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 […]
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
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 […]
How to Remove a Meter Box from a Burnt Trailer
The electric service to the property was attached to the trailer. Unfortunately, the mobile home is in that awkward stage of too burnt to fix, but not burnt enough to be easy to demolished. So we need electricity to run power tools so that we are not trying to tear the building down for […]
How to Build with Tires
I have been interested in sustainable building for decades. I remember sitting in the birthing area of the USS Saipan in the mid 1990’s reading about Earthships and missile silo homes. For some reason I am very taken by the concept of rammed earth tires as a building material. However, the idea of pounding 3 […]