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69What Mitt Romney Will Do As President To Create Jobs
"If Romney was elected President, what do you know he will do to create jobs?" That question was asked by a fellow Hubber. By the time I happened across his query, there were already 14 answers in place--none of which stated the obvious. The...
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64Redneck Fixes at the Border Fort
We all owe comedian Jeff Foxworthy a vote of thanks. Years before I built the Border fort, his signature series, "...you might be a redneck", single handedly turned a term of denigration (the "r-word") into a badge of honor. It's not the first...
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86So You Want to Start a Trucking Company to Haul Water in the North Dakota Oilpatch
This morning, a gentleman who's considering starting up his own trucking company to haul water in the North Dakota oil drilling boom asked a number of very logical questions. The answers added up to a complete Hub...and here it is, beginning with...
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88Product Review : The Yamaha EF2000is Portable Generator
My wife and I live off grid in southern Arizona. In September, 2009, we bought our first Yamaha EF2000is portable generator. Despite the heavy use it's had--and a bit of unfortunate abuse due to my carelessness--it's been running now for an average...
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81Product Review : Homelite 5000 Watt Portable Generator with Subaru Engine
"Did you know," I asked my wife, "that Home Depot has a portable generator--5000 watts--Homelite brand with a Subaru engine?" "Subaru?" "Subaru." It was a double wow moment for the pair of us. Our 2001 Subaru Outback has been with us since the...
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77How To Rig A Gray Water Drain
With the house I'm building far enough along to allow a brief intermission, it was time to tackle camp trailer's gray water drain. It should have been done last summer--we had an open pit with, sometimes, enough water sitting in it that occasional...
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88How 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 task of writing an essay about a pet peeve....
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84Product Review: Wind Hog Wind Turbine
In early autumn, 2009, I came across the Wind Hog wind turbine at beawindhog.com while spending hours upon hours searching the Internet for the best possible wind turbine to meet our needs. Pam and I had moved onto four bare-land acres just a mile...
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89How To Install A French Drain, Cowboy Style
There are plenty of online articles explaining how to install a French drain around your residence to keep water in the soil from infiltrating the foundation. Plenty of them, but some of the advice in them is wrong...at least for this old cowboy....
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86How To Fabricate A Sheet Metal Cold Air Chute For Air Conditioning
Before we get to the "how to" part, before we discuss air condition or fabricating stuff or cold air chutes...one question: Why are the definitions of the word fabrication so massively different in meaning? ...
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