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