My Industrial Cabin Build

[EddieWalker]

Congratulations, now you're a farmer!!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I see they knocked siding off the building already.

 

[groundcover]

Nice chipper. You were feeding it some good size material. From your description of the property it sounds like you will use it a lot.

Now to a safety concern I had while watching you feed that monster.

The first thing I would do if that was my chipper would be wire in a emergency power disable switch on the grab bar on top of the chipper. A vine or branch could grab a person and drag them into the chipper. A way to stop the chipper is needed if a person is being dragged into the chipper.

From photo's of all the out door use and storage equipment you have to maintain I hope you have a can of what I have "Anti-Seize" to put on all bolts and nuts to slow down the rust and seizure of bolts where they go through metal during installation or the nut wanting to rust to the bolt making removal very hard.

Tractor Supply, Ace Hardware, NAPA, Amazon and other auto part stores sell the small cans of Anti-seize with a cost of from 6 to 12 dollars depending on the size of can.

Vines and ropes are no joke with chippers ! My Bandit says to cut all vines into 5' pieces so you can't get pulled in. Once the rope gets sucked into the disk it will pull right past the feed rollers. Reversing them won't help.

chipper pulling in rope - Google Search

Sent a wire rope winch line through a chipper years ago. Nobody injured but bad day indeed !

 

[Xfaxman]

A little repair work

Did you check the blade to see if it got damaged by the abrupt stop that broke the pulley?

 

[Grumpycat]

Sadly stamped steel pulleys breaking the welds to machined hubs is not uncommon. Doesn't seem to require one to hit anything. Local mower dealer keeps a couple laying around. The weld was clearly defective, didn't penetrate the hub. And small, little more than a tack weld one would use to hold the pieces together prior to tackling the finish weld. Says one brand has this problem (not your mower). Blames Chinese parts. I blame the brand for accepting inferior parts no matter the country of origin.

The thing when re-welding the pulley (if it is worth the effort) is getting the pulley square to the hub and keeping it square during welding, material expansion and cooling.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Congratulations, now you're a farmer!!!!

Thanks Eddie.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Did you check the blade to see if it got damaged by the abrupt stop that broke the pulley?

The blades are due for a sharpening. I’ll check them but really doubt they were damaged the things I drive thru with that cutter are unbelievable

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I see they knocked siding off the building already.

It is 10:12 pm. I just came in from finishing work on the barn for the night. I put the rest of the siding on, built and hung the dutch doors put latches on and did a temporary fix of the big gap on each side, i feel relatively confident that a fox wont get in there tonight. Tomorrow, I will do some finish work on it as well as hang the quilt painting that Lauren made for it. We plan to set up some of the mesh netting and let them out on the field. Jefanna was thrilled to discover that they eat the broom grass in the field. We just need to walk thru carefully first because we found some fake mint, sometimes called bluebird because of the flower it gives later in the year. We pulled it and put it in our burn pile. It is toxic and a neighbor lost 16 goats after they got into a field that had some. We have mountain laurel. like most people have blades of
Grass and that will will them ill also. I like mountain laurel but plan to rip out every bush I find from.
now on. Its gonna be a challenge because we have an absolute forest of the s tuff that is several acres. It is 8-10 feet tall and so thick that you have to crawl and climb to navigate thru it. It also makes fantastic kindling as it burns fast and hot and catches easily.

 

[Gator6x4]

It is 10:12 pm. I just came in from finishing work on the barn for the night. I put the rest of the siding on, built and hung the dutch doors put latches on and did a temporary fix of the big gap on each side, i feel relatively confident that a fox wont get in there tonight. Tomorrow, I will do some finish work on it as well as hang the quilt painting that Lauren made for it. We plan to set up some of the mesh netting and let them out on the field. Jefanna was thrilled to discover that they eat the broom grass in the field. We just need to walk thru carefully first because we found some fake mint, sometimes called bluebird because of the flower it gives later in the year. We pulled it and put it in our burn pile. It is toxic and a neighbor lost 16 goats after they got into a field that had some. We have mountain laurel. like most people have blades of
Grass and that will iill them also. I like mountain laurel but plant to rip out every bush I find from.
now on. Its gonna be a challenge because we have an absolute forest of the s tuff that is several acres. It is 8-10 feet tall and so thick that you have to crawl and climb to navigate thru it. It also makes fantastic kindling as it burns fast and hot and catches easily.

Sounds like you have some interesting and varied type of vegetation on the ole homestead.

 

[airbiscuit]

Sounds like you're clearing more vegetation than the goats