I saw this on a youtube video a few years ago and kept it in mind for the day I needed it. Basically both the originator of this idea and I both used an old bike tire to cheaply retread a lawnmower tire. This takes a little work, but it is much cheaper than […]
Category: How To (How I Did)
You could call this a How To – but people often tell me I did it wrong – now to be fair you can’t really tell me I can’t do it that way, when the video shows I actually DID do it that way – so to cool down the hateraide – lets just call this HOW I DID
Tiny House Delivery
EDIT: It took so long to post this that the guy that was going to pay his rent by working on the land to “heal the land” actually caused more problems than he solved – meaning dumping his composting toilet (5 gallon bucket) out on the grass, rutting over the septic lines, and basically refusing […]
Water Line Installation
Today we are going to test and discuss my water line installation. I rented a trencher to put in a new water line and while I was at work my buddy installed a water hydrant like the one pictured here. He also put in an underground connection for the tiny house. Additionally Smitty put […]
How to Make a Homemade Cable Snare
My friend William Smith, who used to trap in Alaska and now builds very inexpensive, but quality snares. He agreed to show me how he builds homemade cable snares. The Parts are Pretty simple 3/32 aircraft cable Sure-lock snare lock Double ferrule Single ferrule. To Build a Homemade Cable Snare: First, you run the […]
Setting a Power Pole
Once the meter box was removed I went to the electric company to see about getting a power pole. Originally I was simply going to take the entire meter box and weather head off the trailer and bolt it to a shed. However, after talking to the utility and the shed builder we […]