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🌲🐸Amerikaner. Traditionalist. Patriarch. Father of 3. Gloucestershire Old Spot pig, and Shetland sheep breeder. General Contractor. Pine Tree Enthusiast.
Missouri, USA
Joined October 2014
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My wife quit working last Thursday.
We are broke but so happy now.
Two children and our third in the womb, listening to all the bedtime stories.
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Sweet potato harvest.
These all came from the slips of one potato.
One potato made 100+ pounds
God is good.
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Gotta tell you young fellas. I am out here working nights after fixing people's stuff all day, fixing other stuff for cash because nobody knows how to do anything physical making 100/hr.
The world is yours
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Stairs done. Sanded and second coated poly. Very proud of this job. They don't come often, but building a legit oak staircase that will last over 100 years is a good feel.
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Going out to rent some movies was the best. You can't convince me that nostalgia for this is wrong.
Is streaming more convenient? Yes. Cheaper? Yes. More selection? Yes. No late fees? Yes. Every measure is objectively better.
But you can never convince me that it's 'better'
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Everyone has fancy ideas about gardening/farming/homesteading.
I got into gardening about 12 years ago.
Some thoughts...
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My business partner's house. 100% framed and built by him alone. No help from anyone. 1800ft² timber framed with oak 8x8 posts and 4x10 beams, milled on site with a bandsaw mill.
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Had my 32 year old, childless, cosmopolitan, sjw sister-in-law tell my mother that we need to put our daughter in day care to 'socialize her'
Yeah, because a low IQ, low skilled, minimum wage paid, 5:1 ratio day care employee is gonna do a better job than her mother or grandma.
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I will allow a customer a few days to pay if I know them and have done a lot of work for them.
But "bad money management" ?
What a dumb thing to say.
We're a small operation and that means we are doing bids and estimates, handling money in and out, buying materials, tools,
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I'm no expert, but I butchered a goat today.
Worst job all year on the farm is killing an animal. I hate it.
.38 to the skull, very quick and easy death. Poor guy. He didn't know what was coming.
Goats aren't regulars here. We have had 3 visitors in trade for some tanned
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Can you imagine living somewhere so polluted that normal blue skies are a shocking occurrence?
I’ve never seen the skies so clear in Los Angeles for so many days. So beautiful that it’s almost painful to look at.
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All the comments are boomers and gen x explaining how they had it worse.
I'm 36, millennial. We were coming into work during the 2007/8 recession. We had forever wars going on almost our whole lives. Offshoring, H1Bs, the coof.
It's been one long downhill slide my whole life.
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Men only want one thing,
And it's to create a family on the land, stroll slowly through his own woods with his children, survey his flocks and fruits, vines and vegetables, fill his mind, and to leave this world with his hands all torn to hell because he actually used them.
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There is such a lack of skilled men, I'm out here working almost every night and weekend, $100/hr.
Every time I finish a job, another falls into my lap. It's the definition of blessing and curse.
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I got a call from my uncle last night. He had a problem with his air conditioner at his farm and wanted me to come take a look. He offered to drive me, and thinking it could be some decent work, and since it's family, I said yes.
The farm is about 45min east of me. About 800
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Big issue in the trades is that the boomers have no interest in passing on their knowledge.
Most are content to take their knowledge to the grave.
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My wife and I have been paying payments on student loans for 10+ years. Our balances haven't changed.
Our credit scores are in the 800s.
I would gladly take a bankruptcy-style hit to our credit in order to discharge the debts. There's just no point.
The moment pen hits paper,
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I've been a father to a girl forst, then a boy.
Can confirm that sex differences in personality present from birth.
Girl wanted to sit and play nicely (hours of dollhouse with papa)
Boy wants to smash and crush the whole world and topple everything to the ground.
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Lots of lawn hate on the TL. Here to inform you, you're wrong.
Every home and garden needs a nice lawn. Green, thick, soft.
You need a garden too, sure. But there's no excuse for no lawn.
Why?
Because you can. It's an aesthetic. It's in your European blood. It makes your
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I've been building a chicken hatchery for the last few months.
I'll say, there is something deeply wrong with Mankind where this is considered acceptable.
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America is run by geriatrics and women.
We need young men of vision with calluses and scars.
Replace the soy and corn fields with bison and cattle.
Dismantle the dams and let rivers run free again.
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I have been at this growing food at home for 14+ years. First with veg/fruit. More recently with animals.
It's way more work than buying your own food, to questionable benefit.
You will not be able to grow all your own food. You will still be reliant on "the system"
You will
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Don't send your kids back to schools
My daughter will not be masked, sitting in a desk for 6+ hours, isolated, unable to play or touch or hug or share toys, eating only pre-packaged food, washing hands every hour, alone.
That is psychological torture.
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Seriously looking at buying this 20 acre property with no neighbors, fenced pastures, woodland, and 4 bedrooms.
Needs a lot of work, but I have plenty of that.
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@chrisbrownn
I'm telling you, I walk into borderline castles and fix things for multimillionaires and I'm a low class drowned rat. It's crazy
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How do I monetize sitting in my lawn chair and watching the sheep graze?
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Raw milk is the only kind you should drink.
Also, the Earth is a sphere, we probably DID go to the moon, sourdough is overrated, carnivore/low carb is great, 13 does 50, dinosaurs were real, nukes are real, nasa definitely lies about stuff, ivermectin is a wonder drug, vaccines
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Woodstove before finishing.
Still need to trim the wood box and tile underneath and behind. But even in it's current state, a thing of pure beauty.
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Made a pair of hay feeders for the sheep today.
It's almost fall and we will be separating breeding sets for awhile.
Proud of this project.
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I need some VC to invest in my business idea.
Here's the pitch - We manufacture high quality, purely elecro-mechanical appliances, without any circuit boards, Bluetooth, wifi, lcd screens, plastic, rare earth, or aluminum.
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I work in a lot of homes, and the problem with "email jobs" is that the WFH crowd is almost always comfy-cozy all day.
They did a wild thing; they used the plandemic to successfully transition the laptop class into permanent acceptance of day-long pajama wearing.
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Since these kids like Harry Potter references so much...
Here's one for you.
All the students at Hogwarts were required to carry, and instructed on how to use a deadly weapon.
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I will not comply with any "measures" which restrict me in any way because I am unvaccinated.
Who is with me?
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Cattle slaughter/ butcher today. What a blessing to be among the company of Good Men and their Good Wives, children running through the pastures, fires burning to keep us warm.
The Good Shepherd has blessed us a thousand fold.
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Life is so much better on our side:
Masculine men
Feminine women
Families
Children
Hierarchy
Order
Responsibility
Beauty
Tradition
Culture
Vs
Feminine men
Masculine women
Broken families
No kids
False 'equality'
Disarray
Dishonor
Ugliness
Loss of identity
Multiculturalism
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Farm animals deserve to live happy lives as close to their own nature as possible.
It truly is cruel how industry treats living beings.
And killing your own dinner teaches important lessons, mostly gratitude.
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Also, if you're flipping 30 houses a year, you're doing shoddy work, cutting corners, putting in vinyl flooring, taking the lowest bids.
I'd rather do 1 expensive job a month for some yuppie who wants oak and stone than 8 for cheapskates who want lipstick.
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Home grown anything is better than store bought, de facto.
Taste, color, texture.
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Doing the town's farmer's market this year, and you would not believe the amount of hoops and licenses and regulations it takes to sell eggs.
It's almost as if... there is an effort to prevent food decentralization.
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I don't care about "what is the best way to feed the nation" or "how can we live sustainably"
It's a collectivist way of thinking.
I don't pretend to know or care about what's best for other people.
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@wanyeburkett
HVAC guy here. I tell people the same thing. Big difference is, my professional install usually comes in at 5-7k.
Biggest reason for steering people away from the cheaper equipment is that they usually don't warranty, or their warranty is like 2 years. Daikin or Mitsubishi
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My wife and I are expecting our third child. We hope to have more.
I wish we would have started sooner.
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Idk why everyone is talking about coffee today, but for the record, I am addicted to coffee and I will drink it every day as long as it is available. I've made my decisions.
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Alright. Found a house on 2.75 acres with a creek running through the middle. Place is a mess. 1928. But it's only 45k.
I can do all the plumbing, electrical, and mechanical work myself.
What do you say frens?
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Don't use modern materials to build anything if possible.
Copper>pex
Wood>plastic
Wood oil >polyurethane
Do not put vinyl windows in a 100 year old house.
Do not use LVP flooring.
Do not use "stick on stone"
Do not use unilock for retaining walls or landscapes.
Always ask
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@EasterHalo
Yo
We raise pigs and sheep, chickens, big garden, fruit bushes and trees.
The kids are less bothered by it than I am, I didn't grow up on a farm.
Do I like killing animals? No. But I do like being able to provide food for family and friends.
It's all a part of life. You're
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It isn't completely about aesthetics, but it definitely is to some degree. It's beautiful to live next to growing food.
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I'm not a money guy.
But my advice? Invest in a hand pump well, livestock (breeding pairs), strong fences, root cellar, library, seed saving, perennial food crops, wood burning stove, salt, fodder systems, greenhouses, and children.
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I've been through 4 different employers in the last 90 days.
I've sold my house and moved all my possessions into a rickety barn.
I've gutted an 1883 farm house.
I've worked 8-4:30 M-F at my job and 5-9 or 10 at the farm.
Barely seen my kids or wife.
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This argument, "Why would I spend a few hours each week working to grow veg when I could work and make way more money than the veg is worth?" I've heard it at least a dozen times.
If that's how you think, Bless your heart.
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If there is only one message for homestead Twitter:
Don't beat yourself up about biodynamic, holistic, organic, non-gmo, soy free, rotational, etc.
Grow your own food. Do best practices you can. Continue to improve. Once you get a system down, then you can adjust it.
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125 years ago, a man could feed his family from his own land, in perpetuity, without electricity.
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It's really pleasant to be out in the sunshine tending to your crops and enjoying a cold beverage.
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Greenhouses are cool, animals are also cool. Soil smells good too.
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My strange ritual. Early morning wake up 4am. Put water on kettle for coffee. Grind beans. Go out in back yard in extreme cold barefoot in shorts and tee shirt and pee into the free wild night.
The original "nootropic"
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Having something of value (raspberries, chicken, eggs, tomatoes, pork, etc) means you have something to give/trade to your friends and family.
It doesn't hit the same way as having cash. People like it when you hand them pork steaks for no reason other than, b/c I felt like it.
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Some ppl are "preppers" and they stock up on years worth of goods and ammo, but they don't have a system that would work for them in the long run.
I think that's silly. Better to live now. Build a system that works indefinitely and be a good neighbor. (But be careful!)
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We make these appliances look simple, but not futurist-sleek. In other words, any guy with a screwdriver can take it apart and fix.
Lifetime warranty on all parts.
So basically GE in 1952.
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Agri-chemicals are horrendous. Part of the soy-ification of men. They destroy nature too.
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I know I'll catch heat for saying this:
Don't purity spiral your way out of growing food or raising animals.
It matters much less that everything is "organic, non-gmo, biodynamic, blah blah"
It's the self sufficiency part that keeps your family fed.
By any means necessary
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Just paid taxes for the first time as a self-employed business owner and all I have to say is fuck the US government and all the money they use to bomb pregnant Ukranian women and Palestinian children. Call me lefty today I guess.
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In 1940 the Germans bombed Britain for 10 months
In the beginning, people stayed in their homes, but eventually they came out and started cleaning up, living their lives.
Bombs, constant fires.
You can't live bunkered away, cowering in fear.
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Happy birthday!
Marion Elizabeth Hamilton
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I think the world is going to shit and there's really no way to claw it back, but in the long run we will all be ok.
It takes ppl who can find a way to survive anyway.
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I've been radicalized into being a Christian, father, husband, and farmer in the last 5 years.
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Farmer's markets are kinda lame. I could never afford the prices, so I grew my own instead. It's not their fault really. They have to make a lot more from each item because our food system has become so large and cheap to grow veg.
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If everyone in my small town, population ~1000, kept 10 chickens, some sheep, a dozen fruit trees, and a 20X20 garden, we could erect a wall and a gate and charge admission.
One giant farmer's market. People would come from all over the state.
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I know I'm weird but all I really want to do is build beautiful things and farm and spend time with my family.
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You want some Actionable Advice?
Ignore all the bullshit you are hearing today. Then go out and get a chest freezer and fill it with meat. Then get some 25 or 50lb sacks of staple foods like beans, rice, wheat berries, etc.
Make this a priority for you, my friends.
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If you find yourself working an Email Job, consider dressing and working from a desk like an adult.
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Things that have value:
Water
Wood
Livestock
Grass
Perennial food sources
Tools
Weapons/ammo
Books
Root cellar
Things that are worthless:
Lambos
Rolex watches
McMansions
Speedboats
Crypto
RVs
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The goal is not to make a lot of money.
The goal is to create a life where very little money is needed.
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At some point you have to grow up and become an adult. Part of that means taking extreme responsibility for yourself and your family.
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You can't depend on food being in the stores. Don't you remember covid?
But, hopefully, you can count on yourself at least.
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No better feeling than eating an entire meal that was grown on your land.
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I call myself a "homesteader" in my bio, but idk what that really means to ppl.
To me it just means that I try to grow and raise as much food as possible for myself and I don't make an income from it.
If it were my full time job I would be a "farmer"
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I'll tell you one thing that men need badly.
Men's only spaces.
This used to be the corner bar.
Go and bullshit with the boys. Say what you can't say around the ladies. A short repose to gather strength and learn from each other.
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My pigs are enormous. My barn is full.
It's a cold night and the fire is hot.
The geese and chickens have gone to bed. The gate is shut.
God smiles tonight.
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About to make a huge life decision.
Planning on going out on my own, with my partner, in our own General contracting/handyman business.
We have been doing work after regular hours and on weekends for a few months, and we are booked until June. 3 bathrooms and a kitchen remodel.
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I can't stress enough the importance of having backup heat for your house.
Pretty sure everyone can afford to install even a small, cheap wood stove.
When power goes out, when weather is bad, you are fine.
Be prepared.
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Been thinking a lot about the lack of beauty in modernity.
Sure, you can find it if you look.
But generally speaking so much of our living space is ugly, the clothes, the homes/businesses, the cars, the language, and behavior.
Why and how did this happen?
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Bread making day. This is a Hungarian bread, but I put my own toppings on. Home grown lavender flowers, poppy seed, and Celtic salt.
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Went to a wedding, my boy fell asleep in my arms.
Can't forget, no matter how frustrating they can get, time doesn't move backwards.
One day I'll look back and wish I had spent more time with them while they were young.
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