Let’s talk about extraction here for a little while. Extracting yourself from your chair after Thanksgiving dinner this year. Extracting yourself from a weird conversation at dinner with your uncle from Berkeley. The one that’s adamant about filling his Tesla with only the finest grass-fed, humanely raised, gluten-free, organic electrons available at the Supercharger outside of Whole Foods. Extracting yourself from a different conversation with your other uncle, who insists that he absolutely needs his F-450 because of its 6,000-pound payload capacity. Which he’ll never, ever, come close to actually needing. Extracting ourselves from what has been, for the most part, the strangest year we’ve ever experienced. It’s November now…we’re almost there! Read More
Tools
Dewalt 20v Max Pole Saw – Nothing is Out of Reach
Regular Home Fixated readers by now grown almost as tired as I have of our struggles to beat back nature, or at least achieve a draw on our 80 acre farm. Years of inattention and neglect have allowed opportunistic weed trees and shrubs to shrink our usable space as well as provide harbor for rodents and other pests that have hampered our efforts to harvest sufficient amounts of produce to sustain us through the year. I have featured a number of the DeWalt 20v Max outdoor power tools in previous posts, and the newest addition is the DeWalt 20v Max pole saw that DeWalt sent our way for review. Let’s take a stroll through the farm and see what my new favorite tool can do. Read More
