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I wish I could build things
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2023-02-19 at 2:09 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 2:14 AM UTCtogether we can build babies.
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2023-02-19 at 2:32 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 2:34 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 2:42 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 3:36 AM UTCwhy can't you? just need to practice, maybe get someone to teach you the basics
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2023-02-19 at 3:43 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 3:46 AM UTCI managed to assemble my bedframe and Ikea chair but it wasn't intuitive.
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2023-02-19 at 3:46 AM UTCbanging in some nails might actually help you develop motor skills; would've helped more if you started as a kid but you should try maybe making a bird house or some shelves or something and see how you go
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2023-02-19 at 3:54 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 4:01 AM UTCMy dad taught me to drive when I was 13 but I know it's not safe for me to be behind the wheel with the delayed motor function. What's scary is no one's noticed it. I almost crashed once but was drunk that time, never doing that again.
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2023-02-19 at 4:01 AM UTCyou can usually get your hardware store to cut timber for you so you don't need to mess around with dangerous tools like the drop saw; it's not easy to seriously hurt yourself with stuff like a sander or drill. my mother started getting into carpentry, restoring old furniture and building stuff over the last few years and she's in her mid 60s, never touched a tool before that so it's never too late to start
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2023-02-19 at 4:02 AM UTCI knew survivalists that build their own potatable water systems, heating, etc. Didn't sound very fun but I suppose survival isn't supposed to be, they were in their own world totally happy normal people though and not like BREAK THE BANK BIG TEK HIPPIES. I never meet anyone like that anymore.
REAL survivalists not this fake buy a bunch of boner pills and a tub of whey protein from THISISYOURLASTCHANCEAMERICA.COM, hit up the costco and bury some RV's for a ez bunker
even homesteading a wood shack and not being harassed by the goberment and wildlife would be a life investment. But let us take a stroll through to the untamed newly settled pre WW2 southern USA with wild kuzdu slowly taking over evertything. This actually makes building your own plumbing system seem kinda chillAfter two weeks we had a new porch and an adjoining
bathroom. Then the two of us dug a trench to Vonray Keith's spring
some 500 feet away. It went up and down hills, around trees and
large boulders, through clay, limestone, and low thickets occupied by
water moccasins and rattlesnakes. Fortunately, they were as afraid of
us as we were of them. Stokes would curse softly when a blackberry
vine raked his hide, or he tripped over a fallen limb, or stepped in a
holeNeither Stokes nor I were good at cutting and threading pipe.
By this time the plant had purchased Charlie Stork's old Sunshine
Laundry truck, and I used it to bring equipment and supplies. It was
sturdy enough to carry soil pipe and terra cotta for the drainage lines.
The truck had a defective tail pipe, so I accumulated a fair amount of
carbon monoxide each day on my way to the lake. There I cut and
threaded pipe under the instruction of my mentor. Later I put in soil
lines and filled the trenches with porous boiler ash, nested in the
terra cotta and put on a top layer of ash, or cinders as Stokes called it.
Then I topped the trench with the same dirt I had shoveled out and
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2023-02-19 at 4:07 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 4:08 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra you can usually get your hardware store to cut timber for you so you don't need to mess around with dangerous tools like the drop saw; it's not easy to seriously hurt yourself with stuff like a sander or drill. my mother started getting into carpentry, restoring old furniture and building stuff over the last few years and she's in her mid 60s, never touched a tool before that so it's never too late to start
I think I will make more of an effort in future. I have my dad's tool shed.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2023-02-19 at 5:54 AM UTC
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2023-02-19 at 6:34 AM UTCHUMMMMM HUMMMMMM HUMMMMMMMMM ZERO ! ONE! ONE! ZERO!
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2023-02-19 at 7:43 AM UTCThis is kinda why I liked my shop class in highschool; you could build shit for my house.
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2023-02-19 at 7:58 AM UTCBaby boy
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2023-02-19 at 11:27 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra it's not easy to seriously hurt yourself with stuff like a sander or drill
i almost get electrocuted by a power drill when i was like 12 or 13.
my dad had borrowed a heavy duty, all metsl drill from hisnfriend and it was heavily used and the trigger switch had long been broken so his friend did what a real man would do to a drill with broken trigger switch;
replacing it with a cheap toggle switch.
i wasnt paying attention to the position of the toggle switch to make sure it was in "off" position and just plug it in and turned the wall outlet on while holding the chuck.
the drill began to spin and coiled the wire around itself until the live wire snap and touched the metal body. i felt the zap but was lucky that the earth wire was connected and the elcb kicked in.
a manlier man would ignore connecting the earth wire.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
