Life, Liberty and DIY
Sometimes when you build stuff it does not go as you had intended. I had this great idea for a temporary gate, that would work like a normal gate.
It did not go as exepcted. Fortunately it died early on in the process so I was able to reasses and figure out a solution for a gate as I needed one soon because of rain.
In this episode I talk about what happened and what I did in the end. Plus a few lessons along the way with some suggestions.
Lets keep it simple this week since it is memorial day and talk about some lessons learned, and improvements that need to be made. Also touch on some wins.
Hope everyone has a great week and I’ll see you next time.
Summer is coming up and it is time to cool the shop, or at least try. To that end I worked on installing an exahust fan in the shop from “junk”.
In this episode I talk through installing the fan, and how I approached doing it considering I haven’t done this before.
It was a super stressful project that really stretched me in doing DIY projects. Hopefully there are a few lessons to learn along the way.
It is all fun and games until someone loses an eye, or the top part of their pinky finger.
With the weather changing it is time to get back to fixing and building from our long winter hibernation and early spring procrastination.
In this episode I talk about safety. A few things you should consider and just generally remind you to keep safety in mind so you have a successful summer doing stuff.
Electical can be a scary thing to deal with, but if you keep some principals in mind it isn’t that bad. Plus there are a few projects around the house you can take care of on your own which are fairly simple.
In today’s episode I talk about 3 of those projects you can do to start gaining a little confidence in working with electrical “stuff” in your house or on your property.
Canning can be a great idea, but is the the right idea for you?
In todays episode I talk a bit about the history of canning, our family experience with it, and about canning. It is a topic I never thought I would end up covering on this channel, but here we are.
Finally, we talk a bit about the economics of it and I give you my opinion on is it worth doing or not.
So I went back to the ER again this week so this episode is a short episode where I update on some projects and tell you what happened.
Incubating eggs is that next step to providing a full service of chickens on your own homestead. It is great because you can get chickens ever year and you don’t have to keep buying them. Plus if some pandemic happens, new avian flu, you can still get chickens, with good biosecurity.
This is something I have wanted to learn for a long time and I always thought there was some deep complicated thing about it. Turns out it is pretty simple. Check out this weeks episode as I talk about what it takes to incubate eggs.
I also talk a bit about new projects, and some interesting lessons along the way.
A lot has happened this year already, and as a planner that is not a lot of fun. I have taken the time to re-group and figure out the direction I want BudDIY to go this year.
Join me in this episode as I talk about finishing up the garden, and talk about the future projects here on BudDIY.
Keeping predators out of your hen house is a good idea, but sometimes you need to keep the hens out of the garden.
One problem that we have had with this round of chickens is they like to jump out of our fencing. Which during the day is fine and does not matter. However, they also like to get into our garden.
So we decided to put up some fencing to see if it keeps them out. Plus it might even help keep other animals out as well which has been annoying.