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Yeah I usually use a screwdriver too. Thing is, I needed the hatchet to cut a stirring stick out of some of the firewood, and I didn't feel like grabbing two tools from the garage. Because I am lazy. Worked pretty well, just need to get the bottom lip of the face under the can's edge and lever it up.
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Leperflesh posted:Looks a lot nicer! You might snap the corner off of a hatchet using it as a prying device.   Are these made from old railroad ties?
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coyo7e posted:Most stores will give you an opener with the purchase of a can of paint. Just ask. I didn't buy the paint, it was leftover from my builder so I couldn't have picked up an opener unless I made a special trip for it. Pretty common practice with a custom home builder, any leftover paint gets left in your basement. I've got some tiles leftover from the kitchen and the floor, and some formica from the bathroom counter tops too. I'll use them for something someday. Prying open a sheetmetal can of paint should not be a problem for a hatchet face. I wouldn't use it as a demolition crowbar or anything, but as a simple can opener it should never break on you. I could make a paint can opener in about 40 seconds if I had to, it's just not really necessary. They're made of old railspikes, yes. These ones are pretty low-carbon steel so they don't make a good knife edge, but they're good enough for letter openers and such.
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I guess if I lived in a prairie, I'd have to invent creative uses for a hatchet too. 
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How much work to you put in weekly fixing, planting etc?
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Costello Jello posted:I guess if I lived in a prairie, I'd have to invent creative uses for a hatchet too.  Don't tell me you never read that! 
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coyo7e posted:
I have read that. No book ever made powdered orange drink sound so delicious.
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Costello Jello posted:I guess if I lived in a prairie, I'd have to invent creative uses for a hatchet too. Hey man, I go camping too! I have an 8 pound splitting maul that I get regular use out of as well as the hatchets. Jackson1160 posted:How much work to you put in weekly fixing, planting etc? Depends on the season, really. In the winter I don't do a whole hell of a lot except bake things and shovel/plow snow. In the spring I am working my rear end off to get as much done as possible, working from 9am (shut up I like to sleep in a little) to 11pm or so sometimes. I saved quite a lot of time mowing with the lawn tractor this year. Lesson for next year: take a week off in spring to plant/prep the garden. Harvesting isn't nearly as bad, since that's more sequential. Most summer weekends I work for 6-8 hours at least one day. Sometimes both, sometimes neither. I need to make time for blacksmithing, friends, and family. I could work more after my job, but gently caress, that's a big mental and physical investment that I don't do often.
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Hung a canoe from the ceiling today. Oh also I have my grandparent's old truck now.  This thing is in amazing condition. 1989, something like 180000 km on it, not a single spot of rust. They bought a new honda because they're not going to camp anymore, and they don't need the truck to tow their 5th wheel trailer (  ).Much better condition than my old beater truck. I'm going to use it for camping and moving steel, but most of the time it will sit idle in the garage. I bought a new commuter car too, but I don't have that yet, so this is mostly just to make room in the garage for when I do get it. I'll sell my dodge once it arrives.
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I like the canoe mount. My parents are giving me one of their canoes and that may be a good way to store it, I'd have to look at our ceiling to make sure there's enough room, but looks promising. What commuter car are you buying? Probably a good idea, didn't you say you have a fair distance to commute to work? Anecdote: I filled up our newish-to-us 2001 honda civic 5spd yesterday and got 40.5mpg, our current high. This non-AC use weather is great
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Slung Blade posted:Hung a canoe from the ceiling today. http://www.usrack.com/rail_rack_2.phpYou sound handy enough it probably wouldn't be too tough to whip one up yourself, and goddamn are they ever handy..
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coyo7e posted:That truck needs a lumber/boat rack, stat! Like my old truck has?  Yeah, I'll be building a rack for the Ford. No worries there, I need one to be able to move steel and the canoe. Plus I use it all the time for all kinds of poo poo. I didn't make my last rack, but I did design it. I couldn't weld back when I had the last one made. dreesemonkey posted:I like the canoe mount. My parents are giving me one of their canoes and that may be a good way to store it, I'd have to look at our ceiling to make sure there's enough room, but looks promising. Just a 2012 Hyundai Accent. Gets 100km/5L highway, which is awesome, and like 2-3 times better than my Dodge. I do have a long drive, about 100km per day.
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Slung Blade posted:Like my old truck has? I knew a guy who couldn't weld but needed a ladder rack for his pickup. He happened to have a some old steel bedframes laying around, so he cut those up and just bolted them together. Worked fine for years.
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Blacksmiths and home fabricators are always on the lookout for old bedrails. They're made out of some insanely strong alloy for the weight and are some of the best grade steel you can use for a multitude of things. The various blogs and metalworking forums/guides are always going on about collecting as many as possible. *this does not include recently manufactured chinese imports, that stuff isn't remarkable in any way. Still usable for some things though, just don't expect much of it.
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Man, I gotta tell ya. I like chinook winds as much as the next guy, but this is ridiculous.
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Now show us a picture of where the house landed.
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Slung Blade posted:Man, I gotta tell ya. I like chinook winds as much as the next guy, but this is ridiculous. poo poo dude, how fast are those winds going? Also, as someone who works at a roofing company, I loled.
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Jordanis posted:poo poo dude, how fast are those winds going? Don't know the exact speed, but southern Alberta got torn apart by windstorms yesterday. Lethbridge's got like three grassfires going, and Calgary shut down downtown. It's all covered in broken glass torn off skyscrapers. poo poo was ridiculous- there's a massive pine tree draped across two neighbors' yards that tore down the power lines.
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Jordanis posted:poo poo dude, how fast are those winds going? I heard on the news this morning that the estimated windspeed at the top of the tallest tower in town was ~150kph winds. A little less at my house, I would guess 90kph at least, maybe over 100. It blew my bbq clear off the deck, moved my bbq supply box which is filled with iron and charcoal and tools all the way across the deck with a 90 pound rock sitting on top of it. poo poo was crazy. I think I'm going to go with a metal roof now.
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Have you got a wind turbine? You should be harvesting that tasty tasty wind to make sweet electricity!
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madlilnerd posted:Have you got a wind turbine? You should be harvesting that tasty tasty wind to make sweet electricity!
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Seat Safety Switch posted:And delicious birdmeat on occasion! Do it! Nothing like dead birds of prey and bats to increase ones return on investment! Seriously though, a small wind turbine would be a good investment assuming it could withstand the winds and zoning regulations.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Nothing like dead birds of prey and bats to increase ones return on investment! Yeah, wind like that would make a wind turbine spin apart, I think. A standing seam metal roof is a good option, but you will probably balk at the price. Frankly, your shingles shouldn't be lifting in 100 kph winds when they're so new. The cheapass 3-tab Owens Corning shingles have a 60 mph rating, and all their architectural shingles are 110 mph rated and can be done as 130 mph with more nails. The most expensive architectural laminate shingle is still going to be way cheaper than a good metal roof. Metal is easier to maintain and will last longer, but the up-front cost is murder.
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These are those lovely loving "self-sealing" shingles with glue that never works in Canada because it never gets hot enough, and especially not in the winter. I don't think proper interlocking ones are even available anymore here. IKO figured out they can make more money replacing cheap roofs every year instead of moderately expensive ones every 10. (Hail)
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Jordanis posted:Yeah, wind like that would make a wind turbine spin apart, I think. A good-quality wind-turbine will feather at high-windspeed, basically shifting the blades into a neutral position to prevent damage. They're rather high-tech these days. And Slung interlocking roofs are very difficult to find in Canada anymore. My grandparents had an interlocking tile roof on their home for 40 years, you have to replace broken tiles from time to time...except that nobody makes the tiles anymore. And they are INCREDIBLY heavy, which leads to structural problems for homes that aren't designed for the extra weight-load. MA-Horus fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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MA-Horus posted:And Slung interlocking roofs are very difficult to find in Canada anymore. My grandparents had an interlocking tile roof on their home for 40 years, you have to replace broken tiles from time to time...except that nobody makes the tiles anymore. And they are INCREDIBLY heavy, which leads to structural problems for homes that aren't designed for the extra weight-load. Do you mean regular tiles, like this?  If so, I find the regional differences remarkable. I'm in Oz and I've never seen a shingle roof - tin is common here, but tiles are the overwhelming majority. Tiles still blow off in strong winds though, I imagine you'd have to do much the same work to doubly secure them against these recent gusts as you would with shingles?
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I meant more the interlocking tar shingles. Like these: Still fairly cheap, but much more durable in wind.
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I was thinking about your mobile chicken coop idea last night. It wouldn't hurt to also have an easily moveable fence your your future flock. One, chickens can pick all the grubs out of freshly tilled soil which is free food for them and helps protect your future crops. Two, I'm pretty sure chickens will eat the insect larvae in their dung which can help keep the amount of flies around your coop down. I know they'll clean up cow dung, which has the same benefit.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:I was thinking about your mobile chicken coop idea last night. I don't know if it was mentioned before, but you should pop on over to the Backyard Chicken Thread. They have all sorts of nifty ideas for mobile coops/runs and good chicken advice. Livin' the dream, man... 
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I've been thinking of getting/making a Chicken Tractor for my place, but I'm too lazy/hardly ever home. http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractors.html
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Narxysus posted:Do you mean regular tiles, like this? Exactly like this, yes. They're not all that popular in Canada due to ice accumulation in-between the tiles, leading to cracks and shattering. Mind you it's drat easy to replace them if they do shatter, but they're also INCREDIBLY heavy compared to a normal tar-paper/shingle roof. Like, something in the area of 4x the weight. Add a winter of snow/ice buildup and you have some severe stress on that roof. My grandparents had a roof like that because they had one like it in the Belgian Congo and Netherlands, and wanted a similar one here. And their house suffered terribly for it.
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Just finished reading through this amazing thread. You do some impressive work, once I finish this course and find work I'm hoping to be able to get some land and do all kinds of neat stuff like this. 
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Just started reading this thread and did it all the way through. So awesome. I actually did three years of high school within probably 10k of your place (Chestermere High, just south of the TransCan on 791). A friend of mine's folks had a similar setup south of Langdon, and after living there a month I've always wanted to be able to do the semi-rural life again. But now I live in the GTA, and I thought Calgary's housing prices were bad. So this thread will be my replacement.
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lonelywurm posted:Just started reading this thread and did it all the way through. So awesome. How the hell did you manage to learn anything with all the weed smoke clouds in that town? Also I guess I was dumb and let my poor tractor thread fall off into obscurity, so I will use this one for everything tractor related from now on. A lot of the images needed to be rehosted anyway. I'll get around to it. In other news my neighbours voted me into the board for the community, and against my better judgement I accepted. Hopefully it'll be alright, they're good people, and there's only 20 or so houses in town. Not much going on other than that. Just waiting out the winter, hoping what's left of my shingles don't slough off in the remaining months before they get replaced.
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Slung Blade posted:How the hell did you manage to learn anything with all the weed smoke clouds in that town? And as to the community board, you'll probably be fine. In communities that small it tends to be rather pedestrian stuff anyway - especially as close to the city as you are. Makes most things a little easier.
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Yeah, we literally just look after the community hall and run a few events. A casino fund raiser every few years to keep us in the black and such. Roof's been redone, the guys just got done before it snowed again, so hopefully it stands up. They were supposed to have glued down and hand-tabbed these piece of poo poo adhesive shingles, so I can only hope.
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Should've gone with cedar shakes, man. They'll last forever is installed right, I've seen some with a 100 year warranty. Of course, they're expensive and time-consuming as all hell too.
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Oldsrocket_27 posted:Should've gone with cedar shakes, man. They'll last forever is installed right, I've seen some with a 100 year warranty. Of course, they're expensive and time-consuming as all hell too. I used to work in a cedar lumber remanufacturing mill. I'm still not totally over the smell of cedar getting into literally everything I owned back then. Also, wood shingles = higher fire insurance premiums here. I should have gone with a metal roof from the start. gently caress. Knitter: gently caress yes, it is the best hat and fits wonderfully. How's your letter opener? Also the bee owns 
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Slung Blade posted:Knitter: gently caress yes, it is the best hat and fits wonderfully. How's your letter opener? Also the bee owns Good! I worry about my knitted goods. The letter opener is amazing and I'm still shocked it made it through customs. My brother was totally jealous when he saw it.
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