Multiple Simultaneous Projects or Just One?

[PineRidge]

<font color="blue">Multiple..you have to have rainy day projects and dry day projects, daylight projects and nighttime projects(Beer drinkin ), cold weather projects (tree cutting/trimming, brush pile burning).
My little 12 acres is just work in progress and always will be.
I wouldn't want it any other way </font>

Beer drinking projects, man I like the way you think. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Ron pictures to follow. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[beenthere]

Jim
Multiple multiplied by years retired, which is too large a number to put down or fathom.

Just like the several reasons listed above by others, I like several things going at once. I tire a bit of one, or think it needs more thought before proceeding, I stop and go to something else.

Have had a re-build shower project going on for several weeks now, along with firewood in all stages of tree felling, hauling, bucking, and splitting, then rigging the new leaf pickup system, prepping for winter, picking up nuts, adding trim to new window units, setting up the dry firewood for easy access during the winter, ..and on and on........

Life is good. (as well, I enjoy reading about many things on this forum). I don't let much stand in the way of starting or at least thinking about a new project. Just today, I thought about getting a capstan winch for my old chainsaw head, to pull down hung trees and add some portable muscle to various projects. Life is good. Have been driving less, so thinking up more projects.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

At any moment the project list looks like this.

There are projects that need to be done, but not right now.

There are projects that do need to be done right now.

There are projects that should be done right now, but can be put off.

There are projects that don't need to be done, but that I want to do anyway.

There are projects that require a trip to the hardware store.

There are projects that require approval or discussion and those that don't

The point is that there are lots of projects and at any moment of the day, your list gets reordered. Eg. if it looks like rain, the leak in the roof is sudenly the highest urgency, but if it looks like a thunder storm, then standing on an aluminum ladder may not be the most urgent thing to do. Instead, you may change the project to finding buckets and placing them under the drip locations.


The thing to remember is that priority and urgency of projects are often not related at all.

Cliff

 

[browns40]

Hey Jim,

Multiple, of course.

I am "improving my land", one job with all kinds of sub-jobs (40 acres of hilly, wet, overgrown, cedar swamp heaven) to it.

It gives you option of doing Box work without loader, loader work without bushhog, excavator work (I wish!) if some part of the 3pt goes, etc. if attachments need work, you can still be doing something productive.

Looks like that's pretty common, but my .02 anyway...

Happy tractoring! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[sodamo]

Multiples
Not only for the variety of reasons already listed, but sometimes doing one project spawns another. Sometimes the new project has to be completed in order to complete the original. Of course since the advent of HGTV and the DIY shows, my dear wife thinks they all ought to be done within 30 or 60 minutes. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Just last week I finished one I started only 7 years ago. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Birdhunter1]

Lots of projects and commitments here too!
Lets see, at my house I have a great big hole in the yard that needs filled but is dependant on when I get the time to haul some dirt and do some grade work too. But first there's a buddy who farms I help often, our hunting club that we are getting ready to start up for the year but we have to cut our trails on the preserve (about a 20 hour plus job). Then there's a new door I have to replace another at my house, and there's the replumb job that will get done sometiem over the winter thenafterwards finishing the ceiling in my basement. Have I got inot the widow who I help take care of her farm, pretty son I'll be up to my ears in firewood!

And I'm getting married in March so there's a whole nother headache to deal with right now!

Plus I work 40-50 hour midnights through the week!

 

[riptides]

Interesting topic. I consider yard work a chore not a project. Projects would be related to destruction/construction for me.
If I end up doing more than one thing at a time, it never gets completed, or never gets completed to my high standards.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Jim57]

Multiple Projects Here.

I don't know if any project is really ever completed in anyones book. Seems we always want to add or improve what we have done or the project we completed just spawned another ideal for a project.

I enjoy having things to do all the time rain or shine. I think this is the Farmer in all of us. Farmers that I know always have something to do and not enough time in the day to do them all. This may be a disease we have or just born into us to keep us young.

I do think we all should take time to "Smell the Roses" or just enjoy our accomplishments.

And be especially thankful for the good health to be able to do the projects.

Just my thoughts ( 2 cents) /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Jim

 

[BubbaJr]

I can start out with one project in mind, but during the attempt to complete it, I wind up doing many unassociated projects along the way. For instance, I am in the middle of sanding, staining, and sealing our front porch wooden furniture. I brought the small table to the barn to start on it. As I was going in the door, I noticed the trim ring around the door knob was loose. I put the table down, got a screwdriver, took the door knob apart, and fixed it. While I was working on the door, I saw the lower door weatherstrip was coming apart. Luckily I had a replacement on hand, so I had to remove the door, and replace the weatherstrip. By now it's dinner time, so I go in and eat, and when I come back outside, the sun is shining, and realize I need to mow the lawn before it rains. 2-1/2 hours later (6 acres to mow) , I'm putting the tractor back in the barn when I notice a burned out light bulb. I get the ladder out to replace the bulb, and I see that 2 of the steps are loose. After I fix the steps I put the ladder away and head to the front door to retreive the table I brought in. When I turn around to head to the back of the barn I realize I forgot to replace the bulb, so I drag the ladder back out and change the bulb. As I'm putting the ladder away I smash my finger and spend the next 5 minutes doing the **** that hurts dance. After using all the cuss words I can remember, I go to the house to get some ice to put on my finger. At this point I think a beer is a good idea so I grab one and go out on the front porch, sit down, take a few swigs, and set my beer down on the table next to my chair. You know the one that is in the barn waiting for me to refinish it. I think you can visaulize what happened to my beer bottle as it went crashing to the floor. We have Timber Tec flooring on the porch, so I figure I better go get a bucket of water and clean up the mess. I got the bucket out of the garage, went to the faucet around the corner and turned the knob only to have it break into about 6 pieces and make turning off the water all but impossible. As I run into the garage to get a pair of pliers to shut the faucet off with, I cram my throbbing finger into the side of my truck. After doing the **** that's hurts dance for several more minutes, I get the pliers and shut off the water. I clean up the mess on the porch, and go in and get another beer. I take 3 swigs this time before I set it down on the table, you know the one in the barn.

God I hope I get old enough to refinish that table.!! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif