Cama Zotz

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I've done urban permaculture on my little quarter acre for the past 5 years, during that time I've been studying California's ecology, anthropology and climate. A year ago I was able to finally afford some land outside the city, 80 acres. I find that for safety and for many jobs I need someone out there to help me, I cant pay a whole lot because I'm making land payments as well as paying rent in the city. The other major issue is I can't drive a car due to bad vision and would need a person to drive me out there regardless.
I've thought about it and offering a sort of homesteading internship seems like a good way to get labor in without exceeding the bounds of my income and savings. I'm still questioning a few things though
A] Is this a far exchange or would I be exploiting someone?
B]Does this violate any labor laws?
C] Would there be any interest in this?
D] Can anyone come up with a better alternative?

Thanks for your help and consideration.
7 years ago
Hey all, I've been working on my mountainous NorCal homestead for about 8 months now and after packing all my yurt supplies and furniture on my back up a 30% grade I realize that its time I built a pulley to more easily get heavy stuff from the road to the home-site. I need something that can pull up to 500lb uphill, through trees to the ridge, the cableway also has to bend in a couple places which seems technically possible, but the only information relevant to my needs are about commercial cable logging, or backyard ziplines, not a lot in between. My question is: does anyone have experience doing something like this or know of any material I can read to become more acquainted with home/farm-scale cableways? I need to start surveying a path, and I have a rough idea where I want the line to go, but would greatly benefit from surveying advice. This seems like the closest thing to what I'm after, but still to heavy duty industrial than what is necessary: https://youtu.be/0-G46lkIU9Y
8 years ago