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  1. Does Surly and Twitter shitposting work? Just did.
  2. There are a lot of downsides. Sexually transmitted diseases. Inadvertent penile docking. Jealousy. Paternity disputes. But above all, one risk reigns supreme: just when you think the polycule cuddle puddle is about to get freaky and orgy is about to break out... Settlers of Catan.
  3. With any luck Stuntzmann takes JdL with him and we can pretend the whole sordid affair never happened. Tbh this whole shitshow makes me think worse of Traylor. He and Kinne are supposed to be close. But now I think maybe Traylor is the kind of east Texas good ol boy who is the type to think bad behavior is okay if it means winning more games. I hope Traylor told Kinne it was a bad idea.
  4. It was about 30 degrees on Friday when I arrived. About 41 in the hole. When I started the deepest point was 17 inches below the second set. Had to jackhammer a rock layer. Got it down (on one side) to about 35 inches below the set Total one one side about 136 (11'4") My wooden 8 ft ladder us too short to put in the deep end. I'll have to bring up a new ladder when I switch sides next time. It gets too deep (too much bending to shovel and scoop) if i dont even it out from time to time.
  5. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/04/former-hawaii-high-school-football-stars-settle-civil-lawsuit-over-sex-assault-case/ JdL apparently plead "responsible" to sexual assault. So when Kinne says "he never plead guilty or was convicted" that is pure legal bullshit based on equivalent family court terminology. So Kinne was legally correct and intentionally misleading. Allegedly JdL choked a 16 yo while his friend raped her. After his friend ejaculated he shouted, "It's my turn!" He admittted it in text massages to her. His punishment was to write an apology letter. In the civil suit settlement he admitted doing it. At least one TX State NIL refuses to participate in paying JdL. I hope this sites associated NIL would do the same re a Texas player. So fuck Kinne. An heir to Briles indeed.
  6. He just gladly took on a known rapist as his star transfer QB. So as far as I am concerned, fuck him. He is permanently crossed off my list.
  7. It's like Forrest Gump running across America. One day I'll decide I'm done. Ain't that day. Gonna take Friday off and get some digging in. I want to blow past 10ft, at least on one end. It'll be below freezing when I start, but down in the hole it ain't too bad. Hoping to get a new 24" mattock delivered. Bigger than a rock hammer, but smaller than the 36er which is too big for close quarters caliche combat. Let me know if anyone wants to meet me up there. I could use somebody to call 911 if shit goes wrong, and a somebody to haul up buckets. My buddies don't seem interested, for some reason. Weirdos.
  8. I'd love to be at 13 ft by the end of year. Deep enough to drop the next set in. I figure it's about 36 buckets to do a foot. Im at about 9 ft now, altnough instell need to do the lagging for the second set. A good day is 18-24 buckets. Summer heat always slows me down, and the kids sports will start having games this spring.
  9. It's 7mm-08. My FIL. I ain't got hunting itch to sit out on a 16 degree morning. Im more of the mining type.
  10. The wild exotics like to check out the hole:
  11. I have a tube that bypasses the lid, but it's mainly for venting humidity. In the heat I point a big fan down. But yeah, I should be more careful. Eventually I do want to use plastic corrupted pipe and forced air.
  12. My FIL and BIL are up at the ranch hinting. A whopping 17 degrees in the elevated blind. No thanks.
  13. Got the 4x6s and hanging volts for set #2. Feeling pretty good about it. The slotted angle iron is there to hold up shoring. Inevitably I find that some walls need to be widened a little. Pulled out about 16 buckets and didn't get any deeper. It's crazy how much volume is in a half inch of 3x4 surface area. Looking down. About a foot to a foot amd a half below the second set. The posts aren't really in yet, just friction fit. I'll nail the spreader to the main and glue. I probably should cut the 5/8 threaded so it doesn't poke me. Bottom level view:
  14. I'm not much of a pepper these days. But I think if you read about life under the Siege of Sarajevo and similar shitty situations, a little precious metal was better than nothing. But yeah, the sum total of my silver is just a fraction of a percent of my savings. But it looks pretty.
  15. Fwiw I did end up with a mule sx xc le. It's dope. I'm very happy with its modest speed. I've enjoyed 4 wheeling across old creek fords and places not driven on in decades. Mooseoutfront's 6wd atv scares me. I wouldn't know what to do with a powerful throbbing machine like that between my legs.
  16. My rough estimate is that 14kw should power a 10,000 btu AC for about 10 or 12 hours. Maybe less if you arent supposed to go below 20 or 30%. I could be way off, im no engineer. Will you need to replace it in 10 or 20 years? Prices and capacity are improving fast, but I'm not sure it beats my $48/mo electricity cost on $8k install. It will eventually, I bet. But then if you could sell back power, the solar cells could probably help pay for themselves if grid tied. Sort of shame for kw of solar just sitting out there, doing nothing. But modern advances in batteries makes off grid far easier. If you had something > 1 mile from a line, if was formerly about impossible to get economical power. Now you can. That's really cool for the boonies. Again though: off grid is best where you can do wood & propane heat, and electric isn't so damn important. I will also say this, down below ground, deep deep, where the worm people whisper, requires no power to cool or heat at all. Mother earth's coddling bosom. It calls to me. Does it call for you, too?
  17. We've upgraded... to laminated pieces of paper. The drywall still ain't taped or floated, though.
  18. If it is weekend and rec use, a small rainwater collection is fine. Full time use you need troph's badass system or a well. I think well depth records are searchable, or at least someone in the county knows and can ballpark an estimate. Septic you can quote on pretty easily. Find out the nearest power line and make contact with the power company. The key to most of the above is having a knowledgeable local you can trust. The hard part is you may need the cash (or cash out equity on your primary home) for the well ($15 to 50k), electricity ($5 to $30k), and septic ($5 to $25k).
  19. @FirstTimeCaller 1. I am not a slab expert, but we had a local help. Just a rancher handyman moonlighting to keep busy and his part-time hired hand more fully employed. Mostly handshake deals. A couple years later I saw him at the bimonthly county auction. Half his face had melted off. Accident at his hay barn. Nice guy. As for design, I think we used sketches in Google docs. Basic as hell. Nithing that would pass for plan review, but this is Texas daggum. Ours is 20x30 with a 2 inch lip down to a 10x30 porch. Roof is 34x34. I may later enclose the porch and put in another 10x30 porch. But I didn't plan it that way... I may have to move.the front door around. Leveled with a front loader, an extending carpenters level, and beer. Not too much rock my way at the surface, but I imagine putting a cabin on Kingsland granite is a pain in the ass. I think the slab is like 8". I think the edges are deeper. I know there was a moisture barrier and rebar on chairs. The forms were just 2x nominal lumber and rebar spikes. Nothin' fancy. We roughed in a shower and a toilet drain in one corner. The other side of the interior wall is the kitchen, and I think it maybe just drains out the wall. Rough ins are way easier than you may think. Put in the pvc first, leave room for a toilet flange, and pour. You just want your toilet to be 12 inches from the inside wall, framing and drywall included. Decide now if you are doing 2x4 or 2x6 width walls. The shower and sink drains will meet up with the toilet just underground outside the slab and hit the septic tank a few feet away. We have a pvc that comes up through the slab for the water intake. Pex was later threaded through it from the water collection tank. A 12v motor home pump moves the water. Now that we have electricity the same pump is connected by alligator clips to a 110 inverter. If I was building a bigger place, I'd spend a lot of time with plans. I think a little 4x8 utility room, with the kitchen and 2 bathrooms adjacent would be awesome. Put all the wet together. You want it on the side with the septic. Hide the instant on propane water heater and the water pump (and uv filtering if going fancy). Try to maximize usefulness and minimize plumbing, if that makes sense. Keep any leaks to one specific spot, that has easy access. Diy plumbing with pex is easy, but centralize the water and plumbing. While the slab was wet we put in metal plates to weld the metal frame on along the perimeter. 2. Not sure if you can avoid septic permits anymore. So that probably means a little bit of up front cost for survey and design. To that end: you probably can't be too close to a well, creek, or pond. So choose your building site carefully. One way to go is a septic, slab, roughed in plumbing, and barndo shell with adjacent shop. That is your RV/trailer hookup you can stay in as you build your own place. And if you had to sell, land with a good to go RV hookup will sell.
  20. I wanted to be close enough to the power to run a jackhammer. Thoughts on using expanded steel or metal roofing for the shoring? Or should I stick to 2x nominal treated lumber?
  21. To follow up on Orale: he spent $65K but probably increased the vale of the land by way more than that. It isn't money flushed down the toilet. Of course... that doesn't reduce the sting if the intention is to sit and enjoy the land for another 30 years. And know this: raw land loans are murder. I'm talking 8.5% with a 5 year ballon. Maybe 9.5% on a more conventional term. Suddenly a nice 300k acreage is like $2500 per month. Ouch.
  22. Ha! Yes we bought land in about 2007. Originally 34ac, now up to 75. Unincorporated Mills County, so very few regs. Probably the only real regs are requiring a permit for septic. That wasn't even true until a couple of years later. We built a barndominium - the term didnt really exist then, but that is what it is. It was offgrid, but we got electricity a few years later. We still do rainwater collection. Propane, wood, and electricity for heat. It is a great DIY project. We had a crew pour the slab, and a local rancher and his welding rig did the iron framing. We put up the walls and roof amd everything else. Things get dried in pretty quickly, which means you can sort of build the interior on your own, amd leave building supplies inside pit ofnthe weather and away from minor thieves. We've had stuff stolen, but never a break in. Honor amongst the methheads. Electricity: I built my cabin in the most private and prettiest piece. In retrospect I should have maybe prioritized access and electricity. You gotta have electricity. Maybe solar and batteries will be cost competitive soon. But the reality is the ac sometimes has to run 24/7. Without it, it's basically not habitable when it's hot. So a battrry bank is key if all solar. A big enough system that can run ac all day and still top off the batteries should probably be grid tied so that you are selling them volts. You could run a generator, but that's noisy and can get stolen. Our little Honda 2000 was stolen. One small bedroom inside our cabin is insulated even in the interior ceiling and walls, so that we had a cool place for overnighter even in the summer with our little genny. If you are in the mountains and the summer is nice, and all you need is heat from wood or propane then maybe electric isn't so critical and a small off grid system would be easy. It always made me wonder why rural folks will have a huge spread, but their house is 80 ft off the highway. That's because running utilities is expensive. My original quote from the electric coop to run a pole to my cabin was like 18k. More than the slab and metal building cost itself! That's for like 1100 ft. They only would do 1 "bend" of the line. So figure out where the closest line is. They later changed the cost to be more for the first and last pole, and less for the line in the middle. Thay brought the cost down to like 10k. We pulled the trigger. Call or email the coop- they should be able tontell you basic costs ahead of any survey. They said my neighbor had to approve. So we asked kindly. I'm not sure what I would have done if the neighbor said no. I'd have been screwed. Access: the original 35ac crossed a creek. Now that I bought some more for the same neighbor, I could have avoided that. Not a huge deal, but it does require a truck or realish SUV to drive up to the cabin. Th3 creek floods sometimes, but usually not for a couple of hours. It's a recreational property, I just don't go up when it's that wet. The county now has subdivision regs, for things like the size and access, etc. That would impact resale, if the resale market is looking at cutting things into smaller lots. If you do a metal roof, and you probably will, then rainwater collection is easy. If you pour a slab, pour a couple pads for tanks. Locate them close to the gutter downspout. A single slope roof makes collecting rainwater easier. We wired for both 12v and 110v. To be honest, I think I could have run conduit and just had a spiderbox for electric distribution. It's all in the walls now, but I worry about ever having to chase down problems. Except for septic, Texas regs pretty much don't care about rainwater collection, solar, or in rural areas much of anything for building plans. County folks have never been to my cabin. But we are honest about the tax appraisal and anyway they use satellite photos to estimate buildings.
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