Pole home on the cheap .

[Eagleview]

Thank you , Australia is a nice place . I would love to see the States one day though , you guys have some of the worlds most wonderous places . I would love to see the Rockies , but only if the bears are sleeping .

This is a shot of one of the vertical poles hanging from the jib , ready to be taken up the hill to the house site . I parked the F350 behind it to give an idea of size . ( i just noticed , i either captured a jet going past or a UFO in the photo , just above the pole )

The other shot is of the Sandstone slab i bought to put under our fireplace .

 

[Tororider]

Are you going to use the excavator with the grab attachment to take it up there?

 

[Eagleview]

I'm sorry , i did not word that properly . It is one of the poles that is already part of the house . I just came accross it and thought it may shed some light on how the jib and winch was used when i built the house frame .

With the pole laying on the ground , i would attach the winch rope to the pole . I would have the bucket raised to full height . I would then use the hand winch to take out all the slack in the rope . I would then lower the bucket to the ground which would pull the pole up the jib .

Once over the hole , which already had the truck rims filled with concrete sitting on the bottom . I would lower the pole by raising the bucket , i would then quickly work the hydraulics which would bounce the pole up and down on the truck rim pad . After a few hits , i would hear the sound change from a dull thud to a sharp clunk . Once i heard this , i was sure the sand below was compressed to near solid . Then i would backfill the hole and pour in some Termite poison .

 

[Tororider]

Sorry, I probably mis-read that as well. I guess I thought you were going to be using that for the deck/bridge? out front.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Great looking home, I like your joints you made out of the pipe. I know a feall that built a pole shed out of pine and poplar trees like that.
I m interested in your bomb loading tractor is that an old Muir hill or a Ford/Fordson and what type blade has it got. Close call on the slope there, did that number once on my old Ford hoe when a root got wedged under my brake pedals durning the runaway. Is it the same tractor you leveled the tree job afterwards with? I like the tree graber to I have built a smaller one for a friend on his little Deere. Also used a similar one on a PC300 that they used in the pole erection business I when they built a new barn we clamped an old beam about 40 feet long and had a hook on the end to give us way over 60 foot reach. we ste several posts and rafters like that.

 

[Eagleview]

Hello and thank's , the tractor is a Chamberlain , i think it is a "Countryman" . It had mechanical brakes that were worthless in reverse . The loader had been home built by someone . The clearing was done over some time with different machines that i have owned . But most was done with my TL100A New Holland with hydraulic grapple and flail mower .

 

[Taylortractornut]

My old 75 Ford is a 3550 Industrial tractor that has the 14 foot 753 hoe. Reverse has the same problem wont hold I want to redo the brakes but they are in the planetary housing real booger to fix. Chamberlains were some good tractors I had a friend that went to Australia for a mining company he worked for, Said still many are still being used on farms today. They had huge one that looked like it had loader tires on the back. They used it pulling a water wagon to wt the roads down and to pull a large Chisel plow.

 

[Eagleview]

Now you see it , now you don't .

We had a storm yesterday , it broke the branch from this big old Gum like a twig . The guy who put the dish on the roof for our Satelite internet wanted me to cut this branch off . He was having trouble getting a signal , i said no way , find another spot , the branch is staying . He will get a kick out of this as he is comming back next week for a service . Funny how thing's happen .

 

[Tororider]

Hey Iron Horse,
I am not familiar with where the fires are, but how you doing there? All the best.

 

[Jagmandave]

They're a whole lot south and west of where he is, and from the look of that rainstorm, he's not in the drought area...........