Tag: self sufficient
DIY Off Grid Water Filter
I finally finished our most recent homestead project, and just in time too! We were almost out of water brought in from town, so I built us a water filter for the creek water here. I used a ceramic filter, spigot and two food safe buckets (though if I did this project again I’d use steel pots). Continue reading “DIY Off Grid Water Filter”
Dogs And Outhouses
After much online searching, I have been able to come up with nothing on how to solve an interesting problem we’ve encountered out here, dogs and outhouses.
Someone….
is much too interested in the outhouse! So far Ronan has been caught trying to dig under it three times. That’s not a behavior I’m willing to allow. Luckily, none of the other dogs have any interest in the outhouse at all. Continue reading “Dogs And Outhouses”
Building A Chicken Coop For (Almost) Free
Today we finished our 3′ x 5′ chicken coop (yay!) and were able to move our thirty-two chicks out of the green house.
I know a 3′ X 5′ seems a little small for thirty-two chickens, but they are all under a month old right now and have plenty of space. And fifteen of them are meat birds, so they won’t be living in the coop to long. We made a stockade style “cabin” chicken coop as we needed to clear some trees, anyway. We were able to come up with quite a few 4 ft long pieces roughly the same diameter. So then we picked a spot and Kyle started digging!
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4 Wheeler Appreciation
So the last few weeks have been unreasonably hard.
Our 4-wheeler’s drive shaft broke, and while we were driving on the beach too! We pushed it as close to the cliff face as possible and trekked the 5 miles back home. Kyle then went back at the next low tide and managed to get it to the truck. It took him 3 hours for a trip he can normally make in 35 minutes. Then we had to order parts and waited 2 weeks for them to come in. In the meantime, we drove the truck and parked it on the beach, walking the last half mile home each time we needed to go to town. Luckily, the tides have been below 30 ft for that time frame. Any tides over that and it would no longer be safe to park the truck on the beach.
Today we finally had all the parts and time, so we decided to work on the 4-wheeler. After much online research, we managed to get the old parts off, and they were definitely ruined.
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