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222 sats \ 7 replies \ @Wumbo OP 30 May \ on: The World’s $12.5 Trillion Underground Economy | SNL #174 meta
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Car: "I think before I leave this Earth, I will do something like this..."
EXACTLY the same thought I had in mind when I started this project: to leave something behind, that will be remembered many more years after I am gone. Something that people will say "oh look what that crazy dude did here, impressive work!"
If we do not leave behind something important on this Earth, why do we live on it?
For Bitcoin I will leave behind my guides (that many will be obsolete in few years) that will be remembered.
For me, my friends and family will leave this homestead behind, built by my own hands, with 0 knowledge about construction (just trial and error learn). I learned a lot of things from all this and I will write all of them in a new post on that substack. I still have to learn many more things, this is just the beginning of the project. The 2nd house will be even more impressive.
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All my life I've done many jobs. But now, after I see and feel how is building a house (by myself), I could say that is the most challenging and satisfactory job ever.
Seems easy at first sight, but is damn hard. ofc when you are doing it in "darth style", without any machinery help.
Many people asked me why I do not pay somebody to help me or even build it for me, professional ones. Or I can even pay to bring me a whole house with the helicopter and land it there...
But my answer will always be the same: that will not be built by my own hands and sweat. The experience of building your own house change your perspective about the world.
It will be just another toy bought with my sats. My sats are extremely valuable and will be spent only when I cannot do it myself. Yes, somehow, I pushed this project to a unimaginable limit, where very few people will even dare to start such project. I saw many YT videos with guys building a house, but most of them are fake, with prefabricated parts and using advanced tools and machinery. My idea was to feel the pain of construction as our ancestors did hundreds of years ago, building their houses and roads, with bare hands, rudimentary tools and stones. It blows my mind seeing around in those mountains the remains of those roads, terracing walls and old stone houses, built hundreds of years ago and are still in place. But nobody in today modern world come to even repair those walk paths and walls. I will make some pictures of those old constructions near by and post them on SN later.
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There are many interesting details that I didn't mention in the post. Due to the isolated location, I am forced to find quick solutions that I never imagine I would be capable to do.
I have some basic tools like: an ax, a shovel, a fork, 2 buckets, a hand-saw and finally for cutting the trees I bring a small electric chainsaw (but not so powerful).
Right now there's no electricity there so each time I use the electric chainsaw I have to bring with me the charged batteries. And these batteries do not last long. So I have to cut the wood part with the chainsaw, part with the handsaw. So I have to think very careful which one I have to use and when.
And there's no communication signal there. None, not even radio. The place is on the bottom of a valley between high mountains. I am not even sure if a starlink will work there.
For the moment I am not focused on making some electrical installations (solar or hydro) but are in plans for later, when the roof (at least the half of the house) is ready so I can put important stuff under the roof. Yes, the small river next to me is enough to offer me a small hydro-power station, so I will have 24/7 electricity, with no problem. But in this phase I have nothing.
Yes, indeed there are many challenges every day there and my mind goes full blown trying to find the best solution.
For example about that "log on wheels".
It was a fallen pine tree from a year ago, from a heavy storm. I always try to use the fallen trees and not cutting young ones. I try to respect as much as I can the environment around me because is also a protection for me.
So that pine tree was like at 400m distance from my place, but through a long distance full of volcanic big boulders (I will bring a picture with it), not a forest. So I had to drag that big 4m long log through rough terrain. 6h took me to bring it only with my bare hands, to that green clear where I could put the wheels. So the picture is just a small part of the "log journey". And in fact were 2 logs of 4m, so imagine my struggle only to bring them, plus cutting them and clean from branches.
So yeah those wheels were my last "invention" to use for the last 100m to drag that monster log. On the rocks the friction was not so hard, but surprisingly dragging a log on grass is even heavier ! So I had that wheels cart used to carry some big rocks before and came to my mind to re-use it for the log, eliminating the friction with the grass. And worked super nice, instead of dragging it for hours, took me 5 min to move it 100m.
Another example of "find solutions" in place. The handsaw lost its central screw. So I had to make another invention to be able to continue my work:
Just fit some piece of metal inside and hammer it until remain fixed. Is ugly but it works, it serve the purpose.
And many small little challenges like these I have every day. The need is pushing you to use your brain at total capacity. You have no other choice, or give up. But "give up" is not in Darth vocabulary.