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Yes, probably only relevant to 80% of his potential readers. What tosh!
Less than 50%, actually, though I doubt that it's true that it only applies to the US. Children usually get a free pass because their meddling is ineffective or impermanent. https://web.archive.org/web/20230515211304/https://toolhub.t...
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Trailer Park Boys kind of needs to be watched after midnight.
No, just get high. Honestly, the episode where bubbles gets a mountain lion is to my favorite episode of any television show. High or not.
I have a crawlspace under half my house, and made the mistake of watching a YouTube video about how to do "underpinning". Now I want to dig it out down to 10ft to use for some desperately needed storage space, maybe some gym space. Our local building office is amazingly supportive of DIYers, and I appreciate them double checking my work.
You don’t need to dig it out to get more storage space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
He was a miner in California. He had a reason, somewhat flimsy, to dig a half-mile tunnel through a mountain. Nominally it was to connect his mining claims to a smelter.
He started digging the tunnel, by hand, on his own, with pick-axe and dynamite. And, once started, he kept going, straight through granite, for thirty-eight years!
Finally he succeeded. He got to the other side.
It must have been a disorienting feeling -- "I've been digging for thirty-eight years, and I've achieved my goal. What do I do now?"
You'd think that maybe he'd finally start to set up his mine and run cars full of ore through the tunnel. That was the point, right? The whole justification for the project?
Nope. He sold his claim and walked away.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burro_Schmidt_Tunnel
It's the most wonderful, absurd, existentialist story, and it's real.
I forget where I first read it. This telling looks like it captures the right feeling:
https://yankeebarbareno.com/2014/04/13/burro-schmidt-tunnel-...
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I’m in the same age bracket and hole-digging enthusiasm bracket as you but recently became aware of the dangers of this whimsical pastime! [1] That’s not to dissuade you or anyone else from doing it (I have continued!), but I think everyone should be aware of the very real danger. As they say, knowing is half the battle! 1 - https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100068725/beach-holes-sand-c...
We have different definitions of "real danger"
If you all enjoy digging hobby tunnels, then can I interest you in someone excavating their basement using only miniature remote control construction vehicles ? Digging & hauling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=He00d6Gpxs8 More recent rock crusher: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaqSzziaE8&t=3m31s (There's 16 years / 379 videos so far, if you are into RC earthmoving ASMR)
The channel is definitely one of the most out there channels and simply delightful isn’t it? It takes this whole pattern of civilization, digging, and just turns it into absurdist theater. I love it.
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My Grandfather’s house was like that when he bought it. It was built on a hill that sloped down from the street. The ground floor was actually several feet below the level of the street, with just enough crawl space at the front edge of the house. He jacked the whole house up to street level, dug out the basement, poured a concrete slab under the whole house, built concrete block walls around the whole thing, and bui…
Amazing productivity.
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The channel is definitely one of the most out there channels and simply delightful isn’t it? It takes this whole pattern of civilization, digging, and just turns it into absurdist theater. I love it.
And this channel has been active for 16 years already (the first video was posted in Dec 2007).
So amazing the creator has been continuously posting on one topic on the platform for that long.
I have a crawlspace under half my house, and made the mistake of watching a YouTube video about how to do "underpinning". Now I want to dig it out down to 10ft to use for some desperately needed storage space, maybe some gym space. Our local building office is amazingly supportive of DIYers, and I appreciate them double checking my work.
You don’t need to dig it out to get more storage space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU