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75How To Install A Deep Fringe Antenna, Part Two
As promised in Part One of this antenna installation Hub series, this page begins with the antenna already riding the sky and ends with a watchable TV program in progress. Yesterday's progress came to a...
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77How To Furnish A Survival Cabin
Building a cabin on a shoestring budget is covered in that Hub...but what about the interior? A basic shell comes first, obviously, but few humans are going to be indefinitely content with living inside a...
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74So You Think You Want To Write A Prison Pen Pal
Writing to people in prison can be a controversial subject. I know. I wrote my first such letter back in 1975 as part of a program sponsored by my church. After a while (I'm a little ashamed to admit) my...
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73How To Lift A Water Tank To A Water Tower
Most of the rural water towers in our area seem to be made of metal, but since when have I ever gone with "most of"? Our 500 gallon water tank arrived shortly after noon today, dropped off by a trucker who...
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84How To Equip Earthbag Walls With Windows And Utility Tubes
When the walls of our new home reached nearly four feet in height, it was time to stop filling earthbags for a few days. Stucco netting was run around the lower courses of bags to protect them from...
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82How To Keep A Warm House Through The Winter On Minimal Money
Over the years, I have seen many a cold winter. Perhaps the coldest was in 1983-84 in Chinook, Montana, not that many miles from the Canadian border. Montanans refer to U.S. Highway 2 as "The Hi-Line" for a...
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77How To Ready A Homesite For Earthbag Walls
There are quite a few websites that discuss building an earthbag home. Considering our specific situation, that became the obvious choice for our acreage in Cochise County, Arizona, a considerably different...
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88How To Dig A Hand Dug Well
During the three years that my wife and I homesteaded a 20 acre parcel of mountain property near Craig, Montana, we obviously needed water. Not having the kind of money it took to hire a well driller meant...
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70The Transgender Issue: Living In A Bigger Box
Recent media coverage of Chastity Bono's decision to undergo gender reassignment surgery with the end result being Chaz Bono...plenty of that (the coverage), and it reminded me of a story titled The Bigger...
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85Product Review: Slick 50 Engine Additive And Transmission Additive
Back in the day, circa 1967, Slick 50 had yet to hit the market in the field of engine oil and automatic transmission fluid additives. The only thing around and well enough known to be much discussed was STP,...
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