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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT bellsouth.net>]

Thanks for the posts. Great information. Several people have told me to get 
a pole building rather than the trailer. Make a barn with an apartment.

Rob

> Just thought of something else...
>
> Things that won't hurt if you can find them at garage sales or auctions (I 
> never went to an auction until after I was in MN, that's a place to find 
> some deals!).
>
> Garden hose, you can't have too much garden hose. As I was leaving a farm 
> auction (I'd had enough fun..) before it was over I noticed a pile of used 
> garden hose. I stopped and went back, ended up getting it all for like a 
> dollar, with that I could drag a hose out to the way back...
> Extension cords.
> Buckets
> Electrical supplies (light switches - wall plugs - wire nuts - wire), 
> fasteners (screws, nails, bolts, etc farm auctions are good for these), 
> and a vice for mounting on your bench (the power of a third hand).
>
> Last but not least a battery operated drill (has to come with a spare 
> battery) and a collection of dry wall screws.
>
> Rob in WA (now)



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