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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Squanch72 said:
Yeah I did my last college report on earthships. Would be cool to live in a place with no building codes or codes that allow for building of earthships and tiny homes. Or just buy a couple sheds and be like Bubbles.
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The wife and I were watching a true crime show last night and the killer had purchased a decommissioned missle silo/giant underground base from the government for $38,000. It was something like 240,000 square feet. That's like the holy grail of off-the-grid living. Of course he turned it into a giant underground trash heap/murder dungeon but it looked like it had the potential to be fairly nice. Reminded of a Fallout Vault.
 
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The_Janitor said:
The wife and I were watching a true crime show last night and the killer had purchased a decommissioned missle silo/giant underground base from the government for $38,000. It was something like 240,000 square feet. That's like the holy grail of off-the-grid living. Of course he turned it into a giant underground trash heap/murder dungeon but it looked like it had the potential to be fairly nice. Reminded of a Fallout Vault.
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I've heard of people buying those and sprucing them up.

Trouble is, of course, that the whole thing is underground. And they also tend to be in crappy locations.
 
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The_Janitor said:
The wife and I were watching a true crime show last night and the killer had purchased a decommissioned missle silo/giant underground base from the government for $38,000. It was something like 240,000 square feet. That's like the holy grail of off-the-grid living. Of course he turned it into a giant underground trash heap/murder dungeon but it looked like it had the potential to be fairly nice. Reminded of a Fallout Vault.
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You saying murder dungeons don't have the potential to be nice?
 
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Depending on the climate, I've seen people live in these Yurt things that have cement or wooden foundations. Sorta like this.
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PokeyPrasch said:
Depending on the climate, I've seen people live in these Yurt things that have cement or wooden foundations. Sorta like this.
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Yep, I've seen a couple of those up where I live. My only beef is that they're entirely round, and there's no corners. OCD would drive me up the wall with like a bed and cabinet not being able to sit flush against the wall.

I have a friend who has built a rammed earth home, it's actually awesome inside. Really cozy, running water and electricity, moss roof, etc. Cool place, built almost entirely using cast off materials from construction jobs he's worked.
 
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I've been thinking about semi-permanent structures to put on my family's land - the county has a policy that you need to own 40 acres within the county borders in order to build a structure with a foundation (outside of any city limits). I'm all for the law, it preserves the rural beauty of the area and stops a lot of sprawl. Unfortunately we sold off my grandparents' house and two acres with it so now we only have 38 acres.

So, I'm think of a 4-corner block foundation, decent floor and probably framed walls. Small, one-room cabin style with a porch, maybe a loft. Looked into log cabin building, since there's plenty of lumber on site, but it's much more labor intensive and will probably end up not saving us much money. Framing is fast, easy and cheap.

We love going camping at the property but having a semi-permanent structure with a wood stove would allow us to use the land for much more of the year. Going to try and see if I can get the relatives that hunt there to pitch in, as well as my parents. I figure if we get enough people throwing in funds it can be done for very little out of pocket cost for everyone involved.
 
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The_Janitor said:
I've been thinking about semi-permanent structures to put on my family's land - the county has a policy that you need to own 40 acres within the county borders in order to build a structure with a foundation (outside of any city limits). I'm all for the law, it preserves the rural beauty of the area and stops a lot of sprawl. Unfortunately we sold off my grandparents' house and two acres with it so now we only have 38 acres.

So, I'm think of a 4-corner block foundation, decent floor and probably framed walls. Small, one-room cabin style with a porch, maybe a loft. Looked into log cabin building, since there's plenty of lumber on site, but it's much more labor intensive and will probably end up not saving us much money. Framing is fast, easy and cheap.

We love going camping at the property but having a semi-permanent structure with a wood stove would allow us to use the land for much more of the year. Going to try and see if I can get the relatives that hunt there to pitch in, as well as my parents. I figure if we get enough people throwing in funds it can be done for very little out of pocket cost for everyone involved.
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Yeah some of the rules makes sense and some just suck because they just seem like nimby nonsense and hurt the poor. One time at work another department had me go check and see if people were living in a rv, you can't do that in the county I work in. I'm not in codes and was so pissed a nosy bitch in my office got involved in it and signed me up for poopie detail. So here I am with these people too poor to live in anything else, who own property in a flood zone that is worthless to resell. In a poopy part of town with trailers all around anyway, like how is a nice little rv any uglier than an old arse trailer in a constantly flooding marsh area. Didn't feel right at all. Got back and told my boss don't have codes ask me to check for them anymore, they can do their own dirty work.
 
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Squanch72 said:
Yeah some of the rules makes sense and some just suck because they just seem like nimby nonsense and hurt the poor. One time at work another department had me go check and see if people were living in a rv, you can't do that in the county I work in. I'm not in codes and was so pissed a nosy bitch in my office got involved in it and signed me up for poopie detail. So here I am with these people too poor to live in anything else, who own property in a flood zone that is worthless to resell. In a poopy part of town with trailers all around anyway, like how is a nice little rv any uglier than an old arse trailer in a constantly flooding marsh area. Didn't feel right at all. Got back and told my boss don't have codes ask me to check for them anymore, they can do their own dirty work.
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Yeah, I think in that case the law is pretty stupid. This area of Wisconsin is 90% farm and/or rural private property so I think the locals that have been farming there for generations are just trying to keep folks from coming in and tossing up a McMansion on an acre of property. Older properties are grandfathered in so I don't think too many poor rural folks are being uprooted, could be wrong though.
 
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Anybody know of an inexpensive way to do headphone practice for 3-4 guys at once? We're trying to practice more often, which necessitates a different location where we can't be loud. Obviously, I know it won't sound like our rigs, etc., but will let us work on arrangements and timing. So, anybody know of one?
 
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kleinenenten said:
Anybody know of an inexpensive way to do headphone practice for 3-4 guys at once? We're trying to practice more often, which necessitates a different location where we can't be loud. Obviously, I know it won't sound like our rigs, etc., but will let us work on arrangements and timing. So, anybody know of one?
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If you can all agree on a mix then it could be as simple as a small mixer and 4 or 8 channel headphone amp. Behringer makes both. String instrument players would probably want to provide their preamp/tone shaping.
 
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The_Janitor said:
If you can all agree on a mix then it could be as simple as a small mixer and 4 or 8 channel headphone amp. Behringer makes both. String instrument players would probably want to provide their preamp/tone shaping.
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Yeah, the idea was to run our amp heads into the mixer or whatever and go from there.

I'll look into the Behringer stuff. Do you happen to know a model?
 

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