3/24/19:
Building Summary: Today I started off by going onto Youtube and finding the method I thought best for stripping back the Romex wires’ outer layer. The video I ended up going with was this one*. After learning, I ventured down to Jacobhouse and put the knowledge to use.
Commentary: I enjoy having the ability to watch something on Youtube and then apply that newfound information to a real-world application. It feels like actual learning, and fortunately, it seems that there will be many more opportunities for this sort of education in the near future.
As for other topics of note, I feel it may be time to divulge where much of the funding for Jacobhouse has come from. It is a quaint little side-venture where I shovel composted cow manure into white polypropylene bags (usually ~ 40-60 lbs worth depending on how wet the weather’s been) and sell those bags at the side of the road for $5.00 a piece. Padre and I named it “Moo-Magic Compost”, and I must say it has been a surprising success since we started it up a few years back. We’ve gotten almost $4,000 from the ‘self-serve poop stand’, and that’s including back when we were filling bags for 4 dollars per. That means we’re getting pretty close to having filled 1,000 bags.
That’s a lot of shoveling.**
Final Note: Tomorrow I will continue stripping back sections of the Romex wire, and if I get all of that done, I will cut and fasten in the support I’ve mentioned for a couple days now. It will span between both verticals supports on Wall #3 and provide a route by which the refrigerator circuit can extend over the sewer and water lines rather than under them (safer in the long-term and easier to work with.)
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*Ended up finding out that I didn’t even need to use the ground as a ‘cheese wire’ because the outer layer splits apart like a tough banana peel. The part of the video about using wire-cutting pliers to split the end, though, was very useful.
** With polypropylene bags costing $0.40 per, compost costing nothing, our selling them for $5.00 each, and there being about 10 shovelfuls per sack, that gives each scoop a value of $0.46 (perhaps a cent or so less with ziptie costs). I’d do that all day if I could.