Thousand Yard Stare

#shorts Wolf Scarifier head: https://geni.us/SQfK86x This is a great attachment from Wolf for stripping thatch and moss from the lawn. As long as you're not a blue-haired screamer with fanny hands you will manage no problems with this - it's a great workout if you have a big lawn. I will be using it again this Spring before over-seeding with new grass seed.

#shorts How deep is this hole in an old lead mine? Very deep, that's how deep.

#shorts I made a camp for my hens and it has a clear plastic roof which allows the hens to get plenty of heat in the Winter. It also keeps them dry. This has doubled the egg production so I'd definitely recommend this method.

#shorts I planted these peas in early December and by late February they are flowering - I'll be eating greenhouse peas very soon months earlier than garden peas. Groovy.

#shorts As we have an off grid sewage tank I've taken the opportunity to have the compost bins on top of that. All year it produces heat due to the biological action of the chamber filled with the water and active bacteria ..... sponsored by shizer.

#shorts This is the cold frame I made in the Christmas 2022 holidays. Everything is pressure treated and then painted with spirit based timber treatment. It is 10' x 4' x 3' (3m x 1.2m x 1m) and has removable shelves which can be placed at different levels. The glass is from recycled double glazed windows.

#shorts Adding wood chips to a hem run can make a heck of a difference to how much natural food they get. It eliminates smell, improves the soil and attracts invertebrates into the run.

#shorts More silliness....

#shorts Nothing to see here.....

http://www.vhhydro.com Lights in the video: https://geni.us/2vDvyVi The hydroponics towers from Vertical Horizons are now available in 3 sizes - 1m (for 18 plants), 1.5m (for 30 plants) and 2m (for 45 plants) and the cost is excellent considering the care and detail. They come with everything needed to create a productive vertical garden and everything is food safe, recycled or recyclable. Hydroponic systems take very little maintenance and produce great yields on a tiny footprint. In my opinion the incredibly low running costs, high yields and low maintenance make hydroponic systems the method of choice for my leafy veg growing although I have grown micro bush tomatoes and various herbs in them no problem. As the nutrient requirements can be very different for leafy and fruiting plants I prefer to have separate systems for each type of plants so I can get the nutrients in solution right for the plant - that way they grow faster, mature quickly and yields are always great. The desktop hydroponic planter I showed in a previous video can be bought from Letpot here: https://letpot.com/ You can follow my drive toward self-sufficiency, gardening and food production experiments on the Thousand Yard Stare channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1pgJBGQrUfCUAhk63U5u5A If you prefer a free speech platform to watch content then please check out my channels on Odysee and Rumble: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@ThousandYardStare:e Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1824507 To be honest I've not much idea of what Rumble is or does but it seems quite popular among people more tech-savvy than me....and somehow plenty of people have already found the videos judging by the views (and 'Rumbles'?). Both Odysee and Rumble have new videos uploaded to them as soon as they upload on YouTube.

Just a quick video to show the 1000 litre (263 US gallon) rain water harvesting system I've installed in the lower vegetable garden. It is a 1000 litre IBC tank (intermediate bulk container) and there is a secret 250 litre pond underneath it to provide habitat for frogs, toads and newts which will hopefully act as a natural pest control service for the inevitable slugs, caterpillars and snails which are a perennial problem (I don't like to use chemical pest control). The pond is from Oase and can be found here: https://geni.us/W9XCbq The price of these ponds has almost doubled in the last 3 years so I'm glad I bought it ages ago while on offer. (I plan well ahead, lol) Video on the cold frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frGPi8_dT1I&t=2s Thanks for watching - check out the playlist on my channel for more gardening / hydroponics / self sufficiency videos.

This was my Christmas project and the structure is approx. 10' x 4' (3m x 1.2m) with the high side being just over 1m (3'3") and the low side being approx. 0.5m (20"). It is made from a 2" x 2" (50mm x 50mm) frame and is covered by 6" x 5/8" (150mm x 16mm) boards with 2" x 5/8mm (50mm x 16mm) lappers over the board joints. The actual size of the '2" x 2" is nearer 45mm x 45mm as they are dressed (planed). The cold frame sits on a base made from pressure treated fencing rails which have then been treated with creosote. That keeps the cold frame approx. 1.5" (40mm) above the ground so the main structure is not in contact with wet and dirt which could accelerate the wood rot - this should last for decades..... All wood inside and out on the cold frame is pressure treated but since pressure treatment isn't what it used to be (I'm planning a 'rant' video on that subject) it was all then treated with a spirit based timber treatment. Avoid water based 'treatments' as they are useless. The spirit based timber treatment can be found here: https://geni.us/95NKT or on the A-chem website here: https://www.achemshop.co.uk/product/timbashield_dark_oak/ The gas rams I used to enable easy lifting of the lids can be found here: https://geni.us/LsyNSHd The Stainless steel hinges used on the back of each lid can be found here: https://geni.us/2NWw5F There are 4 hinges on each lid. The handles on the lid can be found here: https://geni.us/gBuPQ3 All the screws used are outdoor screws which are zinc coated and are available from any decent DIY store. Same story for the zinc plated bolts used to hold sections together (they are 125mm x 8mm). The cold frame sits over the overflow from my sewage tank so there is some low level heat being generated underneath it from the bacterial activity - that will help it stay frost free over the Winter. I'll be covering the bottom of the cold frame with some heavy rubber pond liner as I have a spare piece which should be big enough.. I will do semi-regular garden update videos so subscribe if you want to see more on this project and the garden. Thanks for watching and check out the gardening playlist on my channel for more videos.

Congratulations to all the winners of the recent give away videos which ran on the Thousand Yard Stare channel. Hopefully your package will reach you before Christmas and apologies if it doesn't. If you're a winner please contact me as soon as you can at sales@filterpro.co.uk with your full address and phone number and I'll get the package sent out to you as soon as possible. Thanks to everyone who watches and shares my videos, have a great Christmas and best of luck for 2023 and beyond. I know the viewers of this channel are generally very aware of World events and what is driving them but if you're having a New Years Resolution and haven't done so already I'd suggest that the following 5 activities will be very important for you, your family and your community now and more so in the very near future: 1 - Grow your own food 2 - Produce your own power 3 - Secure clean drinking water 4 - Learn new skills whenever you can 5 - Work on creating a source of residual income in addition to the day job The future is ours to shape and if you don't have a plan then you will end up being part of someone else's plan....,

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). http://www.filterpro.co.uk Video on the Family Filter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqeLpVSpoHI&t=17s All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video and be subscribed to this channel - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. Winner will be the comment with the most thumbs up. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). http://VHhydro.com All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video and be subscribed to this channel - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video and be subscribed to this channel - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). Bushcraft fishing kits video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUo4K6_DxPI All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video and be subscribed to this channel - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video and be subscribed to this channel - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video and be subscribed to this channel - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video and be subscribed to this channel - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). Video on the rifle: https://youtu.be/FNqOdz-Suzo All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick the winner on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Giveaway is for UK only (including NI). Video on the Vertplanter Observer Planter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O95bUHxemhY&t=3s All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is to answer the question posed in the video - put your answer in the comment section and I will pick 2 winners on 15th December 2022. These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Yup, maybe I'm being a bit too generous in this first giveaway, lol..... There's probably the best part of £500 of gear being given away here. Will there be anything left for subsequent giveaways?......yeah, no worries as I have been planning this for a few years. All you have to do to win this package to be delivered in time for Christmas is be in the UK, be subscribed to this channel and comment on the video with a personal story about camping - it could be something awesome, something scary or something disastrous.....camping can go many ways.... In mid-December I will check which comment has the most thumbs up and that person will be the winner - as viewers of this channel you're effectively judging yourselves which is the most democratic way to choose a winner. In a time where 'democracy' has essentially become fascism in the developed nations (US, EU and UK especially....) I thought I'd bring back true democracy and let the people choose. ...... and I promise there won't be any mysterious arrival of thousands of votes (all for one person) in the middle of the night.......people with eyes to see know what I'm talking about, lol These giveaway videos are simply a way for me to bring some joy to individuals who watch my videos and are capable of thinking for themselves in hard times. My promise to you: I'll never accept payment for featuring products, I'll never have channel 'memberships', I'll never ask for any payment from you for anything and I will never sell out to the machine. My main channel 'Pondguru' stalled when I reached 100K subscribers and I turned down the Faustian pact offered to me by Google ..... and I will do it again without hesitation for this channel. We all make our own destiny but if I can help you along the way I will do so whenever I can.

Rodless Reel Website: https://rodlessreel.com/ Rodless Reel Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RodlessReel Catching a big Carp on the UFO reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0kpjy9aDLA Thanks to Myles from Rodless Reel for sending these reels to show my viewers. They are very different from anything currently available from other manufacturers and both of them solve the common problem of missing the reel when retrieving the line. The Survivor series of reels is made from plastic, is extremely light and is the cheaper of the two reels. The UFO series of reels (Unidentified Fishing Object) is machined from an anodized Aluminum spool and core with Stainless Steel handle, 35 Ball Bearings. As we're heading into Winter and my local river is a raging flood I tried to catch fish on my pond but they weren't biting while filming this video - I will keep trying and film it for upload to the THOUSAND YARD STARE channel. On the RODLESS REEL YouTube channel Myles catches lots of fish on both types of reels. Thanks for watching. My channel on Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@ThousandYardStare:e (It's like YouTube without the woke nonsense or censorship)

The first giveaway will be coming this weekend....why am I giving gear away? Good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, hard times create good men, good men create good times. We're in the 'weak men' phase of the cycle at present so while we wade through a polluted ocean of wokeness and climb and mountain of agenda 2030 nonsense let's give some gear away to good people to lift some spirits before Christmas - who are these good people?.....you people who suffer through watching my videos, lol. I will shortly put a video out showing everything I will be giving away so look out for that - every subsequent video giving gear away will be on the THOUSAND YARD STARE channel. You can follow my drive toward self-sufficiency, gardening and food production experiments on the Thousand Yard Stare channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1pgJBGQrUfCUAhk63U5u5A If you prefer a free speech platform to watch content then please check out my channels on Odysee and Rumble: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@ThousandYardStare:e Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1824507 To be honest I've not much idea of what Rumble is or does but it seems quite popular among people more tech-savvy than me....and somehow plenty of people have already found the videos judging by the views (and 'Rumbles'?). Both Odysee and Rumble have new videos uploaded to them as soon as they upload on YouTube.