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Cutting up your own deer without wasting half of it

What home butchering actually takes — the cold space, the tools, the legal checks, and the mistakes that cost you meat.

GuideCountry BroWes DunbarSep 22, 20266 min

Running a chainsaw without ending up in the emergency room

Kickback and falling wood cause most of the damage. Both are predictable, and both are avoidable if you change how you stand and how you cut.

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Rehearse the raise conversation with me

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

A four-by-eight raised bed, built in one afternoon

Four feet wide, nine inches deep, three boards and a box of screws. The build takes 90 minutes. Hauling the soil is the real work.

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Home6 min read

Ten tools that cover ninety percent of household repairs

Most jobs around a house fail for want of the right tool, not the right skill. This is the short list that handles nearly all of them.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideCountry BroWes DunbarSep 22, 20266 min

The corner posts decide whether your fence lasts twenty years

Most paddock fences fail at the ends, not in the middle. Build the assemblies right and the rest is just wire and patience.

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Re-caulking a bath and shower without it peeling in a year

Most new caulk fails because of what happened before the tube was even opened. The order matters more than the technique.

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Basic Welding: A First Weekend With a MIG

Buy the helmet before the welder, burn a dozen practice beads on scrap, and learn to hear a good weld before you try to see one.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Why Fences Lean, and How to Set Posts That Don't

A fence never fails at the pickets. It fails in the first eight inches of dirt below grade, and that part is decided on day one.

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Changing your own oil without making a mess of it

The order to do it in, the two mistakes that dump five quarts on your driveway, and the parts nobody tells you to buy.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

How to hang a door so it closes with one push

Most doors that stick were hung to a crooked frame. Set the hinge side plumb first and everything downstream gets easier.

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The running toilet is a fifteen-minute fix, not a plumber call

Two parts cause almost every running toilet. You can tell which one in thirty seconds, and both cost under twenty dollars to replace.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 22, 20265 min

Read a tape measure right the first time

The marks, the sliding hook, the diamond at 19.2 and the one habit that stops you cutting a shelf a sixteenth short.

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 22, 20265 min

How to stop a dripping tap in fifteen minutes

Water off, handle off, washer out, washer in. The job is small. The mistakes are the expensive part.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 22, 20266 min

The six multimeter checks that solve most problems

A multimeter does forty things. You'll use six of them, and they cover almost every dead battery, dead outlet and dead appliance you'll meet.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

Skills6 min

How to wire a plug properly, and when to leave it alone

Skills6 min

Jumping a dead mower without frying the battery

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Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 22, 20266 min

Patching Drywall So Nobody Can Tell Where the Hole Was

The patch is the easy part. What gives amateurs away is the feathering, the primer and the light coming down the wall.

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Skills6 min read

Sharpen a knife properly with what's already in your house

No fancy stones, no gadget clamps. A marker pen, something flat, and twenty minutes gets you a knife that slices paper.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

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