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Tree-House fun part 2

April 9, 2012

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A year ago or so I wrote about a tree house we had been working on (with a link to a short video). This past weekend I had to cut some branches from canyon oaks, so I just used those branches to make a sort of arbor around the treehouse. It turned out very nice [...]

Eco-Pump: Electric-free swamp cooler pump

March 12, 2012

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I love to tinker, especially with house-hold mechanisms that get daily use. I am always on the lookout to reduce daily costs, and now that the temperatures are warming up, I started thinking about the swamp-cooler and how I could improve upon it. In high-summer here in Central California, our swamp-cooler is on 24/7. The [...]

Tree-House

February 4, 2011

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When we first moved to our current location, I noticed a tree that was in just the right position for a tree-house. Underneath the tree was an old picnic table that was starting to rot. The picnic table made a great platform, and some hefty oak branches weaved together made a sort of railing. We [...]

Scrap-wood Chicken Coop

January 31, 2011

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A while back I had made a short video to show a friend how to post videos on youtube. The video covered a chicken coop I had been working on. That stupid video that I posted randomly gets more responses than videos I made for content! So I made a new updated chicken coop video, [...]