coming along,looking good!
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I love that lived-in and half-built look. You are doing some great work there and it looks like your cat is happy about it, also.
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To me that would be a full-time job and then some, so I do admire your work and it is interesting to see the progress. It is also very cool that you are able to do it mainly with cast-off things you are able to reuse and recycle.
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Exactly. Skills are as good as dollars in the pocket. I never built a house but i never paid anyone to do anything for me unless it required expensive specialist machinery like machining heads on engines and crap like that. Then I paralyzed myself and had to suck it up. It was not an easy pill to swallow at the time. 
This was back when we didnt have internet. Learning is so much easier these days.
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Haha yes I know that feeling. I do everything myself. I build card in the living room, i hand dug the septic, I prices wood siding out and it was beyond ridiculous, so I make my own siding and flooring…haha. It’s become a lifestyle. And when you can fix damn near anything, you really can live an incredibly good lifestyle, without debt. It’s like some asshat saying I must have money because of my daily ride…as he is getting out of a brand new with payments truck, Honda, whatever. And all I can do to keep my mouth shut is look at my 10 year old 550rwp ss Camaro, that I bought blown up and built, and less than 8 grand in it…and wonder to myself if that person is truly that damn stupid, or if he truly believes what he just said. Which would prove the first point I suppose…lol
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Wife’s cooktop. I built this temp. Eventually, after I get the flooring down, it will become part of an island with seating around it. Cover off.
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Hahahahah yeah. Sometimes you wonder if people can hear themselves with the things they say. I will say one thing, Wood in a house feels warm and welcoming. All that wood work your doing is great. My friends have a house built with stilts/pillars made of big tree trunks. The whole house including its furniture is made of all sorts of wood. The place gives an amazing calm to you when you step through the door.
I have of late been finding my mind wandering and trying to figure out how I can change my life style so that I can live away from the city, somewhere chill. I am done with requiring all the creature comforts of the city so i want to go somewhere where I can support myself without a high stress job. Its a viscious cycle of cash to keep the cash flowing. Like you were saying about cost of driving to work. The amount of money I go through just to support my working habit of clothing, getting to/from work, parking, training, food in the city, and on it goes. If i fall into physical trouble and cant work for a week my pockets fill up with cash so fast as im on sick leave and have no expenses of getting to work and working. I just want to do away with that whole rat race. I see some of the photos of the properties that people on this forum post and their lifestyle is like a dream to me. I lived on a farm when i was a kid and i guess that never left me.
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Well brother thats what we did. I hate to admit this, but we found a place several hundred miles away from home, with a far lower cost of living. And with the mini farm expanding by the week, its allot of work, but the trade off is we live very well on my singe income. But, we have very little money going out. We raise and grow our own food, and as you can see, I have no issue dumpster diving shit we need and fixing it…haha
we went from struggling simply to pay realestate taxes, to something we could only have dreamed of in 2 years brother. You just have to do it…haha
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Yeah for sure and I am actually thinking productively towards it. Figuring out the logistics of making it happen and how to go about it. I am imagining making a move within 5 years.
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We have a large, about an 1/8 mile oval in our yard. The trucks are hitting 65-75mph and my buggy cranks around at over 90mph.
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@monkeyman it is a full time job, and then some…lol I do get burned out, and will take some time off. We are building our forever home, and its ok if it takes a while. Like right now, with the price of lumber, I am holding off on rebuilding anymore of the outside walls. Just too expensive. So, thats why I am working on the inside now. But, ya, it is a full time job, on top of my full time job. Then throw in the little farm we are slowly building, it is straight up a lifestyle brother…lol no other way to explain it. 
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Awwwwwww the RC cars. I have not had one in so long. I saw some pretty extreme vehicles in the hobby shop about a year ago and it has had me thinking. They cost between $1000 and $3000 US depending how much you want to spend. Petrol jobs with big motors. I’m getting jealous
To be honest though. Electric has always had its place in my heart. Also going forward with technology the electric ones will start getting pretty radical.
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Ya, not cheap. That’s the 8s xmaxx. It’s a grand the wife has a 6s outcast at 600, and there are a few more. Plus my planes …lol
It’s something I’ve done my whole life. I have my own race track and airfield…lol
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