Busy Wife This Weekend

[mike69440]

Turkey's last moments, a taste of freedom before ----

Just bumping the thread and adding some Links.

My god, I used to post a lot!

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[i579rbd]

Just read thru your thread. What a great story. Did you go back to mech eng work or are you doing something else?

 

[mike69440]

Just read thru your thread. What a great story. Did you go back to mech eng work or are you doing something else?

Back Doing Engineering, getting fat behind a desk.

Think I'll get off my but walk the perimeter of the pasture and tighten up the line t o the electric fence.

I'm doing Machine tooling, Fixturing and hydraulics design right now but my real background is Rotating equipment and pumps.

 

[pinetree10]

My first time reading through all 18 pages of this thread. Great series and lots of photos! And I thought I did a lot of work to my place since I bought it 15 years ago. I don't even come close.

I hit every page but maybe I missed it - what do you keep in the high and low garages? How is the upper garage floor supported? I've always been fascinated at the thought of a garage under a garage.

I can't imagine taking on such a major project as you did. That's a bunch of work you've done there.

 

[mike69440]

16" section wood laminalted I Beams with 2 x 4 flanges and OSB webs spaced 12" on center carry 26' 7" span. Two layers of glued 3/4" floor sheathing went on to of that and the bottom of the flanges were strapped every 16" on center.
Wood I Beam Joists

These were the biggest beam I coud get that was a regualr production item. Floor is solid.

I would not wnt to park a pair of F350 duallys on the the floor or my L39 but its fine for average cars, motorcycles and my small cut. its nice not to have any posts in the garage below. The workspace is 26' 7" x 36'

The Low garage are the 3 Cars and shelving, workbench, Auto stuff.

The upper garage is my metal workshop/ wood shop, with manroom above. The manroom was cool for a while, but now is chock full of stuff from my parents house. They passed away and I have a hard time going through their stuff, getting ridsd of it. The attic above the man room is an attic, i have to bring down the x-mass decorations soon. The 3 -1/2 storry garage is about 100 sq ft larger than my entire previous home including the basement.

Then we have a 28' x 38' equipment building with an attached 12' x 24' lean too for the machinery & attachments, Grapple, Brush Hog, Fisher plow, Bucket, Box Blade, Manure sreader, lawn tractor, York rake Log Splitter, 3 motorctycles, 2 Canoes, generator pressure washer, RTV900 Cement mixer, Rotototiller, Snow Blower walk behind tractor, lawm mowers, etc . Plus the horse barn, Chicken Hotel, (57 chickens, last count) and the Cow Camp. Place is too cluttered as we have one homestead with both our parents stuff here including my dad's woodworking business, plus what we owned before we had from our individual previous homes.

5 Dogs, 4 Cats, 2 goats, 5 Geese, 5 ducks, 4 horses 2 beef Cows. 3 Peacocks, Ginney hens, Chickens, raise pigs and turkeys, wow.

farm life means clutter.

scary thing is we use just about all this stuff!

I tell my wife that in the 10 years we bought this land we have done as much work as if we started 40 years ago. Time for a vacation or two.

 

[ztrjim]

Thank you so much for sharing with us! I would love to own some property like this. You give me something to dream about!

 

[EddieWalker]

Congratulations on the new job. Always nice to have a steady income when you have tractors!!!! How is the excavator doing?

Eddie

 

[mike69440]

The PC75UU2 is worn but runs pretty good. New batteries take away a lot of worry.
Walked the old girl out of the woods the day before we had 13" of we snow & parked her by the equipment building. Started winterizing, but still got some greasing and more fuel additive to do. I'll start it a few times over the winter. Next year I want to finish my road thru the woods around the pasture. God I hope it just keeps running forever. Might get a new or reupholstered seat on it next year & change the engine oil.

 

[mike69440]

Re: Busy Wife This Weekend, Rearranging the farm.

So busy me this last few weekends.
Between my Day job and trying to get some long overdue servicing of our machines, as well as some other projects.
My wife has instructed, that:
1.) Old chicken house becomes the Ginny Hen house and gets moved to the Aviary next to the Peacocks, by the Horse Barn.
2.) The rest of the Chicken Ghetto get dismantled and moved from the front yard, parts use to expand the new Chicken Hotel grounds, other parts for the Geese and turkeys.
3.) Clear out area of trees , etc behind old chick house are that is blocking sunlight from to her small orchard
4.) Turn over Manure Mountain.
5.) Get Green houses ready, Bring up Ages manure from pasture.

Plus Suff I want to do.
1.) Finish clearing area by paddock and clean out paddock.
2.) Take about 25 -30 tons of rock from hear and there and fix embankment of our road (Driveway) with more rock.
3.) Grade Our Road
4.) Service equipment
5.) Finish perimeter Logging road around property.
6.) Get going on firewood.

So I get to use all our equipment, Sure glad I did not sell that Excavator.

I snapped a few Photos

 

[mike69440]

Living on a farm can be dangerous in ways you would never think. (Poop can kill.)

Poop can kill.

I've been elbow deep in horse, cow, chicken, as well as other fowl poop.

It has been a dry and windy spring.

I was not wearing a mask.

Been flat on my back for 2-1/2 days with "Atypical Pneumonia"

Severe lung inflamation and very painful.

This is first day in four that I had enought strength to get on the computer or even watch TV.

I guess I'm going to meet my yearly heath insurance deductable with this bill.