Welder Dave
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You need to look at other options. Things seem to just be getting worse with your current situation.
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Komatsu PC60-7: Yet ANOTHER Hydraulic Line Failure Today
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Mark A Weiss
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Not many good options. I've lived a pretty long life. Just wish my daughter could inherit my estate.
Started clearing an area for my chicken coops today. Then the track fell off. Seemed like it hadn't happened since having the upper rollers replaced 2 years ago, but it caught me by surprise. These new tracks I put on 5 years ago always seemed to come off when I drive over rough terrain. The original tracks didn't come off until they literally broke in half.
I'm in a muddy patch here, so putting blocks under the car so I can stretch chains in opposite directions would be near impossible. Plus there isn't a tree nearby that I can attach a come along to and pull from one side while I use the bucket to pull the other end back over the sprocket. If it's not one thing, it's another...
Started clearing an area for my chicken coops today. Then the track fell off. Seemed like it hadn't happened since having the upper rollers replaced 2 years ago, but it caught me by surprise. These new tracks I put on 5 years ago always seemed to come off when I drive over rough terrain. The original tracks didn't come off until they literally broke in half.
I'm in a muddy patch here, so putting blocks under the car so I can stretch chains in opposite directions would be near impossible. Plus there isn't a tree nearby that I can attach a come along to and pull from one side while I use the bucket to pull the other end back over the sprocket. If it's not one thing, it's another...
Welder Dave
Senior Member
That sucks. Was the track a little loose? At least you got your road fixed. Maybe your neighbour can help you get the track back on.
Mark A Weiss
Senior Member
No, track was tight. I was working on raw earth, with rocks in it. Seems to happen a lot with the new tracks which are more elastic than the original rubber tracks.
The good news is, 2 hours, 3 chains and I finally got the track back on the excavator. I had to think in terms of physics and vectors and creatively use my chains and the bucket. Wish I had a timelapse video of the process!
Welder Dave
Senior Member
Glad you got it back on.
HarleyHappy
Senior Member
Well, sounds like you’re not dead yet. Forge on!
Mark A Weiss
Senior Member
Got two loads of fill this morning for a very good price (the mechanic hooked me up with his associate. I'd been paying way too much for fill from a different supplier in years past. Great rate from the new guys.
Started spreading it out today. I sped up the boring parts.
Started spreading it out today. I sped up the boring parts.
Georgia Iron
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Mark.
I dont know where you live. But here is an idea to help with funding.
You need to make your property income producing. You could clear out a few places for traveling people to set up tents. Over night camp spots 15.00 per night. A website you could explore advertising on is.
https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US
Make your place somewhere someone wants to come back to. Peaceful, privacy and quiet.
You could also set up a place for a travel trailer to use. Maybe for hunters.
I use places like that when working out of town. Paid up to 30.00 per night for safe truck parking. Don't like staying in the city.
I dont know where you live. But here is an idea to help with funding.
You need to make your property income producing. You could clear out a few places for traveling people to set up tents. Over night camp spots 15.00 per night. A website you could explore advertising on is.
https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US
Make your place somewhere someone wants to come back to. Peaceful, privacy and quiet.
You could also set up a place for a travel trailer to use. Maybe for hunters.
I use places like that when working out of town. Paid up to 30.00 per night for safe truck parking. Don't like staying in the city.
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Mark A Weiss
Senior Member
I have only 1/2 acre lot. My vegetable gardens and solar farm take up every foot of space that's not occupied by house or driveway.
Also, neighbors would complain to Zoning right away if I did have the room.
Acoals
Senior Member
Japan pipe dreams notwithstanding, there are a lot of places in the US that are a whole lot cheaper and more free to live than Connecticut, or anywhere else on the East Coast, especially Mid Atlantic area.
A crummy house on a small lot in rural Wisconsin would be less than $1,000 a year in property taxes. If you pick your townships right you won't have zoning either.
I grew on the East Coast, I know all about CT and NY and big government . . .
A crummy house on a small lot in rural Wisconsin would be less than $1,000 a year in property taxes. If you pick your townships right you won't have zoning either.
I grew on the East Coast, I know all about CT and NY and big government . . .
Mark A Weiss
Senior Member
While price may be cheaper, it comes with other serious problems like flood, tornadoes, meth addicts, crazy cops, and hot, humid weather that's unbearable.
At my age and health, I need to be near quality healthcare, which I have at my current location.
Besides, I couldn't survive a move. I'd need to get a mortgage to buy another place, then I'm inheriting other people's problems. Wisconsin is one of the last places on earth I'd ever want to find myself in, based on the news lately. Their government is insane and the people are living in some sort of political fantasy.
At least in CT, the cops won't shoot you dead when they pull you over for a taillight.
Will see what April 8 meeting with BoAA holds. I have to take lots of photos of the rot. Already took aerials of the wetland's proximity to the house.
There is no place in the US that is safe. If I were to move, it would be out of US jurisdiction. I have a dim view of the US gov and how it's become over the past 34 years.
At my age and health, I need to be near quality healthcare, which I have at my current location.
Besides, I couldn't survive a move. I'd need to get a mortgage to buy another place, then I'm inheriting other people's problems. Wisconsin is one of the last places on earth I'd ever want to find myself in, based on the news lately. Their government is insane and the people are living in some sort of political fantasy.
At least in CT, the cops won't shoot you dead when they pull you over for a taillight.
Will see what April 8 meeting with BoAA holds. I have to take lots of photos of the rot. Already took aerials of the wetland's proximity to the house.
There is no place in the US that is safe. If I were to move, it would be out of US jurisdiction. I have a dim view of the US gov and how it's become over the past 34 years.
AMBMike
Senior Member
I'm assuming since you're posting this on an internet forum you're open to comments.
I going to go out on a limb here and say that Japan or anywhere else you move to will look great until you actually get there.
I believe it was Abraham Lincoln that said "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be".
YMMV
Best of luck to you on your meeting and your future.
I going to go out on a limb here and say that Japan or anywhere else you move to will look great until you actually get there.
I believe it was Abraham Lincoln that said "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be".
YMMV
Best of luck to you on your meeting and your future.
Mark A Weiss
Senior Member
I'd actually been to Japan and studied the language since 1987. All of my remaining (still living) friends are in Japan. My wife's childhood friend is in Yachio, Chiba, Japan. My high school friend is in Kawasaki. I have an audiophile friend who lived in Ishikawa, out on the Noto Peninsula. He just moved to Kobe because of the earthquake damage at his old house.
Japan has many cheap houses, and the property taxes are about $150 a year. That's the main motivation for moving. The other is I can't stand my country of birth. It's like the old Soviet Union now. That's how it hit me, returning from Japan to JFK Airport terminal. Reminded me of 1950s Soviet era.
I'm so used to the culture there, I feel more comfortable among Japanese than I do Americans. I love everything about Japan, except maybe the sarlaryman culture of working to death.
The only problem is that I haven't found a way to circumvent the immigration requirements. They raised the Business Manager Visa cash deposit from Y5M to Y30M last fall. Now I must afford to pay two full time Japanese employees from the start. The language level was just raised to N2, which is sufficient to read and understand legal documents and contracts. I will have to study more. But the real barrier is money for that visa.
Meanwhile, I'm building a chicken coop:
Japan has many cheap houses, and the property taxes are about $150 a year. That's the main motivation for moving. The other is I can't stand my country of birth. It's like the old Soviet Union now. That's how it hit me, returning from Japan to JFK Airport terminal. Reminded me of 1950s Soviet era.
I'm so used to the culture there, I feel more comfortable among Japanese than I do Americans. I love everything about Japan, except maybe the sarlaryman culture of working to death.
The only problem is that I haven't found a way to circumvent the immigration requirements. They raised the Business Manager Visa cash deposit from Y5M to Y30M last fall. Now I must afford to pay two full time Japanese employees from the start. The language level was just raised to N2, which is sufficient to read and understand legal documents and contracts. I will have to study more. But the real barrier is money for that visa.
Meanwhile, I'm building a chicken coop:
Welder Dave
Senior Member
I think you're just bringing yourself down. No matter what anyone suggests you always find doom and gloom. You can't spend all your time worrying about things beyond your control. The only way it could be more apparent is if you lived in a concrete bunker with 4' thick walls! You need to have some happy thoughts instead of always being negative.
Mark A Weiss
Senior Member
Actually, I DO live in a concrete bunker with 3' thick walls.. I built the house during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the lower floor is a fallout/bomb shelter. Part of the reason it took me nearly forty years to build it.
AMBMike
Senior Member
So to recap...
You built the house with used barn lumber and 3' thick concrete walls in a swamp over a 40 year time period in 1966 during the 13 day Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Did I get that all correct?
No judgement here but I think I'm starting to understand the feelings of the neighbors and the township...
I think you can still buy a cold war missile silo in the Midwest if you're really serious about security.
You built the house with used barn lumber and 3' thick concrete walls in a swamp over a 40 year time period in 1966 during the 13 day Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Did I get that all correct?
No judgement here but I think I'm starting to understand the feelings of the neighbors and the township...
I think you can still buy a cold war missile silo in the Midwest if you're really serious about security.
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Mark A Weiss
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Things like nuclear annihilation scare made me a prepper. The property was cheap, on a mountaintop (didn't want to experience the flood of '55 again) and my parents had just lost the roof of their home to a tornado the year prior. I was determined to build a secure home.
Building without permits didn't help my relationship with the occupying government down on Main St. but compliance with laws would have limited my ability to construct on my weekly paychecks. Beaurocracy adds so much to the cost of construction.
Only the wealthy are buying cold war missile silos. I can maybe scrape together $3K nowadays to buy a cheap house in Japan.
Building without permits didn't help my relationship with the occupying government down on Main St. but compliance with laws would have limited my ability to construct on my weekly paychecks. Beaurocracy adds so much to the cost of construction.
Only the wealthy are buying cold war missile silos. I can maybe scrape together $3K nowadays to buy a cheap house in Japan.
Welder Dave
Senior Member
Sounds like you've had a doomsday phobia for over 50 years and your priorities are mixed up. There are things you have no control over. Perhaps you should have been talking to professionals a long time ago to deal with your issues.
Mark A Weiss
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I'm just aware that the world is not as safe as it was in the 1950s. How much longer can an unsustainable economy last? If you're not living off grid in a remote location, there's a real possibility of serious danger when **** happens. And the way things are going this year, **** is looking imminent.
I only hope I feel well enough to build this chicken coop that I'm designing. Plan to live off my gardens and chickens.
I only hope I feel well enough to build this chicken coop that I'm designing. Plan to live off my gardens and chickens.
HarleyHappy
Senior Member
Good luck on the coop. May your basket be filled to the brim with eggs, as it seems as if your basket has been a few eggs shy of a full omlet, as of late!
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