Hello, well today was to be my work day on the shop. Did something to my shoulder and thought the arm was falling off Monday evening. It is now feeling well enough to move my fingers and do some typing. Pulled something in the top of my shoulder somehow. So only put three pieces of styrofoam insulation up and then was done after doing chores and dodging raindrops. Raindrops!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!! Was starting to look like late August around here with burnt up grass. On to the questions.
"Norman" "I kinda calculated in my head that you have 256 sq ft in that 2" x 6 "x 8' lumber pile, so hope you got 144 sq ft more hid in another stack somewhere for the floor.
What did you use the rig with the double trees on each end for, (that is hanging on the north wall). Do you still have work horses?
I had to laugh when you mentioned using the three point post hole digger, 'cause the first time I got to use one was on a large ranch I was working at a couple of summers,(seemingly quicker'n a cat could lick its whiskers), I thought I'd died 'n gone to heaven. MY Dad had a Firm Requirement that every posthole be 24" deep and Corner posts 36" deep.
Be Careful 'n don't strain your back haulin' that hay today, (or do you make round bales 'n use a loader)?"
Norman, remember me talking about the other "wood bin", yep some more stashed away, this is what wouldn't fit!
Double trees, yep was big into farming with my big ponies/small horses for years after I avoided bankruptcy trying to be a full time farmer. Happy with my hobby now.
That auger, man oh man, you hit the nail on the head about the speed! My dad was 40" on H brace posts and 30" on line posts! Posthole diggers, my shoulders and biceps helped me through many scrapes in HS and I owe it all to digging postholes and shoeing horses!
Funny you mention this, I pulled something in my shoulder moving my hay yesterday. Large square bales, 600# average. Use a spear on my loader.
"Stu" "I love this quote......"what your brain doesn't do, your back has to" "
Don't know how many times I heard this growing up, one of those things that made you groan when you heard it. Funny how many times I say it to my students a day!!!!!!!
Ned, hang on, it is going to get wilder yet!!
"Art" "So is the lean-to going to be incorporated into the interior of the shop, or is it going to remain outdoor storage?
So is it getting siding or board-n-batton, or something else to close in the walls?"
Art, the lean to has been a question in my mind for a long time. At this time, it will stay outside of the shop. Reason #1, I have an old pickup bed made into a trailer I plan on connecting to a DC eventually and part of that will be needed for that to stay dry. So still wavering, for this year, it is staying outside. Wall covering, you all are seeing it but not recognizing it in the pictures. My nephew bought to much material on sale and so my dad "rescued" it for me for my shop wall. Hmmm, making you go back and look isn't it!! That is one of the things I anticipate suprising some people and making them glad I am not their neighbor!
"Peter" "Good job on the sill plates and foundation joinery too - that will pay off later. I'll be "borrowing" some of those ideas in the future."
Peter, that sill plate and stud repair I saw in '86 at a house trailer I rented the first year I started teaching. An old wellhouse at the trailer was in this shape and I remember thinking how it needed torn down and a new one rebuilt. The old farmer I rented from one day came in and I thought, "Alright, a new wellhouse finally!!". Nope, he jacked it up, nailed a 2x4 on across a couple of studs on the outside and used a farm jack like mine to hold it up and he fixed the sill plate and studs. Don't remember, think it took him a month, but when he was done, it was reinsulated, sided, and cement boarded inside. Looked better than new. That man taught me more than I could ever repay him. Both in the technical aspects of repair as well as an eye for what a building in place is worth. He is long gone now, God rest his soul, but a part of me feels him on my shoulders while working telling me what to do. My maternal grandfather will be with me from heaven while I do the electric. He was an electrician by trade and wired many houses when rural electric became available.
"Rob" "Okay Jonathan from now on you definitely Mr.Green in my book. So Mr. Green excuse my ignorance but what is all that talk of mint? My guess is cow poop with a term of endearment called mint. Help ???
Now i see a real good shot of all that stickered wood i wonder how you managed to be so patient.
As for the Purdue part I just looked up your profile.
Hey whats going to happen to the old Oliver 770. Surely thats going to get a "green overhauling". Oops i think there is room there for a TV show dont ya.
Great post Jonathan keep em coming, good luck with the hay hauling and bull castrating. Ouch!. "
Rob, thought I had forgotten you didn't you!!!!??!! Mint, Starke County, Indiana is a very large mint producing county. Used to be because of our "muck" type soils. Now with genetics, mint can be grown in soil that originally wouldn't support mint or provide good flavoring to the mint oil. So nope, actually a cash crop. It is grown for its oil, which flavors many things including your toothpaste and chewing gum. We keep a small bottle of pure mint oil for stuffed up noses, put a tiny drop on a hanky and it will clear your nose, or a drop on the underside of your pillow, will keep you clear all night! It is potent stuff and burns. The cow poop you discuss, it is hauled to the field in a "turd hearst" or more commonly known as a "manure spreader".
Thought of this comment today when driving back to water the feeder calves. Took the camera and between rain showers, took some photos I will post probably in a different thread.
Didn't realize it was there, I am not ashamed, paid for what I got and have a good job, no complaints.
The 770 has been traded if I get the time to haul it about 200 miles South one of these days. Can't be raining because the guy wants me to leave it apart as he has the parts to fix it and doesn't want to do another tear down on it. I have over the phone traded it for an Allis Chalmers C, with a five foot Woods belly mower under it. Will really speed up my mowing time for sure. If it sells before I get down there, he has offered cash also so it is getting a new home. I do not at this time have the space or money to restore an old tractor. I do plan someday to build another shop for metal fabrication/welding/plasma torch table for metal signs, my blacksmith stuff and in an area of pure concrete with cement block foundation with metal interior walls. Pure fire retardant. That is another thread in other years. I digress with my future plans, sorry.
Bull castrating and Ouch, my vet always tells me as he kneels down between their back legs with the scapel in his teeth, "don't forget, if the cutter gets kicked, the holder gets cut!". I am the holder!!!!
The way we hold them, in a head gate so they cannot go forward or backwards, the sides are very close limiting their side to side body movement. Standing above them on one of the gates, I hold the tail straight up and over their backbone. Held correctly and through the body movements once the process begins, they cannot kick due to the tail position. Doc really gives me incentive to hold the tail correctly!
following along and enjoying every minute of it. way to go!
