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Post by sawmilljim on Mar 27, 2015 19:14:15 GMT -5
No not those on the bad side of town, those you been putting off for years . Well while back wife went to mail box and there was the electric bill, looked more like they billed us for their new building all at once. We had been out of wood and I refused to buy any . Looks like we are out of wood before fall starts let alone winter . Thing is my ax is out of whack it must now weigh a hundred pounds and never hits the same place twice . Thus the project . I need a wood spliter . I know on sale for $1,399.99 but all I can find after that electric bill is .99 just a mite short . Well I start going over my large inventory of stashed parts and take note of two cylinders must of found a new home . Anyway I found one new one I had left that was about 5'' x 23'' with nearly 2'' rod in it ,then I find a 8'' 3\8 web H beam along with a bunch of 1\2 inch plate steel . Six pounds or so welding rods later I have a handy dandy wood spliter that hangs on the backhoe bucket .I added a hand valve to the bunch already on it and have it so I can use it like most splitters are used or it can dangle to be lowered over a block while sitting on the backhoe . Haven't tried that yet but will soon . Thing is I don't know if I can see that good . Near as I can teel with new hoses on it and everything I was out nigh on $125.00 at most including five gallon hyd. oil So what are some of you folks projects ?
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Post by mikeinohio on Mar 27, 2015 20:16:46 GMT -5
My big project this year is building a cabin.
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Post by sawmilljim on Mar 27, 2015 20:25:35 GMT -5
My big project this year is building a cabin. We talking log ? Or mid size house ? I think I got more projects than I have time left .
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Post by mikeinohio on Mar 27, 2015 20:52:38 GMT -5
I have a bunch of 6x6x18 beams that were cut from telephone poles. I have 6x6x8 ones that I will use for pilings. The construction will be pretty simple. I've drawn up 2 alternative designs but haven't decided which one we'll go with. The first is 18 feet by 36 feet but 8 feet of that is a covered porch with loft over. The other design is just 18 feet square with a wrap around 8 foot wide porch.
For either design, most of the East wall will be glass. I've got a bunch of 6'6" x 5'6" glass panels I got off of Craigslist. They are also blast resistant which is one of the reasons for the heavy beams. Each glass panel is about 500 lbs. I also have a bunch of double hung windows, cabinets and doors I picked up at a bankruptcy auction of a supply house/lumber yard. I also have a toilet, sinks, clawfoot bathtub , and other things for finishing it out.
There's already septic and a well in as well as electric run to the site.
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Post by sawmilljim on Mar 27, 2015 21:37:42 GMT -5
Mike that sounds like a great project .I wish you well
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Post by Possum Belly on Mar 27, 2015 21:45:54 GMT -5
My newest project is a worm bin. I bought a 6 ft galv watering trough and will put a divider in the middle with holes in it and a plywood cover on the top with a light and sit it on concrete blocks and maybe insulate the bottom to keep the cold and wind out. I am thinking on sealing around the blocks so I can put a heat lamp under the bottom when it is real cold. It will be under a shed and I want to be able to keep worms year round.
I have a couple of 55 gallon plastic drums to make some worm tea in and will put a burlap bag full of worm castings and water and aerate the water.
Will use that to pour on garden plants. I hear it has lots of bacteria that eat other harmful stuff and works great as a fertilizer.
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Post by sawmilljim on Mar 27, 2015 21:59:33 GMT -5
You were closer I would gave you a water though . Knew a guy raised tons of worms (long story) he fed them bags of horse poop . He had at least 50 4'x4' bins and if the lights went out they all would start leaving the boxes . they kept the temperature at a specific setting .I put a 5 ton central unit in for him .
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Post by grannyg on Mar 27, 2015 22:15:10 GMT -5
I raised worms as a teenager to save our family's property....fed them cornmeal and coffee grounds, and we poured diluted old vitamin water on them and called them Ramsey's VitaFed Worms....got sixty cents a dozen and lots of hilarious stories from the buyers...one guy said his wife's stocking fell down, so he just tied one around the top of her leg and it lasted all day...LOL....they would wash down from the fields in heavy rain and I would scoop them up in buckets and put them in tubs....I picked moss off the trees to put in the cans with dirt when I sold them..you just opened up my memory bank....LOL
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Post by dba on Mar 27, 2015 22:21:31 GMT -5
My projects this year are to build a new rabbit barn, a room in my garage for incubating and hatching chicks, and fence in about half acre or so for some goats.
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Post by horseyrider on Mar 28, 2015 4:03:27 GMT -5
Early projects are building a sawbuck for my poor old arthritic back, hatching out some replacement layers, and hatching out some turkeys. The mom is setting, so I guess maybe that's her project.... There's so much to get started on, from fencing repairs, to getting the garden in and going, and redoing the spare room and the study. Nothing big though. Well, there's a collapsed building that needs to have the good wood salvaged and the old wood burned, but that's going to be done slow and as I have time. Unless I snap and get someone out with a dozer. Because that could happen too.
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Post by hmsteader71 on Mar 28, 2015 5:47:57 GMT -5
Most of the projects we have require money that we don't have. We need to replace all the windows in the house. A couple are broken and the rest are single pane and have been here before I moved in 21 years ago. We need to find someone to level our floors (hubby doesn't do well in confined spaces) then we need to fix floors. We haven't decided whether to do these or not because we want to sell the place and move to the country. Also need to replace ceiling tiles in the kitchen where some are damaged due to the old roof leaking. We have had the ceiling tile replacements close to 7 years now that we took out of an old house that was being torn down. Need to reseed the yard, get new strong fence to put where our berries and grapes are. Would have liked to have gravel brought in to redo our driveway and to make a path to our woodpile but that would cost us over $400 that we don't have right now. Debt stinks. Also really need to have topsoil brought in to build up our garden area. It sits so low that it floods and I can't get garden out until close to May. Again, don't have the extra money for that as all our extra money is going to pay debts off.
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Post by bellad on Mar 28, 2015 7:59:55 GMT -5
We are starting a shed rebuild. The general structure is sound so we are going to add on to it instead of buying a new one. And of course since we decided to start today it is raining off and on! LOL
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