C. Letellier

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Try chaining him with about 10 feet of chain to something so big he can just barely drag it.
2 days ago
Wish to do raspberries most.  Favorite one I do grow is tomatoes with strawberries a close second.
1 week ago
Opps posted too soon so continued.

And here is a link to the nest box articleNest boxes

The office supply shelves have served for nearly 40 years,  The cat house box was just replaced 2 years ago but it had served for nearly 20 in the previous iteration.  Nest boxes were burned with each change in chickens for easy disease control.  

Also built display stands, booths for sales and a host of other things that were in the end disposable.  They also made various household furniture pieces like tables and foot stools

Now on to plastic.  Here I am working towards things but am not there yet.  Goals: special screened bottom for beehives,  Individual sections for the reservior tomato float and in the wild dreams goals want to try rotational molding specially shaped tank if I can figure out how to powder the plastic properly.  Have played with making cutting boards but don't have an example of that.  Here is an early lesson made from milk jugs.  3 or 4 jugs melted into a rough slab. Later learned that parchment paper can be used as a release agent to press stuff down to nearly smooth.

Finally on to glass.  Also just dreaming so far.
1.  Want to do a concrete picnic table top with embedded glass cross sections to make art.  Green beer bottles cut in various cross sections to make leaves for example.  Cast top down and then grind the top smooth so the glass  sticks out.
2.  Is foamed glass possible for insulation?
3.  Want to try and build glass tubes capped on both ends and at vacuum inside(preferably also mirrored inside.)  This is for float for the top of no pressure hot water tank.  Because the goal is a drain back solar collector I need a way to float a diaphragm on top of the tank of hot water so the air breathe in and out as dry air from above the diaphragm.  The goal is to cut a bunch of short pieces to be parts of a tube with a bottle end to cap both ends.  Then weld them all together in a nearly vertical roller rack.
1 week ago
PEM
Lots of thoughts here.

Lets start with cardboard.  I grew up in a household where it was one of my mother's major ways to afford things she couldn't afford.  It built office supplies, chicken nests, insulated cat houses for outdoors and more.
1 week ago
PEM
depends on how stuck you want to get.    

You probably want a 3 to 5 ton winch with at least one snatch block to spread the load.

The problem is your ground anchors in a field.  For wilderness use we carried old axle shafts from full floating truck axles.  drive them in with a sledge hammer at a steep angle like a giant nail on a steep angle so when they pull thru the soil the start to stand up for max pull.  Shovel and manual jack to pull it after.  In a field you will find a major problem finding an anchor point.  Digging them in is a huge amount of work.
1 week ago
Here is something that should be added.  The website it was on originally is long gone but here is the internet way back copy.

Convective solar panels
2 weeks ago
Another path.  Instead of warming all the water just warm a line thru it.  Then you don't need a pressure rated tank.

Here is the large scale example.  Start at 1 hour and 9 minutes in.

Thermal storage.

smaller scale storage.  Better if more vertical for stratification.

storage "tank" aka box

So you might want to change your thinking on this.

3 weeks ago
Here is one I deliberately duplicated this fall after the first one gave 3 years of good service.  First one got wet while working on a center pivot and quit working.(disassembly, washing out and drying out got it working again but by then the new meter was on the way).    It does non contact AC voltage and limited capacitance which many meters do not.  Auto power off and runs on AAA batteries(would never by another meter that didn't have those 2 features.)  Temperature and frequency can be of value.  Lacks clamp capability and is limited to 10 amps current but if used properly those are not critical missing functions.  Prefer the continuity tone on this one over many others,  Fuses seemed to protect the meter on over current which many meters won't deal with in spite of the fact that they should.  Back light and work light are handy at times.  Test leads held up fairly well.  

Complaints slow to range so if you are taking hundreds of readings might want something faster and the alligator clips are junk so order a good stand alone cable set if you need that capability.

Over all for the price point I would solidly recommend this one.multimeter on amazon
1 month ago