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I have repurposed hundreds if not thousands of things for various reasons. Old propane tanks are one of my favorites to play with. They can make both decent air tanks and wood stoves. Old pieces of short fencing often become plant cages. Old campers become fodder for MANY projects. Worn out...

My part time neighbor has one of the 3500 watt inverter generators with a few thousand hours on it now. It runs from the time he gets here till he leaves and sometimes that's ten days or two weeks. He changes the mobile 1 oil every 100-200 hours. Not sure it'll last as long as a Honda but I've...

The creek that flows year round not just when it rains, only has about 1 inch of fall per hundred feet. I only have access to about 180 feet of it and to make matters worse it's 24 feet wide where it joins my land.

I have been off grid for 16 years now. For the first couple years we relied mainly on generators. For the last 14 or so years mainly on solar with a gas generator only picking up any shortfalls. Now I'm looking hard in to wind power to pick up where solar leaves off. The wind has been blowing...

Solar has been my primary power source since 2008

Okay let me put my stamp on this one. First I'm not one who cares much what others say or do or what laws may be written now days. Once they got so corrupted I quit caring, legal, illegal who cares they don't. I'll keep my gas and diesels until they die or I do and several of them are older...

Here in south central Va it was $3.35 a gallon for the cheap stuff yesterday.

While those were often used for nefarious purposes they were in fact hand held postal scales.........

First I'd pay off my one debt, the mortgage. Next new to me used tractor and more pull type equipment. A mile of fence and a new house build, that way my kids have something worthwhile when I pass.

Just because I haven't been working on this project of late doesn't mean I haven't been thinking on it. I have the new stove & mass design mostly worked out in my mind using things I have for the most part. There are some things I will have to buy so it's gonna be awhile as I am running a frayed...

Yeah that guy is annoying but he often has decent content. Size really does matter when it comes to heat storage there is no doubt!

I've been thinking of selling some produce and pricing things both ways. Say a dollar or a silver dime for ---.

Verizon will help you change your plan and get you going using your phone as a hotspot for your computer. It has to have wireless capability though. I'm sure all the new stuff does. Come to think of it I "think" you can also get that as a tether and not have to be wireless, but then your phone...

Modern life off grid is much different than most think. I say that as I sit here in the bathtub soaking while the clothes are washing in the machine while I'm on the tablet. Such a hard life, not! LMAO It is however a bright sunny day and the batteries are full up the water is also Heating

My plan allows for 100GB of hotspot use per month and the most I've used till now is around 70GB per month.

All my internet is through my Verizon phone hotspot to my laptop. You will need to turn the Wi-Fi off since hotspot and Wi-Fi can't be on at the same time, or mine can't anyway. You may need a different plan to use your phone for hotspot or may have limited hot spot usage on your plan now...

So my system is kind of the flip side of yours with maybe $8-10k invested and it also runs my small house. Only 2 miles from power lines but the right of way to get power in here was obscene, not that I ever intended to but the ex wanted to know.

A slightly smaller version of a D6. 10 ft blade 20000lbs total about 50hp or so

I paid less than scrap price at $500 for a 1971 Cat D4d that I was able to get running and drive 2 miles down a dirt road home in a few hours. While not free it was still my best value for junk ever gotten.

What always surprised me was the fact that you could have the same exact two engines in side by side with valve lash issues and one would be no lash and the other might have .060 lash. It just depends on which parts are wearing faster. Which tends to lean in the direction of oil changes. The...