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Dude you want to sell your tank? Someone put a crappy 5 gallon tank on my 1997 and it looks like an old milk jug 😖I Don need the capacity or the crappy look I would love to have an original tank but all the use ones are beat up rusty and crazy expensive.
Hands down, I will follow you and your channel to the very end. I really enjoy your content, and really appreciate the time you take to make all your videos. And just to say, these “shtf what if” videos you make are perfect. I have watched them all and they are really very informative. It really puts my mind in that mindset and really helps me get better prepared. Im an industrial precision mechanic/ welder by trade. I know how the long work days and how that takes me away from my friends and the things I wanna do. Oh, and by the way, I play a fender acoustic guitar myself. Hang in there! You ever wanna jam give me a holler.
I think that the whole point of homesteading is that you're willing to let your mind turn ideas around as you look for tried and true, but also new and innovative ways of doing work. The work will always be there so you're looking to maximize time and get a little enjoyment from the process! Looks like you have the materials to let your imagination run wild. LOL
I have no family or friends. I feel like I'm better off. They mostly all turned on me while none of them gave any support. I'm still married, but that relationship has been very difficult too. I do get lonely sometimes, but I have accepted it and just try to keep my animals around me. Nobody seems to be interested in anybodies opinions or input anymore. I find that most men feel insecure around me and maybe envious because I live a rugged life. I can't be sure exactly, but knowing people isn't worth it right now. I don't even have to open my mouth and people are already offended. Little devils seem to pass from person to person creating drama.
I have to constantly remind myself to work on my relationship with my wife. We all get comfortable and tend to take that relationship for granted. I should have said in the video that my wife is my best friend and my main cure for loneliness. She gets me and I can tell her when I'm struggling to process new information or the next emergency. Hang in there brother, read the other comments and you'll see many of us are feeling the same way.
@TheHandsOnChannel Yea. I like reading through the comments. There's just a powerful influence over people's minds right now. The technology is doing its job.
@TheHandsOnChannel I've been through so much treachery over the last 5 years. I just bought 25 acres 5 hrs away. I moved without telling anybody. Problem now is I can't muster up the energy to get much done. Is anybody else finding themselves short on energy lately?
Bro there allowing illegals in Arizona to vote and Harris is paying her "supporters" $700 a week and bussing them in and yet CNN MSNBC ABC are all on coffee breaks it's disgusting!!!!
The whole system is corrupt I never understood how these elected officials make $175/200k a year and some how are worth millions of dollars. Our entire system is compromised and we the people sit back and let it happen it's mind blowing to me. We have become pussified Trump is the voice for us little people average everyday nobodies and if he loses were fuckin screwed!!!! Harris voters are blind they can't answer what she did for us because she didn't do jack shit.... But she's a women and of color VOTE ON FUCKIN POLICY NOT BULLSHIT!!!!!!
I agree. In my case I chose to say to hell with people. I've been screwed by people and most people honestly are annoying. I chose dogs as my family and friends. I make an unusual living and do not deal with people. I find it comforting however my anxiety is higher because I live too close to neighbors and what not. I get everything I need delivered so honestly I can stay in my house for weeks at a time.
It's just life. I'm 72 now. I don't have an enemy in the world. They are all dead. I count my blessings that I have a few good friends. My family mostly appreciates me. My church family is good. I have kids, grandkids and great grandkids. I count my blessings and keep on going. I am alone a lot but i am never lonely. Yah has promised to never leave me or forsake me.
I like how you put that, alone but never lonely. I feel the same way most of the time and I really do enjoy the solitude, I should have said that in the video.
So much resonates with me in here. But I have come to terms in living more like hermit (with my wife and my animals). I used to be very social, but something is broken these days. People suck all my life energy when I interact with them. My animals refill this energy (either in the pasture or on my plate). I'm good with this life going forward. People can think we're dumb for doing the things we are doing, but I believe deep inside they would like to do the same thing but come up with thousands of excuses on why it's not possible for them. I'm done trying to convince.
Most people see the writing on the wall., that this system is broken and needs to be changed. Yet as we lean in to our own sovereignty and independence in preparation we feel weak and vulnerable and realize we either have to give up things or actually work with our neighbors to rebuild local communities. As long as things are hunky dory people with resist reconnecting.
The Internet + social media has been a net negative imho. Ted K tried to warn us yet here we are… for what it’s worth I’m 35 & alone. Gonna get a dog next year & have one good friend in my state whom I see maybe once a year but otherwise on my own (see & talk to parents regularly but they’re woke/libtards). I enjoy the solitude at times but to your point it does get old too. Ennui is a real thing 💯
I'm the same way HoC. And from what I see in comments. There's a bunch of us in the same boat. I bought a homestead last fall. Worked on it all winter, and moved here in the Spring. Totally off grid. It's Rustic, and a work in progress. Probably will be for the rest of me life. I thought at least my adult kids would dig it. But they're not interested at all. Friends all drifted away. That's been happening ever since I moved up north. Wish I had a neighbor like you, Bud. I think we're in the same state. But I'm a lot farther up.
I ended a 17 year friendship, awhile ago. Their true narcissistic colors came out and I had had enough. Tombstone is a great movie and like Doc. I have very few friends. You were born the year I graduated high school. A word of advice.. keep your body in the best shape you can. Avoid injury as best you can. Devices to help you feed your critters will be appreciated as you get older. There is a difference between being lonely and being alone.
I know what you mean, humans thrive on human interactions. It's different when the human part was gone. I have that same dream, just can't get the land 😅. That would be the dream..... I think they'd be lucky to have a family member thats trying to develope that for their family Bub. Everybody strives to be part of society, but society isn't what it used to be
I feel you, there are definitely lonely times, I live alone but have 2 good dogs, they help, I sold my Alvarez regent series Acoustic guitar, that was a big mistake, DONT SELL YOUR GUITAR, glad you think of us as friends, you're my friend, a friend tells you the truth, I have a channel, and have run into subs at Walmart, the first time it did freak me out as well... but I have met alot of good ppl IRL from the tube, I carry, so I take precautions... God bless you buddy... keep going
High school friends got married and drifted away. Had work friends, then those dissolved as jobs changed. Neighbors or I moved and lost contact. Had some property, but had to move back to the burbs to take in my elderly mother. Lately my wife's needed multiple surgeries and ive hardly had any time to even say hey to the neighbors when we see each other outside. Stock up on storeable food and water. Maybe it's better not to have any close friends who aren't on board with prepping or they will turn into a mob looking for your stuff.
In our last neighborhood before moving to Texas, we had neighbors move in and it was 3 years before we knew they had kids. They never came outside. I ride my motorcycle frequently. My wife rides hers too. I’ve decided, after all the medical problems and surgeries I’ve had, that I’d rather die with adrenaline coursing through my veins than to wither away and die from sickness. I had freind for 35 years. He was hit head on by a fractec truck. Killed him instantly. Since moving to Texas, I formed a friendship with a neighbor. He’s a young guy at 55, but he rides a motorcycle. We rode together a few times. Then I found out he was an atheist. No big deal, I’m a Christian, but I don’t push it on others. Then I found out he was a hardcore liberal. Ok, I can move past that. Then he was over one day and I noticed a ring he was wearing. It had a pentagram on it. I asked him if he knew what that represented. He said he did. I’d rather have no friends, than bad friends. It’s just my wife and I. I can live with that. We ride Friday, rode Saturday, and I’m riding today. I loathe talking on the phone. It’s always an interruption. I’m never not doing something. In my shop, I have to shut down machines in order to talk. At the house, I go to bed very early, so I shut my phone off when I go to bed. I get up about 3:00, so no one would call that early. I’m old now, I’m quite content to be a little lonely. Ive experienced enough bad friendship to know which is worse. Loneliness or betrayal.
You nailed it with this topic! I’ve lost or given up ALOT of friends and even family for the same reasons. I will admit most of the losses have been my choice. I’m not sure it’s supposed to be this way but the older I’ve become the less tolerant of peoples bs I am. Admittedly my biggest fault is I’m am extremely unforgiving if I’ve been wronged in some way. I’m a one and done kind of person and there is zero chance I will ever respect or trust that person again. I can speak to those folks casually but can never trust or forgive them again no matter how much time passes and it usually on my part comes with a tone of distain.
I watched an episode of Charle Kirk and Vivek Ramaswamy taking these liberal college f tards to school I'll just say they got their liberal asses handed back to them a little bit deprogrammed I do believe they're making a difference like Martha Stewart used to say "it's a good thing" 😅
