[hiredhand]

Current place. We're focusing HERE for the time. I "think" it's probably the perfect place, with the exception of water. We're going to have a well punched not too terribly far from the old one under the house....which was filled in when the place was treated for termites back in 1996 or so (according to records). After the well, all that's really left is to continue hoarding and fortification and we're set! :-)

The new place is for bug-out. So far, we've got a NICE driveway that runs almost the length of the property north to south on the east side and we're working on resurrecting a spring into a spring box. Eventually, we'll move up there permanently, but IF I can swing getting just a small barn built up there or a "hunting" cabin, I'll make it fit to live in irrespective of anybody else's opinion or ordinances and such. :-)

[Squantos]

I used to help tear down older homes and had a large trailer that had a genset on it with 2 planers on it. Used to rough cut the scavenged wood check it with a metal detector, run it through the planer and stack it on the open part of the trailer. Did this for about a year and stored the wood on good pallets in the barn .

Built my house with it.......:o)

Lots to salvage from an old home being torn down. We used older cast iron sinks and and bath tubs , had em acid etched, cleaned and enameled again. new hard ware or restore the old even. Oak floors in the home are from an old roller rink. Bought part of that at auction and with the same planers and joiners we covered almost 1200 sq ft of the homes floors with it.

Working a deal to trade a friend who owns a line x bedliner business . I have found some cheaper metal roofing and it is not color or long term guaranteed etc like better stuff so I told him I’d trade him a some EBR’s and some fodder for em if he would line x coat all the metal and trim after I cut and fit it and transported it to him. A line x coated metal roof in hail country is best one can get per my observations.

Line x coated my old toyota 4x4 after fixing the last hail storms damage that had super sized baseball hail stones and that was 4 seasons ago and many hail storms later. Tennis ball size hail cracked the windows on it last year but didn’t ding the body at all......

I use that truck for work from April till July 1st when our worst of the worst is pretty much over.

Lots of farmers , 4x4 owners with work and play vehicles and folks fed up with hail damage are getting the line x paint jobs according to my buddy. There was even a older BMW in his shop getting a light grey line body coating.