What tool(s) or machinery make you more self sufficient?
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FarmerChick
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HA HA HA
You best be wanting to farm when you get it all..HA HA
You best be wanting to farm when you get it all..HA HA
Beekissed
Mountain Sage
FC! Don't we all! 
Now....give us your "realistic" Christmas list!
Now....give us your "realistic" Christmas list!
2dream
Flibbertigibbet
All FC needs now is 3 French Hens, 2 Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
My most self suffecient tools are zip ties, kobalt multi tool and gloves all of which are in one pocket or another on every trip outside. DH laughs because I always have a back pocket with zip ties sticking out. Oh and my bungie cords and duck tape and a hammer. With those things I can fix almost anything. I also have an assortment of power and non-power hand tools. None of which are ever loaned out. DH has his own tools but never knows where they are. He is the only person allowed to use my stuff and he also knows it better be put right back where he got it from. If you use it put it back. If you break it tell me so I can replace it.
My biggest pet peeve: Not finding one of my tools where I know it is suppose to be. That is about the only thing that will make me go ballistic. I think the "ballistic" thing is the reason he takes better care of my stuff than he does his own.
My most self suffecient tools are zip ties, kobalt multi tool and gloves all of which are in one pocket or another on every trip outside. DH laughs because I always have a back pocket with zip ties sticking out. Oh and my bungie cords and duck tape and a hammer. With those things I can fix almost anything. I also have an assortment of power and non-power hand tools. None of which are ever loaned out. DH has his own tools but never knows where they are. He is the only person allowed to use my stuff and he also knows it better be put right back where he got it from. If you use it put it back. If you break it tell me so I can replace it.
My biggest pet peeve: Not finding one of my tools where I know it is suppose to be. That is about the only thing that will make me go ballistic. I think the "ballistic" thing is the reason he takes better care of my stuff than he does his own.
dnsnthegrdn
Power Conserver
I have to say on our place it is...
ax, chain saw, and riding lawn mower with trailer for my husband-we use it like a four wheeler hauling everything we can with it. He even rigged the trailer up to stretch the fencing when we put it up. Work nicely.
For me... a plain old screw driver, my husband just does not understand why I don't use the cordless drill more often
and the rototiller, I do most of the weeding. We have a largeish garden (they can never be big enough) and after two years of hand pulling and hoeing (and picking veggies from in all the weeds), we bought a rototiller. One mum with toddler and more to do cannot keep up with a garden of that size, especially when I am canning and freezing all the stuff from that garden!
wheel barrel is a must of course-wish list- big two wheel one instead
Oh, I forgot. Have to have my clothes lines!
ax, chain saw, and riding lawn mower with trailer for my husband-we use it like a four wheeler hauling everything we can with it. He even rigged the trailer up to stretch the fencing when we put it up. Work nicely.
For me... a plain old screw driver, my husband just does not understand why I don't use the cordless drill more often
and the rototiller, I do most of the weeding. We have a largeish garden (they can never be big enough) and after two years of hand pulling and hoeing (and picking veggies from in all the weeds), we bought a rototiller. One mum with toddler and more to do cannot keep up with a garden of that size, especially when I am canning and freezing all the stuff from that garden!
wheel barrel is a must of course-wish list- big two wheel one instead
Oh, I forgot. Have to have my clothes lines!
dnsnthegrdn
Power Conserver
Oh yeah and my pressure canner!
Have to get another this year and get two going.
That should help.
Have to get another this year and get two going.
That should help.
noobiechickenlady
Almost Self-Reliant
My hubby & kids, couldn't even attempt it without them!
My hand crank meat slicer & meat grinder
Pickaxe & shovel
Wheelbarrow
Chain hoist
My toolbox full of nifty little hand tools (hammers, screwdrivers & the like)
We've processed untold deer carcasses using the grinder for most and took the rest to a processor for steaks & strips. Then I found the slicer online for cheap and those days of paying for free meat to be processed are over. It slices like buttah, I dance everytime I use it
My hand crank meat slicer & meat grinder
Pickaxe & shovel
Wheelbarrow
Chain hoist
My toolbox full of nifty little hand tools (hammers, screwdrivers & the like)
We've processed untold deer carcasses using the grinder for most and took the rest to a processor for steaks & strips. Then I found the slicer online for cheap and those days of paying for free meat to be processed are over. It slices like buttah, I dance everytime I use it
lorihadams
Always doing laundry
Zip ties....my house would fall apart without zip ties.....
the internet....
basic tool kit...hammer, screwdrivers, etc.
the internet....
basic tool kit...hammer, screwdrivers, etc.
dnsnthegrdn
Power Conserver
"those days of paying for free meat to be processed are over. It slices like buttah, I dance everytime I use it "
I hear ya. We don't have our own my my inlaws have what seems to me a mini deli at thier place. So I do my dance on the inside.
I hear ya. We don't have our own my my inlaws have what seems to me a mini deli at thier place. So I do my dance on the inside.
