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i know quite a few people who live in them and they aren't what they used to be, basically glorified trailers. You can get them built more or less like a stick built house and like you said, way more convenient than building. Some people say that the perceived stigma of being a "manufactured...

Electricians don't use the quick connects. They always wrap the wire around the screws. Source: My brother is an electrician.

My drill press and horizontal/vertical band saw are Shop Fox, which is the same company that makes Grizzly and in some cases the machines are identical except for the paint and stickers. Shop Fox is painted to look like Jet tools, but if you compare them, everything about the Jet is better...

I was right with you. If he was dead I might have quit watching the show with only one episode left. That would have been so cheesy.

Could be that the tester is just a POS. I usually test the GFI outlets for our cattle water tank heaters by plugging an extension cord into them and then dipping the other end in the tank. Works like a charm.

Hard to believe you could just straight up murder someone in the suburbs in broad daylight while being recorded by multiple cameras and get away with it. It makes me think that if you just decided to murder a completely random person, far from your home, with no motive whatsoever, you could...

It doesn't have to be money. You can do it with your own time too, if you have a lot of spare time and don't mind living in a construction site for the next 10 years. It would be very satisfying to fix up a place like that, especially if you can say you did it yourself, but you should...

I think people get carried away treating their houses as an investment. It is, but I would never landscape my yard or remodel with resale value in mind. It's the house you live in every day and who knows if you will even actually get a better price down the road for living with something you...

They need to put some familiar object on those things for scale. I never have any idea how big they are.

I heard a pretty funny interview with Steve Young talking about Tebow once. I guess he broke down some film with him once and he was blown away by how bad his mechanics were and the fact that he could complete passes at all throwing like that. He said something like "Tim, look at how athletic...

I thought it was a little odd too. For the wealthy film buff with absolutely no friends?

I guess if you're half Japanese and half Italian that is the perfect insult to both sides of your culture?

In Montana it's fairly lax but it probably varies from state to state. For eggs you need a license for over 9000 eggs per month. The license isn't a big deal but I think the eggs have to be washed and candled then and you aren't allowed to reuse cartons. Meat only has to be inspected if you...

I don't know. The chickens are definitely easier to do and probably easier to sell also. My girlfriend bought a couple of chickens from a couple doing it in North Dakota last year and they had raised 300 birds and sold them all for $18 each almost instantly. Their post on Facebook saying that...

This is the video that inspired my current hog project. I don't know what the climate is like where you are but I imagine it's a lot closer to where polyface farms is in Virginia than I am out West. You probably can't make the money that they do because Joel Salatin is super famous and a...

I shouldn't say you can't make the hay thing work. You can't do it with big modern hay equipment, but if you're going to get a tractor you can probably pick up a 3-point sickle bar mower and a rake for next to nothing at an auction or something and that stuff is fairly simple to run and work...

How much land are we talking about? What kind of farming are you interested in? Alfalfa is very good for the soil being a deep-rooted perennial and also a legume which can fix nitrogen in the soil from the air. You will never be able to pay off haying machinery with a small amount of alfalfa...

I used a Wagner airless sprayer in my house. It's a lot of setup and cleanup, but you can paint incredibly fast in between. I used it on the ceiling and for primer on the walls and floor when the house was gutted. I don't know that I'd use it indoors on a finished house just because it takes...

I think someone beat you to that one. https://www.minilonghorn.com/ Maybe not as miniature as people would like, but they'll probably get there. Miniature Zebu are more miniature, but probably doesn't speak to the heart of Texans with spare land and cash quite as much.

Well thanks for brightening the thread with this irrelevant nonsense and seasoning it with nerd rage.

So you think the IRS is going to come for me because I'm joking about how my ranch isn't very profitable on the internet? Don't you have something more important to worry about?

We are trying to make money, but realistically, if the goal was maximizing income we wouldn't be doing it. I could make more money by just selling the land and investing the money in index funds. I could probably lease it out for $100K+ a year and then go work as an engineer for another $100K...

Shit, does that mean it's supposed to make money?

It didn't seem off to me. The guy lives with his mom, solved one case that was actually solved by a dead PI, and Mare had to tell him to draw. Nothing about him really said the dude should be a steely eyed killer. Odds are it was the first time he'd ever drawn while on duty let alone under...

Not really more work, but they take longer to get to butcher size. I've been told about 14 months of age is when they can be slaughtered.

Bumping this thread because even though I'm not a hobby farmer, we're trying something new that is starting out as a hobby and I hope might turn into a business down the line. We just got our hands on 3 Mangalitsa pigs. If you haven't heard of them, they are referred to as "the kobe beef of...

90% of baseball is 1 pitcher vs. 1 batter at a time. Much less complex game. Football also has more injuries. Injury can throw a wrench into any sport, but there's just more of them in football.

It would be ridiculously hilarious if the Ingenuity drone just flew over and dropped a bomb on China's rover and then NASA was like "No, Ingenuity was nowhere near there at the time, it must have been some other drone".

I think PFF is about 75% just people jacking off with math. I listen to a podcast with a guy who works there and sometimes they talk like they can calculate what everyone's success is going to be but that's just not how real life works. It kind of works in simpler games like baseball but in a...

The other thing about the "nice" places is they are all getting really crowded. If you can learn to appreciate sagebrush you can have a lot more land for a lot less money and have some actual solitude, not just the type where only 50 cars a day go by your driveway. @Blazin there is a...

Smart move. Living in the mountains is overrated. It's like living close to the beach. Both are nice places to visit but most people don't actually spend enough time doing either to justify the hundreds or thousands of dollars per month it costs to be in those areas rather than just living...

This is true. Wherever you find weeds, there's a reason they are there and it's not because you haven't sprayed enough 2, 4-D on the spot.

Lawns are a cult. One of the biggest wastes of time and water in modern society, not to mention all the chemicals.

Estate tax doesn't kick in until $11.7 Million right now. It is likely to get lower with the democrats in power and also they are talking about getting rid of the stepped up basis so anyone whose parents are planning to leave them a piece of land or real estate you might think about getting...

"Busted Leadership for a Wronger America" is a weird logo.

Oh yeah I forgot about the sanding part. I used mine to sand down a window frame just a couple of weeks ago. Very handy for getting into the nooks and crannies.

It's definitely not something you can't get by without but it's nice because it can saw straight into a flat surface and you can cut pretty precisely in some pretty awkward places. I bought mine to scrape linoleum glue off my subfloor. If you put a scraper blade in it it's pretty effective for...

I've found that 25 lbs of high explosive followed up by daily napalming for a week does the trick.