Building a Hobby Farm- from woods to eggs

   / Building a Hobby Farm- from woods to eggs #111  
Not sure on depth to protect it, but there's got to be some reference on the net someplace. The frost line around here is more like 4 feet so I don't often run into situations where traffic is my main concern.

If you're able to do some fabricating, I don't see any reason you couldn't put together an extra deep shank & just take it easy cutting your trench in multiple passes.
 
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I don't know why this didn't strike me yesterday, but when its rainy and sloppy, my tractor ruts are at least 8" down. For that reason, I'm going to have to get down at least a foot, and more like 18". :mad: :( :mad:
 
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Got the last of my large wood piles burned today! :D :D :D :D :D
 
   / Building a Hobby Farm- from woods to eggs #114  
Tony,
My husband and I had do to a small trench to bury some wire and we used a demolition hammer HM1202C- Tool Details It actually worked pretty good :) It took a while but it was better than a shovel and a pick. We busted up the dirt with the hammer drill then used the shovel, and even a garden trowl to clear out the trench. Since you have such a low frost line this might be a low cost solution until you are able to buy the correct equipment for the job. Perhaps check on e-bay. Even something that is like a concrete hammer buster upper would work in dirt. Just look for deals on used equipment. We also use this thing to remove ceramic tiles, well we loaned it out for that use, we didn't use it ourselves. You might even be able to rent one at low cost to try it out. Again it is timely to do it this way, but it is low cost and eventually you do get the job done.
 
   / Building a Hobby Farm- from woods to eggs #115  
tony123 said:
David, I read your thread. So did you ever get first hand experience of the noise level? I've got three neighbors within 200' of where I'm putting the farm. In fact, my house would be the furthest from the farm. :) So disturbing neighbors is a concern of mine. From everyone's experience though, I could get a small flock and the predators will get rid of them for me. :D Doesn't sound like a long term commitment.

Tony, plese don't take this the wrong way but it seems rather odd to me that you would be housing your chickens next to the neighbors and in fact your own home would receive less impact then they would. I think if I were your neighbor I would proably resent that. It is different if you put chickens by your front door, and then I can hear them on my property, at least I feel that you are getting it worse than I am. But to put the chickens backed up to my property while you ahve minimul impact, honestly that would bother me a lot. And I am a nice reasonable person, i'm not quick on the trigger.

When we built we delayed installing our concrete driveway until we could get an excavator in to change the grading so that the water did not run off onto our neighbors property. He was right there on the spot discussing with us about the driveway when the concrete guys were there. Legally we could have just paved our drive with the existing grade and the water would have run onto his wifes beautiful and meticulasly maintained flower beds. We pushed back the schedule, paid for the excavotr to come back for half a day of work and regrade the driveway. Our neighbor really appreciated that, really appreciated it. We figured we were going to be neighbors with that family for many years and were considerate what we did on our property as to how it would affect them. That neighbor turned out to be a really great neighbor. IN fact he cut us a Christmas tree every year and gave it to us as a gift, when he cut his own.

How are yoru neighbors? Have you gotten to know them and shared yoru plans with them?
 
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rox said:
Our neighbor really appreciated that, really appreciated it. We figured we were going to be neighbors with that family for many years and were considerate what we did on our property as to how it would affect them. That neighbor turned out to be a really great neighbor.

Rox,

I'm sure they felt the same way about you. You are the kind of neighbor everyone should be:) .

David
 
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tony123 said:
Got the last of my large wood piles burned today! :D :D :D :D :D


Thats great!

How long before all of your fire wood is split? I think it will take me about a year to split all of mine.

David
 
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Rox, no offense taken. You don't understand the entire picture, and I have the same concerns you point out.

Our property is only 3 acres, and it is a "flag" lot. In other words, right behind our closest neighbor. Of my 3 acres, due to slope, I only have about half of that as usable property. The entire portion thats usable is adjacent to his adjoining property line. I don't have many options of how I use my land. He, however, is on 3 acres of nearly flat property, yet he chose to put his house right on the setback line adjacent to me.

I'm being as sensative as I can be towards him, but really don't have options. Our farm is on two levels, and I'm putting the livestock on the lower level as far as I can from him.

Also, a side benifit to him is that my tree removal has opened up the woods and given him a mountain view, which he asked if I would consider doing.

The guy on the other side, has not built yet. However, he cleared the woods all the way up to the property line. I left about 30' thick of trees to buffer him from the farm. Reality is, if he had a concern he could have left some buffer on his property too. I can't be responsible for everyones buffer space just because I have 6 chickens and a goat running around. For that matter, the first guy I spoke of cleared his buffer out too.

By next year, I plan on planting an evergreen landscape buffer between us all, but then I'll hear about how I'm taking away his mountain view (which I gave him in the first place).

Sorry, its a sensative subject. I'll get off the soapbox. I'm not defending myself, just explaining.

I tried to approach all these guys in a buddy buddy fashion. While being friendly enough, they made it clear that being neighbors doesn't make us friends.

I'm glad to hear you've got such a relationship with your neighbor, but thats not the case for everyone.
 
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David,

I could have had a years worth of firewood work. Most of my trees were about 2-3" caliper. All wood burns, I know, but it just takes so much work to make use of all the small stuff.

I chose to burn most of it in the brush piles, and only ended up with about 2-3 cords of usable firewood. 90% of that is split now.

So do you have a splitter? sounds like you've got enough wood to justify it. Plus, with that new wood furnace, you know you'll be going through much wood in the future! :)

I can't wait for Christmas, we'll keep the fireplace going while all our "southern" company is up here. Show them what "winter" is all about. :D
 
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tony123 said:
So do you have a splitter? sounds like you've got enough wood to justify it. Plus, with that new wood furnace, you know you'll be going through much wood in the future! :)


Tony,
My BIL has a splitter. Attached is a picture of some of my logs. I have added more to the pile since this pic was taken.
 

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