1/4 cup borax
1/4 cup washing soda
1/4 cup castile soap
1 gallon water

Laundry detergent.

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One of the group members sent me this link, ya'll may enjoy. https://myfordtractors.com/

New Tractor With 12-Valve Cummins and Zero Electronics Goes Back to the Basics
https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-tractor-with-12-valve-cummins-and-zero-electronics-goes-back-to-the-basics

Go Grow: Leading Through the Food Crisis

The food crisis is accelerating -- it's time to grow food.  Start now.  In this video I'll share the cliff notes on how to rapidly position yourself to create abundant food for your family AND stand ready to equip your neighbors and community with what they'll need in six months time to do the same.   

After 10+ years of survival gardening, here are the 5 must-do steps I recommend.

Substack:  https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/go-grow-leading-through-the-food
Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M16757J2ml8

Mmmmmm........🤔

From the YT comments ..

1) Planting community gardens and fruit trees on church properties

2) Producing annual and perennial seedlings to sell, barter, and give away

3) Operating food pantries and testing ways to rely less of federal and state food resources and promote self sufficiency

4) Building gardening networks with garden tours, plant and seed swaps, seed libraries, classes, garden surplus trades, etc

5) Working with older farmers to keep their properties running, trading our labor for fiat, compost, beef, etc

6) Ensuring our family’s properties are planted out in food

7) Stocking local blessing boxes

8) Having a “Free table” at church with excess food and garden surplus

9) Switching out revenue streams towards food production and building food production infrastructure

10) Developing significant composting systems.

We researched some easy DIY cattle handling setups to take our first steer to the processor here in NC. The goal was something temporary, effective, and low stress for a small herd of cattle to move through with a single person working them. We landed on a version of the Bud Box design, and thought we'd share how we built it and how it works with a squeeze gate included in the final build.

https://youtu.be/UaxdnnT4-o8

Finally getting some sunlight into the pond. That fountain is powered by a grundfoss sq flex pump running on 4 solar panels on the roof of my shop. pumps about 10gal a minute for 12 hours a day.

French police are now reportedly using drones equipped with thermal imaging to locate cattle hidden in the country whose owners (Farmers) refused to vaccinate their animals.

Once located, huge teams of police and “vaccine” administers turn up to inject all their livestock.

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More abuse of the Kobalt 80v electric chainsaw.... I had a pine tree laid on the ground held up by the tractor bucket to cut it short enough to carry and the log shifted upon completion of cut. The sproket in the far end of the bar exploded into 3 pieces and jammed into the motor sprocket. No harm, no foul.... just replace the bar and she's running again in minutes. That saw takes so much abuse and keeps ticking. I did look at hte motor sprocket today and it's showing some scoring on it but has lots of life left in it.

Right now lowes has the 16" version on sale with no batery for $99.

Something I learned this week.... they sell 2ah, 4, 5 ,6ah 80v packs... the 2ah pack hasn't got enough "umph" to really run the saw in way I've been running it. The battery voltage droops and the saw shuts off. BUT the 4ah and above are absolutely awesome. I'm cycling two 6ah packs a day... they hold up really well.

Here's a book I uploaded a few years ago about how to preserve wood for ground contact. You cna seach the archives here for the word "underground" and find more such books. https://t.me/OffTheGridOfficial/2838

This guy knows his concrete... The question gets to be... rebar. If you build flat structures you need something that can withstand tension. Concrete is great in compression. but not tension. So we are compelled to use rebar. But over time, rebar rusts and swells and breaks the concrete apart. What about fiberglass rebar? I started using fiberglass rebar on my fence H braces and corner braces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcs3mVh7iA

You can pickup fiberglass rebar at Lowes.... and it looks like they make fiberglass preformed corners as well. https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/concrete-cement-masonry/rebar-remesh/7-16-fiberglass-rebar-corner/4392-4c/p-1534314548194-c-12502.htm

Rules for when reducers are permitted in plumbing.