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Jeremy Chartier
Articles by Jeremy Chartier
The Best Wood-Burning Stoves for Off-Grid Living
Picking the best wood burning stoves for your homestead is a personal affair. Factors including your budget, your intended use, and personal preferences will largely dictate what stove you choose.
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Diesel Injection — When Even the Best Small Farm Tractor Fails
Click Click, Click Click … That’s the starter telling me that I’ve officially drained the battery of all its go juice, again.
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Decoding Tractor Tire Sizes
Different sized tractors call for different tractor tire sizes, and styles for that matter. Understanding the gibberish printed on the sidewall of your tires is your first step to understanding what you need to buy to properly shod your mechanical workhorse.
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Changing a Tractor Tire Valve Stem
It’s never fun to have a flat tire. It seems that you’re almost guaranteed that you’ll get a flat tractor tire in the worst of spots and the worst of times.
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Getting Started with an Oxy-Acetylene Torch
Acetylene gas is flammable, but will not reach temperatures hot enough to turn metal into molten material alone, so oxygen is added to intensify the heat.
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Tips For The Beginner Welder
Welding is a useful skill that can save you lots of money and could even open up employment options you wouldn’t have had before.
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Why a PTO Slip Clutch Needs to Make Your Farm Tools List
Add to Favorites Anyone who owns a proper farm tractor will tell you two things: they’re indispensable and they’re expensive to fix. I recently pursued a quote for repairs on …
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How to Build a Goat Barn Using a Prefab Shed
Add to Favorites Goat barns are essential if you raise goats, regardless of what sort of climate you reside in. When I was big into dairy goats, my family had …
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Ballast: The Tractor Tire Fluids Rundown
Do you have good tires, but still have a hard time gaining traction on loose/wet surfaces? Adding downforce with tire fluid can assist on slippery surfaces.
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Prepping Your Property for Emergencies
Fire preparedness is an often overlooked issue on the farm and homestead. Have you looked at your homestead or farm through the eyes of a firefighter?
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Firearm Responsibility
Add to Favorites Owning a firearm for many homesteaders is merely a matter of course. Farmers and ranchers have been keeping guns to guard livestock even before life in the …
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A First Aid Kit for Rural Living
Add to Favorites Using a first aid kit contents checklist is an excellent way to build a customized emergency kit, but with so many lists on the internet, which do …
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Owning A Firearm Responsibly
Add to Favorites Owning a firearm for many homesteaders is merely a matter of course. Farmers and ranchers have been keeping guns to guard livestock even before life in the …
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How To Clean a Chimney
Learning how to clean a chimney is one of those skills every homesteader should know. It’s not the most glamorous thing to do, but it’s very important.
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Digging Holes 101
Since the dawn of agrarian culture, we’ve been inventing and reinventing ways to keep domesticated animals contained. Many things in our culture have radically changed such as how we communicate, but by in large, fence technology hasn’t really changed all that much.
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