2 step smoke device (use cellulide balls)

Some of these are pretty good. Use at your own risk. https://youtube.com/shorts/ga2FLw7SS7E

Folks, watch this video at 5:20. He describes a lab test where they build a 2x6 insulated wall and tested how long it too a difference in temperature on one side of the wall to show up on the other side. With 2x6 walls it was 2 hours. With ICF it was 48 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WclJLkHCaiE

Sister's property is nearly cleared and graded. Today the earth mover crew created a driveway/service road. It's not a final grade, but will suffice for a service road to get an 18wheeler in to deliver shipping containers and other building materials. We asked the crew to widen a fire break that I haven't been able to maintain since the DNR people came thru and "unplowed" my firebreak. So I asked the guys to use the dozer to cut straight thru a semi circular place and they found an old settling tank my grandfather built.

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What you see in the picture above is about 25ft in diameter and 8 ft deep. it has a pipe entering tangent to one edge to make the contents swirl.. Water can flow out a second pipe. Consulted with my mother tonight and learned what this was.

nearby there is a concrete pad that was the floor of a pig parlor. In the 50's my grandfather had 100 pigs in this barn. He had created an autosiphon that filled up all day and once every day or two would surge an enormous amount of water across the floor washing all the pig shit into that settling tank. At the end of each year he drained it off all the water and pumped out the "honey water" and spread it over the farm.

In the 70's I was old enough to remember him working on projects but he never mentioned this. Had to prod mom for clues and fill in the blanks myself.

Oddly enough, I mentioned autosiphon here a few years ago.... https://t.me/OffTheGridOfficial/8184

Here's plans for an autosiphon to flush a pig parlor.... https://t.me/OffTheGridOfficial/281

Tool storage.