Recent content by The Chicken

Reminds me-years back, I had a customer bring me a couple AR lowers along with a few bags of parts and some instructions for drilling some extra holes in the lower that he’d purchased somewhere on the internet. I didn’t know what it all was at first. But after looking everything over, and...

Seeing as I’m on a roll today, here’s a sneak peek into someone else’s future post in another thread 😄😄…

“A friend in need, is a pain in the ass indeed.” Or something like that. It’s probably something @wash11 and I mutter under our breath about each other half-jokingly pretty often. 😄😄 The truth is, our two households depend on each other, and we take comfort in the fact that no matter the task...

Lest anyone think that we’re just totally against snow, or just can’t handle any kind of bad weather, I present you with the following pictures. 😄😄 Again-there’s a huge difference between big work trucks and small 4x4’s when it comes to bad weather. The former is nerve-wracking and risky, the...

“The front of the truck just slid like 3 feet and I have no control of it!” Came Denise’s frantic voice over the CB. We were in stop and go traffic-with way more stop than go-on the 89 northbound with snow blowing all around us about a quarter mile south of the I-40. There was snow and slush on...

I wish the pictures and above video did justice to just how hairy this decent actually was. To make it even more entertaining, right as we nosed over and started down the steepest part, a truck showed up on the road coming up the hill at us. That created an immediate problem because while we...

Friday morning broke cold and gray, with 2” of snow on the ground and more coming down fast. Visibility was often only a hundred feet or so. We were immediately concerned that we might be stuck on this job site for days. Driving a small SUV, or even a big 4 wheel drive truck down that steep...

Here’s the tote full of parts, the gutter, and one of Denise’s new friends. Some random job site pictures and Denise’s new friends “helping” her. 😄😄 Knowing that the weather was moving in, we were in overdrive and didn’t have much time to snap any pictures. By evening time we had...

In dry weather the road is miserable but certainly passable. I'd imagine that the cement trucks are not going fully loaded though. I know around here if the hills are steep and the roads are rough, the cement companies will often short the trucks a couple yards to take some of the weight and...

It's basically what Kevin said-some local put them there to delineate the edge of the road. There's a very steep drop off into a very deep gully on the other side.

I wish pictures did justice to just how steep, rutted, and rocky this little road is-at least for bigger vehicles. This is the final approach to the customers home-which is another “unusual “ building material-ICF block. Space was tight here, way tighter than the pictures indicate, and...

Sounds like town is lucky that old guy didn’t own a Komatsu dozer and a welder. 😬🤷‍♂️

4:00am, Wednesday morning Time to rise, shine, and rock n roll. We need to get the trucks out of this job site and move about an hour and a half to the next job-which sits on top of a rocky mountain accessed by a steep rough road that’s just barely passable with our trucks. We need to hustle...

To add to this and water junky’s “water is life” comment, I’ve seen some real high end homes on the beach that have huge commercial 3 phase off grid solar systems running huge luxury homes with large AC loads, swimming pools, and self contained desalination plants to turn seawater into drinking...

Bingo. Starlink has been a game changer for off grid people and people who live mobile and /or work remotely-I mean REALLY remotely. And yes, when you go off grid and build a home, you are really building all your own infrastructure as well. You are all the utilities. It’s a bit daunting for...