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Mmm Mmm A fried young squirrel with potatoes and white gravy. We used to eat groundhogs too, just a super sized squirrel.

Thank you Meerkat.

I just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone. This is my favorite forum. I've met nothing but kind helpful people here and I wish I had more time in the day to spend here. I also wanted to show what I'm getting done with the sun room I'm building and how an aircrete block (foam and cement...

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. This is the first year I have been here and just want to say I have met nothing but good and kind people here and no drama. May you all have a happy, prosperous and wonderful new year. Good health and God bless.

Hi to you too. Well I haven't strayed too far from Missouri except when I joined the Marines from 79 to 83 but there are a lot of William or Bill Egans. Search your name on facebook sometime and see how many of you there are. I even had a Lori Egan try to friend me on facebook and when I looked...

Thank you Bacpacker, and God bless.

Hey Meerkat, thanks for the compliment. the first tree I found laying in the creek and it was a great looking log, at least to a 12 year old so I think I spent the first day carrying it a quarter of a mile, then it was cutting trees with an axe until about 14, I snuck out with my Dads chainsaw...

Hey LadyLocust, Thank you for your kind words. I grew up on a farm so I know how to stick to it. I was a get fan of the Daniel Boone tv series with Fess Parker so that really helped to drive me. I made my own buckskins (the Indian way, braintan) and shot black powder rifles so of course I needed...

Hey Weedygarden Thanks, glad you liked it. Would that channel be My Self Reliance, Shawn James ? I love his channel, or was it the Outsider, he and hid Dad are building a cabin and I like that channel too. One guy I really like is The Bearded Carpenter from Arkansas another good youtube channel...

Did that too, and around the same time, 12 years old, I got a mini bike and was jumping it too. Its a wonder I survived childhood, I think the Lord truly does look out for people.

Merry Christmas everybody, hope it was a good one. This is a log cabin I built when I was a teen. I started when I was 12 years old back in 1972 and finally finished it in 1976, when I was 16. We had Christmas dinner with family at the farm and after dinner we went over to the back side of the...

Thanks for your input, Love hearing from you guys live off of spring water also. I think I'll be ok as far as freezing as long as we keep it flowing and with a gravity flow spring there is no cost in that and how can you say its wasting water when its going to dump out somewhere. Hope everyone...

I think 4 inch would work great but way out of my price range but thanks for the input.

I get fair pressure at the bottom of the first hill and that's about 600 ft. with 3/4 in. PEX pipe. A man on Permies told me if I put a bigger pipe every 100 ft. and switch back and forth smaller pipe and bigger pipe would work better, but I don't know, I may try it just to see. At the top of...

This is what I did to get water from the spring to the living quarters we built in our pole barn building. It is a pretty simple solution but it seems to work pretty good but I plan to improve it, one thing will be to put larger pipe coming down hill for a ways to help increase the pressure...

Yes, looks rather festive, LOL.

Hey Meerkat, yes aircrete is a pretty revolutionary thing, its light weight, insulative, structural (depending on the mix) and relatively cheap. A lot of people are building igloo type domes with aircrete blocks but you can build any shape. Then they usually put some kind of mesh and hard cement...

Here is my finished through the wall flue for my rocket mass heater. I will probably be using a barrel stove until I get the floor done but I will need heat to do that. Also experimenting with aircrete to prevent slumping? collapsing before it sets up. Thanks for watching.

This is what I am doing to go through the wall with my flue. I will probably use black single wall inside and insulated pipe outside. This setup will be for a wood stove temporarily to heat a large sun room until I can build an aircrete sub-floor with a hard finish on top. Then I can build a...

Thanks for watching, hopefully I will have some more videos of this up soon, weather permitting.