tmttactical
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Great job. Looks very well assembled.
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Brent S
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I have a sister that is pretty well off. Her and her husband live in a place called polo fields. Half million dollar homes with golf course lawns. Couldn’t pay me to live there.... anyways, to keep up with the joneses, she decided to remodel her kitchen. Her cabinets are solid oak, and absolutely beautiful. I spent the day helping my brother in law taking all of them down and loaded them up and brought them home tonight. I have enough cabinets to set up a great office and redo my laundry room. Yeah. There is a 40” farm house cast iron sink for the laundry room too, was a heavy buggar but well worth bringing home! There are two 8’ tall hutches with glass doors above and loads of storage. Anyways, nothing is unloaded yet but at least it’s all here and I have two days off to get it started. I really enjoy using repurposed materials espechially when they are really nice and free!
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Brent S
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Started reading the book ‘the lost ways’. The first two things I thought were worth anything were how to build a self feeding fire and how to make hard tac biscuits. The self feeding fire basically uses two slopes with stacked logs to keep your fire going all night long, allowing you to sleep without freezing, and to be able to cook breakfast in the morning.
The hard tac biscuits are a food used by soldiers and sailors for ages. The stuff is almost indestructible and some has lasted more than a hundred years and is still edible. It is basically 3 parts flour with one part water and some salt. It’s baked three to four times to remove all the moisture, and will last for ages with no problem. You might break a tooth on it, but it will sustain you and is so shelf stable that bacteria and bugs don’t even want it!
I’ll keep posting the interesting stuff from this really appreciated Christmas gift I got.
The hard tac biscuits are a food used by soldiers and sailors for ages. The stuff is almost indestructible and some has lasted more than a hundred years and is still edible. It is basically 3 parts flour with one part water and some salt. It’s baked three to four times to remove all the moisture, and will last for ages with no problem. You might break a tooth on it, but it will sustain you and is so shelf stable that bacteria and bugs don’t even want it!
I’ll keep posting the interesting stuff from this really appreciated Christmas gift I got.
jimLE
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i feel like that I've gotten far enough in my store bought canned foods and home canned foods,where i change my primary shopping trip for next month.gonna stock up on water this time round. And only buy what foods that i really do need to buy.
Arcticdude
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The house is coming along nicely, but very sloow. I had a crew hired to install the sheetrock, but they got scared of my road after they spent 8 hours stuck a couple days so I had to fire them. They didn't even carry tire chains in their truck. One of the guys even started walking home. The funny part is the guy went the wrong direction. Got another crew from out of the area that is supposed to start tomorrow or Wednesday. HVAC, drywall and plumbing should be finished by the end of the week. The builder is working on the sofits and then he'll start on the siding. Got another crew coming out to install the stove pipe and chimny cap. The roof is 12/12 pitch and covered with 2 feet of snow and ice. The top of the chimny is like 24' from the ground so I didn't want to install the pipe myself. The last 3 windows have been shipped and I'll pick them up on Wednesday.
We got over a foot of new snow yesterday and today so I'll be plowing the road again tomorrow. It's supposed to clear up and drop to zero for next week. The colder weather usually means less snowfall.
We got over a foot of new snow yesterday and today so I'll be plowing the road again tomorrow. It's supposed to clear up and drop to zero for next week. The colder weather usually means less snowfall.
Brent S
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I can’t imagine trying to build in that cold and snow!
Brent S
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My house is filled with cabinets all over the place! I have pathways to squeeze thru right now. Anyways, I measured and re measured half the day today and have a pretty good plan for all these repurposed cabinets now. Unfortunately it involves moving most of them upstairs, so I will wait until I have more labor here this week. These cabinets are all wood, raised arched panel oak and are all large units. Like 6’ and bigger. My muscles will be glad when they are installed and this project is done.
Arcticdude
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It does have it's own challenges. Last week the builder slipped on some ice and fell off the roof. He's lucky that he was on the first floor roof so he only fell about 12 feet.
Actually the best temperature for working is in the teens or colder. The snow is dry and there's lot better traction for driving.
Brent S
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Yeah, but can you still feel your fingers!
Arcticdude
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That's a great deal on your cabinets Brent. We ordered our cabinets back in August when I thought the house would be done by Thanksgiving. When they were delivered in November I had no choice but to store them in the unfinished house. They're stacked up mostly in the master bedroom. We went with solid hickory for the cabinets and oak for the floor.
Arcticdude
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Well we do wear gloves around here. But the fingers do get a little cold, so do the toes. When the guys are whining about being cold I just tell them to work a little faster.
tmttactical
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I would rather be the Great Lizard 
, than the Abominable Snowman.
, than the Abominable Snowman.
Brent S
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The cabinets are still in the living room, laundry room and on a trailer. I got a deal on prefinished oak flooring at Lowe’s yesterday. They had a cart of special order 3/4” tongue and groove planks on clearance for 90.00 a box, down from 110.00. I offered 50.00 and they took it. Yeah! So, now I have the materials but could use a week off to install everything now.... I trashed the office today, removing everything and cutting out some of the carpet. Tomorrow I will put down enough flooring to install the built in desk unit and at least get the office back up and running. There is a lot of work to be done in this room yet but at least it is progressing. It’s been a junk storage area for way too long and I’ve wanted to fix it up for a long while now.
tmttactical
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Have family visiting but in two weeks I plan to finish off my gun work bench area. New 6 foot peg board back wall with a 8 foot top shelf and new parts bin. I just bought 500 rounds of 22 Lr. in preparation for the Ruger Precision Rim Fire rifle. Next week I order the rifle and a Vortex scope. I plan to get the Strike Eagle 6 x 24. That should be good enough for a 22 Lr. Those are my current preps, until the budget recovers. I plan to use the 22Lr. to help teach me about bullet drop compensation and wind judgment. A good training rifle I can afford to shoot hundreds of rounds without going broke.
Brent S
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Not only is the 22 economical, but it’s the most fun to shoot. I finally got 500 rounds of 308 from a local guy and hope to sight it in and break it in soon. I will probably play with the 22 at the same time.
This one is obviously an outdoor self feeding fire, but you could adapt it for a fireplace.
tmttactical
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Brent S
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Yeah it is a really good idea. If I could only figure out a way to feed the wood burning stove all night....
Arcticdude
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What...and take all the fun out of getting up at 3 am to stoke the fire?
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