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83How To Hand Dig A Post Hole In Tough Ground
As a boy of twelve, I considered myself a reluctant expert on digging post holes. The memory is a bit faded these days, but it must have been so: One day at school in the sixth grade, we were assigned the...
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90How To Build A Survival Cabin On A Shoestring Budget
In June of 1999, my wife and I were desperate to get a place of our own. My long established business was fading, bankruptcy was being held off by nothing but a long stick and a lot of determination, and my...
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85Truck Driving School
Whether you need to find a truck driving school or have already selected one and are headed off to truck driving school in the morning, take a few minutes to scan this page. It will be well worth your time. ...
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85Help Your Budget And Your Body With Brown Rice
That subtitle comes from the practice in martial arts of using an attacker's own power against him. When it comes to both food and money, the same principle all too often applies: If we are well off, we often...
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83Product 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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75Shovel Man: How To Fight Fire, Dig Wells, Dig Outhouses, And More
My handle on hubpages.com is Ghost32, but my wife knows me better as Shovel Man. When we began homesteading a twenty acre parcel in the mountains near Craig, Montana, in 1999, there was much to do. Highest...
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72How 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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68I Want To Go To Belize!
Pam and I were spending a quiet Sunday at home in Arizona when Belize got our attention with a segment filmed at Banana Bank Lodge. Hard to believe it was only yesterday. Anyway, we were watching one of those...
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85How 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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71Self Defense As A Way Of Life
Self defense can be a controversial subject. Believe it or not, some folks out there feel you have no right to protect yourself. Clearly, we need to understand self defense just to deal with those people! ...
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