/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>409763
Pepper spray or a gun are clearly the best choice in my opinion. Tasers and martial arts put you in easy striking distance of knives and multiple opponents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fo-zr7vARD8

Now you say that the laws in Cali don't permit over a certain size(2.5 oz)? In /diy/ spirit why not construct some sort of high power, hidden in your sleeve spray system with two 2.5 cans?

>>410394
Well OP if you can get cellphone reception you can pay a hell of a lot for 4G, nowadays a lot of smart phones will act as modems for your laptop or connect straight to a TV. Also possibly you could possibly pay for a cable line out by where the road is and just build an outhouse looking building there with a modem and router is housed? Either way you're going to pay a lot for an inna woods connection.

By the way the construction looks like it's going well, keep it up friend!

(Whoa, those Anarchists got a nice website.)

>>408779
These guys seem to find enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Eh_eYVuhSK4
But I sure can imagine it being a hassle if you live out of town but not near farms, aren't growing a garden or don't have lots of manpower/manwaste.

>>408804
Actually I read somewhere that with larger piles they have to keep it cool for the first four months because too high of a heat kills the good bacteria also.
I was just thinking about heating a chicken coop with a six foot diameter pile for the winter then use it for fresh raised bed gardens in the spring. I still have to crunch some numbers, I'll get back to the board about it sometime.

Well friend it really depends what you want for a cabin. Wouldn't be too hard or costly to staple in some insulation and cut a hole for a chimney. But if those are what I think they are, then they're quite tiny, more of a shed or a place house for kids.

Also, I'll bet for the same price you could probably build your own to better accommodate your needs and have enough left over for a nice stove.

Not to derail.
What does /diy/ think about compost pile heating? Most people just want to harvest burnable methane from their piles. But I found a gentleman on Youtube who heated his outdoor shower with the anaerobic reaction alone which reaches about 50C by winding water pipes through the pile.

The video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jm-c9B2_ew
Some science
http://compost.css.cornell.edu/physics.html