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DIY: How To Mount Speedlight T...

DIY: How To Mount Speedlight To A Softbox
Posted by on December 15, 2012
Who would guess the plumbing department of the hardware store can improve your photography? I was never successful at portrait photography. The pics I took always made the victim look like a zombie. After much reading I figured out I needed a light modifier. I...

Your Mileage May Vary!! Car Ec...

Posted by on October 25, 2012
We as a country were trained to look at fuel mileage wrong, therefore it is hard to understand the cost to run a car. We were trained to compare miles per gallon. That is because in 1950 nobody cared how much a gallon of gas cost, they just cared how frequently they...

Squeezin’ – ̵...

Squeezin’ – ‘maters!!
Posted by on September 19, 2012
I had to show my wife’s rig for squeezin’ tomatoes. We had tried several methods. My arm was always tired!! My wife had a Kitchen-Aid mixer. Well I put the facts together and went lookin’. I found Hobart sold an attachment that might do the...

Why I Lived The Life I Did!!

Posted by on September 19, 2012
I was once asked why I lived my life the way I did. Had my older self come back from the future and tell me lifes secrets at a younger age?? Maybe!! I was kind of lucky, my siblings were born in 1932, 1934, and 1936. I was born 1950 (Yea, the OOPS!! baby!!)I lived...

Cut the energy usage of your f...

Cut the energy usage of your forced air cooling (or heating) system
Posted by on September 18, 2012
using low cost, low technology, do it yourself methods I am not selling anything here, this method, including details and answering your questions, IS FREE!! Most attempts to use less energy to heat or cool your home (or business) are successful, but, you are...

Cut your electricity usage in ...

Cut your electricity usage in HALF of your clothes dryer
Posted by on September 18, 2012
using low cost, low technology, do it yourself methods I am not selling anything here, this method, including details and answering your questions, IS FREE!! NOTE: If you do not want to read all technical stuff, go here for the simple instructions on how to...

Save Half of the Electricity R...

Save Half of the Electricity Required by your Dryer!!
Posted by on September 18, 2012
NOBODY wants to do laundry, NOBODY wants to spend more money and time doing laundry! Short and sweet, the answer is to reduce the air resistance of the air exhausting out of your dryer!! This is done be increasing the size of the pipe used to carry the humid exhaust...

Snow 2012 – We Got Some ...

Snow 2012 – We Got Some – Time to Plow Now!!
Posted by on February 20, 2012
Snow has eluded the country this season, pretty much – until NOW!! WOOT! We got 8 inches of snow!! I know, it didn’t happen without pictures, well here they are!! Click on any of the pictures below to enlarge. Sunday February 19th it started to snow early,...

The Simple Tomato Patch Fence ...

The Simple Tomato Patch Fence without Cages
Posted by on February 18, 2012
Many people have asked about my method of growing tomatos. The stakes are steel fence posts. I use what I have, 5 and 6 foot posts. The fence actually is taller because I do not put the posts in very deep. I only tap them until they “stick” enough to stand...
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I was once asked why I lived my life the way I did. Had my older self come back from the future and tell me lifes secrets at a younger age?? Maybe!! I was kind of lucky, my siblings were born in 1932, 1934, and 1936. I was born 1950 (Yea, the OOPS!! baby!!)I lived this scenario!! And, I DID get all those...
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We as a country were trained to look at fuel mileage wrong, therefore it is hard to understand the cost to run a car. We were trained to compare miles per gallon. That is because in 1950 nobody cared how much a gallon of gas cost, they just cared how frequently they had to stop for gas!!  In 2012, to make...
recent from CADplans CADDiggers-Where Did They Come From??
Many people ask where the CADDiggers came from, how were they designed?? Well I had an extensive background in welding and metalworking. I loved building machines, anything metal. Woodsplitters were easy, and I was soon known as the “local” hydraulic splitter builder. Then trailers were next,...
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CAD Tr Model 6 When starting this machine I felt the most I would use a woodsplitter would be 5 days a year, if it was going to take up space it had to do something on some of those other 360 days!! What could it do? I searched the web. No help. Woodsplitters SPLIT WOOD!! I watched Youtube videos, nothing different,...