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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      24/ and you are competing with people who have a lot of skill eeking out a living with marginal equipment, and with all the advantages of a local friend network, local reputation, local market knowledge. You can't move out here and, I dunno, start logging in competition w real

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      25/ ...loggers, and hope to use the profits ("profits") from that to bootstrap the homestead. Likewise raising corn, raising beef, etc I'm not saying that you can't get some cash flow from those activities, but that's after they're up and running with a heavy capital injection

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      26/ ...and that cash flow is more going to subsidize your money-losing lifestyle (which you adopt for reasons like anti-fragility / prepping, creating a lifestyle for your children, etc.) than it is going to be a positive income stream.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      27/ So, again, my advice: establish your career in the city or burbs. Become a coder. Become an electrician. A graphic designer. A welder. THEN move that career to the country, and either work remotely, or ply your trade, if it's a TRADE trade (e.g. welding, etc) locally

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      28/ OK, I've answered all the questions that OP threw at me via DM. Any other questions before I wrap up the thread and get back to writing my #homesteading_book ? Happy to share information / opinions !

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted nzc

      29/ fascinating !https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1254849900422012928 …

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      nzc @ngvrnd
      Replying to @MorlockP
      there’s a podcast called “farm to taber” where in one episode she makes the point that family farms have never been a good bet and there were factory farms more or less all the way back to Roman times. here tis: https://www.farmtotaber.com/episodes/2018/6/1/grappling-with-our-ghosts-the-american-farm-legacy …
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eric Richards

      30/ yep. You all know my situation: city boy on the homestead for ~ 7 years. I've got a friend in similar boat. Both of us white collar, so can throw capital in. Both of us have. HUGE capital sinks. He's got a massive 50 ton loader & big tractor >https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1254850385593929730 …

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      Eric Richards @EricRichards22
      Replying to @MorlockP
      You can kind of see this on shows like Alaska The Last Frontier. A farmstead that's been around for a generation or more has just accumulated _stuff_. There'll be implements out in the woods, and sheds packed full of odds and ends, stacks of lumber, scrap iron, junked cars, etc
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      31/ and I've been throwing similar capital in but in a different mix: smaller machines, but lots of them, and maybe more spent on land improvement (I think? not sure). I've got a tractor and maybe 15 implements. Old family farm prob has 4 tractors and 40, plus junk/scrap piles

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020

      32/ And there's so much stuff that's gated by either owning the right tool, or by having the wrong tool plus a welder, or by having a buddy who has the right tool and can loan it to your for a week.

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    10. Prometheus 2.1‏ @wraithburn 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @MorlockP

      There's a lot of sharing mentality that goes on. It has been disconcerting this year to run into the fact my father no longer lives nearby...and I don't have access to a truck anymore on the rare occasion I need one.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2020
      Replying to @wraithburn

      yeah, moving to a new area with few friends and no family kinda sucks in that way if I need to use an X, I either rent it or buy it - increases my costs :-/

      1:45 PM - 27 Apr 2020
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