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Chip McCoy
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6th gen Farmer 💙 📎 🇬🇱
Forester, USAF Colonel, Sawyer, Carpenter
Lived 🇰🇷🇯🇵🇩🇪🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇷🇺
🚫 DMs/O.F.
Pinned
Making hay while the sun shines! On my 5th cousin‘s farm. Our 3 great grandfathers were brothers and bought it in 1821.
Izvestia claims Russia’s severe fuel shortage on seasonal demand and increased tourism. 🇺🇦 highly effective drone campaign against 🇷🇺 oil industry is the real cause www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands. ​​​
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Logging ops…no AI used to complete this task
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
With raid of John Bolton’s home

ICE = Gestapo

FBI = Stasi
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Dash out of the TR6. New LED lights, will sand and seal with RubioMonocoat.
August 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Grew up unsupervised… I love this Atlantic article quote about parental kidnapping concerns

Warwick Cairns, „How to Live Dangerously,“ kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger.
August 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Wild Senna hebacarpe spread from my hayfields to along our driveway. The bees 🐝 love it
August 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Grape arbor finished, hops poles are next!
August 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
New table tops red oak and beechwood to mate with hairpin mid century modern legs
August 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Spring repairs…95 yr old brick cistern holds 60 barrels of water. Hydraulic cement for the leaking mortar and a wood form hold cement to fix the top cracked by a falling white oak
August 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Tom Nichols in the Atlantic today Trump …animated by anger, fear…pettiness,vengefulness that takes the place of actual policy making.

It taints the air in the executive branch like a forgotten bag of trash in a warm house on a summer day—even when you can’t see it, you know it’s there.“
July 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Black cherry ready to winch out of the forest. Salvaged 20’ log, rotten center blew down in a windstorm. Will yield an 11” beam
June 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Windstorm toppled 60 year old Poplars in our woods
June 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
No Kings in Pittsburgh!!
June 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Butterfly smorgasbord
June 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Mt. Lebanon and Pittsburgh South Hills” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
NO KINGS Mt. Lebanon and Pittsburgh South Hills · Indivisible
As part of a countrywide day of protest, Partners For Progress SWPA is hosting a South Hills No Kings protest on June 14 starting at 4:30 pm, at Mt. Lebanon’s Main Park entrance on Cedar Blvd., follow...
www.mobilize.us
June 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Making hay while the sun shines! On my 5th cousin‘s farm. Our 3 great grandfathers were brothers and bought it in 1821.
June 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Antique roses 🌹 my great grandmother planted them over 100 years ago
May 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Grape arbor coming along, work paused due to grandchildren visit. Top bows are white oak bent fresh off the sawmill
May 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Building a grape arbor based on 1930s blueprints for Old Economy Village. Black locust, cherry and white oak for durability. The top will have bent white oak to hold the vines. Felled and sawed all the wood on my sawmill
May 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Foreign Affairs May June cover misread this as, “Committee to “Ruin” the World!
April 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Recovered a 160 year old white oak from a steep hill side. Now Quarter-sawn and air drying
April 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“When you create an administration in which one man has all the power and everybody else has to flatter his voracious ego, stupidity results.”
David Brooks article in the Atlantic
April 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Good trouble on a Pittsburgh bridge over the Allegheny River
April 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Coming soon…

White House switchboard…for English press one, for all other languages stay on the line and ICE will be by to deport you
April 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A complete embarrassment
That’s my position too.
March 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM