Pyramid #3/52: Low-Tech II

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by SimonAce

From experience here chicken farming really is amazingly efficient and other than predators and disease, pretty issue free.

Did you buy in chicken feed or grow it on your own land?

[DanHoward]

Originally Posted by Brett

Did you buy in chicken feed or grow it on your own land?

One benefit of chicken farming is that you can put the sheds on unproductive land. The feed would need to come from elsewhere but there is no reason why you couldn't control that part of the business too.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

One benefit of chicken farming is that yopu can put the sheds on unproductive land.

You can do the same with cow-byres and sheep-pens, if you have unproductive land.

Also, you can graze cows and sheep on land that isn't arable, and you can fatten swine in forests. Which is good if you have stony hillsides or uncleared forest.

[SimonAce]

Originally Posted by Brett

Did you buy in chicken feed or grow it on your own land?

A bit of both. A bad harvest of course could hurt any farm activity . Chickens do forage though and aren't super picky.

Its granted much easier with store bought feed. Still medieval farms and agriculture supported a large robust economy with trade and enough surplus to support a healthy class of parasites.

There was plenty for chicken feed.

[Flyndaran]

They also love it when you drop an egg. They acted like it was the most delicious thing in the world. A bit disturbing for my childhood clumsiness.

[DemiBenson]

I liked this issue. The first three all had direct relevance to a setting I'm building. I expect they'll be quite useful.

[Bruno]

On a non-chicken related subject, I was home sick today and spent my conscious hours tinkering with an Excel spreadsheet for the Low Tech Armor article, although I'm not sure if it'll work in older versions or GoogleDocs.

It brought up an interesting question though: What's the connection between physical statistics, DR/inch, Max DR, and WM for various materials? If I have a fantasy material that is "as hard as steel" but "as light as <x>" I can probably throw together DR/in (not used in any calculations that I've spotted) and WM (used) but Max DR (used) I am not sure how to generate.

It seems like it should be related to density (WM) and tensile strength or hardness (DR/in?), based on my not-a-materials-engineer vague impression? I tried fitting Max DR to a cube root and a log of DR/in and can't. Does being a flexible material factor in somewhere?

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Bruno

On a non-chicken related subject, I was home sick today and spent my conscious hours tinkering with an Excel spreadsheet for the Low Tech Armor article, although I'm not sure if it'll work in older versions or GoogleDocs.

It brought up an interesting question though: What's the connection between physical statistics, DR/inch, Max DR, and WM for various materials? If I have a fantasy material that is "as hard as steel" but "as light as <x>" I can probably throw together DR/in (not used in any calculations that I've spotted) and WM (used) but Max DR (used) I am not sure how to generate.

It seems like it should be related to density (WM) and tensile strength or hardness (DR/in?), based on my not-a-materials-engineer vague impression? I tried fitting Max DR to a cube root and a log of DR/in and can't. Does being a flexible material factor in somewhere?

Uhhh I want this when it's done Bruno. >_>

Kthxbai

[zoncxs]

Originally Posted by Bruno

On a non-chicken related subject, I was home sick today and spent my conscious hours tinkering with an Excel spreadsheet for the Low Tech Armor article, although I'm not sure if it'll work in older versions or GoogleDocs.

It brought up an interesting question though: What's the connection between physical statistics, DR/inch, Max DR, and WM for various materials? If I have a fantasy material that is "as hard as steel" but "as light as <x>" I can probably throw together DR/in (not used in any calculations that I've spotted) and WM (used) but Max DR (used) I am not sure how to generate.

It seems like it should be related to density (WM) and tensile strength or hardness (DR/in?), based on my not-a-materials-engineer vague impression? I tried fitting Max DR to a cube root and a log of DR/in and can't. Does being a flexible material factor in somewhere?

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

Uhhh I want this when it's done Bruno. >_>

Kthxbai

I second this if I may <,<

also, what does WM stand for?

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by zoncxs

I second this if I may <,<

also, what does WM stand for?

Weight Multiple/multiplier/thingy.

I'll need to ask Steven if it's OK before I can put it up anywhere - and my preference is really stuffing it up somewhere for people who bought the Pyramid issue, since it in some ways ends up replacing the article :P

I learned how to make checkboxes go in Excel 2013 today! I should be able to back-export to Excel 2003 with relatively little problems, from what I'm seeing. GDocs is probably a no-go, I'm into features it just doesn't do. Not sure about LibreOffice/OpenOffice.