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Your long term DIY goals/plans Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:24:36 2011 No.39392 [Reply] [Original]

>Buy a bare-minimum of 9 acres of land
>Buy 4 shipping containers, insulated.
>Use them as building material for a home.
>Make two large hydroponic greenhouses, fertilizing them by integrating a fish farm into the system.
>Power them with solar panels(water pumps and timers shouldn't take too much power)
>Heat them with compost piles
>Eat fresh fish and veges for most of the year.
>Craft swords/armor for fun--pic related
>Build a bitchin' awesome teardrop trailer for traveling.
So, /diy/, what are your plans/goals?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:26:36 2011 No.39400 Thats pretty much /diy/. Blacksmithing, shipping container housing, hydroponic greenhouses, etc. +1 OP

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:27:36 2011 No.39401 you must be rich to do that op

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:28:36 2011 No.39405 >>39392 >>lrn2blacksmith >>get some land >>custom build giant piranha tank >>Build a very powerful laser >>Build a powerful gun powered via magnetism (coil/rail/etc.) >>A UAV programmed with coordinates to go to that place, take a picture, then fly back

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:29:36 2011 No.39412 >build myself Large Hadron Collider that is my plan

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:30:36 2011 No.39422 >>39401 Not at all. Everything is in the planning and the knowing of the right people, Anon.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:34:36 2011 No.39434

>Buy unspecified amount of land. Enough to raise horses on.
>Buy two personal horses, probably clydesdales.
>Rent out extra stable space. Make money with this.
>Feed horses best possible diet. Obtain manure.
>Cure some manure as fertilizer, use some on gardens, sell rest of fertilizer.
>Cure some for mushroom growth. Grow portabellas. Sell as organic.
>Continue study and maybe discover a way to grow chanterelles.

I would be happier than a pig in shit with this set-up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:34:36 2011 No.39438 >>39422 "Knowing the right people" means knowing people who are rich, or knowing people who are willing to waste their own resources (or steal from their employers).

>>	generictripfag !!2gvSr5QNeFI Sat Oct 29 22:37:36 2011 No.39446 I've wanted to see a DIY all-climate food system. Greenhouses, hydroponic gardens, and some tilapia tanks. Make your own special fish jerky for added DIY points.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:44:36 2011 No.39473 >>39434 lol, i hate horse people

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:45:36 2011 No.39477 >buy an old warehouse/factory >live in it it's going to be a fucking awesome bro pad. will probably need a lot of work though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:47:36 2011 No.39484 >>39438 Sure it does, bud.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:48:36 2011 No.39491 >>39477 That's probably a zoning nightmare.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:48:36 2011 No.39493

>>39473
I'm actually a mushroom person. I'm using the horses to produce extra cash and as I like animals.
I would substitute sheep, elephants, or dairy cows if possible and cost-effective. It's just with horses I can think of people actually looking to find places to store them, so I don't have to actually buy a lot of them myself.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 22:58:36 2011 No.39524

> get an aquaponics research grant
> get 120 acres in northern nevada
> Start an aquaponics research facility, pay myself a wage from the sales of produce
> Buy the land and greenhouses from the corporate entity that got the grant
> build house, and art school with all the DIY workshops you can imagine, from glass blowing to black smithing, to CNC machining
> charge hippies to learn skills and live in bunk houses
> write letters to request artists from arount the world crash and teach <And create art>
> run an entirely self sustained art collective.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:00:36 2011 No.39528 >>39491 depends on the town.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:02:36 2011 No.39534 a floating home on the sea (I'm close to the mediteranean sea) Fish like a motherfucker all day long. Drink Weed. Smoke Beer. that type of plan..

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:03:36 2011 No.39539 >>39524 I'd offer my services as a work slave in exchange for free board/food if this were real.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:06:36 2011 No.39551

1. Finishing growing my gourd, to make a sitar and/or surbahar
2.Construct a compost pile for my garden
3. Build a tiny house in Goa, India on the beach
4.Build huge garden and sell fresh vegies to locals
5. Use my sitar to start a hindustani-jazz fusion band
6.???
7.लाभ!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:08:36 2011 No.39557 File: 32 KB, 212x172, Screen shot 2011-10-29 at 8.15.24 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>39524 this is extremely relevant to long term diy plans my fiance and I have.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:09:36 2011 No.39561 File: 13 KB, 104x95, Screen shot 2011-10-29 at 8.16.33 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>39551 This too!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:11:36 2011 No.39566 /diy/ - Shipping containers. I don't really mind but I find it humorous that there are 5 active threads about shipping containers.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:14:36 2011 No.39578

>Graduate with a degree in architecture
>Practice architecture for a few years with a big firm
>Get a masters degree in Acoustic Engineering
>Start a firm designing music studios, homes, concert halls
>Build myself a studio, live there and produce music in free time / have producers who work there, record music, etc / do architecture for my firm
>Eventually settle down, design a dream home, live there and have a family happily ever after

Alternatively:
>Go to law school
>Work at big farm
>Retire after 10 yerars, jump to buying a nice home and retiring

>Build myself a studio, live there and

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:16:36 2011 No.39587 >>39578 >Go to law school >Work at big farm >Buy shipping containers to build house >Retire after 10 yerars, jump to buying a nice home and retiring

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:17:36 2011 No.39590 >move into my grandparent's okra plantation >convert half of it to other crops [avocados?] >restore thier old wooden house >build a boat and learn to net fish >try and reintroduce tilapia into the small lake in the back.

Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Sat Oct 29 23:18:36 2011 No.39594
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>Graduate in Aerospace Engineering
>use skills to advance open manufacturing
>get a job and work on the Global Village Construction Set in my spare time, while studying molecular chemistry and scanning probe chemistry
>expand Zyvex's atomically precise manufacturing system to a molecular manufacturing system for macroscale products
>create cornucopia machine
>peasants rejoice

I can stop at #3 and instead go live in a tiny house in the woods with a complete closed-loop life support (Aquaponics, a little greenhouse, whole thing).

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:21:36 2011 No.39600 There's this fucking huge abandoned factory in my city, I want to buy it and make it a ginourmous mechatronic lab, no I really want to do this that's bassicly my life's plan

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:26:36 2011 No.39613
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buy a plot of land 60ftx60ft, put three 40ft ISO shipping containers on it. some magic welding, cutting&gutting, stick a shitload of insulation and other crap up, then live in them. as time goes by, add the forge(20ft ISO shipping container required ><)

possibly a fish pond at some point, but i doubt it. it'll basically be a party pad with a balcony(or two! :D)

there's my concept sketch, but i'm shit at using a computer. much better using a pen&paper, but yeah.

Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:34:36 2011 No.39637

>Live with my parents for a few years after I hopefully get a job with my technical college degree, to save up a decent bit of money.
>Spend said money on the cheapest undeveloped land I can find. Buy enough to be able to grow most of my own food and have a decent woodlot for firewood.
>Build a small, cheap house on said land.
>Attempt to live mostly money-free.
>Hardmode: Only use technology that I build myself. Hopefully over the next few years while I'm saving money, I'll be able to hone my skills to the point where I will no longer need to buy anything.

Basically I want to be one of those wise hermits you hear about in stories. I'm nowhere near that level of skill yet, though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 29 23:39:36 2011 No.39656 /diy/- Shipping Containers

Anonymous Sun Oct 30 00:12:36 2011 No.39715

In the next year:
>Grow own tomatoes, peppers, chilies, onions, and herbs... possibly garlic
>Make own salsa and tomato sauce, can for personal use, gifts

>Make 4 custom paper mache bookcases, at least 6 feet tall, for my apartment, for as little money as possible using recycled newspaper. Cover with modpodge and thrift store wrapping paper or something.

I have no idea. I love making so many things. I want to own some kind of rl shop, no idea what. I'm broke, and have been thinking about going to beauty school. I'm good at cutting random people's hair. But I'm a natural haircarefag, so I don't know about recommending or putting people through some of the really heavy chemical treatments.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 00:15:36 2011 No.39720 >Finish watching breaking bad >Don't get fired >Get a haircut

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 00:48:36 2011 No.39790 >>39392 oh sounds like my plans except I'll also have a larger house that I could rent around/fuck around in with hidden rooms/passages and other random good fun stuff. and the wee lil house instead of storage containers is where I'll live in lol.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 01:18:01 2011 No.39893 File: 2 KB, 205x205, 1315236894509.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>39720 >>mfw this is what I need to do as well

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 04:55:36 2011 No.40274 >>39637 this is exactly me. can we team up or something?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 05:07:36 2011 No.40284 >Build my own pokemon room, decked out to look like a pokemon center and have a counter/pokemart with plush and decals Virgun 4 lyfe

>>	pointy-tan !!044uTmfVZPj Sun Oct 30 05:14:36 2011 No.40295 >>39405 >?>A UAV programmed with coordinates to go to that place, take a picture, then fly back In Sweden there is a guy who does this to do something to do with monitoring the state of forests in a wide area.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 30 05:38:36 2011 No.40319 Be fluent in 5 languages. Learn violin. Learn a trade.

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