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Around here there's lots of farmers with fields full of old non-working equipment and old logging equipment sitting around.

A buddy of mine has started going around and offering the owner 1/2 of th ...

For grapes just take your prunings and cut sections about 18" long with 2-4 good bud sites. Take of the buds off the lower foot or so, leaving 1-2 bud sites and bury the lower foot in good soil. Kee ...

I grow several varieties of onions from seeds I produce, it's not hard, details will vary depending on your climate. Here in the PNW the winters are mild and it's really easy. Just plant two or thre ...

1000 watts of power is equivalent to 14.43 kcal/min. If your coffee pot is 1 liter in size, it will raise water from room temp to boiling in about 7 minutes with 1000 watts of heat being delivered to ...

Those had cranked lights and radios use about ONE watt of power. The coffee maker uses 600-1000, the water heater about 6000 watts. You'd need a long lever to get those 6000 people all cranking at ...

I just bought 8 pairs of MPTAC pants from www.botach.com, they have some great clearance sales. Got them for $6 per pair, they're about like 511 pants, designed for police type use. Lots of pockets, ...

BTW, so far as I know, Roundup isn't used on blackberries, what's commonly used is called Crossbow. I once read the label on that stuff and it said not to pasture animals on land that had been spraye ...

Just got back from 10 days camping in the Eastern Oregon high desert. Seven days on a mountaintop 100 miles from the nearest town. Watched the sun come up, the clouds move across the sky, listened t ...

Our town of 1600 has 1.75 million gallons of storage. Sounds like a lot, but believe it or not in the US we use 70-100 gallons per day per person.

We figure in the winter we have about 7-10 days o ...

I saw one of the more interesting movies I've ever seen last night, it's called "The Man From Earth." I'd never heard about it until I heard it mentioned on the Culture of Contact podcast so decided ...

Do you really mean bottles? As in for juice or liquids? Or do you mean jars, such as for green beans and peaches?

Bottles I don't know. There's only two "standard" sizes of jars, regular and wid ...

The Degen 1103 is a great radio, I checked and there's a bunch of them for sale on Ebay. General coverage 100KHz - 30MHz with 1KHz digital tuning, plus a "fine tune" and BFO for CW and SSB transmissi ...

We have about 1.5 acres of pasture and keep 3-5 sheep on it. 5 is too many, 2-3 is about right, and that's in western Oregon where the grass grows all winter. Our chickens also wander the pasture lo ...

Steve used to live here in the Eugene, Oregon, area but moved to Tasmania a while back. He was involved in the startup of the Territorial Seed Company, one of the best, espcially if you are in the PN ...

My favorite raspberries are Heritage. They grow on the current year's growth, so you can cut them to the ground over the winter and mulch them heavily, the new shoots will grow up through the mulch. ...