pipe and installed a 12 v. generator in the pipe in such a way that the hot exhaust from a wood burning stove wood spin fan...

Who has seen this? Who is using it? Who thinks it is a good idea?

I am sure that most people have seen the reclamation fans on wood stove pipes. These are sealed boxes that have pipes running through the stove pipe and a fan to push out heat that would have been wasted going up and through the stove pipe. These do capture heat but it is a very small...

I have gun related items, holsters, ammo, scopes, guns and all sorts of stuff that I am willing to use for trading stock for the following items: tanned rabbit hides white, black or gray. tanned squirrel hides tanned fox hides tanned pheasant hides tanned Hungarian Partridge hides tanned...

Here about 2 years ago my wife bought me a motor for my bicycle. These are production motor kits designed to put right no a bicycle and are 50cc two strokes.Kit includes everything you need including the chain sprockets and gas tank. There are several sites that sell them and most are well...

If you know anything at all about Middle East politics then this story will scare you to the core. I just found it tonight and it is two weeks old. No other source out there has been talking about it. Not the Right or the Left as it would cause huge amounts of panic. Please read the story all...

Unless you have been living under a rock you know that the middle east is in chaos. Right now though there are two events that ARE driving oil and fuel prices through the roof. It started the other day and there is no end in sight for the foreseeable future. Right now the two events that are...

What is the smallest piece of property that anyone has heard of being self sufficient. I have the old book 5 acres and self sufficient. I have herd of a guy who was about 70% on 3 acres. What I would like to know is what is the smallest space you think a family of 4 can do it on. Everything...

This started with a Subaru Justy that I once owned. It is really simple and anyone can do it. First you will need to buy a marine battery and a battery charger. Remove the belt from your alternator and replace the belt with a smaller one that will run everything else such as your water pump if...

When I was a kid I had a science teacher who told us how perpetual motion was impossible. Well as a rebellious kid I took it as a challenge. Of course it didn't take too long for me to understand. The thing it did do is create an interest in others who try and of course fail. Then one day it...

I am a huge fan of steam and wonder if there is any on here who is using it around there place.

This is going to be a bit long so I may break it up a little. I grew up in rural areas and for much of my life I actually grew up quite poor. This was a good thing though as I learned to live without and I had to learn how to survive a very much self sufficient life. We gardened, preserved...

Many on here have already figured out that what you see is just the beginning of our future reality. It is never coming back. Our future is to live in a super depression for the rest of our lives. It is not completely here today, but we are on the downward slide and the bottom is were we will...

Most people do not know this, but if you have a direct air intake to your stove from out side you can double the efficiency of your stove. The stove itself will not be anymore efficient, but the drawing of cold air through the cracks in your home will be all but eliminated. When you fire up...

I have an idea but I need to know if the cost of conversion would be worth it. What I would like to do is separate all of the workings of the refrigerator from the body. Locate those in a near by mechanical room and pipe back into the refrigerator. The idea is to isolate the heat of operating...