My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks

[bindian]

I bought a new sign to hang below the sign above.

Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!
hugs, Brandi

 

[Redlands Okie]

I eat duck, pheasants, every so often, but its been decades since I plucked one. I skin them only or pass on the hunting trips

Repair work has gotten to be complicated. But seems you saved quite a bit of money. Nice.

 

[bindian]

I finally started on the chicken/quail coop for Brady to take care of. It will be 8x16 feet and since it will not have a floor, I am building it on cedar post stub walls. 10 feet for the chickens and 6 feet for quail. Here is the work so far....

I laid the bottom sill yesterday. The day before the sill 2x4s were in a log.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

After sawing some walnut slabs for a customer, I managed to get two walls of the coop up today. I had to work around picking Chloe up at school. Chloe is standing behind my friend, Brady.

hugs, Brandi

 

[Torvy]

Wow, she must be tall!

 

[bindian]

Actually no. Brady is short. Here is a photo of Chloe and I.

hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

On the 23rd, I got the top sill boards up.

While it rained a week ago, I made the trusses in the barn.

I got 3 trusses up before it got cold and wet.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I forgot about sawing the Texas toothpick. I had to drag the log with the Mahindra backing up. Each turn, I disconnected from the chain and turned 90 degrees, then connected back up. I could only get one end up a couple of inches before my butt was airborne.

The sawmill loader arms counldn't lift it, so I used the Mahindra also. I would lift with the grapple until the front tires were flat, then lift with the sawmill arms until the weight was off of the front tires, then repeat. The sawmill arms was able to lift it alone when I got it about 2 foot off the ground.

Made nice 4x6s. I did have fun turning it, as it was too heavy for the sawmill's claw. So I had to use the chain attached to the magic hook.

I had to chock the log with a 4x6 and move the clamp over to help start the turning.

hugs, Brandi

 

[Torvy]

Guess it is time for you to level up your tractor a size or two.

 

[bindian]

The last two, cold, wet days I modified some steel shelves of Brady's. They had plastic adjustable bushings

that were flaky and would fall out of the shelf was bumped, so I cut 1 inch galvanized conduit for weldable bushings.

I took my time and cut deburred the galvanized bushings. I had the barn door open for fumes, so that was fun.
I welded them up today and it went faster than I thought it would.

hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Guess it is time for you to level up your tractor a size or two.

Not likely. The Lull was in the shop.

I need to rebuild the two slave cylinders and she will be ready to use again. She can lift 6,000 pounds.
hugs, Brandi

 

[flyerdan]

Your plastic bushing project reminds me of a big patio umbrella a friend of mine had that suffered a pivot failure during a wind event. She got a replacement comped somehow, and I took the old one and fabbed up some metal replacement parts. I did two sets while I was at it; good thing as the replacement suffered the same fate.

 

[bindian]

Your plastic bushing project reminds me of a big patio umbrella a friend of mine had that suffered a pivot failure during a wind event. She got a replacement comped somehow, and I took the old one and fabbed up some metal replacement parts. I did two sets while I was at it; good thing as the replacement suffered the same fate. View attachment 782033View attachment 782034View attachment 782035

Your plastic bushing project reminds me of a big patio umbrella a friend of mine had that suffered a pivot failure during a wind event. She got a replacement comped somehow, and I took the old one and fabbed up some metal replacement parts. I did two sets while I was at it; good thing as the replacement suffered the same fate. View attachment 782033View attachment 782034View attachment 782035

I made some metal parts for my daughter's patio umbrellra a few years ago.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I got the trusses up and the purlins on ready for tin.

I didn't work on the coop Monday, as I was down in the clay pit showing the owner what logs of his were White Oak. He is gonna bring them over for me to saw into more trailer decking along with some large Red Oak logs for me.
I asked about a truck load of clay and he asked..............pickup or dump truck? I said dumptruck and asked how much. He said.......no charge, it will be there tomorrow afternoon!

It is nice having him nearby. They are almost finished digging there, and will turn into about a 10 acre lake. This, below, will be the shallow end. The deep end is about 18-20 feet deep.

hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Girts on ready for siding. 1/2 inch, 24 inch wide hardware cloth is on.

Roof is finished.

Sawing White Oak for a semi lowboy now.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Xfaxman]

 

[bindian]

Thanks!
There are a few boo boos, but I hid them well!
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Yesterday while adding gearbox oil to the tiller, I accidently let the little tube slip off of the syringe I was using to add oil. The tube was just 4 inches long and just long enough to lodge inside the gearbox. I tried small needlenose pliers to retrieve it, but failed. I had to remove the handle bars and all the belt pulleys for forward and reverse to get to the top of the gearbox. I removed the tube after getting the top off of the gearbox and made a new gasket. 3 hours later ................this is the result.................

Brady tilled the garden while I remove the Mahindra's alternator to get it checked out.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Might want a taller fence to keep the chickens out of the garden, unless you're not going to let them out to free range. I let mine free range. They keep the bug population down and fertilize the lawn. They still go back in their caged coop at night, and we lock the gate.

 

[bindian]

Kyle,
The chicken yard will be about 10 times bigger than the garden. Brady says he will allow the chickens in the garden, but only a few at a time. The chicken yard fence was going to surround the garden, but now the garden will be part of the chicken yard fence.
hugs, Brandi