Is there life after death on the internet? What happens when you get deplatformed, demonetized, and ghosted by the Techno-wardens who control the internet, one way or another?
Hey, dear friends of Tiny Texas Houses. FaceBook finally figured out how to shut down my other page without me violating their newest policies, so this is a redux page to replace the 17-year-old site that FB will not help me revive or get access too again.
For those that have never seen the El Campo Exposition, follow this link to see what could be had from a 150-year-old farmhouse and how to have fun salvaging the treasures in 7 days of pulling out nails and stacking up treasure.
This is to invite you to visit the new TinyTexasHouses2.0 version. I wonder if it will get slammed as much by the shadowbanners and censors. I will try to keep out of the traps to get the word out about our new plan to disseminate millions of dollars in materials to Pure Salvage Outposts, which will be the local PSO Co-ops for people to learn how and to build their tiny houses in their towns to cut the cost typically associated with moving them to their final homestead once they are built. Instead of shipping across states with big empty wooden boxes that require lots of permits, costs for the people in lead cars, and the drivers, fuel, and problems on the way. This is a path to creating many more organic sustainable house builders for all sizes of homes, but with the ethos that smaller and higher quality is better than big and shit-built to fall apart in 15 years, the most common way for modern construction of homes, apartments, and condos that goes on today. Built-in obsolescence has become part of the expectations of Americans for products instead of the old, nearly forgotten “Made in America” to last for a lifetime quality that we used to be known for before the decline of our society.
Are you one of the oldsters who still thinks quality is better than quantity when it comes to your home, car, or clothes? The McMansion Era has destroyed the logic and energy efficiency that was part of our American culture. It stretched out the perception of what humans can do for their luxury, showing off as if size means success. The surprise has turned out to be the homes are killing the lives of those who buy them and then give up so much of their life hours to pay for them, with the insurance, maintenance, and other consequences of urban sprawl and the development of stupidity in housing becoming popular and seductive enough to sucker millions into buying houses that will one day be abandoned and torn down due to the high costs of keeping the functional once the massive roofs, poorly crafted structural members that are built to the minimum standards possible for the sake of the builders making more profits, never providing higher quality as they expand the sized of home… or did until the end of the line arrived, 2024 will be the last of the McMansion days as they begin to crash. People move into smaller, high-quality, healthy housing.
The lid is off the can that is full of worms, parasites in the development and home-building industry that sold out to profits at the cost of the health of the future inhabitants of the houses they build. Sadly, most builders are corporations created solely for profit, not for the customer’s benefit.
The same goes for food if you want to be healthy and live a long, prosperous life. So Tiny Texas Houses, which started under the guise of a tiny house builder, is a proponent for healthy living all around: diet, environment, home, heart, mind, and spirit. This is the essential part of being a good human: respecting nature and the environment in which you build a house and fitting in instead of wiping out the natural world that was there before your home and yard came to destroy most of it. Animals need the foot that the Earth produces, including what most call weeds, and put chemicals on the ground to kill rather than learn their value and respect all plants for what they give to the world by converting dirt into life with the help of the sun and water. Wii can make the world a better place by the way we live on it, sharing it rather than destroying it by keeping our footprint small and sharing the land better.
Why do you choose grass and not a tree to grow baby birds in, squirrels, or other critters that many consider pests but are essential for a balanced, healthy world? Why do you participate in buying into a subdivision that killed off all the natural lifeforms that existed before the developer, destroying the environment with concrete, asphalt, roofs, and houses that cover the ground and not let anything grow? There is nothing but destruction and death in most subdivisions, coated in pesticides, herbicides, and all cancer-causing chemicals that no child should be exposed to all over the land. Who thinks this leads to healthy children or adults? If you are one of those people who do think that is good, then you need therapy like the others who share living in your concrete poisoned concentration camps with toxic boxes lining the streets. Stopping the madness of a society hell-bent on living in what they think is luxury but now finding out is the opposite, the cause for them aging poorly, getting cancers, respiratory problems, kidney issues, and the other consequences of inhaling harmful chemicals.
The carpet fibers, outgassing chemicals from paints, vinyl, plastics, and the many chemical-laden cleaners, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides, and even the paints used in houses that smell so much that people notice but do not understand the smell is from chemicals you then absorb into your blood to possibly change your hormones, adding estrogen to your body through the lungs that can not be taken back out without going through your blood, liver, kidneys, and hopefully not being absorbed into the fat cells or other means of isolating the poisons that leave them trapped in your lymphatic system or brain.
This is a serious ongoing threat to millions of new home buyers, or the complete fresh remodel that brings in new particle board kitchen cabinets, plastic, and vinyl that outgas, as well as new carpets with pads that also leach out chemicals into the home to be inhaled., I protest and try to get the word out but realize most people have the shroud of cognitive dissonance on and will not view, read, or take in information that will upset their imaginary view of the world that leaves out these harmful aspects of how they are living to die early. Because this information is so well hidden from the public, I am moving on from organically and sustainably building tiny houses to creating healthy, energy-efficient ones throughout America. I must take this to the next level… I take it to you locally so that the millions who need this upgrade in their housing and knowledge can make millions learning new skills in the salvage industry that will provide millions of jobs. Can this be done?
I am about to test the limits of how far and fast this Pure Salvage Living Renaissance can grow as the need for great housing and intentional communities expands due to the need for a massive recalibration of the way we live in America—downsizing to quality over quantity and funding the creation of tinier housing for the masses instead of all builders trying to offer massive square footage but sacrificing health, the longevity of the structures, and the quality of life while living inside of them. The subdivisions created as part of the modern housing schemes pack in as many houses as possible on the land. Thus, this çoncentrated housing destroys all nature in its creation. This has to end, and we must change in ways that will benefit the future society that inherits all the trash and builds homes in subdivisions that seem doomed to become slums down the road as houses deteriorate.
Those who remain in them can no longer afford to maintain them due to the massive problems that show up at the 15-year mark in their lifespan when the roof, water heaters, AC/Heat system, paint, and appliances will have all reached the end of their intended lifespan and need to be replaced—a sad ending to what starts out looking like an excellent investment. Never be the last one to put up a “For Sale” sign, or you may never get to leave the dead subdivision when its time comes. What do you do when your loan is far greater than the value of the home and land? You lose.
Join me as I expand now by dissolving the original home of Tiny Texas Houses and distributing the assets to the rest of the country where others can build houses faster locally, for less cost, and then put them into communities that respect the surroundings, nature, and the people who will grow up there healthy instead of poisoned by the chemicals put in the gutters, on the lawns, and in the houses to kill all things not human inside the subdivision walls.
My goal is to assemble the people to take over the operations of the home base at Salvage, Texas, and then take this to the next level by establishing hundreds of PSO Co-ops for the locals to create housing and intentional communities worldwide. Please get in touch if you want to help form the group and establish the Embassy to learn what can be done in sustainable housing to help create the solutions so many can use soon. This can be done now if you want to help manifest the network of people and places for it all to materialize. Thank you for being so helpful.
I have learned that males peak at 66-78, but I never would have believed it without experiencing this delight. What do you do when you reach the final leg of your working life at 69? Yes, at our peak, what do you seek?
20 more years will go fast, given the last 20 seem like 10 now.
Yes, I now have the willpower to resist many temptations of my youth that were destroying my health when I was young, still in my 20s. I was only eating junk food with sugar, white flour, white rice, and many other things that were not healthy but considered an ordinary diet. I was habitually eating Burger King Whoppers with a shake daily, yet I was working at a health club selling memberships and teaching others how to do workouts and get stronger. However, I had no clue about nutrition. The book “Sugar Blues” saved my life as it taught me about how many symptoms I had for Hypoglycemia, a word I had never heard. One of the young guys working out there, a diabetic, taught me what would follow if I did not change my diet. I did not fully understand the symptoms, but once I read the book, it became clear where my emotional mood swings came from, along with more dramatic symptoms like grand mal seizures that would leave me shaking on the ground before I could recover.
Stop the abuse of your body while young so that you can stay fit and last longer than those who trash their vessel of life. What can you do to make your life better? Eat better, and work out with calisthenics or a weight room. Get out and move more, watch less TV, and do all you can to get fit while young so that you can maintain that without much effort later instead of getting fat, diabetic, and facing many problems that result from not taking care of your body. If you want to live a long, healthy life, your home, food, and activity levels will determine 80% of your success. The 20% that comes from accidents, injury, and damage due to living in toxic environments that cause cancer and other disease that could be prevented by changing where you live. What will you do for the next few decades to stay fit and be an example to your children and other adults who would benefit from your improvements? The example you can be can change the world.
Suppose you desire to create healthy housing and a healthy community and have others with the same intentions. In that case, I hope you will take the initiative now as so many people will need to change their eating habits as food increases in cost and sadly, the worst food, closest to junk food, is the cheapest. It is more costly to eat organic food unless you can also grow some, but most can not due to where they live. Apartments don’t generally provide common areas for gardens. Many could change over time to accommodate those who care about such things. In effect, you could develop a community of like-minded people in apartment and condo complexes that were of ordinary mind on how to live healthily and thus promote and prove this is the right path to take for aging healthy, therefore making for a stronger country if the next generation reaches their 60s in better condition that the Baby Boomers who are generally fat, sick, and unhappy, which is sad given Americans have more opportunity to stay healthy and wealthy than any other nations on Earth.
What are you doing to show the rest of your family and friends what is possible in healthy, vibrant living and thriving well into your 80s? I chose this path rather than dying young and sickly and learning it was all preventable: the pain, cancer, and a sad ending to a life that could have been extended so easily. Are you one of those who will make excuses and never alter your behavior, just your wish list of miracles to happen to you, instant slimness with a pill, shot, or other big PHARMA solution that will keep you addicted, may even kill you and thus drop your weight dramatically and solve all your problems in one fell swoop? What will it take for the average person to break the many habits that result from eating foods with known addictive ingredients allowed to be put in most packaged foods produced in America but not in Europe, Africa, and Japan? It must be clear to you if you look at the difference in the ingredients and how many are used in America that are banned in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and many other countries that global corporations like America do not run. Study and learn from other societies where the public is protected from the criminality of corporations seeking profit at any cost, including the death of their customers.
If you are aging poorly and only in your 30s, overweight, not muscular, low on energy, or having mood swings, depression, or worse, physical symptoms like narcolepsy, just falling to sleep without notice, sometimes like me, while flying solo in an airplane and nearly hitting the ground as I nosedived the plane when I passed out into sleep and leaned forward on the steering column causing my race to the Earth before waking at 800 ft from crashing, 5 times in an hour-long solo, my last time in a plane alone. I nearly died several times that day before landing without having balanced fuel tanks in the wings because I was too sleepy to think straight. I was lucky I was taught how to land sideways, crabbing my way to the ground without flipping the plane when I landed. I never flew alone again. Have you had that problem? I had the issue driving, too. You?
Believe it or not, the diet changed everything, and I regained my mind and body. I genuinely believe there are many ways to stay healthy without going to the Rockefeller-created American Medical Association to combat natural remedies that have worked for centuries. There was an apparent conspiracy to wipe out naturopathic cures and to replace them with dangerous and addictive drugs that would trap people into a sickness instead of eliminate it and thus create lifelong customers, the primary goal of many doctors that goes unspoken. They do not make money if you do not go into their office sick and need checkups, prescription renewals, and other devices many use to keep you as a paying customer for life. They get bonuses for giving you a vax of every sort possible that amounts to tens of thousands of dollars a year in extra income. Few of their clients understand what motivates the drive to vax everyone. Profits without disclosure are biasing the doctors and their pathology of ignoring the labels, addicting people to drugs they should not need, and worse, becoming a common complaint by those who suffered from that tactic thousands of American Medical Association Cult members.
Please become educated and autodidactic, teaching yourself new information and facts about how to stay healthy and happy into your 90s without having to take statins, high blood pressure medicines, and testosterone supplements to get by. Please take an hour a day to study new information about healthy living and grow your mind’s understanding rather than losing it. Muscle and mind decline with a lack of exercise, so do not neglect either. Better you should miss your TV programs for an hour in the gym, riding a bike, walking a few miles, and other physical things that will extend the healthy portion of your life by decades instead of just supporting doctors and hospitals with your insurance funds, if you have enough. Some cannot afford good doctors, and they will likely suffer the most if they do not change their eating, exercise, and thinking patterns. This is the only way to stay away from the medical industry when you age into an old folks home where the occupants generally long lose diet, exercise, and mental clarity, and there is no chance they will leave to live independently again.
Join me in proving what older people are capable of both in business, writing, and building the solutions the next generation will need to overcome the challenges that modern societies have caused in their rush to grow, profit, and ignore the warning lights going off indicating that you and others are on a dead end path running full speed but you do not have brakes. Be prepared to hit the wall when the loss of China imports the many prescription drugs that many Americans are addicted to. China just banned shipping them to us in a counter-strike to the new tariff plan on their imports. The cost to stay on medicine will get higher, as will all things once imported that will need to be made in the USA now with much more expensive labor, and land, buildings, and insurance that will make cheap products a thing of the past.
Get ready, kids. The societies in America, Europe, and other places where the wars are growing are about to go through massive changes, and being healthy will make the next few years easier. Please consider changing and helping those you love to prepare their bodies, minds, and spirit for challenging years ahead. Housing will be vital, and I hope the examples of what can be done by salvaging the best of our past will make the next few years much better for many who realize they must change to thrive in the coming years. Blessings to your dayz kids.
If you have seen how incredible the look of vintage lumber is on a wall, decorating as well as using for floors, reducing the toxins, imports, & low-quality building materials w salvage makes cents.
How much will you pay for shitrock on the walls, materials that outgas dangerous chemicals that you will inhale and make part of your body just by living in a new house, tiny or large? If you do not know, this happens when you move into a new home, especially a tiny house with a limited air supply. How do you limit the chemicals and toxins in the new houses? Wait for 3-5 years for the outgassing to complete itself before living in them, which, given they are only built to last for ten to twelve years, the plastic seals on the exterior and roof will leak by then if not kept out of the weather and sun. It is sad when the industry refuses to recognize the short life of the materials they use to create cheap tiny houses and mobile homes.
Worse for anyone who lives in one full time is the health issues that result from toxins in the houses that could be prevented, and the lack of fresh air due to few adding the necessary but costly air exchangers that preserve the heat and cold in the house while flushing out the stale air to get fresh oxygen in the house. If not, there is a serious issue with hypoxia in tiny houses and RVs that contributes to mental decline and physical ailments. Since you will not sleep well when you lack fresh air, your days for the kids and adults will be less energetic, and you will be more prone to being tired and sick due to not having a healthy environment to live in.
In a world quickly filling up with tinier homes, and most are not reviewing the reports and not listening to the growing calls for concern over the resulting health issues, few connect the dots to find the solutions until the damage is severe. Respiratory problems, mental clarity, hormones being messed up due to the endocrine disruption caused by the outgassing yet, because it is invisible, the lack of oxygen undetected, and the resulting loss of energy and health subtle as it disappears gradually, most know nothing of the cause of their health issues after the first year in a new tiny RV or Home, mobile home, or the ever-growing modular homes that are just big versions of toxicity living.
It is possible for those who care and want a healthy tiny house to get one built, but you will need to be sure these issues do not arise for you. You must adhere to using materials inside the house that will not outgas the plasticizers, vinyl chemicals, paint chemicals, and polyurethane finishes that cure. At the same time, you live there, which means outgassing the remaining chemicals in the fibers of the wood or even carpet. Why is this not reported on more? Why are these issues not discussed on panels at the national tiny home manufacturers? Why is this the subject to stay silent on if you build the trailers, RVs, and tiny houses on wheels that are virtually just tiny mobile homes that will lose value faster than the health of the people living in them who bought them off the lot new, fresh, and full of invisible chemicals to inhale and absorb, sadly most being carcinogenic and even deadly in the long run. Cancer can be overcome by the victims of this abuse and failure to inform, but why should they have to experience the possible death cancer causes over being stupid?
Since I no longer build tiny houses for anyone, I can speak freely and not be accused of false prejudice as if I am exposing these issues soley to promote my brand of dwellings. I created Tiny Texas Houses to be the antithesis of “Tumbledweed Houses.” That was my name for the first of the fad tiny house makers that were truly examples of how to rip off people pretending to teach them how to build tiny houses on wheels. That failed due to the many misleading aspects of their presentation and the owners misrepresenting things early on, which cost them their reputation and, sadly, cost many who followed him. But it was their life savings and health that suffered. Many other Toxic-House-box on Wheels have done worse, creating more chemicals while the fad was hot. Even a Dr. Vinyl that made the entire house out of vinyl’s toxicity would definitely put most people into a complex nose dive with their hormones and health in a matter of months.I never heard if anyone was stupid enough to buy and live in one, but I would love to hear from those who did. It would be a sad story, for sure.
I have published many articles on living in tiny healthy houses and what to watch for, but the industry is in denial and refusing to address these issues. Most manufacturers will just shut down and go out of business, having taken their profits and moving on once the public figured out, somebody screwed them over for profits. If you have health issues in the respiratory tract, hormones, and cancer but have not investigated the cause and have lived in tiny houses, or new mobile homes for that matter, you should look into this as the cause and warn others before they too suffer. I know of a mother and daughter who got matching tiny mobile homes, and both got cancer, one of the breast, the other lymphoma. This is serious, and it only took three years of living in them to trigger the cancer. Stop the madness now. Cheap housing is not worth your health later in life.
For those who want to downsize into a healthy lifestyle, please consider using as many healthy materials as aged lumber, not plywood, particle board, and composites full of chemicals. Do not add the paints and chemical-laden products that will outgas over the first three years after they are made, leaving the plastics brittle once the chemicals that make them flex leach out into the air, your lungs, your body, and your brain. Tell others who have made the mistake, are sick, and do not understand why, yet they live in these homes.
Now, you are the one who now knows what many do not. Please share if you care about those you love and friends who may be sucked into the downsizing without understanding the potential downfalls of that lifestyle in a toxic box rather than a healthy tiny house.
Brad w. Kittel
brad@tinytexashouses for more information but do read more on this substack as there are several articles on toxic conditions inside tiny houses.
If you have seen how incredible the look of vintage lumber is on a wall, decorating as well as using for floors, reducing the toxins, imports, & low quality building materials w salvage makes cents.
How much will you pay for shitrock on the walls, materials that outgas dangerous chemicals that you will inhale and make part of your body just by living in a new house, tiny or large? If you do not know, this happens when you move into a new home, especially a tiny house with a limited air supply. How do you limit the chemicals and toxins in the new houses? Wait for 3-5 years for the outgassing to complete itself before living in them, which, given they are only built to last for ten to twelve years, the plastic seals on the exterior and roof will leak by then if not kept out of the weather and sun. It is sad when the industry refuses to recognize the short life of the materials they use to create cheap tiny houses and mobile homes.
Worse for anyone who lives in one full time is the health issues that result from toxins in the houses that could be prevented, and the lack of fresh air due to few adding the necessary but costly air exchangers that preserve the heat and cold in the house while flushing out the stale air to get fresh oxygen in the house. If not, there is a serious issue with hypoxia in tiny houses and RVs that contributes to mental decline and physical ailments. Since you will not sleep well when you lack fresh air, your days for the kids and adults will be less energetic, and you will be more prone to being tired and sick due to not having a healthy environment to live in.
In a world quickly filling up with tinier homes, and most are not reviewing the reports and not listening to the growing calls for concern over the resulting health issues, few connect the dots to find the solutions until the damage is severe. Respiratory problems, mental clarity, hormones being messed up due to the endocrine disruption caused by the outgassing yet, because it is invisible, the lack of oxygen undetected, and the resulting loss of energy and health subtle as it disappears gradually, most know nothing of the cause of their health issues after the first year in a new tiny RV or Home, mobile home, or the ever-growing modular homes that are just big versions of toxicity living.
It is possible for those who care and want a healthy tiny house to get one built, but you will need to be sure these issues do not arise for you. You must adhere to using materials inside the house that will not outgas the plasticizers, vinyl chemicals, paint chemicals, and polyurethane finishes that cure. At the same time, you live there, which means outgassing the remaining chemicals in the fibers of the wood or even carpet. Why is this not reported on more? Why are these issues not discussed on panels at the national tiny home manufacturers? Why is this the subject to stay silent on if you build the trailers, RVs, and tiny houses on wheels that are virtually just tiny mobile homes that will lose value faster than the health of the people living in them who bought them off the lot new, fresh, and full of invisible chemicals to inhale and absorb, sadly most being carcinogenic and even deadly in the long run. Cancer can be overcome by the victims of this abuse and failure to inform, but why should they have to experience the possible death cancer causes over being stupid?
Since I no longer build tiny houses for anyone, I can speak freely and not be accused of false prejudice as if I am exposing these issues soley to promote my brand of dwellings. I created Tiny Texas Houses to be the antithesis of “Tumbledweed Houses.” That was my name for the first of the fad tiny house makers that were truly an examples of how to rip off people pretending to teach them how to build tiny houses on wheels. That failed due to the many misleading aspects of their presentation and the owners misrepresenting things early on, which cost them their reputation and, sadly, cost many who followed him. But it was their life savings and health that suffered. Many other Toxic-House-box on Wheels have done worse, creating more chemicals while the fad was hot. Even a Dr. Vinyl that made the entire house out of vinyl, it’s toxicity would definately put most people into a complex nose dive with their hormones and health in a matter of months. I never heard if anyone was stupid enough to buy and live in one, but I would love to hear from those who did. It would be a sad story, for sure.
I have published many articles on living in tiny healthy houses and what to watch for, but the industry is in denial and refusing to address these issues. Most manufacturers will just shut down and go out of business, having taken their profits and moving on once the public figured out somebody screwed them over for profits. If you have health issues in the respiratory tract, hormones, and cancer but have not investigated the cause and have lived in tiny houses, or new mobile homes for that matter, you should look into this as the cause and warn others before they too suffer. I know of a mother and daughter who got matching tiny mobile homes, and both got cancer, one of the breast, the other lymphoma. This is serious, and it only took three years of living in them to trigger the cancer. Stop the madness now. Cheap housing is not worth your health later in life.
For the many who do want to downsize into a healthy lifestyle, please consider using as many healthy materials as aged lumber, not plywood, particle board, and composites full of chemicals. Do not add the paints and chemical-laden products that will outgas over the first three years after they are made leaving the plastics brittle once the chemicals that make them flex leach out into the air, your lungs, your body, your brain. Tell others who have made the mistake, are sick, do not understand why, yet they live in these homes.
Now, you are the one who now knows what many do not. Please share if you care about those you love and friends who may be sucked into the downsizing without understanding the potential downfalls of that lifestyle in a toxic box rather than a healthy tiny house.
Brad w. Kittel
brad@tinytexashouses for more information but do read more on this substack as there are several articles on toxic conditions inside tiny houses.
The building, machines, tools, land, and a long history are being sold to let me move on to the following chapters of my life. Are you interested in picking up the baton to build the best tiny houses ever?
Why not put together a bunch of investors who want to split the pie up, and all make a nice profit? That is my next plan as I have given up on seeing others come to the point of working for themselves rather than as employees by building tiny houses with materials and space to do it, then selling for a profit and paying me for materials when done. That did not seem enough to entice people to join me in creating the organic, sustainable, and energy-efficient houses that the public seems to want more than the McMansions that have grown so ugly. No one seems to want to build quality but prefers the cheap construction methods and materials that allow for more square footage but also for unhealthy houses.
Here is a chance to buy a building or a business with it that could be altered to fit the next person’s view on how to create better housing in the future than what is typically offered in subdivisions today.
This package would include inventory, a business, or just the structures and the land. 5 acres with a 20,000 sf warehouse, 2,000 sf of offices, and the massive outdoor covered area known as Manifestation Bay.
This facility has 440 3 phase, 220 three phase, and regular on-site electricity.
The land has a well that will continue to be shared by the adjoining property, but the well is located on this land and runs 24/7 to assist in keeping the wildlife area ponds full throughout the year.
The property presently has a bathhouse in the back, part of the BnB operations on the adjoining property. If possible, it will be moved to the other area next door and remain in a trust as a nature reserve.
The Building was constructed in 1985, and the offices must be updated to be suitable for a new business. The second floor of the front building has an additional 1,000 sf of flooring, which provides more usable area than just the first floor.
This land’s industrial and commercial value is 5 acres on the hilltop.
There is also an apartment for living quarters on the second floor above the offices, which also has a kitchen area and a shower in the second bathroom downstairs beside the customer bathroom. There are presently eight office areas in the front of the building.
If the buyer does not buy the inventory, there is a chance for a short-term leaseback to empty the building. If the building is cashed out, the inventory can be financed for ten years.
333 Salvage Way is located on IH 10 at exit 628, the last exit before the toll road exits, which go all the way to Seguin, 16 miles away. There are no other exits with full utilities.
Also, the property sits high over the highway with a 1 mile visibility zone for the drivers by to see, want, and pay attention to the products that will be built or sold from here due to the incredible visibility.
There is no chance of the building flooding without a tsunami from the gulf, as it sits well above the San Marcos River across the highway. This was the only exit from here to Houston, 145 miles away, that did not flood out in the Hurricane Harvey times when it parked over the top of us for two days before returning to wreak havoc on Houston that year.
Buccees is finishing its giant store at the next exit, so this exit already has one of the truckstops finished. Another is scheduled on the opposite corner on this side of the highway, with hotels, too.
Contact [email protected] for more information or to come see it. I am working with brokers and paying a buyers agent commission of 3% to a solid transaction with a 1% bonus if closed by February 27th, 2025
For more information, a viewing, or a visit to discuss the possibilities, contact Brad at [email protected].
Yes, it appears like this road will come to an end soon. I will put to bed after searching for the protege or others who want to grow Tiny Texas House communities.
For Sale: the land and building that houses the Tiny Texas Houses operations. I have tried my best, taking over a dozen years to nurture the concepts. With the end of my role in the arena of tiny housing manufacturing, I will offer the chance for someone else who may well be a better businessman than I was, as that is no longer on my list of things I want to do in life. Running a business is a demanding life and can pay well. Still, at 69, I have had my fill of running companies, having employees, and paying outrageous taxes for the privilege of having workers. I liked helping Americans overcome the housing crisis. It appears like the runaway train will not have anyone on the tracks to warn others or to slow the train down before it goes entirely off the tracks soon. Housing in America will reach crisis levels fast as the economy crumbles further due to the massive layoffs and industrial decline in progress.
The war-machine industry may be booming, but all others are suffering dearly and will soon lead to an economic depression unlike any in history, yet business will continue. The time to grow a business is historically during a recession or depression. I am not at the point in my life where I wish to do that again. I was pretty successful in my past businesses. Now I want to write my books to help others create intentional villages from salvage, to perpetuate the idea of healthy tiny houses for an alternative to the big shitrock monstrosities that fill subdivisions by the millions now at prices few can afford without enslaving themselves for a few decades to jobs they do not like. I will be selling off massive inventories if no one chooses to purchase the building with the potential to regrow the business now as I have no intention of cranking up a business with employees, taxes, and the many headaches of entrepreneurship anymore.
So, the property is up for sale. I hope to see a great person buy the whole thing, not just the land, but the millions in inventory that I will parse out otherwise worldwide. Why not check out the incredible financing I can offer on large orders of materials for projects, especially the development of tiny villages and communities focused on breaking out of the city life. Join the millions who are choosing to raise kids in a better environment while developing the food with gardens, farm animals, and the older style of healthy homestead living. I want the wealth of materials to go to these types of projects and will do all I can to help facilitate that. Let me know if you have anyone who you can connect me with to assist them in manifesting their dreams for a better reality than what many are facing today.
Do you need some materials for some big projects? Now is the time to look into it as I will be financing materials for projects too. Do you have a tiny community intended but have not found the resources to build it yet? Check with me sooner than later to make it happen. [email protected] for more information on the property or materials, the business for your future, or more.
I offered solutions to downsize in a healthy way and create a more reasonable living scenario for millions stuck in the city, aging out with no income increases that will keep up with living costs. Millions will go homeless before the end of 2025, and nothing is being done to offset a known outcome from the high inflation of housing and food costs.
This is not a short-term problem, but if the solutions are ignored in favor of building more housing that is too expensive, too big, and poorly constructed to be of great value in fifteen years. The unhealthy materials used for housing today make people sick without knowing why. Ultimately, when the costs of maintenance, taxes, and insurance are considered, all rising faster than the incomes of elders who occupy the houses, they will be forced to move out, sell out at the worst time, and most likely to giant corporations that will use the homes for rentals as they grow their inventories using unlimited bank loans and charge the interest for the takeover costs to the renters.
This is going to continue, and clearly, I am not going to make a dent in the problem, so I am shutting down the warehouses with the materials to build 500 tiny houses, a few hundred 400+ square foot houses with lofts that would serve many well… but no one is interested in helping to make that happen, especially the government that should be supporting. What will come of the future for those who are forced out into the cold and lose all their possessions, their jobs for lack of a home to live in, and ultimately, the destruction of many families who will never recover from the loss of their home? Unfortunately, my suggestions and solutions that could be implemented to create a few hundred houses and start the trend of building with more salvaged materials and smaller houses that suit the needs of many instead of just servicing the profits of the giant house-building corporations that have no concern for the public needs, just profits.
This is for the opening from the bath into the living areas so that air can flow to cool if needed or to let the sun shine in… lol
So many people do not know they could use antique windows to build a tiny house. There are no codes on portable buildings used as tiny houses you can live in full-time if you stay away from draconian cities and counties scattered across the land. How do you find such places? Where do you go to hide and do the things you want to without being dictated to and lied to when the public gets caught up in all the problems that must subside?
Would you use such windows in your house?
Congratulations if you can’t escape the trap at the gate that lets you live without rent or income. The other 99% must consider where to live and, with consent, even have to still pay rent at 69 years old or more. If not, they kick you out the door. How does this happen as Wii age at last and realize that the living costs are far beyond what Wii had planned and Social Security is not enough on hand?
There is a rapidly growing trend toward downsizing. Despite that, there is no decent tiny housing as an alternative to apartments owned by Blackstone and the gang of elites that control most of all the housing you can get. Houses must be built that accommodate the many singles and those who want a place they don’t have to share or fear they might be forced to move away.
Can we create villages where some can live and garden and raise the farm critters that feed their families and friends? If so, we must do so soon, or there won’t be near any room in the city for the many who cannot earn the insane costs now for rent in the cities where they’re stuck.
We should come up with other places outside the big cities for the many who are now retired and do not need to work. When the checks come in, grocery stores and a trip to town will get most of what they need around the first of the month. The rest of the time, they could garden and read, get exercise, and play with the kids who the elders are raising while the youngers work outside the place where they can hide with pride, an intentional community they all call home.
Solutions are out there everywhere to fix your problems soon. You could create a new career. Look into the future with new “I”s to grow and see what you can do to form the new “You” once you finally understand what you can still do. You are never too old to learn a trade that will be better than the one that has seen its better days. You can be nearly anything you decide to be if you do the work and focus on your goals, not the next party. Join the millions in the search for how they will fit in when AI takes their job or the stores never open up where they need a million people doing robot work again. Prepare for learning new ways to thrive and get along as the old days are changing, and you will not go very far if you are not changing with them to grow better by the hour.
Join us in the transformation of a fat and lazy nation. They will have no choice soon but to get up and get out to do what they once paid others for as their saving dwindles and the dollar loses value while the Bitcoin values are bound. What have you put away to save for the rainy days that came? If not prepared and getting scared about a job or worse, a house to live in and stay warm as winter is setting in. Beware of the cold and the heating costs as this year will be the worst in many decades since the snow came down with such great haste. Know that moving is a good thing, South the way to do so that you don’t spend your saving on heating oil when it gets cold.
When you get ready to be warm and come to Salvage, Texas, for the winter storms, know that you will do just fine and share our world of daily sunshine. Thanks for thinking of us when the feet of cold snowfall, and do not hesitate to think we will wish for it down here cause that ain’t gonna happen unless it is quickly gone. Wii don’t mind a few inches in the night and for it to last for days, but by the third day, it must melt and always goes away. Thanks for thinking as you look outthe windows at the snow. The view down here is better with the windows open still. The green leaves still hold birds; yes, they will be green all year. The grass may die off for a day or two, but I trust it will grow long before you see the ground in Michigan.
Yes, it is possible to have an incredible night of sleep, healing, and transforming into the amazing person you will become in the morning. Make yourself incredible by sleeping better.
In a room where I sleep, some things make it deep.
Are you hanging from the sky? Sleeping with the stars above or with the sunrise looking in your eyes at your bedside. This is my pride and joy, my bed that hangs there through each night and lets my breathing swing my bed to dream in great delight. What makes this so unique that few can know without sleeping for a night while swinging to learn of my delight? For ten years, I have floated deep throughout each night. I can not tell you of a time before that in my life when I slept and healed so well through my sweet nights.
There is no air-conditioned world, but with the air throughout the night that comes from outside where, the frogs and crickets sing to me throughout the night. Wii wonder as the dreams turn into days that amaze and thrill through the actions taken when I walk on the Earth for another day. The sunrise hits my eyes, and I charge up with rays that are the source of life. They ease my strife as I see it daily. I am so thrilled to go out into my future at the end of my night of floating in the air throughout another night. What will you make of the day ahead? A dream is fulfilled or an excuse when you end the day and pray at the bedside to do your best after one more night. What will you do when you get up and go to be the best part of tomorrow’s show?
Do you want to know the path to freedom and excellent health? Do you follow the sun’s rhythm that will make your life so grand when you charge up your sweet vessel with the sun that fills the land? Youthing is simple if you desire to live 100 years and never have cause to complain. Why doesn’t Wii teach it to the kids? More importantly, the elders wish to regain youthful living so their dreams can be lived out before their spirits move along. I live in a new truth that aging is a mental state. I have learned that you can bring decay faster if you disrespect the vessel that gives life as your body ages faster if you don’t respect it in your youth. Why not teach the old and young to remain youthful now instead? Start with how you sleep at night and wake to dream again. Love yourself and save your youth by sharing what keeps everyone healthy.
Be the example of what Wii can do once Wii get the calling and figure out what we’re here to do. Tell us how to make the future better for you if you are willing to do the work for those who live with you. Create the community and rebuild the towns. Form your future with the promise of what can come about. The community, with unity, can succeed in forming what it takes to build a village that all are thankful to be part of. Join Mii as I seek to help as many as I can to form the Outposts where the salvage can be reformed into the best houses for the future that are genuinely built the best, without the toxins and the imports, to last for a lifetime as the test.
If you want to help your town and your family or start an intentional community where the gardens can grow with the homeschooled kids into geniuses, I wish to lead us in the future. This is my mission and my prayer, that you might see and be inspired to start a Co-op there and create the houses of the future to be the very best that Wii can build together and know Wii have passed the test of proving what Wii can do locally, and thus do best. Please stop the madness of sending jobs to places far away and ship the products they create that take our jobs away. Stop the madness and the waste of assets here to grow your business, feed your family, shelter the masses, and know you are doing what God would deem the best in this life test. The hardship and necessity is the proverbial Mother of Invention on the way in the next few years.
Thanks for sharing all the information you can with those who want to do the work of salvaging or building the houses that the Baby Boomers need, like all the rest who can not afford the Blackrock prices as they control the rents. Strike out on your dreams to have a path to own a house instead. Join others in finding the land, building houses, and taking a stand for the future of housing that is made for the common man. For more information, for a building plan, for the parts and pieces to create your dream, and to send the rest of the people who will join you, follow us on Substack for the path to that sweet end.
So, what is a treasure? More Millionaires are created from the salvage industry than any other in the USA. Why is the past so valuable to some but trash to others?
Yes, more millionaires are created in the salvage industry than any other, even without college degrees, significant bank financing, or giant corporations supplying the start-up capital. It is all about human energy and determination. It is a bit of fun, too, if this is your passion: saving and creating new housing from the best of the past.
Become a Salvage Hunter to find the best houses, barns, and buildings to save and repurpose, creating jobs for those who need new occupations, like building tiny homes. They brokered, salvaged, and used the materials locally or sold them to bring income into old towns that were dying yet full of treasure. Salvage the past to build the future. It’s been done for thousands of years, after every war, earthquake, or fire that burnt down half of the cities in Chicago or San Francisco, for example, many know of.
Wii, the ones who see the value, save the past treasure, and thus provide the means to build a better future than with imports that take jobs away, sacrifice resources at our fingertips, and leave America as a debtor nation due to giant corporations taking massive profits and distributing them to only a few of the Global citizens and societies benefit. They use the rest to control and own the planet.
Please stop the madness by breaking the tools of the corrupt, exposing their intentions, and disposing of the despots. Fantasy in a reality that seems surreal because Wii is creating it, as agents for a force few can imagine can plan our future, our destiny, yet Wii, as part of that force, is what takes action, thus forming tomorrow.
Let us Unite to make tomorrow incredible once the nightmares ahead are over. Wii is allowed to Awaken to the Light that will force the darkness into corners or obliterate it for a while with solar power, spiritual power so bright that no evil force can have any sight. With the enemy blinded, Wii shall take their tools to determine our freedoms and make the rules. Join us in using the Loopholology it takes to expose and bring transparency, ensuring the integrity of the leaders in our world.
The rest of the liars, the cheats, and the political whores need the Whistleblowers to expose them now that the internet can point them out. The public can create a route to eliminating them all. Join the Global Loophole Hunt to learn how to use the rule to catch the fools who thought they had won the war. My friends they did not expect what was coming to the fore in 2025. Evil hits the wall!
What will it look like as the battle quickly moves on, and the consequences of what will it take to bring Peace to one and all finally? Once reduced to rubble nations, the global populations will be run by those who know the cost and realize that the coming generations need a break from war.
Why not have fun and do something instead of watching TV while your body decays from inactivity? Stop eating the poison, drinking the “Electric Kool-Aid,” and awaken from the desire created and driven by commercials. Do not just sit and bitch about the world going in the wrong direction. If you are not part of the solutions necessary in the immediate future, you will be part of the problem instead… and that will be eliminated. Time will be harsh for many who choose to check out instead of getting prepared for some challenging but fulfilling times ahead. Some will thrive while others wish they were no longer alive and take that route of escape called death, willingly over the physical side of life. Beware of the suicidal thoughts that come from depression due to fear of what you can not do, but attack the problem by doing what you can do outside the standard box and find a new path, occupation, and passion.
That is the Loophole to a better life, the door of opportunity that provides change and a chance to salvage your body, mind, and spirit from the ravages of a society that has gone out of moral guidelines on its way to creating a Hell on Earth for all who participate, take their jabs, and do their jobs.Otherwise, nonconformists like this might not fit in if they remain free thinkers, taking action that lets them thrive while the other humans question why they are alive. Webble out the words of Freedom and Unity, not fear and war.
Think freely about how you can become incredible by selling the world the benefits of the Pure Salvage Living Renaissance. A move to a healthier world, one body, mind, and home at a time. Simple solutions that only require communication and the action of those inspired by the words, pictures, and videos that prove this is possible, profitable, and benefits all who get involved.
Please consider creating a Loophole in your town called a PSO Co-OP. Empowerment begins at a local level and grows worldwide like a viral path that is meant to grow now. Be a part of making a World Union of Beings possible. Be a solution: walk, talk, and do all Wii can to unite, not fight in these transitional times.
A decade ago I attempted to help teach others how to become millionaires through salvage mining, building, and hunting the cherries often hidden in old houses, buildings, and barns.
Here is the example I created as a model. It was a successful adventure, but it was not repeated many more times after this video due to the logistics and lack of profit to support the seminars unless I were to take that on more frequently. I did not personally, as I accumulated too much inventory from salvaging and did not sell it right away but stored much of it for later. Have you listened to the Song of Salvage that was created for this video?
Today, I am preparing to release those many treasures back into the environment of people who now see the value better, want to build with salvage, and will perhaps carry on the torch of conservation and sustainable building without imports, toxic new building materials that outgas, or imports from the far sides of oceans. This is an accumulation of many decades of collecting for the times that the materials would be valued for their quality and longevity. No, it is easy to see the difference compared to expensive, new, inferior building materials that are imported, often toxic from the outgassing of chemicals, and a realization that all new building materials manufactured create more pollution. The only way to reduce consumption is to salvage, reuse, and repurpose all things in the creation lifecycle to disposal. Our goal must turn toward lengthening the life of products made for as long as possible instead of creating unrepairable disposable products out of plastics and other toxic materials once disposed of in the environment.
Here is an example of what to learn and know when doing salvage mining on old structures. It goes well with the videos on the El Campo Expedition and Salvage, a musical score that shows the action of 7 days in 7 minutes and the product, process, and success without drawing blood from the salvagers, the key important thing in the world of Salvage Mining. Join me to look at what you can do to grow your wealth, health, and homes out of salvage.
The El Campo 1860‘s Hotel Salvage Mine
Seminar #1: Salvage Mining Testing Waters for December 2011
Here is a Salvage Mining Project that I want to do as a seminar and volunteer operation during the Christmas school break since so many people have time off. Otherwise, it will be off in January 2012, possibly a bit colder by then. I have found a rare jewel of a Salvage Mine in an 1867 circa Texas Hotel. Entering is like stepping into a time capsule to see a hotel’s plain, straightforward interior from early Texas history. It looks like it was never redecorated in the century and a half since it was built. It stands bravely still while bearing the weight of giant Live Oak trees that finally leaned on its roof after growing up together side by side and shading their home from the harsh weather year-round.
I am calling to determine the interest level for participating in a holiday vacation Salvage Mining seminar on this opportunity. The location is 30 minutes from the Texas coastline in El Campo, Texas, about an hour from Houston, 2 1/2 from Austin or San Antonio, and 40 minutes from Victoria. A trip to the Texas coastline will be for nearly anyone who has not seen it yet but doesn’t expect it to look like the Pacific coastline. I will need a participation fee to cover the complexities of setting this up so far from our home base in Luling. Still, it is worth letting everyone who can share in this educational and inspiring experience. From the Hotel to the houses it forms with our imagination, I want to let some people with a passion for this come and learn, then take it out into the world and share it with others who will do the same. It takes volunteers and people who can afford to contribute money to make things like this happen, as well as time and effort in the form of human energy, to carry this concept forward. The individual sacrifice of time and money will make this a Pure Salvage Living solution more than just good conversation and fascinating coffee table books.
This “1800s Hotel is an incredible relic of the past that I hope some history buffs would want to track down, document, and even record stories from the old timers locally who will have some tall tales to tell, if I imagine right. I think past guests will come out of the woodwork to help put the past on record. While I realize some will want to keep it for its historic nature, that time is past, functionally obsolescent. It is a treasure of history that should be passed on and not be lost. It will be re-manifested as several beautiful Tiny Texas Houses that will live on for centuries if the bugs and fire leave it alone. Incredibly, the Hotel still has the original Milk paint on the beaded ceilings, walls, and parts and pieces for two floors.
There has been no re-muddling over the century and a half, just the original green milk paints and a few other great colors that most of us treasure and appreciate. It should be all square-nailed and have a quick takedown because so many boards are long runs and in good condition. The fire brick will be beautiful, as will the doors and the stairwell, which are original and clear for shorter-footed people than me. I am thrilled with this opportunity to share this trove of history, material, human energy, and future homes for generations to come. I have seen a lot of salvage, and this will be one of the cleanest, fastest, and most excellent materials I have done.
We have a unique opportunity to find a visually fantastic find from the “1870s,” with many stories to be found locally. I hope to hear and retell the tales of the life energies that passed through and walked on those 5” Long Leaf Pine floors. This simple hotel could have had hundreds, if not thousands, of guests. This Hotel was built from trees that were centuries old when they were cut down. The wood will all be Long Leaf Pine or Cypress, and we will find a good bit of both, which had to be at least 185 years old to be considered mature enough to cut. That is how long it took to instill the bug resistance and rot resistance characteristics of Cypress, as well as the unmatched strength of Long Leaf Pine. Given they were still abundant in the late “1800”’s, the quality will be unmatched by any wood found in stores today.
Fortuitously, there is a vacant farmhouse on the property with running water and electricity, so it should be possible to have an incredible camp for a fast takedown and a lesson in maximizing yield on a Salvage Mining expedition with minimal waste or hazard. Though it will need some cleanup, with water and electricity for camping out and having RV space and electric water connection for additional people, we should have some fun. Can I set it up yet? I’m unsure of that, but it is one of my possible realizable goals. It just sealed the deal on the house last week.
What it will take.
If we do a seminar and have 10 (=/—depending on the level of paid response based on resources needed to host it) paid people or volunteers, we could take it down over a weekend if everyone gets on it. The weather cooperates, nothing goes wrong, and we have the nail shooter or two to speed up the cleanup. Notice how that “nothing goes wrong slips in?”
Benefits will include:
Plans for the specialty tools used to take the house apart, The chance to get sets of plans as a package that the Hotel creates 1st chance to be part of a seminar on building a house from this material
Some parts and pieces of the Hotel to take home Certification for passing Salvage Mining 101 to become a Pure Salvage Miner To be a charter member of a movement that needs you to grow into a solution for our present world needs and preservation To contribute to creating a video, being in the credits for your work, and being a part of the action and dialogue in a Pure Salvage Living event.
They are shouting from the rooftops. Actually the ceiling of the second floor.
The seminar could include some food, paperwork, an early draft of parts of our Ebook, and plans for the houses that will be created from the Hotel we take down. That could be three or four Tiny Texas Houses or more before we are done. The package of pictures, plans, materials to be taken from the site, participation in tear down, and education should be worth the $495-$750 for the seminar, several levels depending on care, food, and package upgrades like the video. I aim to produce an informative and educational tool for each Salvage Mining student who comes for the event and an offering to what I hope will be a growing membership in the Pure Salvage Living world ahead. I am sure I will involve some volunteers who may see future opportunities evolve from this endeavor, such as careers and mentoring opportunities that will change lives before they are passed.
T-shirts, armbands, and a great El Campos Salvage Mine Poster since it is so picturesque. Imagine one showing it up in the middle and various stages coming down pictured smaller around the outer edge. The video and the accessories are worth $100 in such a package or more. Packages of nails, parts, and pieces will be marketed to help pay for production and get the story out to everyone. This is possible for volunteers, too, because I believe that taking home the parts and pieces will tell a story a hundred times instead of just a few and connect to the tangible memory we can easily share to educate and inspire the children who will live in these houses one day if I succeed.
We will include square nails, beaded wood, parts and pieces found along the way, and great memories that will last a lifetime for each participant in the package. The quantity recovered, and the number of participants will limit the gifts.
Scrap packages for making projects from your part of the Booty from the Salvage Mine. This is one of the best projects of my career, though it may look like nothing from the outside because it has:
Great pre-1900 circa materials, minimal updating over its life
Very little trash or waste from the project Nearly not obvious contaminants Easy takedown, Relatively speaking, of course. Easy nail removal due to having so many square nails. A nail remover gun will be on hand. Initially, they only had a few nails used as they were scarce.
The seminar fee would include some of the house wood and materials as part of the seminar cost, as in 15-25 square feet of the beaded wood or other packages that we will create as the desire for what people would like is clarified. Window sashes with blown glass, hand-made bricks, firebricks, and other treasures found will also be available for sale within the group first.
The chamber stove will be traded off or kept for the TTH community kitchen.
In a perfect world, we create some things to build from the parts and offer them in the seminar program as a parts package.
Short notice limited entry into the seminar, prepaid, nonrefundable. Reservation: 3 days, two nights, or how many days, or full project commitment?
Absolute Liability waivers signed …. required. We cannot be responsible or insure people against the many hazards of salvage any more than the drive or the airplane trip here. This is old fashioned being responsible for yourself if you agree to come, for though I will do my best to give fair warning about wearing the right shoes or gloves, or how things fall from overhead, I cannot keep mistakes and fate from coming into play. I don’t want anyone to come with expectations that I can ensure nothing will go wrong, so please don’t hold me to it.
By participating, you agree that Pure Salvage Living will keep the Filming rights and releases for use in our documentary about the project. Credits for all involved will be included in the film.
The dates and times need to be confirmed, but it is hard not to lean toward the end of the month due to the scheduling nightmare this will create at Tiny Texas. it would be a great way to bring in the New Year symbolically, out with the old, and in with the new. This will be a year of this metaphor taking hold of our world in a way we have never imagined. I hope my vision for a Pure Salvage Living Movement can be one of the many solutions we need to get us through it and on a better path as a nation and a world.
Copies of the filming of the Salvage Mining of our 1867 Texas Hotel will be available in DVD and accessible to the volunteers and seminar participants in
the film or part of the project. Participants are included in the credits, but there will be no future income from any video production if one happens.
Since salvager tools are not as common as most we offer:
Plans for the specialty tools used to take the house apart,
Sell sets of plans as a package that the Hotel creates
Have a seminar on building one of them, and 1st chance to be part of the project will include lessons on Flooring pullers. Beam bars Giant crowbars Med-small bars Crow’s feet and eagles claw 1890’s Nail pullersAntique Nail pullers Blacksmith tools that work New Nail Pliers Pneumatic Nailers make work fast and easy. I will show the best tools and how to use them. Techniques for different woodDe-nailing for the preservation of primary surface Using leverage for speed The Zen of Nail-pulling 101 Mind over Muscle and rhythm means higher yield and efficiency. Teach nail-pulling techniques that speed up productivity. Possible associated class: The 4-hour class would teach how to build all custom tools ✤ precut parts but do one, for example ✤ offer packages of precut parts for welding later. ✤ tools available for sale or order to be made:✤. Take orders for those we can fabricate ✤ possibly have some others for sale ✤ Memory specialized tools because we ✤ need more for use that could be sold at the end of the project ✤ Or give them away as prizes for the best user of each
Teach some of the terminology we use in the business: Tongue and groove
Board and batten Beaded wood Shiplap Dimensional lumber terminology, Etc
Talks about how to calculate quantities of materials Estimating Salvage Value Sorting for more value etc Appraising value after salvage
Marketing materials, if not needed for the project Bartering materials for the materials market
Talks on wood identification for Texas wood of the last century
Cypress Long Leaf Pine Black Walnut Loblolly Pine Mesquite (will bring samples) Red Oak White Oak Live Oak Cottonwood Cedar Fir (imported) >40 yr old Pines
Discuss the Sequence for tearing down a house of this type.
✦ roof or if raining ✦ inner walls ✦ ceiling down ✦ Discuss the various hazards of Salvage Mining, including war stories
Discuss the precautions people should consider taking and why.
Packing the materials properly on a trailer for transport
level load balanced load so as not tongue light properly strapped load sized sorted de-nailed flags on over-length loads
Proper materials storage for maximum lifespan
Stacking Covering Spacing from ground Spacing between wood types Shorts and Longs
Identifying wood damage due to insects and rot
Termite damage and type Wood Bores Wood Rot Dry Rot
Rodent Damage Water Damage
Corrections and treatments are needed for wood damage and issues. Antique Builders Hardware
Door Hardware of this period Window Hardware
Possibly a tutorial on inspection Cleaning Repair The terminology for working with builders’ hardware and paperwork is to be included in the package.
Much of this will depend on how much time the participants are willing to spend listening to me talk. I aim to record as much as possible so I don’t have to repeat it a million times. Then, everyone can appreciate the story this Hotel will be able to tell to billions of others down the road. I seek an inspirational example of what human energy can do. We can show it to people, plant the seeds of inspiration, fuel the imagination, and provide the spark to ignite our passion and wake up that fire within to save our world. It behooves us to save our past, to use it to build a new world that will look so much like the best of the old paradigm, to not only house us into the next century but remind us of the best parts of humanities past that need to be preserved as carefully as our planet.
If you can support us, either by being here as a seminar participant, donating to help make it happen (no, we are not 501C anything), in time, money, and support, Thank you in advance for your participation if you choose, but foremost just for having been interested in this dialogue, considered this perspective, and taken the time to read this far.
I intend to take what we have done so far and share the process and the results with the people it will benefit the most. This is the next mission in our growth. I believe the changes will come from planting the seeds and the visual images proving it can be done. Ultimately, it is the physical experience of what it feels like, not just on the outside, but on the inside, when you sense the energy of the materials and their past lives and know you preserved it for another century. This is an opportunity to change the world on an individual level and be part of the dialogue in our society through the actions we take in our daily lives, not the words we speak but never act on.
Interested? Salvage Mining Sponsors
Like-minded businesses wanting to help Salvage Tool Makers Salvage Furniture Makers Local businesses wanting to have people share their food and hotels. National Movements that wish to support Pure Salvage Living
Salvage Mining Mentors & Donors
Generous entities that support saving history, as well as the parts and pieces that made it all possible. Non-profits are interested in sharing the benefits and energy that unity can create for this cause.
Private people who are limited physically for any of many reasons but want to show their support, come watch and be a part of this, or get a package from it and learn about it afterward. People who are too far away to come but want to offer support to prove we can do the same near their hometowns and spread the Pure Salvage Living movement there, too.
Salvage Mining Apprentices (paying seminar attendees with benefits) Sacrifice to learn comes in many forms, but the time is hard to give anymore when the job calls, so paying for the knowledge on a crash course but not having to spend much time costs money. Please know that the seminar fees will be worth the experience you help make it be, and I will do all I can to make it life-changing in every way I can.
Volunteers, likewise, work pays for the knowledge and the time, but with slim resources comes slim opportunities. I sympathize and want to offer up some openings to overcome this problem, but camping, water, and space may be tight and space to work without hurting each other. Two shorter shifts are possible, and we could make it look like the magic it should be. There are lots of nails for everyone, and the volunteers must prove themselves to work their way up the Apprenticeship ladder.
I will offer up Salvage Mining Certificates at the end of the Salvage job for various positions and achievements with every Salvage Mining Expedition. I am sure these awards will always be the most prized and duly decorated.
Salvage Mining Veterans and Old Timers
If you have a history, recent or extended in the past If you know about how this was built because you did it once as a boy If you know your wood and grew up in the Lumber Industry when Texas was a forest. If you have the hotel’s story because you love the history, it is vital to respect salvage mining. If you wish to share the last vestiges of a time when we built with our hand tools, not electricity,
Suppose you spent your life Salvaging Mining as a business or having the opportunity to build a home for your family. Most have forgotten how many people were able to build houses in America with materials salvaged after storms, fires, earthquakes, and wars. It’s been a long time since they needed to.
If you remember building out of 99% Pure Salvage in the old days when every board and nail had a value that could not be matched by any reasonable means. Salvage Building is not a new occupation or idea.
If the weather and opportunity permit, I hope to assemble some real old-timers to tell tales in the evenings after the work day is done and the hammers come to rest. Since that will only be for a few hours, I would like to limit the number of speakers yet offer the chance for a number to come, especially the ones who can support us as donors and mentors.
Salvage Mining Support Services Food
Video Photography Internet support Editing support Event coordinating skills Waste and clean-up service
Salvage Mining Volunteers (can also be from the ranks of all above)
Physically participate in take-down Support help in food, sanitation, Nursing if we need it, as a healer, not a pro Cooks if we are to create an onsite fare for a variety Music, yes, there is enough space for a couple of styles of tunes.
I’m hoping for the best, and this could be the test.
If it works, we have another possible January date closer to New Braunfels and Seguin, Texas. More info on that teaser will come later. I’m glad you read this far.
Here is a very short, action-packed invite to learn more and see why.
Not long after this seminar, the desire for more ended. This was the first year after my son, Adam Brad Kittel, passed on to the other side of the veil of life.
I did have a couple more seminars, but there came a time after my son passed when the desire to work so hard slipped away to focus on other things. How do Wii take these treasures and put them back to use, except by convincing others that it is the right way to move again? Salvage mining, building, and hunting could provide millions of jobs, houses, and resources that would not have to be imported to build a new generation of housing where it is needed most, in the lower-income classes where mansions for their old age are not possible as it is for the 1% at the top of the economic spectrum. The time is here to develop new ways to create tinier housing that can be grouped on lands instead of lawns with gardens and trees growing all about. When will the world wake up?
