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Toby

@smithlabs

Husband, Father, Christian, Inventor, Electrical Engineer, Prepper, Homesteader, Solar Nut, gemstone collector, and Ham Radio operator

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Toby
@smithlabs Sep 15, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

My first grade grandson loves Algebra.

I got my grandson a dry erase board for Christmas. He was running out of chalkboard space for his equations. My Daughter asked him about his dog Lincoln whining (he wanted food); and this is the resu…

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Toby
@smithlabs Feb 27, 2024, 5:05 AM UTC

Sunday the homeless meal went very well!

The last Sunday of every month we feed the homeless here in Tulsa. This time we fed 102 meals, and it ran smoothly! The volunteers are experienced, and can run the whole thing without direction. We g…

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Toby
@smithlabs Feb 22, 2024, 10:59 AM UTC

An unexpected foot falls today in NYC, investors begin leaving; to avoid similar fines in real estate transactions!

I didn't see this one coming! It makes sense that real estate investors would be concerned, because everything they do is now subject to the same possible fines! Here, a major speculator is not build…

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Toby
@smithlabs Feb 20, 2024, 12:29 PM UTC

Truck drivers boycott (effectively mooning) NY state; as is their Constitutional right!

You can only push so far, and the other shoe will fall! Now we get see if the man sitting in the oval office (or his handlers), will try to be as big a Tyrant as the Worm to our north.... Truckers ar…

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Toby
@smithlabs Feb 10, 2024, 6:40 AM UTC

The worst vegetable to stack in your prepping supplies.

When prepping, the first step most people is to buy canned food for storage. Nothing wrong with starting here, I did myself. There is one commercially canned vegetable that does not store well on the…

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Toby
@smithlabs Jan 24, 2024, 8:26 AM UTC

Some common mistakes preppers make, and how we fix it!

I have noticed several mistakes that seem to keep recurring in the prepper community. So I decided to post on these problems; and offer an explanation of why they are a mistake, IMHO! First a little…

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Toby
@smithlabs Jan 22, 2024, 6:56 AM UTC

Sometimes things just fall into place....

Some things just need to happen to get moved out to the homestead permanently. I need to be able to mill some trees into lumber, so I can use them in some of the homestead construction. I lost a 3 fo…

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Toby
@smithlabs Dec 25, 2023, 9:01 AM UTC

How will you open your can stored food after SHTF?

A question that begins simply, and move to complex areas quickly. Most preppers begin with a kitchen can opener, usually in pairs; with a P-38 on their keychain for backup. This will get you in troub…

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Toby
@smithlabs Dec 20, 2023, 8:07 AM UTC

So it begins, converting a building to a net zero house!

Most people start at the Solar panels, batteries, and wind generators; to move fully off grid. I started that way myself, until I realized that it is backwards. You can throw 5 time as much energy at…

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Toby
@smithlabs Dec 15, 2023, 3:37 AM UTC

There was a limb down on my Son's house...so we removed it!

My Son bought a house to rent, about 90 miles away from here; because he could pay cash for it! He intends to rent it, but with all of low cost properties, it needs a lot of repair. We got a call fro…

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