What is your favorite use of an inoperable vehicle?
Raised garden bed
1%
[ 1 ]
Dog house (for the dog)
5%
[ 3 ]
Dog house (for the husband)
1%
[ 1 ]
Retaining wall
5%
[ 3 ]
Lawn ornament
5%
[ 3 ]
Snow fence
1%
[ 1 ]
Chicken coop
25%
[ 13 ]
To sight in the rifle
23%
[ 12 ]
Other
28%
[ 15 ]
Total Votes : 52
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wisconsin_cur Moderator
Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2748 Location: The Entropisphere
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: Hillbilly corner 2008
This thread is for your improvised answers to your preparation problems. For example if you go to the lumber yard, buy 2x4's etc and build a chicken coop that is not hillbilly. Go to the "Today I built..." thread. If you pick up a free cargo van that is missing the engine and transmission and wheels, set it up on blocks, throw straw on the floor and call it a chicken coop, that is hillbilly and it does belongs here. If you have a group of guys come out and build you a barn, it does not belong here. If you weld two cargo containers together and put a gambrel roof on top of it that is hillbilly.
Have an unorthodox idea and want to get some feedback? Feel free to include it here.
Have a unique way of getting your fish (ie noodling) or killing your meat (make an air gun that shoots marbles) please let us know.
You can include recipes if it includes a non-traditional food item. Veal is not hillbilly. Raccoon, however is hillbilly. For the sake of simplicity I guess we will assume an American palate. Rabbit, in America, is hillbilly, even if it is popular in France and Italy. Individuals around the world please contribute your own recipes, anything that would shock an average American will be fine. The exception would be if the recipe involves deep frying something in fat. Any recipe involving deep frying is encouraged.
Got a good story where a "hillbilly" humiliates a city slicker? Make us laugh.
No idea or accomplishment is too large or small! Please include pictures and tell us how you did it!
My first contribution:
My hens do not like their nesting boxes. They are too open and so the girls make their displeasure known by laying their eggs under the rabbit hutches, in hidden corners and, sometimes, in their dust baths.
The original boxes were drawers from a set of dresser drawers that was about to be thrown out. In them I tacked empty cat litter pails. They leave enough room for the girls to get in and make them feel more secure. I will need to wait until spring to see how well they work but I am fairly confident that it will get the job done.
_________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-Friedrich von Schiller
"What I try, may not work. It may be ineffective. It might even turn out in the pages of history to be the exact wrong thing to do, but I'm going to try to do what I c
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 4189 Location: 1st territorial capitol of AZ
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
I voted "lawn ornament" because there's a real fetish around here for putting an old tractor (or two!) on the lawn out here. On the land that's not used for anything not even grazing a goat.
Lots of horses out here, and they're just big grass-eating pets.
Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 2877 Location: In a Nigerian compound surrounded by mighty dignataries
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
I know it's not a car, but I am guilty of relocating a rusted catapillar track to a gulley to fight soil erosion. _________________ In other words, it's a huge sh*t sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite.-from Full Metal Jacket
Joined: Oct 16, 2004 Posts: 1197 Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:33 am Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
Someone posted here, long ago, about how to make a sword out of a panel of an old car. Would that be hillbilly too? _________________ Kind regards, Katkinkate
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops,
but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."
Masanobu Fukuoka
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3454 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:45 am Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
katkinkate wrote:
Someone posted here, long ago, about how to make a sword out of a panel of an old car. Would that be hillbilly too?
You don't want to use a panel, what you want is a leaf spring off an old car or about any pick-up truck. You can almost always find a short one of appropriate size, cut or grind in a hand hold, heat it up in a forge and beat it straight, heat sharpen it (thin the edge with a hammer when it is white hot). _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2748 Location: The Entropisphere
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
katkinkate wrote:
Someone posted here, long ago, about how to make a sword out of a panel of an old car. Would that be hillbilly too?
Hillbilly on multiple accounts:
1- reuse of an old car
2-imagination, at seeing a piece of metal (spring or sheet metal) and saying "I think that would be a pretty nice sword"
3-Thinking a sword is cool. Imagine him in his garage, drinking beers with buddies and saying "see what I made!"
If he accidently kills one of his buddies or one of his buddies dogs than it is approaching the height of hillbilly- "Darwin Award Hillbilly" _________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-Friedrich von Schiller
"What I try, may not work. It may be ineffective. It might even turn out in the pages of history to be the exact wrong thing to do, but I'm going to try to do what I c
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:52 am Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
This thread is long overdue, thanks w_c
Can swamp yankees subscribe to this thread too?
I voted for sighting the rifle in, but normally the junk car would need to be accompanied by a junk couch also located on the front lawn. If no sofa was available, said junk car gets jumped and run over with the ATV in loving memory of Evel Knievel.
From the examples listed above, I guess I only need one more cargo container and a welder to complete the next project. LOL
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4262 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:56 am Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
Quote:
What is your favorite use of an inoperable vehicle?
To use them like they have been used mostly in the past:
1) erosion control of stream banks
2) road blocks
3) enhance coral reefs _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 474 Location: Northern US
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:05 am Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
Used our old Ford E150 contractor van as a storage unit, untill someone came by and offered me $200. Not too creative. I miss the extra storage but needed to pare down the junk anyway. _________________ "...the problem is today we have unknown unknowns."
Dominique Strauss-Kahn; IMF chief
Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2748 Location: The Entropisphere
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
basil_hayden wrote:
This thread is long overdue, thanks w_c
Can swamp yankees subscribe to this thread too?
I voted for sighting the rifle in, but normally the junk car would need to be accompanied by a junk couch also located on the front lawn. If no sofa was available, said junk car gets jumped and run over with the ATV in loving memory of Evel Knievel.
From the examples listed above, I guess I only need one more cargo container and a welder to complete the next project. LOL
yankees are welcome (I hail from a border area myself, family has been intermarrying with yanks the last 100 years anyway)
Hillbilly is in the heart. _________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-Friedrich von Schiller
"What I try, may not work. It may be ineffective. It might even turn out in the pages of history to be the exact wrong thing to do, but I'm going to try to do what I c
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Hillbilly corner 2008
topcat wrote:
As someone who was raised in the hills of Kentucky, we prefer to be called
Appalachian-Americans.
No no no...
Us Kentucky natives are Briarhoppers. Hillbillies are from Tennessee... _________________ "It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas? Is goin' bye-bye... "
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