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Posted: 3/20/2024 3:55:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 67Firebird: This is the first time I've opened this thread, and I like it. Thanks for sharing.  
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Posted: 3/23/2024 8:47:10 AM EDT
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We have 10 more fruit trees to plant so I rigged up a "water buffalo" I'll keep it hooked to the truck so we can water easily.
This was a DEF container so having it spotless clean doesn't matter.  Attached FileI ordered an adapter and plan/hope gravity feed will work, if not a small pump will be put inl8ne.  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/23/2024 10:59:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bansil]
[#3]
Needed a Rake for this summer, tried a friend's out,it didn't do what wanted...said to myself this is shitty...so...I will make my own.
 Attached FileDrew this..  Attached FileEnded up with....  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 3/23/2024 11:00:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/25/2024 6:54:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/388306/20240323_155724_jpg-3167650.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/388306/20240323_161901_jpg-3167651.JPG Goodnight yall 😴 Your skillz. I wants them, I does. 
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Posted: 3/25/2024 8:06:48 PM EDT
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 Thank you for the kind words to an old machinist...I can beotch about other people's quality.... OR I can build it my way...  And if there are issues with my design  Its a Simple revision change to the design to improve it 
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Posted: 3/27/2024 6:16:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: Thank you for the kind words to an old machinist...I can beotch about other people's quality.... OR I can build it my way... And if there are issues with my design Its a Simple revision change to the design to improve it I need to come down for some lessons. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 4:30:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: I need to come down for some lessons. We can see what the fall looks like, wife said a winery is still on the table So this came in the mail, 1/4" QR backing plate, metal, bent and welded with free shipping for $119 no way in hell I could of made it for that.  Attached FileTest fit...Perfect!  Attached FileThe face of it  Attached FileThis will end up being 3 or 4 different tools when done. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 8:22:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: We can see what the fall looks like, wife said a winery is still on the table ....snippety snip snip..... I will bring wine and local cheeses, and something to throw on the grill as thanks for a lesson!
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Posted: 3/29/2024 7:39:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: So this came in the mail, 1/4" QR backing plate, metal, bent and welded with free shipping for $119 no way in hell I could of made it for that. $119 TYD seems dirt cheap. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 12:37:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bansil]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Buckshot4U: $119 TYD seems dirt cheap. I just ordered another one from modify-parts, they are Chinese but it's just A36 $105 their prices chang all the time Looks like I got last one, 5/16 is $123 |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:59:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bansil]
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So today was let's move shit out the way so I can work on back yard.
So, remember to always read the manuals and understand the capacity and workings of your equipment. So the whole you can lift xyz at pivot point of FEL...and only xyz 12 inches from pivot point... Seems like a lot of math and thanks to Rebecca I never made it past algebra 1...so only one thing to do...try it Well....I decided to move the fire pit out the way, after the initial failure..I discover with my friend the calculator...forks pallet and 48 blocks at like 17 pounds a piece, so like 950# hanging off the bucket nothing was going to move 3 feet from said pivot point.  Attached FileAnd no it didn't lift it, it was sitting on blocks so my feet wouldn't get crushed if a line failed. Crap I need another pallet.. Success!!  Attached FileYes zombie green, it and safety yellow were $10 cheaper than peg my butt orange...and yellow was out of stock. So I couldn't even budge the box blade.... So I took the bucket off and put the blank QA mount on...it lifted it easy...and now it sits near goat shed  Attached FileSo now let's mount some chain hooks and move the 8ft box blade to the goat shed and cut off a foot from both ends  Attached FileAlso moved some branches to burn pile...  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 9:20:51 PM EDT
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I like those chain hooks! I need some of those
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Posted: 3/30/2024 7:05:05 AM EDT
[Last Edit: bansil]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sigpros: I like those chain hooks! I need some of those Bolt on hooks @sigpros |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 8:19:46 PM EDT
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Thank you!
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Posted: 4/1/2024 12:02:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bansil]
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Hooks worked great for moving stuff, definitely a 1st mod to do.
Spent a few hours pulling old fence out to reclaim pasture, you can see it laid out to the right of the tractor, underneath the UFO  None of us saw anything in the sky...  Attached FileMy helpers.  Attached FileThe bastard took blood from all of us....  Attached FileNot again...dug up and tossed over the bank  Attached FileMoving the rolled wire  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/1/2024 1:47:15 PM EDT
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That UFO is a bug, between you and the tractor.
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Posted: 4/1/2024 1:59:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 67Firebird: That UFO is a bug, between you and the tractor.  Your not going to tell me samsquatch is fake are you
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Posted: 4/1/2024 2:30:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: Your not going to tell me samsquatch is fake are you Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: Originally Posted By 67Firebird: That UFO is a bug, between you and the tractor. I'll just tell you that I have never seen one. 
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Posted: 4/3/2024 1:02:59 PM EDT
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So it's been years since we had chickens, normally kept 25 to 30 around, got out of it and the farm life 6years ago when both our sets of parents became ill and we cared for them.
We are meeting at tractor supply tonight to grab some little ones. Now I have to clean out, move and repair the old small coop for the soon to be teenagers in several weeks, so I can then fix the big coop that we dismantled and recycled because she never wanted chickens again....she wanted to move to the beach...so we are coming back full circle I did say no animals over 70 lbs Temporary housing for the next week as I setup the little crates we used to use, assembly required tonight... I grabbed 3 boxes from work, 2 for housing and one for nightly "bonding with them"...when we clean their vents, I use the warm wet cloth to clean, she dries them off and talks to them as she does, then they go into the clean box, rinse and repeat cleaning housing and bottoms...  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/4/2024 9:11:57 AM EDT
[Last Edit: bansil]
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Let the wife pick them out while I got everything else...4 of everyone of them. Edit...after looking at pictures...I have no real time data on what she picked out
4 reg. Mixed 28 sexed So....how many assholes we going to have? Stay tuned for a few weeks and we will see So, out of travel boxes and into the temporary holding cell....boxes look like KFC takeout   Attached FileReady for a vent cleaning...  Attached FileNo pictures of that, it took awhile to get done...the "vent" is the only "exit" so pee ...poop...same thing or place. For people that don't know we cleaned their vents, which looks like a vagina rotated 90*, using warm water and a wash cloth you gentle hold the warm wet rag on it to loosen any poop. This makes sure they can go to bathroom. We had 5 that needed probably 15min each to soften and clean, had to massage 3, they wouldn't of made it if we just stuck them in a box. They ended up in here  Attached FileI setup a 60 watt old skool bulb on my transit tripod, and zip tied everything so no way for bulb to end up in the box..... Disclaimer...not counting natural disasters... Getting ready for bed... .  Attached FileGoodnight..  Attached FileChecked in on them this morning and everyone is good to go and active.. |
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Posted: 4/4/2024 9:53:29 AM EDT
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Chickens are awesome.
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Posted: 4/4/2024 6:17:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Kitties-with-Sigs]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: Hooks worked great for moving stuff, definitely a 1st mod to do. Spent a few hours pulling old fence out to reclaim pasture, you can see it laid out to the right of the tractor, underneath the UFO None of us saw anything in the sky... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/388306/20240331_144305_jpg-3175582.JPG My helpers. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/388306/20240331_144417_jpg-3175584.JPG The bastard took blood from all of us.... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/388306/20240331_144423_jpg-3175585.JPG Not again...dug up and tossed over the bank https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/388306/20240331_150148_jpg-3175587.JPG Moving the rolled wire https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/388306/20240331_151141_jpg-3175588.JPG Haha! Love the UFO. Is that a blackberry? ETA: We haven't gotten any new babies yet. Unless I think we can fix up our old henhouse and get them out of this kennel, I'm not starting any new ones. It was hard getting through the winter without a solid structure. I want some new babies so bad though. 
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Posted: 4/4/2024 6:19:15 PM EDT
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Yes....hundreds of them......
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Posted: 4/4/2024 6:24:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: Yes....hundreds of them...... I would have taken that root. I'm gonna have to dig one to make medicine.
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Posted: 4/4/2024 7:05:54 PM EDT
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Wife does Golden rod?
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Posted: 4/5/2024 4:17:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: Wife does Golden rod? I'm doing that this year. Right now I'm working on Wild Violet, Chickweed, Blackberry Leaf and Cleavers. I have Black Walnut Hull and Passion Flower Leaf still in the cabinet from last fall. I've got to press that and get it in bottles. |
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Posted: 4/5/2024 4:55:49 PM EDT
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Post a thread please, sounds interesting
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Posted: 4/7/2024 9:12:45 AM EDT
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Today's mission is 3 fold
1 make an attachment for tractor to move the old chicken teenager coop so I can work on big coop. 2 actually move it after cutting the trees down growing inside it. 3 dig holes to plant 10 fruit trees. I know everyone likes pictures: the coop to move (sounds coupe Deville ) Attached FileEgg area opening  Attached FileTrees and old tomato grow buckets when we had a bad deer year  Attached File Attached FileMore pics later today.... |
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Posted: 4/7/2024 10:50:38 AM EDT
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So, yesterday was a long ,sore day.
Why? I can blame it on alot of different things.... So wife is like I have a project, cool, only the Lord knows what's going on....I think So I hand loaded a ton of pallets by hand, I did have helpers....I got one, for... they each helped to get one...the last 50? By my self,, they went to garden barn...the blue ones are 60# easy....Fuck me I'm sore...  Attached FileSome pallets...  Attached FileMoar....  Attached File145 pallets later ,thank God I could use the tractor to unload them... Women and etsy/hgtv/etc..... 
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Posted: 4/7/2024 11:24:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bansil: I know everyone likes pictures: the coop to move (sounds coupe Deville )Yes, we do.
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Posted: 4/9/2024 7:28:22 AM EDT
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Wow, 6 days and they are growing faster than I remember
So I made them a new cardboardominium  Attached File Attached FileIt made a big difference in how clean it was this morning  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/9/2024 4:20:56 PM EDT
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Cuties!
I like the carboardominium!
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Posted: 4/11/2024 7:22:22 AM EDT
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Planted 10 more fruit trees on Sunday, used the BH, so much easier than a shovel and auger...
Last night it wasn't raining so I gathered the rocks from digging the holes. Tomorrow I need to stake them up.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:49:18 AM EDT
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I could use that bucket of rocks.
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Posted: 4/11/2024 9:51:21 AM EDT
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Im collecting them for a future project, I have about 5 buckets so far
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Posted: 4/11/2024 11:05:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 67Firebird: I could use that bucket of rocks. I was gonna say the same! Those are great rocks!
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Posted: 4/13/2024 8:11:24 AM EDT
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Remember the old intermediate coop above?
Time to move it, I cut down the trees and emptied it out, this is going to be an emergency coop if I don't get the other one done. How to move it? With the tractor! So I tack welded a piece of 1/4" angle on a QR faceplate,  Attached FileThen grabbed a piece of 3/16 wall 1-1/2 square tube to spread the load out evenly. Strapped to FEL, and then over the ROPS and top of coop....tied off to the BH....  Attached FileBasically it's in the backyard now and I can spend $50 bucks and a day to get it in service if needed, then may clean it up and sell it. Next? Grab some breakfast, feed the alarm systems, let them outside for a bit. And then let's make a custom Rake to pull rose, blackberries and various vines out to reclaim the chicken coop and a few extra acres this summer. Pictures later.... |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 9:00:00 AM EDT
[#39]
Great problem-solving.
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Posted: 4/13/2024 9:47:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 67Firebird: Great problem-solving. Ithanks it's nice to have 5 thumbs at times 
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Posted: 4/15/2024 8:29:34 PM EDT
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Got rake almost done yesterday.
 Attached File Attached File Attached FileThese guys were enjoying the moisture  Attached File b2601 rake |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 8:34:20 PM EDT
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Before
 Attached FileAfter  Attached FileStrategic thorn removal to take down moar fence  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 4/15/2024 8:35:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/15/2024 10:15:16 PM EDT
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Your support braces for the outer rake sections....I just missed those ENTIRELY when I looked at the first photos. (Yes, even though a Modelo was sitting on one. Been that kinda day.) And I said, out loud, "oh man, those outer rakes are SO gonna bend, oh NO!"
Ya. I did. Then I saw it standing up and went, "OHHHHHH!!!!! Whew."
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Posted: 4/19/2024 5:17:44 PM EDT
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So, I backed off on a couple other threads to focus on this one
So....and no,I'm not going back to see if I dupe myself  We got these guys  Attached FileWho are now these guys  Attached FileSo.... Let's fine the chicken coop  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 5:21:36 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bansil]
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Been a few years....
 Attached FileSo I scooped weekly.....BUT..when it turns to concrete in 3 years.... .Got rid of the couple eggs left and cleaned. I had PPE on also  Attached FileClean floor..  Attached FileHello tractor...   Attached File |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 6:10:11 PM EDT
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I used deep litter method in my coop, and would clean it out twice per year. Sometimes after I got it all raked out, I'd cover my nose and mouth, squint, and fire up the leaf blower in there to clean out the corners/edges. Definitely needed a shower afterwords, but it was a good cleaning.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:04:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/22/2024 8:23:31 AM EDT
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We I have 21 hrs on the tractor now, I forgot how helpful they are.
Used it to cleanup at the barn so I could access the other side to grab some have for the coop. Also Had to dig out the door swing area  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 8:39:05 AM EDT
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I grabbed the rake and started to find the Coop so we can replace the fence
BEFORE  Attached FileAFTER  Attached FileDURING  Attached File Attached FileAFTER  Attached FileI love the rake! |
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