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08/26/10, 03:09 PM
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What are you willing to sell/barter
What are you willing to sell/barter to further your goals homesteading?
To start, I'm willing to sell/barter our ATV's and some of my hunting rifles to get fencing and other building materials for projects.
What about you?
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08/26/10, 05:27 PM
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My books (not the ag. ones!), my few pieces of inherited jewelery, anything that doesn't work, but could be parts for someone else. But life keeps happening...had to trade my truck to get a big tree off my house...so now I need another truck! ldc
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08/26/10, 07:04 PM
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I've got a massive car-hauler trailer I'd be willing to sell or trade. It's not a flimsy one, you could haul a tractor with it.
I need fencing, sheds, livestock trailer, drywall, just about anything really. I just don't need to haul big cars.
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08/26/10, 07:07 PM
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I would keep one ATV, they are handy for a lot of things.
This won't be popular, but I would get rid of excess guns first. Not all of course but a varmint gun and a large game rifle is really all most people NEED.
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08/26/10, 07:24 PM
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DH has an 18 ft outboard boat he is trying to get rid of, would be willing to trade almost anything useful for it.
We have traded our honey for lots of things, DH has bartered work for wood, made 2 pig pens with it in fact.
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08/26/10, 07:37 PM
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I do some trading. At this time I would rather trade than sell. It would be hard to list what I have to trade as I am not sure what I have.
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08/26/10, 07:51 PM
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I swap labor with my brothers all the time. A neighbor just painted a truck cap for me and wants to borrow a tractor this Winter for some land clearing.
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08/26/10, 08:12 PM
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Like Ramblin Wreck, I'll trade or barter my labor for goods, but rarely the other way around. If I worked or scrounged for something, I must have had a reason to get it... to get rid of it, even if I haven't 'used' it for years, is a surefire reason I'd need it the next week, and odds are, I'd have to buy it new, at premium prices.
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08/26/10, 08:39 PM
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We trade quite a lot of things around here with others. I bake so we trade that for other meat and fruit we don't have. We trade services. My husband can fix electronics and we have friends who can cut trees or build or things like that. We swap all sorts of stuff for use of a friends tractor in the Spring. Once you get established in a community it doesn't take long to start trading stuff. 
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08/26/10, 08:55 PM
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We have cars from our Datsun collection that I'd love to trade for mechanical work on other cars from our collection. Maybe not what one thinks as homesteading related, but one of the vehicles is a pickup and it sure would be nice to have a pickup to haul alfalfa bales in!
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08/26/10, 09:01 PM
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Whatever I would deem necessary / advantageous...traded a rarely used chain saw for a generator (6000 watts), get some labor for veggies, restore cars for cash (or automobilia related items). Other than that, we really don't "barter", just neighbors being neighbors. One works in the local grocery. We gave her some cukes and tomatoes (her garden didn't fare well), she dropped off bakery pies, cakes and sweets. Not requested, just neighbors being neighborly...I think that will have more value than many stocked items...IMHO.
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08/26/10, 09:19 PM
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Two yearling Boer/Spanish cross does, exposed to a Spanish buck; one Boer/Spanish cross doeling. I no longer live on the farm and my mother wants them out. 
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08/26/10, 11:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MariaAZ
We have cars from our Datsun collection that I'd love to trade for mechanical work on other cars from our collection. Maybe not what one thinks as homesteading related, but one of the vehicles is a pickup and it sure would be nice to have a pickup to haul alfalfa bales in!
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If I were closer, I'd fix your truck, in exchange for alfalfa! Don't grow the stuff hereabouts, and it gets priceysome. $12/bale... ouch!!!
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08/27/10, 01:08 AM
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I saw bales of alfalfa the other day on the parking lot of the Brookshires---the guy wanted $15 a bale, and he had some guy with a horse trailer pulled up alongside and they were loading some up. I think that's the highest I've ever seen alfalfa.
What would I barter with? Like others, I'd likely trade my labor and time for material items. About the only thing I can think I'd trade with would be some excess poultry I have--- I have some nice Dominique pullets that have just started laying, a few nice quality roos for breeding purposes, and a few Silkies that are good birds, just not my best. I won't trade off my best birds.
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08/27/10, 06:36 AM
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Come colder weather I will be bartering home baked breads & pies for personal care items such as shampoo. I have in the past bartered homemade hearty mustard rye bread (I do my own grinding) for picking rights on raspberrys. Sometimes when I glean I also will use that item for bartering.
Bartered 6 pints of homemade B&B and Garlic Dill pickles for storage for our trailer. Even made a label - Payment Pickles, especially made for Jeff. In the past I pressed Pear cider & bottled it, & rhubarb pie (his rhubarb) as storage rent.
Got a painter who was working on a house across the street to clean our gutters & patch a small section of roof near the eves. Paid him $40, and two steaks outtta the freezer from a cow we had butchered. Also made his coffee & a slice of pie. Going rate for gutter cleaning starts at $150.
Recently collected on electrical work a year after I babysat for 5 children. Their parents went away for the weekend. Cured me on wanting more so that was a twofer deal.
Working on a wine deal with a neighbor. Him & his partner make wine & we have a cider press and a stash of useable bottles.
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08/27/10, 08:48 AM
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I traded some Federal Reserve Notes for some stuff the other day.....I still get a kick out of the fact that a govt can slap some ink on a piece of paper, and people will let me drive off with a truckload of stuff in exchange for a few of them....they seem to like the ones with more zeros I've noticed.
I was thinking about getting some of these since folks like the US version so well:
You can get them some places for a bunch of bananas.
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08/27/10, 10:14 AM
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I have a horse I'd like to get shed of. I've place a few ads, though, and no calls yet.
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08/27/10, 10:18 AM
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I've always traded my artwork for things, everything from hay and vet work to stud services on horses and dogs. I haven't done much with it since I moved to Kentucky since there are no local galleries to get my work out, but I'm seriously considering getting a webpage or blog up and making it clear I'd consider trades as well as $$ purchases. Some things wouldn't work well to ship but all of my "collections" that I had and used for subjects in my artwork were lost, so I would like to replace things like that. I had arrowheads, western memorabilia (bits, spurs) old (small) hand tools, kitchen items, stoneware, pottery ... and of course most of those things don't need to be "working" or undamaged ... art books, calendars ... I'm even thinking I might add a list of things I'd be interested in trading for along with the artwork I have available.
Locally, I have been trading rabbits ... both live and butchered. I've swapped off several live breeding rabbits to people wanting to raise their own for different things. I also swap butchered rabbit routinely to our "hay guy" in trade for some of his beef and pork when he butchers.
We have horses, I've had them most of my life in fact and I've often swapped stallion services for various things ... hay, grain, artwork from other artists ... and the list goes on. It used to be strictly a local situation but now with shipped semen I can manage even long-distance swaps!
DH welds and has traded welding jobs for roadwork, etc. Same with work he can do with the little tractor/bucket as he can get into places a big outfit can't go.
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08/27/10, 02:10 PM
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Location: South Central Wisconsin
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I've traded(bartered) wool, yarn, books, candles, honey, beeswax, handmade boxes(trinket type), pottery I've made, arrows, jewelry, material, leather, food, eggs, RABBITS (anyone want a rabbit? I have lots, atm), woven pieces....
I once traded my story telling services for a REALLY wonderful dinner And it's quite common to trade space in the trailer/truck for fuel to get somewhere I want to go anyway
The easiest thing to trade is Artificer's work He's traded his work with the backhoe for 1/2 hog, 2 deer (plus a bottle of 20year old Scotch), bales of alfalfa (and straw, and timothy), fencing, and some wonderful BIG bushes and trees!
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08/27/10, 04:01 PM
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I would trade a 8g I touch {1st Gen} with some music and movies on it for a bc pup.
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