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PainterofCrap posted:It's like when I spent six years building my garage. This is me after assembling my first set of workable 1:35 tank tracks. Wait poo poo wrong diy thread
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Are we talking about doing enough drywall that you hate it? I finished up half of my basement last month, and wow do I hate drywall  
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Apr 8, 2022 03:28
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That looks great, but yeah.....drywall gets tiring. And loving hell I never want to do another cathedral ceiling again. It's not even the ceiling part - the walls (and all the angles) suck a whole lot. And I didn't even have a proper drywall lift when I did it.  Harbor freight engine crane with some scrap wood jammed into it should be good enough, right? (it totally was......that was the easy part)
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Apr 8, 2022 03:54
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In addition to all that, for a very reasonable amount of money a small crew of drywallers and tapers will show up at your place and complete the work in a couple of days. Like... Complete, with texture or smooth walls.
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StormDrain posted:In addition to all that, for a very reasonable amount of money a small crew of drywallers and tapers will show up at your place and complete the work in a couple of days. Like... Complete, with texture or smooth walls. I mean.....if nothing else at least get someone else to tape and mud. Holy hell I continue to do this even though I know better. Even if you're a perfectionist you can go mess with things when their final coat is done and it's still so much easier and faster. But I'm a masochistic idiot.
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Apr 8, 2022 05:08
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https://twitter.com/__frye/status/1509569758584180742 Technically I think that this is more OSHA thread material, but it reminds me too much of the “above ground” pool in the basement photo.
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Apr 8, 2022 05:46
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StormDrain posted:In addition to all that, for a very reasonable amount of money a small crew of drywallers and tapers will show up at your place and complete the work in a couple of days. Like... Complete, with texture or smooth walls. A crew actually came by to ask me if I needed someone to mud, but I declined because I don't have the money left to pay them to do it. I was supposed to have enough left to get a good start on the garage but covid pricing happened. I'm still kicking myself that I didn't just buy a mountain of ABS and insulation and store it in one of my dad's barns along with the nudura block and lumber.
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/__frye/status/1509569758584180742 OSHA notwithstanding: read up on what is involved to keep a salt-water aquarium running. Up-scaling that to shrimp farming? You'd need a small army, the pumping & filtering costs aren't mentioned at all. This reminds me of the frog-farming pyramid scheme from the 1930s. e: not to mention the smell PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Apr 8, 2022 |
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Apr 8, 2022 13:35
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wasn't there a BWM thread post about a guy getting kicked out of his apartment for running a shrimp farm in his garage. He had like 4 pools in the garage and the landlord was like nah mate that's damage waiting to happen.
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Apr 8, 2022 14:03
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PainterofCrap posted:This reminds me of the frog-farming pyramid scheme from the 1930s. 
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Apr 8, 2022 15:29
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Emu farms were a big thing in the US in the late 90s/early 00s apparently, much to the amusement of any Australian.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Emu farms were a big thing in the US in the late 90s/early 00s apparently, much to the amusement of any Australian. I don't remember that, but I do remember alpaca being a huge thing. It was sold as basically printing money by raising cute (they ugly as poo poo) animals and selling wool into premium markets for premium prices. So you had to spend a ton of money on the best bloodline of aplaccas. As I'm sure you've guessed there was no real market for this wool and the only people getting rich were the ones selling and breeding alpacas.
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Apr 8, 2022 17:50
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Motronic posted:I don't remember that, but I do remember alpaca being a huge thing. It was sold as basically printing money by raising cute (they ugly as poo poo) animals and selling wool into premium markets for premium prices. So you had to spend a ton of money on the best bloodline of aplaccas. Alpacas are really good for covering your bits, at least.
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Apr 8, 2022 18:00
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/__frye/status/1509569758584180742 That's got to be a post by the guy selling the equipment, trying to sucker some more idiots into buying his poo poo.
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Apr 8, 2022 18:11
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Alpacas and llamas tend to hate dogs too, thinking they're wolves. Wool pays poo poo anyhow unless you have thousands of animals, and even then you'd be lucky to break even. And don't forget the king of novelty livestock, the american bison. Even Ted Turner bought a herd in the 90s. Bison is tasty, but not $10/lb at kroger tasty.
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Apr 8, 2022 18:15
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Emu farms were a big thing in the US in the late 90s/early 00s apparently, much to the amusement of any Australian. One of my dad's friends had bought into this. I remember the pen that he had and incubators well. He was missing two fingers and my young adult sister asked if an emu bit them. If you're thinking she was too old to asking a question like that you're exactly right.
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Apr 8, 2022 18:16
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So wait how did he lose the fingers then. edit: i mean I'm all on board the "don't make assumptions about other people's bodies or ask them weird questions" train but if you own a snapping turtle farm for example and you're missing a couple fingers I feel like that's a fair ask.
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Apr 8, 2022 18:19
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my personal crossover movie of these events was the time a high-school friend came into the place where I was working to see if we could call the farm down the road because an emu had escaped after a few minutes of confusion we figured out that she meant to say "llama"
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Apr 8, 2022 18:26
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Emu farms were a big thing in the US in the late 90s/early 00s apparently, much to the amusement of any Australian. Wasn't this what happened to the main character in Tremors 2? He made a bunch of money between movies and then spent it all on emus or ostriches or something.
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Apr 8, 2022 18:40
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Motronic posted:I don't remember that, but I do remember alpaca being a huge thing. It was sold as basically printing money by raising cute (they ugly as poo poo) animals and selling wool into premium markets for premium prices. So you had to spend a ton of money on the best bloodline of aplaccas. That explains what happened to the multiple alpaca farms around where I used to live. Learn something new every day.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Wool pays poo poo anyhow unless you have thousands of animals, and even then you'd be lucky to break even.
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Cat Hatter posted:Wasn't this what happened to the main character in Tremors 2? He made a bunch of money between movies and then spent it all on emus or ostriches or something. Yes. Earl Bassett's Farm Fresh Emu.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Emu farms were a big thing in the US in the late 90s/early 00s apparently, much to the amusement of any Australian. Elise the great has a story about this. Apparently a stray emu just showed up at their house and was briefly a family pet. She never had any idea where it came from until someone mentioned the fad in passing in an unrelated thread.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Elise the great has a story about this. Apparently a stray emu just showed up at their house and was briefly a family pet. She never had any idea where it came from until someone mentioned the fad in passing in an unrelated thread. I didn't even know of that woman's fantastic stories until the healthcare thread in BFC. The OP includes a fantastic  anecdote 
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Benagain posted:So wait how did he lose the fingers then. I don't know! Sometimes it seems like I grew up with a different family, I would never ask someone about that and in the end all I remember about this event from 1995 was that she asked the hilarious question. I also remember they had a motor trike and it was dangerous. Edit: I know my dad knew him from construction in the 70s and 80s so we can just say it was from a skillsaw with no guard and it's probably true.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Emusement
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Anne Whateley posted:If you're selling to the wool pool. If you're targeting handspinners, you can get $150+ per fleece Yeah, I was like... but I've paid $$$ for alpaca fiber? Anyway, I think I have the right timestamp, but if not go to 7:44 in this video for a really great staircase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xjxIAs8RWA&t=464s
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Alpacas and llamas tend to hate dogs too, thinking they're wolves. drat. These animals are smarter than YECs.
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Growing up in the foothills of the appalachians a couple of those livestock fads swept through since the land wasn’t great for cattle or anything. An old man was famously killed by his ostriches, where were some emu jailbreaks, there was still a bison hybrid operation in the area as kate as the 2010s
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the yeti posted:An old man was famously killed by his ostriches Back in the 90s I remember doing a multi week land clearing job somewhere out in central NJ. Not far down the street was an ostrich farm. We met the owner at the local lunch place and got along just great and he invited us over to see the operation. Those birds are so goddamn mean he had created an egg harvesting vehicle so he didn't get the poo poo beat out of him. It was a VW beetle with no fenders so it could clear 33" mud tires that lifted it up enough to drive over their nests, which are basically in the ground/a bit above. He took out the passenger seat and cut a hole in the floor and installed a shelf for a box. He'd drive over the nest and pick up the eggs while they attacked the VW. It was all even more insane than what I'm able to describe. E: just remembered, this was all bordering a superfund site where the military had a base or a depot or something where they would simply upend 55 gallon drums of aviation fuel that "went bad" to dump them in the woods for several decades. Could possibly explain the colorful locals. Motronic fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Apr 9, 2022 |
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I mean, I'm actually pretty sad that ostrich meat is so hard to come by in Canada. Reading up on it, it does seem like South Africa is still producing 60% of ostrich products, but they can't export meat right now due to an avian influenza outbreak. The meat is great - way leaner and denser than beef. A better comparison would be elk or moose. But also lol that it was a scam / vehicle for scams around the world in the 90s. I did not know that!
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Back in the 90s, my parents had their booth at a music festival next to some guys selling ostrich meat and burgers. We wound up taking home a bunch of meat, I can't remember if it was just stuff they couldn't sell or if they traded it for psychic readings. I remember it was tasty, but not much beyond that.
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Dareon posted:Back in the 90s, my parents had their booth at a music festival next to some guys selling ostrich meat and burgers. We wound up taking home a bunch of meat, I can't remember if it was just stuff they couldn't sell or if they traded it for psychic readings. I remember it was tasty, but not much beyond that. The ostrich meat is the least interesting part of this story.
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If you think that's funny, the way Hank Hill pronounces 'Emu' is loving hilarious.Motronic posted:I don't remember that, but I do remember alpaca being a huge thing. It was sold as basically printing money by raising cute (they ugly as poo poo) animals and selling wool into premium markets for premium prices. So you had to spend a ton of money on the best bloodline of aplaccas. Alpacas do actually have a use for sheep farmers iirc, since they (usually) get along great with sheep and will kick wild dogs to death, so they basically guard flocks.
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alpaca:sheep: chickensGot it. e:I’m just going to leave the autosmilie.
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A for effort.
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Recently stayed at an AirBnB and one bathroom had an interesting take on moulding joints. It was every joint. 
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Hempuli posted:
Not digging the armadillo aesthetic.
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Blistex posted:Not digging the armadillo aesthetic. What if it had a leprosy component.
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