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Long Term Food Storage. How to Sharpen Tools: The Family Handyman. Sharpening your tools Years ago, I drove by a storefront with a hand-painted plywood sign.

How to Sharpen Tools: The Family Handyman

It read “Tool Sharpening.” Curious, I gathered a boxful of dull old handsaws and circular saw blades in my garage and carried them up to the store with the hope of getting them sharpened. Inside I saw a lean old fellow with wisps of gray hair curling from the backside of an old hunting cap. He was hunched over his vise illuminated by a single 150-watt bulb hanging from the 12-ft. ceiling. Self Sufficiency Guides for living a more Self Sufficient Life. Practical self sufficiency through food skills. The Self Sufficient Blog. The Self Sufficient Blog is my mini-journal about self sufficent farm living.

The Self Sufficient Blog

It... -- keeps you up-to-date on new information and what others are doing to become more self sufficient. ---New methods and creative approaches to farm living. DIY: How to Make Endless Hot Water Without Electricity. Using some recycled parts and a small rocket stove you can heat and pump all the hot water you will ever need without power.

DIY: How to Make Endless Hot Water Without Electricity

This ingenious technique utilizes thermal siphon pumping to move the freshly heated water into the reservoir. Image:YouTube hot waterOff Gridsustainabilityvideo Related Posts. How to Start a Fire Without Matches.