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Yeah I am a huge minimalist, so I do not buy more than I really need, so a hand-held router worked for me, but I was also only shiplapping my flooring too. The biggest issue is a building. I had 12 foot boards, so add in room in the front (12 ft) then room in the back for the board to pass through (...

That is a powerful testimony and one everyone should read, I'm glad you are headed in the right direction and hope you have more good days than bad ahead. If you ever publish your book, I'd love to read it. Best wishes, Hey thanks 77 Ford, that means a lot. That ultimately is my hope, that people w...

I would think if you strapped the ceiling every 16 inches, it would not matter because that is no different then having real framing every 16 inches like in new construction. As for the weight, it seldom is a problem in a house. For instance I have concrete countertops (homemade) and people have ask...

Somewhat off topic, but last year I figured out how to make clapboards on the sawmill. That is something else I would do again in the exact same way. We used Hemlock for that, and next time I might use something better, but it produced some nice siding for very little money, that went up really fast.

I am kind of late on this, but about 90% of my house has been built from lumber I have logged, sawn on the sawmill, fitted up, and put into use in my home. That includes my wide pine floor. My floor is not v-matched though, but is shiplapped, and to form the edges I just used my Hand-Held Router. I ...

But with that being said, I am really not surprised that many of you had concern for me over the last few months. I think sometimes we get caught up in the fact that we are on computers, but I am not so sure that we should. I look at this forum as being no different than if Lavoy invited us all by, ...

That is okay Stan, I was not looking for any sympathies or anything, someone asked so I thought I would share the whole story.

That is okay, it is my fault for not coming on here. I know it is okay to talk about other equipment sometimes, and I do plenty of work with skidders, tractors, and excavators. But all this has been good too because you get a different perspective on things. Like all summer I ended up getting contra...

But not everything was bad. About six years ago I discovered a map from 1873 that showed a mine four miles west of me, then another mine four miles east of me. In that same year they blasted a cut through a hillside just past my house, and I noticed it was laced with quartz. I assumed that if they f...

In the spring of 2019 we cleaned up, and fixed up our house to sell, and yet despite 35 couples touring our home, and getting four offers to buy it, for various reasons they all fell through. When October came, Katie and I figured if we were going to heat the house anyway, we minds well move back in...

Still we made it through Christmas of 2018, and was trying to get help at Dartmouth Hitchcock medical center, but even they said there is nothing they can do. There is a 50/50 chance of survival for that particular operation since it is located on the brain side of my Pituitary Gland. So, I take hig...

It was a really rough November, and just before Thanksgiving we hit a pretty low spot, we did not even have money for food, and ended up going hungry one night. We just had nothing left; for livestock, for food, for money, nothing. But some friends from church gave us a Thanksgiving basket, and that...

About that same time, we got approached by some friends at church, and they “had an idea.” I should have run, because I know how these things go, but they wanted us to rent our house out to their adult children, and we could move across the street to another house we own. It was of my Late-Grandmoth...

I got an email from Lavoy, telling me about this topic, so I thought I would update everyone. I do appreciate the kind thoughts though. It has been awhile, so I am not sure where I left off., but it has been an interesting past three years though, so forgive the long post, but maybe this will be an ...

They said on the radio the other day that only 6% off the nation does not have a cell phone, and the DJ said he did not believe it, everyone had a phone. I would have called in to the station but I did not have a cell phone to call him. I am 44 and refuse to get an electronic leash. People ask me al...