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If you use a Run Chicken T50 automatic coop door and suddenly can’t program it after changing batteries — even though it worked fine for years — you’re not alone. I ran into this exact problem, and the cause turned out to be an iPhone software update, not a bad door or dead sensor. Here’s what’s actually happening and how ...

Getting up at dawn to let the chickens out, then heading back out at dusk to secure the chickens and keep them safe is for the birds. Automate this process with an automatic chicken door!

It’s common to purchase your first chicken coop from the internet. It arrives in a box and you must assemble it. Here’s some tips to help extend the life of an inexpensive chicken coop.  

This tutorial will help you with changing oil in a Ford 340b, and other similar tractor models.  

Driveway alarms are great, especially for rural properties, but there is nothing worse than a false alarm waking you up in the wee hours of the night. Here are a few ways to Reduce False Alarms with Driveway Alarms.

If you’ve added on to your home, or refinished an existing space, you may need to consider adding wireless smoke detectors to your existing hard wired interconnected smoke detectors. This will set off all your smoke detectors if any of the existing or new units detect smoke.

Have you been wanting to Connect Solar Panels to RV ZAMP connections. Here is my quick and dirty guide to connecting solar panels to RV ZAMP connections.

After a few years, your SentrySafe Pistol Safe may not open like it used to. You can easily replace the original strut with an inexpensive replacement gas strut, to resolve that issue.

Infidel Body Armor Range Test. This was filmed for a blog that I used to own, years ago. (Post updated 10/2019)

Stinger by C.F. Martin In 1985 Martin unveiled its Stinger line of solid body electric guitars. These were manufactured on the Southern Korean peninsula (south of the DMZ). This was coincidentally during the same period in which there was a dramatic increase in quality among Korean manufacturers. As with most other imported Martin products, Stinger guitars were made in Korea ...