farmer2009
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Nice setup. Where did you source the door?
Food putting up time on the homestead.
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Andy, I think you and your wife need your own TV show. :thumbsup:
"Pioneer Woman" is taken. But I think "Pioneer Dude" is available.
"Pioneer Woman" is taken. But I think "Pioneer Dude" is available.
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Craig's List. Came out of a walk-in cooler that had been replaced.
But you can buy JUST doors (pre-hung like this one, or not, your choice) new on the internet....Google 'Walk-in cooler' and you'll find lots of sources.
I actually built a BIG walk-in ( or 'roll in'...heh-heh ) cooler for a local funeral home later on, and ordered a couple of new doors from a place in Miami, FL. We bought metal skin, 4" foam core panels from a place in Alabama (they had them in 3' wide x 40' lengths, and would cut you anything you want), screwed them to the walls/ceiling of a 12x20' room they wanted to turn into a 'cooler'. They did contract with a local commercial heat/air place to put in a 'split' cooling unit. Building a cooler is really easy.....really very little to them.
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Thank you all for the comments. Been working on the place for 30 years, and only in the last few ( with retirement ) have we gotten close to where we want to be in terms of a sustainable, self reliant style of living. Lot of years went by in which we were simply doing good to keep the bills paid, and just get a little done for the future. I give a lot of credit to my wife as well. She shares my vision for the place, and the style of life. I can't imagine getting much of this done without her pulling right along beside me.
For those of ya'll in the process, I encourage you to continue to work on and dream/plan on what your place will look like one day if you're not where you want to be yet.....it certainly can happen for you as well.
Few more views around the place if ya'll are interested. Little to do with food, but what the heck:
At the entry gate:
Looking down on one of the gardens. Small building is a tool shed, one farther back is the chicken coop. Small pond we built to the right, stocked with catfish. Another one just out of pic in the right corner.
Spring time view of the pond. That rock wall took the better part of one summer to build.....it goes to about 15' tall as you go on around the dam.
Looking down on small hay barn, with couple stalls underneath. The thick timber you see beyond the edge of the pasture is how the whole place looked when we bought it.
And if you've got timber, the handiest tool you'll ever own is a Woodmizer sawmill. Nearly everything on the place came off timber on the place. Young apple orchard over my shoulder up the hill.
For those of ya'll in the process, I encourage you to continue to work on and dream/plan on what your place will look like one day if you're not where you want to be yet.....it certainly can happen for you as well.
Few more views around the place if ya'll are interested. Little to do with food, but what the heck:
At the entry gate:
Looking down on one of the gardens. Small building is a tool shed, one farther back is the chicken coop. Small pond we built to the right, stocked with catfish. Another one just out of pic in the right corner.
Spring time view of the pond. That rock wall took the better part of one summer to build.....it goes to about 15' tall as you go on around the dam.
Looking down on small hay barn, with couple stalls underneath. The thick timber you see beyond the edge of the pasture is how the whole place looked when we bought it.
And if you've got timber, the handiest tool you'll ever own is a Woodmizer sawmill. Nearly everything on the place came off timber on the place. Young apple orchard over my shoulder up the hill.
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Everything about your place is very impressive!!! Thank you for sharing those great pictures
I've owned my land for ten years now and lived on it for 8 years and I'm just now starting to see some of the results of my labor. The more I do, the more I want to do. It's nice to see others who have already done it.
Eddie
I've owned my land for ten years now and lived on it for 8 years and I'm just now starting to see some of the results of my labor. The more I do, the more I want to do. It's nice to see others who have already done it.
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Thanks guys.....
Eddie,
Yep....it takes a while, for sure. We've been on ours 30 years now, (and like you, owned it 2 years before we got enough hacked out to even make the move to it) and the results have really begun to pile up only in the last few years. Since the wife and I 'retired' few years back, we've been able to have all day to work on the place instead of just now and then.
When the place becomes your day job, your vacation spot, and so on, you'd be amazed how much gets done...ahahahaaaa. My biggest concern now is how much longer can I keep up with the place....I ain't no spring chicken anymore.
Eddie,
Yep....it takes a while, for sure. We've been on ours 30 years now, (and like you, owned it 2 years before we got enough hacked out to even make the move to it) and the results have really begun to pile up only in the last few years. Since the wife and I 'retired' few years back, we've been able to have all day to work on the place instead of just now and then.
When the place becomes your day job, your vacation spot, and so on, you'd be amazed how much gets done...ahahahaaaa. My biggest concern now is how much longer can I keep up with the place....I ain't no spring chicken anymore.
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Sid,
I guess it depends on how intensively you want to cut. We have 70ac of woods here, and in 30 years, I've barely put a dent in it, mainly to use for building around the place. Now, if I was selling a lot of lumber, that wouldn't last too long.
OR if you happen to be luckier than I am about getting loggers to bring you logs ( I rarely get any, despite begging, offering to go to their job and load my trailer, or paying more in cash.....loggers are an odd breed of businessman...more like trained mules that go to the same barn, day after day, doesn't matter if you have a bag of sweet feed just out of their normal path)
I guess it depends on how intensively you want to cut. We have 70ac of woods here, and in 30 years, I've barely put a dent in it, mainly to use for building around the place. Now, if I was selling a lot of lumber, that wouldn't last too long.
OR if you happen to be luckier than I am about getting loggers to bring you logs ( I rarely get any, despite begging, offering to go to their job and load my trailer, or paying more in cash.....loggers are an odd breed of businessman...more like trained mules that go to the same barn, day after day, doesn't matter if you have a bag of sweet feed just out of their normal path)
