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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ⚠️ Will I Damage my Li-Ion Tool Batteries in Cold Storage? It's really cold here in northern Minnesota. Today, we saw -29F outside. I have all my Li-Ion tool batteries in my "heated" garage, so usually it's not a concern as the temperature is set to a minimum of 40F. However, I have Off-Peak...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Like I said, I used pine shavings for many years and they work great. I sort of stumbled into using free shredded paper, but it works better for me. Plus, it's free. :idunno I used to clean out the brooder every couple of days. But now I'm into the deep litter concept which I use the dry deep...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Love that design. Love how you stuck with the concept as you improved the features. :lau Yeah, I have brooded chicks in the house way back when. Not one of my better ideas. Now, I use one of my tow behind utility trailers inside the garage as my temporary brooder. I estimate the bed of the...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Thanks. I have all kinds of clamps and vises now. I have clamps that go into my workbench, but not the exact one in that video. Similar, but not the same. One of my favorite tools is my Harbor Freight clamping sawhorse which is a copy of the Rockwell Jawhorse... HF no longer sells their...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :tongue I'm starting to get arthritis myself. Not looking forward to that getting worse. I mainly use a really lightweight Ryobi 18v trimmer. It's not the most powerful, and a bit slower than others, but it does get the job done and is not hard on my back or shoulders. I can still pull a...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :old That's the way I feel about lot of my potential purchases. I'm no longer thinking out 10, 15 or 20 years. Because of my age, I seem to demand a better deal on the purchase, because part of me is thinking that item needs to have a personal breakeven point within my expected lifetime. I'm...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I think I know what you mean. I have been looking on Amazon for a wheeled adapter to make one of my trimmers into a walk behind ~mower. You can get those kits to convert a normal string trimmer into a pseudo lawn mower... :old I understand wanting to protect your shoulders/back from working...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ⚠️ Battery Lawn Mowers are Half the Cost of Gas Mowers over 10 Years! I wanted to ask AI what the true expected costs are of a gas mower versus a battery mower over 10 years of use. I was not surprised to learn that a battery mower comes in about half the cost of a gas mower over those 10...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    How does it work for you? My ~10-year-old Ryobi 18v push mowers cut grass well that is maintained. But if the grass gets a bit too long, I have to take two passes on cutting it. It just does not have the power to plow through long grass. A 60v mower sounds like a beast to me. I understand not...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :hit Missed Out on a Good Deal.... I had been keeping my eye on a new Ryobi 40v mower kit that was dropping in price since October. It started going on clearance before Thanksgiving and dropped a lot after Christmas. Here is the one I was looking at... Anyways, the normal price of $330.00...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    :clap Well, you did a great job because I cannot tell where you used pallet wood for the drop ceiling. It looks really good - but I'm partial to that kind of wood look. Very nice.
  12. gtaus

    Chicken Fodder

    I hope @SaltyFlockers got the message. Better to keep the chickens safe than risk their health on moldy fodder. It's probably not the answer anyone wants to hear, but it's the best/safest information I could find. Unfortunately, like I said, I had to deal with this mold issue myself this year.
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    Chicken Fodder

    I have been growing barley fodder for 4+ years in the winter. This year, the barley seed I bought was especially bad - full of mold spores. I tried presoaking in bleach, iso-prophyll alcohol, etc... But my barley grain supply was no good. :barnie I have only one grain supplier in our town, so...
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    ⚠️ Unexpected Find at Menards I found another great deal at Menards on sale this week... I overlooked that item when I was scanning the weekly flyer at Menards. Contrary to Dear Wife's belief, I don't automatically jump at every "FREE" offer at the store. It's a good thing I decided to...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    ⚠️ Unexpected Find at Menards I found another great deal at Menards on sale this week... I overlooked that item when I was scanning the weekly flyer at Menards. Contrary to Dear Wife's belief, I don't automatically jump at every "FREE" offer at the store. It's a good thing I decided to...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Maybe there is a lot of wisdom in dipping the beak of each baby chick into the water and feed when you put them into the brooder?! I never considered that a broody hen would be teaching the chicks what to eat like that but doing it myself with the chicks I guess I'm teaching them like their...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Yeah, I was concerned the formulation for adult birds might not be good for young chicks. Not just the size of the pellet or crumble, but the actual mix used in the feed. Like most things, if you need to feed the chicks for a day or two until you can get into town, I don't think grinding up a...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :caf I thought chick starter feed was specially formulated for young chicks? It's not just the small crumble size, but the other ingredients in the mix as well that made the chick starter feed a better choice. I know that giving young chicks layer feed would not be a good idea, for example. In...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I agree. We are not going back. I just hope we find a better way forward.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    :idunno So, is the solution not to use AI chatbots, or make sure the government restricts where these massive data centers are built to protect limited water resources? It's not only water, but electric demand that gets sucked up by these giant AI data centers. I keep hearing on my news reports...
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