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    Compressed earth blocks

    Old boy I know called me up said he was cleaning out his property because he and his wife where selling out he had several things to dispose of. Some I’m interested in acquiring for my personal use. One item he had I can’t really say I have any use for but it was old and in unused condition a...
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    Eclipse

    Drove down into Arkansas and got to watch the eclipse very cool looking at the sun for two minutes without protection.
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    Bush Cherry’s

    My coworker has a Carmine Jewel bush cherry that he and wife talk up quite a bit they like it very well. I’m thinking of ordering one of them and a Wowza bush cherry for around the edge of my yard anyone have any experience with either of these?
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    What sort of wacko does this?

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-reported-kansas-city-after-chiefs-super-bowl/story?id=107238682 Sad day for America wonder how the media will spin this before we get the facts.
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    New wine bottle holder for the kitchen

    My wife asked for a new wine bottle holder for the kitchen so whipped one out yesterday evening. She said she loves it but you never know she could be faking.
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    New kitchen table

    Working on a new kitchen table for the house using Osage orange wood for it. That Osage is a pain in the backside to work with on project this large very prone to tear out.
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    Account glitch

    Had to delete and re-enter my email and password for this site it said my email address was no good??? I didn’t change anything just deleted it and re saved the same info
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    Cutting slabs

    We slabbed about half a hackberry log today got 4 three inch slabs so far maybe we will get the rest slabbed this next weekend. A little spalting coming in from both ends and some interesting hartwood color. Should make a couple nice tables.
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    Roth conversions anyone done this?

    I’ve been thinking of doing a Roth conversion and one of my coworkers recently ask me if he should start converting also. Anyone else gone down this road or wish you had converted?
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    Hand pruners

    Guys I broke my Felco aluminum handled hand pruners snapped off the handle. Anyone have any recommendations on a steel handled set of hand pruners of good cutting quality??
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    Not a bad price on a 22 scope

    https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/Burris-Droptine-Rifle-Scope
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    New Old scope

    Over at my mother-in-law’s this evening replacing a couple common LED bulbs in her garage with a couple 100 watt LED’s we then help load trash into a trailer and she gives my middle boy a scope she found cleaning in the garage. It’s a new in the box Westernfield 2.5-7 power scope leather scope...
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    Solar farms

    They have installed one solar farm around here and are talking about building some more. I did a bit of research and the numbers don’t make it look very profitable so there most be big government incentives or something I don’t know about. Takes 6-8 acres to build a 1MW solar farm makes $45,000...
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    Pond cleaning

    We have had such a dry couple years I have several ponds very nearly completely dry and one that is totally dry at this point. I’ve started cleaning out what I can without blowing a hole in the dams particularly if they have fish. Some of ponds that do not have fish I may go ahead and knock a...
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    New shop lighting

    I had one of my 400w metal halide bulbs burn out in the garage last week so I ordered a couple 150W corn cob LED’s to replace the burned out one and have a spare. After deleting the transformer and capacitor and putting up the new LED bulb I decided to go ahead and change out one more of my...
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    Another Track loader

    I believe I’m going to go look at a Cat 955L track loader this weekend guy is asking $17,000 for it. I have a Cat 951C already but I could keep a track loader on each farm this way and not have to move it between farms anymore.
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    Barn roof refurbishing

    I’ve got 10 different old barns on two different farms five on each farm. We removed some black locust a couple months ago from next to one of them and that opened up the wind to the roof and now I’ve lost about 15% of the old tin roof panels on that barn already. Sunday my PTO solenoid had the...
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    What mineral you guys using?

    Guys I’ve always fed mineral to my deer for many years. I usually just buy a 50lb block of trace mineral a couple times a year so they always have access to some year round. Anyone use anything different and why do you use it in particular. I’m thinking of switching to using a cattle mineral...
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    MOA Challenge

    Guys Here is a bit of an accuracy challenge it’s more difficult than most folks realize to actually shoot MOA consistently or on average. For those of you that like to shoot try shooting 5 five shot groups on one target at 100 yds it’s been a while since I’ve done this myself but I will...
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    Wood fired pizza oven

    I scored a wood fired pizza oven today off FB marketplace. I started building one about 15 years ago welded together a base and bought the fire bricks and then lost interest in fooling with it. I saw this one one FB and told my wife if she still wants a pizza oven maybe we should just buy this...
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