Category: Skilled Trade / Crafts

Keywords for this Skill
dumptruck, backhoe, rockhammer, mini excavator, skidsteer, rock screens, laser leveling equipment. best way to contact me i

Description
general excavting i.e. house site prep, septic systems, water lines , power lines. road building, decorative large rock retaining walls, rock clearing, tree removal, basic land sculpturing

Relevant Education / Credentials
DEQ lisence w/ updated certification insured and bonded

Years Experience: 29

Category: Technology

Keywords for this Skill
ground loop cooling, natural earth heat pumps, earth thermal mass, hot air collectors, ground earth furnaces

Description
usuing ambient earth temperature for cooling with direct air tubes or buried water pipes that go through a heat exchanger, usuing hot air collectors to pump heated air to earth thermal mass below a green house or home additions for future use. these are more intended for cold weather areas.

Relevant Education / Credentials
experience: i got involved with wind power 25 years ago along with all forms of alternate energy sources, built my first wind power plant in 1982 and have since kept up on technologies of available products. My main goal is to work with the DIY type persons.My current projects include a 20'x 18' counter sunk earthberm green house that will utilize hot air collectors to heat the ground below the green house house starting in july.By the time cold weather hits here my 10 ton mass of dirt below the green house will be about 80 to 85 degrees and will help keep green house warm along with daily sun light hitting the collectors and the glazing on green house. This will allow another 45 to 60 days of green house use..My second project is i have a 3000 sqaure ft shop with pex pipe under the slab. I have experimented with 3 types of non-pressued wood fired boiler systems to heat the slab. I have already manufactured some easy to build solar collectors that will also put hot water in me slab heat...eventual goal is 75 % solar heat for my shop w/ wood as a suppliment in Feb. because we get alot of freezing fog at that time-very cold! Some years ago I discovered that by using a large car radiator as a heat exchanger(thats all a radiator is)hooked up to my buried pipes below my slab, i could turn my circulation pump on and use a box fan behind the radiator and i had a ground source heat pump for cooling. I am in the process to market this knowledge to the DIY who is about to embark on a buildig program.

Years Experience: 5

Category: Talent

Keywords for this Skill
guitar playing, repair, building

Description
Out of neccessity learned to repair
necks with bad "action", including fret floating/filing, fret polishing,
truss rod adjustments, neck alignment' bridge adjustment, intonation problems. In acoustic guitars I have repaired broken and loose interior braceing(my Martin D28 bounced out of the back of a vehicle a few years ago 60 mph and though in a Martin aluminum case serious damage did happen... I was able to fix guitar myself...I had to get brave enough to tear into it) I enjoy tinkering with electrics mainly.

Relevant Education / Credentials
Self taught through website "Guitar- Project, Stew Mac, Melven Hiscock books. Have been building tools and aquiring tools to be able to build a neck from scratch including shaping, truss rod install, fret board, fret install...everything from start to finishing. I have practicing on clean 2x4 neck banks to understand and work out difficulties. I am happy with results and am about to attempt a maple neck for one of my older Peavy guitars . My goal is to build custom electric guitars as a hobby. Building and wiring the body didn't seem very hard but to build a complete neck for me is a desire I want to do.

Years Experience: 3