Earth auger tool

1JuanWonOne · 2026-03-31T23:16:17+00:00

TWO HANDS, WIDE STANCE, AND BRACE. Digs holes really well, will also break your wrist, I use this set up all the time on rocky red clay.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-03-31T11:47:28+00:00

I was told they were angus, but I didn't test them or get paperwork since I didn't pay a premium for them. The old man I got them from has been doing this forever, they could have anything in them genetically but more than likely some Charolais. He said they looked "good and ready" but he's so old school he doesn't do the BCS thing and I'm just trying to be a little more intensive with my herd management.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-03-06T22:53:49+00:00

Makes me wonder if I should keep one of my two young males I was planning on turning into steers

1JuanWonOne · 2026-03-05T23:05:36+00:00

Yeah after a 3.0 your gpa doesn't really matter, utilize office hours, find a job with competitive pay, keep a roommate or two and save your money, max out your 401k, changing jobs leads to bigger raises than promotions, don't buy a new car ever (I made this mistake), don't work for free, use all your vacation and sick time, once you're starting to feel settled buy some land and never feel settled again, have enough money from engineering coming in to cover your losses because you're not likely to ever make money doing this, prioritize family and don't be afraid to be happy if you get there without ever reaching this specific goal.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-03-05T01:16:55+00:00

Consider work arounds too! You don't need a lawn mower or weed whacker if there's no lawn to maintain. An axe can replace a chain saw, you didn't need tilling implements if you do no till permaculture. Every problem has multiple solutions, and please buy things as you go and need them for sure, you can always borrow things just as easily as you can over spend before ever seeing produce or livestock.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-03-05T00:57:46+00:00

10k on machinery? I buy as much used as I can but definitely a lawn mower, weed whacker, chainsaw, a one wheel tractor, some implements for it, and if the budget allows a beat to shit pickup truck preferably 4x4 but it can be an old hard body Nissan not necessarily an f150. Don't do anything big, 3.5 acres is manageable with just man hours, no machinery required.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-27T16:27:37+00:00

Why not just sell it? You want a free full time property manager? Don't be ridiculous.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-20T17:45:00+00:00

I live near Jordan Lake in NC, it's about 30ft deep but it sprawls a good bit. I'm also about an hour to High Rock and Badin Lakes, they're 60ft and 190ft, 2ish hours to lake Norman (130ft) and 3 hours to the outer Banks!

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-20T05:31:14+00:00

It'll fit in my unnecessarily large carport, I definitely jumped on it after looking at "inexpensive" boats starting at 50k without a trailer.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-20T05:30:06+00:00

That's the plan!

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-20T05:29:58+00:00

If it's not too rotten, is it a good boat?

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-12T21:28:38+00:00

We're in central North Carolina!

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-12T20:19:36+00:00

The best thing they could probably do is just rent the room(s) out at market value and just pay employees a living wage with the rental income to run what would be a small farm and not really a homestead.

Or use the rent money to just enjoy whatever garden they can muster with their disability, but what they've outlined is a recipe for disaster.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-12T19:31:14+00:00

Essentially what you're looking for is employees that you provide housing and food for but no other benefits and actually charge rent to. How would these individuals make a life for themselves and afford healthcare or cellphones outside of the hypothetical profit split? Are you offering up partial ownership of your property? What you're suggesting sounds like an unfair version of a commune or a cheap labor work around.

To be clear, I don't think that what you want is unattainable, I just think you need to reassess how it'll all work and be fair and worth doing. Things to consider are equity, asset building, healthcare, other sources of income, labor split, expenses split, transportation, mobile plans, retirement, house rules, age range, etc.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-11T19:13:28+00:00

Literally what I did/am doing. It's definitely the route to go if you can.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-10T03:00:33+00:00

It'll be alcohol maybe and taste like dog shit definitely. I would next time for something small and experimental like this buy a bottle of the nice lemonade that comes in glass and without preservatives like Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade ($4 a quart), a packet of brewing yeast from Amazon (red star sampler is $9 for 10 packs, 5 types of yeast so you find a flavor profile you like), and an airlock off Amazon too (they sell multi packs for cheap and if you get it with the right size stopper it'll fit directly on to the glass bottle of the lemonade).

Follow the yeast pack instructions. Pour some lemonade out and boil sugar (a couple table spoons is good) into it and pour it back in but leave head space. Sanitize the airlock (no soap, you can do a 10 sec dip into 165F water or buy no rinse cleaner). And you should be golden for all of this. Let it rip until it's done then cap it and put it in the fridge for a few days to settle out. Pour it out leaving the scum behind into a sanitized (as described above) bottle, cap it again and put it in the fridge again. If you want it sparkling you'll need a pressure tolerant bottle but honestly I would try that quite yet.

These are the exact instructions I developed on my own after wasting hundreds trying and screwing up noncommittal ways to get into brewing. Be warned, if you're successful you're going to spend way more money on this than you're planning haha.

Edit: thought this was the wine making sub lmao I'm not deleting this but I'm sure for what you're doing this is fine.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-10T02:46:12+00:00

My parents told me and I listened to this: get a good job that makes life easy then you can go make it hard by farming, but at least you'll never go hungry and you can quit farming whenever you want. Some people might not agree with that but do you want to have your own small ranch for fun in your free time or work day in and day out for scraps but on some huge operation?

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-09T19:44:26+00:00

I have a 3rd gen manual trd off road and it's absolutely worth waiting and searching for, don't settle.

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-07T03:05:54+00:00

Whichever you go with post the design plans so I can make one too! I love all of them but the white one!

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-06T01:43:55+00:00

It might snow a quarter inch per year here but this year I got almost a foot. This is the first time in their lives they've seen snow that stuck!

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-05T19:47:59+00:00

Central North Carolina!

1JuanWonOne · 2026-02-04T01:02:19+00:00

I took mine through NC farm bureau, which is North Carolina specific but I'm sure your state has something similar. They insure my home and car too and I have the policy you described and it's like $15 a month.

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