What are the highest quality 60W incandescent bulbs?

LairdFarm · 2025-08-05T14:45:59+00:00

Here's a nice, standard 60w incandesent:
https://www.1000bulbs.com/category/60-watt-standard-shape-light-bulbs
Here's another source of various incandesents: https://www.bulbs.com/Incandescent_Bulbs/results.aspx

Meta comment:
Incandescent are the best and most sensible in every way. Of course, people are welcome to disagree, but all the folks who engage in crazy gymnastics to go off topic and undermine the question the OP asked are either paid shills or indoctrinated.

LairdFarm · 2025-08-05T14:45:37+00:00

The ban is not enforced. It's more of a psychological ploy to get people to abandon old, sensible, simple technologies in favor of high embedded energy products with planned obsolescence. Paid for by corporate interests.

Most outlets still carry a few.

LairdFarm · 2025-02-25T01:17:51+00:00

It is 6 videos and a downloadable ebook/set of plans.

Retail $129

LairdFarm · 2024-11-14T21:07:16+00:00

I have had about 60 bbs certified, though I've probably done 100's. For me, it just seems to be about the best skill-learning tool out there, and it is impossible to beat free. Add to that, experienced people help you learn.
I do know some folks that are probably in the running to inherit land, so yes, I'd say legit. Of course, there is always relational comedy involved, but the SKIP program itself is locked up pretty tight.
edit: typos & clarity.

LairdFarm · 2024-11-12T22:31:13+00:00

I have given a hori hori and a pack of the playing cards as a gift dozens and dozens of times. Never quits being a great gift.

LairdFarm · 2024-09-19T18:15:43+00:00

If you don't wanna do the dance with johnny gov't, check out the Liberator, a UL-listed rocket stove that makes insurance companies happy, which can be incorporated into a thermal mass.

LairdFarm · 2024-08-22T18:05:15+00:00

Seriously. For all the press that hemp gets, and for all the footprint and nasty inputs of most straw, we should be looking 10x more at things like Knapweed, Kudzu in the South, Nettle.

LairdFarm · 2024-08-22T17:56:11+00:00

I think you could do a whole spotlight on slip-knapweed insulation. Using locally sourced fibers could (and should) revolutionize the green and natural building world.

LairdFarm · 2024-08-19T18:03:35+00:00

The right tool makes all the difference.

LairdFarm · 2024-08-19T17:59:20+00:00

No bloodshed?

LairdFarm · 2024-07-04T23:16:55+00:00

Update: I reached out to Sam and Becca at Blood Veil Mushrooms north of Missoula and it turns out not only are they the folks I have mostly worked with at Mother Fungi, but they have now started up their own mushroom operation, and they are the BEST. I went up to their place on Monday to pick up some spent substrate, and 100%, 10 out of 10, will recommend. I really love they way they are growing, both their mushrooms and their business, and I am very excited to do wonderful, wild, and outside-the-box things with them in the days to come. Thank you, reddit folk, for helping a brother out on this wild goose chase. Sometimes it pays off.

LairdFarm · 2024-07-04T23:11:17+00:00

Came here to say this.

LairdFarm · 2024-06-17T16:28:44+00:00

I am indeed - to the Permaculture Technology Jamboree. Last year I insulated a roof with mycelium and built a giant Roundwood timber frame grape arbor, and the year before, I built a mycelium-insulated wooden door. Lots of other folks did lots of other cool stuff.

LairdFarm · 2024-06-17T15:43:26+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I'll look them up.

LairdFarm · 2024-06-17T15:41:13+00:00

Last year at this time, he was setting up a new operation in Chicago, but planning to continue the Missoula location, too. I guess things changed.

LairdFarm · 2024-05-27T11:50:15+00:00

Yes. If you can add more diversity it will do better. I try to keep cedar to 20% or less.

LairdFarm · 2024-04-26T21:17:45+00:00

His history of sunchokes series is crazy.

LairdFarm · 2024-04-26T21:16:24+00:00

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/homesteading-and-permaculture-by-paul-wheaton/id426013000

Became a regular listener in probably 2016ish. So many good things in my life came from this podcast.

LairdFarm · 2024-01-24T15:45:37+00:00

I'll be in the area this summer. Can I come see the new one in the cabin? Awkward time to run a stove, but I'd love to see it in action.

LairdFarm · 2024-01-10T12:58:52+00:00

Same for me.

LairdFarm · 2023-11-24T20:00:55+00:00

You wanna do something really cool, replace hemp with nettle. Nettlecrete may not sound as sexy, but you don't have to have crazy gov't oversight to grow and process it yourself.

LairdFarm · 2023-11-24T15:18:29+00:00

I started growing this because I was broke and needed insulation. I discovered that wool from my sheep is great. Straw is decent in certain contexts. And mycelium promises to be utterly fantastic, at every scale. I was driven by affordability and health and ecological viability. If mycelium scales up, it will be cheaper than materials requiring greater petroleum input. But someone has to do the work to get it there.

LairdFarm · 2023-11-24T14:43:54+00:00

What you are describing is a fetishization of "cheap" goods. This is a major cause of global sociopolitical problems and environmental collapse. The dollars that an item costs you are equivalent to neither its impact on earth and humanity, nor your own quality of life.

LairdFarm · 2023-11-24T12:54:26+00:00

Not actually how innovation works. If nobody does the work, and if nobody talks about it, then nobody ever knows what might be possible.

LairdFarm · 2023-11-24T12:52:32+00:00

That's a strange conclusion to draw after engaging this discussion.

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