Could be for the what followed me home thread, but its fir the homestead so ill poke it here. My brother the machinist the shop he works at recently got a new cnc lathe shipped over seas, it came in a awfully big steel crate of which his boss said to cut up the crate for the scrap bin but being that it was built as a bolt together modular he took it down and called me thinking i could use some of the steel and delivered it to my shop. I decided to take it home (ready made building why not?) And use it as a wood shed. Measures 16āx10āx10ā, should hold 2 winters worth of wood. My brother came over and we slapped up the walls and i spent the last few weeks trying to figure out how i would get the roof off the ground and up on top. Finally figured it out today, not exactly āsafeā but effective
Now ill start saving 1x4 boards again from work to bolt on as slat siding, cut in a door with a ramp so a wheel barrow can come and go and sheet the floor. The flat roof isnt exactly desirable but i have a few degrees of slope so it will shed water
LOOKING good way to use that nice frame-nice gift or find-I got a home made shed out back, only got about a foot slope on 10 feet out over hang off my home made stock aid fence, works good no leaks for about 10 years or so, just using regular pole barn metal siding rib over lap. I am surprized it dont leak-being i built it.
Marcus,
After the great apocalypse, this nice lady, and your shed will be all that is left standing.
(Rush, Permanent Waves, album cover, copyright somebody, somewhere, sometime.)
Edit: Your YouTube short above has over 10,000 views already! Congrats!
Life is crazy busy lately but we got some new critters for the homestead
And yesterday morning on my way to work I acquired some more meat via 15000lb service truck, yearling buck blacktail deer. Truck and me are totally fine
Thats another thing i want to learn is making things out of fur. Been looking for a while to find some glove templates, seems people that do fur/leather work are few and far vetween and not much willingness to teach others how to do it. Would love to make use of the fur when they are 12 weeks or so when the leather gets thicker, the rex breed has a dense soft velvety fur that would make outstanding glive liners or hat liners for extreme cold weather
I bet if you hunt for people that either do medieval or 17th-18th century reenactment youāll find some patterns. The Society for Creative Anachronism might be a good start.
Just looking real quick, I think the fur shedding easily from rabbit pelts makes them annoying to make fingered gloves out of. Makes sense that all I can find are mitten patterns for rabbit fur.
I did find a video on how to draft a pattern for gloves though.
Edit: Iām assuming like most linings youād just stitch it but inside out.
The old guy with blue eyes, that lives in montana on the show MT Men on the history channel learned from books. He is the only person worth watching on the show, IMHO. But I think there was one ābibleā of primitive/bushcraft living, that the guy started with then added other sources of information, and I do not know the name of it, but the guy who wrote it was well-known and I woul guess it was written in the 40-50s. Because after he died, the guy from Mt Men was kind of his āprotegeā. I am guessing he was also fairly well-known among boy scouts from the era as well.
I would ask him what book he started with. He MAY have mentioned it on the show once or it might be on his website or something. But by now he has templates and jigs, and all sorts of tools that assist him. Along with supplemental information and a lot of trial and errors. On the bright side, rabbit fur is pretty cheap so it is a good fur to screw up err I mean learn with. Although you can get cheaper like the woodchucks I had to remove, and if you lived closer, might have ended up on your front porchā¦ LOL
Two commenters are claiming Tom used this book to get started tanning. I have seen it before. He had borrowed when he thought about tanning deer hides. It is only 18 pages for 20 bucks, but I think that dropped in price from when it was originally published.
Marcus, too bad you have 1/4" hardware cloth instead of 1/2" for the floor. You are going to find out that the poop is going to hang up and not fall through and they are going to get poop balls on their feet. I also use the blue shop towels for the first couple weeks in the brooder over 1/2" hardware cloth. You wonāt believe how much poop those little buggers produce. I lay another layer of blue shop towels over the first one or two so not to disturb them by removing and replacing. I use double 4 vinyl siding ripped to 4" strips and leave the 1/2" return at the bottom along all the walls to keep the walls clean. They always back themselves up to the wall to poop and that makes the walls nasty in a hurry, but with the vinyl it cleans off easy. You are going to have to drag your boys away from the box because they are so fun to watch when they first hatch. They teach each other to find water and feed - they donāt need a mother quail.
