"new" back to basics attitudes?

[park ranger]

Dan , as far as tillers for the garden goes my wife has a big garden and we found the big gear drive tillers heavy and too slow even to get to the garden.  We have a 4hp and a 2 hp merry tiller and they till circles around the big gear drive. She runs down the rows with the 2hp to keep the weeds down and sells enough to pay the property taxes every year.

[campy]

Thanks for the wonderful posts. 

For me this is about freedom and slavery.

My aim is to do two things:
1) deleverage - get out of debt
2) demonitize - that means to minimize the use of money as a medium of exchange.  Wood or any commodity can serve as a medium of exchange.   This comes in two basic forms.  The first is to work less for money and earn less money.  The second is to spend less.    Sometimes I trade/barter but usually I am just generous with worthy people.  Another form of this is to simply use my own wood for building or firewood.

Let's all keep this land full of free and brave peole. 

[ForestMan]

Amen campy!  Well said.

[zopi]

da, it's all about the barter...took a young lady over to see a friend of mine about a retirement shadow box, and would up selling some of my big machinery to him, gonna give him a little pallet of red oak, and I'm getting the huge old eastern red cedar out of his front yard for him.

Not bad for one cup of coffee...

I LUUuuuuuuurrrves me some cedar.

[Oregon_Sawyer]

When we built our new house it ended up going over budget.  ALOT.  I just keep whittling the bills down and we are gaining on it.

I try to trade whenever I can.  Over Christmas my 4x4 overheated.  We determined that the radiator was plugged.  Was going to have it rodded and cleaned  out but first I priced a new one.  After I got the price I told him I was going to be reloading 41 magnum ammo soon. His eyes lit up and he went and got his empties and some bullets and powder.  Then he found some 9mm brass that needed to be reloaded.

So with my time (and expertise) and his components I will not have to pay a thing for the new radiator.

Always ask what someone is needing or looking for.

I have a lot of short cedar boards left over.  I am trading for deck furniture and he is going to cut up some logs for firewood for me.

Win win!!