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  1. Thread: Stinky Drain

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    Re: Stinky Drain

    Could it be coming from the overflow port in the sink?

    Maybe you need to plug the drain pipe down at the ptrap, then fill the sink to the overflow point with a bleach and water solution to kill...
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    Re: What to do with all the mess

    Yes, I agree. We are trying to do the same thing (rotational grazing).

    I think of it as being in the grass business, the trick is to find a profitable mechanism to turn the suns energy into...
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    Re: Wood Boilers / Furnace

    Ok, I got some pictures taken this morning showing the Hardy outdoor furnace in action.

    Here is the furnace in full burn mode....

    http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1704/3182/640/DSCI0035.jpg...
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    Re: Electric Fence Question

    The additional ground wire helps in dry conditions as it helps to extend your ground field all along the fence...as in a metal wire tied to a metal T post that is a foot in the ground...so if you...
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    Re: Any use for a push mower?

    We use our push mower to do steep slopes where the riders slide off...or to mow areas the riders can't get into, around firewood stacks, between the tree and the deck, etc.
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    Re: Toyota Prius, Fact or Fiction

    The bad rep the VW's have is fairly justified....I have been using the resources on the internet to work out the little quirks that my VW has developed.

    It came (used) with a bad main power...
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    Re: Controling barn mud during raining season

    I would look into hooking drainage tile to the gutter downspouts ( if you have gutters and downspouts) and then trenching and laying drainage tile off to someplace for the water to go....

    I had to...
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    Re: Box Scraper - Help

    You most likely are missing pins that set the teeth at the depth you need...the pins in my old box blade were similar to the pins that keep the ball mount in a receiver hitch...

    You can get a...
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    Re: Toyota Prius, Fact or Fiction

    I heard a couple interesting stories on NPR ( this might have been mentioned in this thread already ) about companies making 'plug-in' kits for the Prius. I guess these consist of a charger and some...
  10. Thread: Pole saws

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    Re: Pole saws

    I can second Pat's vote on the remington, we gave father-in-law one for Christmas last year, he has used the heck out of it. I have sharpened the chain a couple times for him with my bargain Cummins...
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    Re: Toyota Prius, Fact or Fiction

    Very True Pat! If you want to be totally green, walk. I can't walk to work, so I have to drive something, no public transportation from my home in the country to downtown KC.

    So...I drive a...
  12. Thread: Farming

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    Re: Farming

    I have a few Dexters and have made a bit of money buying and selling them as well....for a small acrage they can be a good match, you have to keep in mind you have to market them, you can't just take...
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    Re: Wood Boilers / Furnace

    When the thermostat in the water jacket on the Hardy determines a need for increased heat in the water, a solenoid opens a flap to let into a blower that turns on and forces air into the combustion...
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    Re: Wood Boilers / Furnace

    We have an outdoor wood furnace, it is made by Hardy.

    http://www.hardyheater.com/

    Ours seems to work good, it came with the house so I don't know what it cost. Once I got it up and running (...
  15. Thread: Farming

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    Re: Farming

    The number of animals you have will depend on lots of factors, rainfall, how good the soil is, how long your growing season is...

    If you do managed (rotational) grazing, you could put 13 cows and...
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    Re: GE water softener help!!!

    Has your water hardness changed? Is the softener still set for the correct grains of hardness? Is the bypass valve possibly still set in bypass?
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    Re: Closer Cougar Confirmation

    Well there isn't any doubt in my mind, it's a bit big for a bobcat.
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    Re: TBN, CBN and ...?

    www.homesteadingtoday.com is a pretty interesting one. It has a pretty wide range of forums as well....
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    Re: Insulating Roofs

    The weather station must calculate cloud base height thru some means, I certainly don't have anything to really measure it.

    I was thinking about how the temperature reads a bit high in the...
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    Re: Insulating Roofs

    Oh Oh! Wireless weather stations!

    I bought one of these:

    http://www.ambientweather.com/wmorscwiprwe.html

    Off eBay for a 'buy myself what I want' Christmas present in January 2005. It has...
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    Re: Closer Cougar Confirmation

    Pat, you are one up on me, I have never seen one at all.

    I agree with you on the 'patrol' patterns though, if a normally reclusive creature starts being seen regularly close to humans and homes,...
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    Re: Room addition a/c heat pump

    Update:

    We had one of the hottest days of the year here yesterday, the temperature was 102 or so...the house stayed at its set temperature level (78) instead of doing the gradual climb up to the...
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    Re: Closer Cougar Confirmation

    Or maybe they just blend in less or look less like a coyote from a distance when they are in their darker phase....a black animal stands out in brown parched pasture/woodline more than a tan/brown...
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    Room addition a/c heat pump

    This house had an addition built on, the air handler and furnace a/c unit weren't upgraded to handle the new size, so the room addition was very hard to keep cool. We added this mini split a/c & heat...
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    Re: front or rear tack room?

    Ours has the standard swing gate on the rear that opens up the back completely, it also has a sliding 'stock' gate built into that door.

    Ours has swinging partitions, when using it with horses...
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