>mineral materials such as sand, gravel, and crushed stone are extracted from BLM administered public lands are used for ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, and many other building materials.>There is no specific application form for requesting removal of mineral materials from public lands. Persons interested in buying mineral materials should contact the local BLM Field OfficeLow lease rates (like $165 for 20 acres) makes it almost free to collect ... is this too good to be true?
>>2789639If it's nit the Indians, it will be an environmentalistYou'll have someone changed to your bumper and then the atf will.come.by and shoot your dog. You have not bribed the right people to do thod
>>2789994OP here, so I think I got confused, there's a program for collecting sand, rock, gravel but you have to pay the fair value for whatever you take, and that's different than the $165 lease program which gives you an exclusive 20 acre claim to prospect there for unlimited gold, silver, gemstones, etc. Seems strange that the bare rocks you have to pay full price for but the gemstones they practically give away for free.
>>2790092probably because strip mining an area and mass exxing everything is a bit different from digging an area up and leaving at least 99.999% of it behind.
>>2790053>>2790069I guess I don't know the particulars of most BLM land, but are there usually any roads nearby that need re-paving or chip-and-sealed? Because if it is next to any local project then it might be worthwhile to set up and mine some gravel. If not, then yeah probably not worth it.
>>2789702There’s something cool about keeping the moon sacred. We shouldn’t turn the solar system into a junkyard.
What would be the best method of supplying wired internet to multiple buildings over say 10 acres of land spread out?Not necessarily the cheapest nor the highest bandwidth, just running wire to different spots that are going to go through one isp bill?
>>2789659Use wireless bridges.
>>2790060cont.https://youtu.be/7nTgQQbF9zo?si=UMgXQRykb8ihQpNz
>>2789659Directional wireless. It's actually pretty good these days and not hard to get.
>>2789659fiber. media converters are not that expensive.using copper will risk a lightning strike fucking all your shit right up and distance could possibly be a problemwireless sucks and for something actually reliable and high distance enough it might cost far more
>>2789659Whatever you do, always start at the highest point. Bits are very heavy and it's hard to push them up hill
i have abused this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe. i don't even know if there is oil in it.why do people talk shit about briggs and straton engines? it just keeps running
>>2791312lots of old/vintage stuff is sadly zero info, I got a MTC boombox here that I "fixed" (the motors for the tape cassette drive are worn out and I don't got replacements or a electrical diagram) so I'm currently stuck on how to actually fix it, or get parts for it. I could try "adjusting" the tape speed potentiometer for the motors but I'm pretty sure its the motors being actually worn out.
>>2791238
i like the hydrostatic cub cadets Loaded ag tires, weights and chains make for pretty incredible traction.
>>2791280>>2791275The physics of rotational weight help you out too. With one wheel peel garden tractors you are very likely to spin one wheel in low traction situiations. More weight over the low traction tire helps, but rotational weight helps even more. The weight js low,will never make you tip, but making a heavy wheel accelerate quickly and start spinning requires far more energy than a light one.Heavy as hell wheels wont spin, even if in very low traction, and the weight helps too, hence wheel weights.You can make your own out of concrete and threaded rod pretty easy.
>>2791309You're thinking of the Teledyne/Continental 4A032. It's only similar to the VW in rough appearance. They're a much more durable and easily serviced engine than all but the actual industrial VW mills.
I'm worried about hammering nails into wires when I'm hanging paintings. I'm gonna get a stud detector/wire finder, but I've seen some people say these are unreliable. Should I be worried? I really don't want to hurt myself or need to have electrical repairs done in my house.
>he didn't use 3/4" black iron pipe as conduit to wire his house ngmi
>>2791142Magnet niggers are useless with plaster and wood lathe.
>>2791168Any device is almost useless with plaster, especially the exterior chicken wire types. But you can find the stud spacing inside, guesstimate the wall thickness, then just trial and error with test drilling. Until someone invents an affordable handheld Superman Vision device, that's my advice, and I've mounted 65" TVs on exterior stucco walls.Sucks, but it is what it is.
>>2791167This is why I use cobalt drill bits. Multi-material screws going through a layer of drywall, the corner of a stud, some cast iron pipe, and a bunch of wires gives you the best hold ever for those gay ass floating shelves!
>>2791040I picked up a $500 SEEK brand one for $200, thinking I could finally have a good stud detector. Was disappointed. It’s helpful for finding the occasional vertical stud, but mostly it just works on the ceiling. On some external walls the insulation behind the dry walls isn’t so great, so there is a larger temp difference, but yeah I was bummed. On the flip side, it’s rad as fuck for when I’m out camping, or doing astronomy alone at night. I get kind of creeped out, and it does an awesome job detecting animals and people. I have a black dog that basically vanishes into the darkness, and could finally see where he would be, and not worry about coyotes and shit. It’s good for pcb, but reflections make it harder. Reflections In general suck, like looking for leaks in a plastic tarp greenhouse. I thought I’d be able to see like het in the air escaping. But stead I just see reflected heat off the plastic.
Is it gay as a man to order sewing kits online so I can repair my socks DIY style? All the darning tutorials I see online are made by women.
>>2789993Gotta learn this skill, myself and for the same reason. You can't really buy quality socks at a decent price anymore. They're chinkshit or from some other 3rd world hellhole. They wear so fast, it's like they're made of paper.
No but it is gay to order online instead of going to a store like a real human person. It's also gay to look at youtube tutorials instead of picking up a book or using your brain. And >>2790138
>>2790000>I mostly use a leather stitching awl
>>2790011It's OK for small holes in socks with spandex in them as opposed to socks that get all their stretch from being knitted...the first way she does it is less preferable because those seams will irriate your feet and create new stress points as the fabric tries to stretch against the scar- like seamBut the real way to darn then is like picrel...it takes more time but leaves no seams or ridges and can be done pretty quickly once you get some practice...it also doesn't distort the original shape or add new stress points and actually makes the garment stronger.
>>2791433Also note that in pic 3 you can see that the darning needle has a curved tip to make picking up and interweaving stitches in the undamaged areas easier when the fabric is fitted over a convex shape like a darning egg.
Hello, I'd like to build something to keep my voice very low and allow me to train silently (or with less noise at least), do you have ideas/encountered stuff like this already ? Ideas of materials ? I was planning on using pillows and blanket, any idea ?
Materially speaking the quickest and easiest way to block sound is to seal off the space. Sound conducts far better through open air channels than it does through different materials, so you will immediately get good results just from filling all the gaps for sound to travel through. Once you've done that you want as much soft squishy mass as possible to absorb the sound. They make mass loaded vinyl sheets specifically for blocking sound, but those are quite expensive. They're basically weighted blankets. As an aside, don't expect acoustic foam like pic rel to be good for this purpose because this is NOT what is is designed to do. These are designed to reduce sound reflecting off surfaces (as in echoes), which is different from sound conducting through surfaces. Mass is the most important property of a material's ability to absorb sound, so you want as much weight as possible. A very ghetto way to do this would be to stack up several sheets of drywall on the inside of your screambox.
>>2791330Thank you I didn't know about the masses !
I am tired, I don't want to deal with hunting shit anymore. I just want to input money and receive stuff without it being a knife fight over some old junk worn out machine that'd been out of production for 70 years and I have to get raped to get replacement part on ebay by some other boomer.Are chink mini lathes viable to get running well without needing another lathe or a mill to fix the brand new machine you just bought? I just want to make small steel items, maybe up to an inch in diameter but realistically 5/16 or smaller diameter machine screws.
>>2790831Ok. OP specifically said he wanted to make small steel parts so what the problem?
>>2790669chink minilathes are crap. once you buy the piece of shit, then do a ton of work to make it only half a piece of shit, you might as well have just shelled out the money on something decent.jet's way overpriced, but grizzly or precision matthews would probably be the way to go. pm has a 12x36 on a stand for like 5k right now. grizzly has a 12x35 gunsmith lathe for less than that.but it all depends on what you want to do/make with it. if you think you're going to retire by straightening drive shafts on a 7x16 mini lathe, you're on drugs. if you just want to make projects and start a youtube channel to compete with quinn dunki and clough42, you'd be in business. still, both pm and grizzly have better minilathes at only a slightly higher price point.
>>2790669>I am tired, I don't want to deal with hunting shit anymore.My (rich, old, experienced) machine shop ownerbro makes a mint off his older version of this:https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/76316397He has many other machines but his specialty is repair machining and so many parts fall in its range it's faster for one-offs to use his Enco while his CNC and larger manual machines are making other parts.You can resell them for a nice chunk of purchase price when you age out of being able to do stuff so actual cost/year won/t be shit. The nice thing about being old is you can estimate your future and enjoy some of your income you might otherwise not.
keep in mind that while a small/flimsy machine can be shit for making chips, it may still be usable for grinding/lapping precise parts in very hard materials
>>2790692They require a lot of mods It’s basically a cordless drill and a carriage bone stock
Whatcha making?
>have to write a thesis so im not working on any projects>writing my thesis makes me so bored i would rather do diy>end up going in circles and get nothing doneThe human condition
>>2785901NOTHING YOU WOULD NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
>>2787602>ESP32There is no other. This little piece of dynamite is irreplaceable and... cheap!
>>2789122But I get MORE energy back when I compress it afterwards
>>2786058Based cloud buster
Is there anyway how to get Solidworks for free? Solid Edge has free license for hobbyists but I would like Solidworks since its more popular. I dont want to pirate it unless its only option.
buy a Rhinoceros cdrom for $40 on ebay
>>2787299A guy I knew in college was using a pirated version of Solidworks and one day he got an email from them listing every single time he used the software. They know, and they will do something about it eventually.
Someone suggested running sw on a vm, I tried installing our legit sw copy on a vm at the office but it didn't let me.
>>2791193I use it in a vm (as linux is my main os) and it works fine. It doesn't take much to configure a vm to make it not look like a vm to things like sw
>>2790515Oh I absolutely have, oh well lads guess it's over.
How horrible would it be to live under somebody running 4 of these 24/7? I'm trying to imagine what life is like for my neighbor right now.
No, I'm not a tranny, a janny, or a woman. What have you made? Any tips/resources?>Thanks for the help anons
>>2790999>>2791000DIGITS
>>2790999keked hard.
I use straight lanolin (thick grease consistency) for chapstick, dry skin balm, hair styling, pretty much anything topical. its cheap and also a good base if you want to get more fancy. refined has a slight sheep scent which i like, but there are ultra refined ones that apparently have no scent
>>2790999Checked. OP is in shambles.>>2791000Checked. FP is in shambles.
>>2790997There's a DIY hippy store in my city that sells oils and creams and has guides to make your own stuff.toothpaste, shampoo,hair oil,deodorant (they even sell the roller bottles),shaving cream,soap,laundry detergent are what I get from them.
>holds the world together
>>2790261Akshually!Feel like steel is already at a tray niche. Unless it needs explicit strength, every machine we get is becoming more of an alu block.
>>2790455>holds my shitbox car together
>>2790261Based. Unistrut is for kings, alu profile is for rich retards with more money than sense. If weight is a concern, why are you trying to make something strong to begin with?
>>2790195https://courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2021/SCO/1124/201057.aspThe driver lost this case.
>>2791388Doesn't matter, the home owner still had to pay legal fees out the ass
Hurr durr shipping container homes are a bad ide-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAKY7OWP3rA
>>2790206isnt that illegal
>>2791215In some places but in much of the country if you're outside of an incorporated municipality, you could upgrade one of the larger sheds enough to get a habitation permit. You'd probably have to spend as much as the price of the shed itself to upgrade it to a point where the county would approve you living in it. Of course you can always try doing it stealth. If you're off the beaten path, it's far from impossible.At some point you have to ask if it's worth spending the money on something you view as temporary housing. Might as well just lease a mobile home for a year while your actual home is being built.
>>2791204run lights off 24v. Use a stepdown from 120 to 24v
Simp
Would you watch kino here?
So all I have to do to get a job is to go to a construction site and ask for it, despite having barely any experience whatsoever? Who do I ask to speak with?
>>2790616No habela espanhole
>>2790632I do speak fluent Spanish despite not being Mexican, is that a plus?
>>2790634Always and it's a good way to make beanerbros at work.
>>2790616you just show up at 5am with hard hat, gloves, and hi-vis vest. just start working. it's that easy
>>2790616if your at or near a job site. look at the work trucks on site and make a note of the company name/logo on the vehicles. go to company website and get the email, ph# and start asking them asking for a job.helps if youve done alittle research and some basic fundamentals of construction
Seems like everyone and their dog is now importing and selling Chinese mini diggers.>picrel sells for $12k>small one for $4-5kSo standard retail margin of double what Cheng sells them for.Any equipmentanons have QRD on this?Should I buy temu digger for my kids?Is it gooder or worse than my woods PTO backhoe?
>>2791150but the garbage being sold at auction for $20k+ is scrap when you factor in how much you need to dump into and how much down time it'll have before you can actually use it
>>2791150>>2791146Cheng's mini digger is a very simple machine. It's basically a small engine hydraulic power pack with 3 motors and 3 rams attached to it all on one circuit. It will be very easy and cheap to keep running, however Cheng being famous for QC and cutting corners. Those repairs might be quite frequent, it's a bit of a gamble.Beat to shit meth yanmar has 3 different hydraulic circuits, the pump itself costs half what you will pay for Cheng's digger from a US dealer. It's by orders of magnitude better machine, but if it craps out on you, you will be in for a price of Cheng's digger in repairs.
>>2791161that's a yanmar pump?the machine that everyone is creaming themselves over uses the same gear-type pump that chang uses? wtf?besides being 3 ports instead of 1 how is this 4-5x better then changs pump?
>>2791166Cheng has been getting betterGo with a Rippa or Infront or similar
>>2791166>that's a yanmar pump?No, that's a replacement pump made by Cheng for Yamaoka's excavator.
