Re: hydraulics & wood: been there! Still there! We are reclusive, like it like that. Recently discovered Instacart - life is good! I wouldn’t trade the hillbilly life for anything. Close to the earth, close to God. Doesn’t get better then that!
As a fellow hillbilly, I can honestly say that There’s a certain Banner of Honor to those close to the earth! When the SHTF, all these citified folks will want to know our ways!
I’d like to see this older thread resurrected too. I gather the eggs every afternoon (when the ladies are done ‘paying their rent’, and put them directly in the fridge, unwashed. I wasn’t raised on a farm, chickens is a fairly new adventure for us, so my brain is still stuck on store-bought...