by Paul | Apr 30, 2019 | Farm & Homestead
FREE Check List to use as a guide while changing your filter (pdf download page link below). If you live in a rural part of the country like we do and rely on a well for your water supply, you have (or should have) a primary sediment filter that needs to be changed...
by Paul | Apr 26, 2019 | Fabrication, Farm & Homestead, Tools & Equipment
FREE Plans with Both Imperial & Metric Dimensions!!! Information Below. Fast & Easy, Simple & Cheap! But the best part about having this handy tool in your shop is the time saved and convenience when having to mark a centerline. It’s much faster than...
by Paul | Apr 18, 2019 | Fabrication, Farm & Homestead, Tools & Equipment
FREE Plans, Folks!!! Information Below. The Oneida “Dust Deputy” is well known and has proven to be a great cyclone unit that makes up part of a cyclone dust collection system. I love it and would have purchased one, except I stopped short when I discovered it sold...
by Paul | Apr 11, 2019 | Fabrication, Farm & Homestead, Tools & Equipment
FREE PLANS IN BOTH IMPERIAL & METRIC DIMENSIONS!!! There are all kinds of 2-wheel dollies that you’ll find on YouTube, blogs, etc., but what makes this one so unique is the ability to fully adjust it to whatever width of material one has to move. So I call it “The...
by Paul | Apr 4, 2019 | Building Projects, Fabrication, Farm & Homestead, Furniture Designs
FREE PLANS IN BOTH IMPERIAL & METRIC DIMENSIONS!!! With summer on the way, you’ll want to build a few of these simple, easy to make, portable patio chairs. You can do it with basic hand tools if that’s all you have to work with. This style or design has been...
by Paul | Mar 27, 2019 | Contests & Giveaways
I’m excited and very happy to announce the Downeast Thunder Creations YouTube channel has exceeded the 1000-subscriber milestone. As such, it’s now time for another random drawing giveaway to commemorate the occasion. A big thank you from me goes out to all my...
by Paul | Mar 22, 2019 | Arts & Crafts, Farm & Homestead
Someone gave us an old generic sign, no longer wanted, and it was destined for the landfill. The sign in question was a cheap, MDF, made in China, plaque with a “good tidings of some kind – the type sold in big box discount stores as home décor.” I didn’t have any...
by Paul | Mar 15, 2019 | Farm & Homestead, Guy Food Gourmet
In addition to Downeast Thunder Creations and Shoestring Shipyard, I’m known around these parts as “The Guy Food Gourmet.” Side note: You might want to place emphasis upon the term; “guy food.” I filmed this on March 13th, 2019 and its still winter with an abundance...
by Paul | Mar 7, 2019 | Building Projects, Farm & Homestead
It’s been a few years since I designed and built our high wind and heavy snow load greenhouse. A couple of years after building the greenhouse, I started to produce and upload videos to my YouTube channel and the original video of the greenhouse was one of the first...
by Paul | Mar 5, 2019 | Farm & Homestead
It’s still very cold here in Maine with temps below zero in the mornings and highs in single digits & teens during the day. We experienced a “Nor’Easter” from Sunday night through Monday afternoon (March 3rd through March 4th) and today it was quite balmy at...
