I made another attempt at the cub tonight. I am pretty sure I got the points gauged right, but still no start. I tried some ether, but I kept having to jump from one side to another really fast. I need to check on fuel flow, carburetor, and replace the distributor cap. All I really want to do at this point is get it started so I can move it into my shop to do more work on it. #grownostr #homestead #diy #tractor #farmall

Interesting side hustle idea came across. #grownostr #sidehustle

Finally got my NIP-05 verification working on my domain. Now onto figuring out running my own relay.

It was a bit of a long weekend, but we got our 25 meat birds in the fridge. Wednesday our new freezer comes, would have been sooner if not for some customs issues. While I am happy with the efficiency gains from this years setup, I still have a long way to go. It took about 10 hours from setup to tear down for me and my wife. I did most of the work, and my wife helped where she could. She just couldn't do the evisceration, even though she tried. She also couldn't do the kill either. I think we got the flow down fairly well, the biggest issue is we now need to figure out a few things in the actual doing. Here are areas for us to work on: 1. Cutting off the head. I don't know why we had so much trouble this year when in years past this just wasn't an issue. 2. More efficient rinsing of the bird after evisceration. We were using a hose, but we really need a sink right there by the table. 3. The actual killing of the chicken wasn't bad, but the death throws are tough since they are violent at times the chicken wants to flop out. So we have to sit there and hold the chickens until they are done. This is a huge time waste. I need to work on this more. 4. Evisceration could go smoother/faster, but I am not sure how. For the first 10 I was trying to re-remember everything. I then got smoother/quicker. That said with how fast joel salatin can do it, I have lots of room for improvement. 5. Scald and pluck 2 at a time instead of 1 at a time. The new scalder is awesome and our first time using it, but if we can do 2 at a time we should save quite a bit of time. 6. Organization of equipment. Currently I just don't have a lot of room so this needs to get better. We did just get a 40' container so that is going to help a lot. As you can see there are a lot of areas for improvement, but considering where we started to begin with. I would say we have made great headway. Also we put 150lbs of chicken in freezer. We averaged 6lb chickens this year, woohoo. I'll talk more later on how we got that, and why, for us, it was a surprise. #homestead #oklahoma #grownostr #diy #chickens #selfreliance

I tried to get one of my cubs running tonight. I replaced the points and condenser since that was supposed to be the issue. No success. However I freely admit I might have done it wrong since it is my first time ever to do this. Lol. It also got my mind off of the prep work I have to do for chicken butcher day on Saturday. I just kept thinking about all the things I have to do, but can’t until tomorrow. I wish I had learned a lot of this earlier in life that is why my kids will learn it before they move out. They will then have fallback skills if they don’t want to pursue the farm. #homestead #diy #grownostr #oklahoma

And… the family has strep again. 4th time since February. So annoying. I think i caught it early enough it won’t take me out for a few days.

Today was surprisingly productive. 1. Finished fixing my electric netting for the chickens. It is now hitting at full power again. Been a long time and had many holes to fix. 2. Setup new type of irrigation in one of our raised beds I have no experience with. It was super easy and fast. Yay more automation. 3. I got another swing hung for the kids on their new swing set I built. 4. Co-ordinated with various family to get equipment out to the house to move a 40ft container I place. I haven’t gotten this much stuff done I a single day in a long time. Now on to the next project.

Another cub decided to follow me home. Darn. This is going to be a decent parts tractor, especially getting the hydraulics off of it. #homestead #oklahoma #grownostr

Automation! We now have the beans, sunflowers, and corn along the fence line setup for automatic watering. I am so glad I can control it from my phone over Wi-Fi. Now to figure out how to integrate it with home assistant. #oklahoma #grownostr #homestead

Set up a new lane for the laying hens tonight. It took a lot of time because the two youngest kids helped, but it was worth it because we got the work done and they enjoyed it. I am glad to get them moved as we left them where they were too long 😅. This specific spot they have never been so I can’t wait to see what it looks like next year. #homestead #oklahoma #grownostr #chickens

Something I want to talk more about over time is tractors! Specifically old tractors. You can get them cheap and put them to work. The downside is many don’t have frontend loaders which are super useful. I am on this journey so I will share it. #homestead #oklahoma #grownostr

Views like this are why I like homesteading in the country. Just wish I had more than two acres 😂. #homestead #grownostr #nostr #oklahoma

@Jack Spirko I am still trying to catchup on the world. Has there been any discussion about running a TSP relay? Or is there one for nostr?

Recently I made a video on a cleaner watering system for my chicken tractor. Feel free to check it out #homestead #grownostr #nostr #oklahoma #chickens

I have been rotating chickens for a couple of years on my 2 acres. This is now the grass vs crap that it was. I am really liking the results of rotational grazing of my chickens. #homestead #grownostr #nostr #oklahoma

I guess here I am. Hello World