What are you working on today thread

[usmcbuckwild]

Trying to make a set of staggered floating shelves for a friend. Being old and broken makes doing all this stuff I used to do without a second thought so very difficult. Took me 2 whole days to make 1 shelf which used to take me 1.5-2 hours.

Fluck this getting old shiite!!

 

[S Sidwell]

Worked on plowing snow today. Had to plow out the plow to get to the driveway.
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That looks like a John Deere temperature gauge I see lite up. Haven't even attempt to start our old 3020, no glow plugs, only has a propane cold start fitting at the dash.

Steve, Samsung On5 using Tapatalk

 

[Marshy]

Its actually a Deutz-Allis 5230. Love this little machine. It has a 1.5L 3 cylinder Toyosha engine. I'm glad I went with the "larger" 30 hp tractor vs the smaller 26 hp. Im calling my local equipment place today to price some wheel chains. It's just too light of a machine when trying to push snow on top of ice. I should consider making a ballast box for the back.

 

[mdavlee]

Built this gate today. I just love working outside in 15-20°

 

[Redfin]

Build a fire in there Mikey.

 

[mdavlee]

Build a fire in there Mikey.

I had a little bit of hay on fire once[emoji23]

 

[Wilhelm]

Its actually a Deutz-Allis 5230. Love this little machine. It has a 1.5L 3 cylinder Toyosha engine. I'm glad I went with the "larger" 30 hp tractor vs the smaller 26 hp. Im calling my local equipment place today to price some wheel chains. It's just too light of a machine when trying to push snow on top of ice. I should consider making a ballast box for the back.

Can You get or make wheel weights for it?!

Just thinking out loud.

 

[Redfin]

Can You get or make wheel weights for it?!

Just thinking out loud.

Ballast box pivots some of the weight off the front axle when bucket is loaded.

 

[Marshy]

I finally caved and changed the power steering pump on my (wifes) Yukon. After leaking two quarts of oil through it and on its third, I had enough of the wining (from my wife).

 

[Marshy]

As good of a day as any to get on the roof and shovel the ridge vent to let the house breath. Beautiful out if you can look past the mercury bulb.

 

[usmcbuckwild]

Frozen pipes. Both hot and cold in master bath froze. 2 1/2 hours with 2 heat guns didn’t even get a drip. Cut open vanity, cut open sheet rock and find the meth-head mouth breathing idiots who installed insulation just pushed it over the piping, forcing it out against the sheathing. Damned pipes were frozen all the way into the slab, another 2 hours with heat guns and finally got it running.

Ripped out all the fiberglass insulation, pulled pipes forward away from sheathing and secured with zip-ties to ensure they won’t rest back against the sheathing. Then applied liberal amount of expanding foam. Put the cut sheetrock back up and now have to wait for it to finish expanding. In a few hours I will trim excess, apply some spackle and figure out to doll up the back of the vanity.

Tha k god I have a great neighbor to help me. I know what I am doing, but am not really physically capable.

 

[Marshy]

Frozen pipes. Both hot and cold in master bath froze. 2 1/2 hours with 2 heat guns didn’t even get a drip. Cut open vanity, cut open sheet rock and find the meth-head mouth breathing idiots who installed insulation just pushed it over the piping, forcing it out against the sheathing. Damned pipes were frozen all the way into the slab, another 2 hours with heat guns and finally got it running.

Ripped out all the fiberglass insulation, pulled pipes forward away from sheathing and secured with zip-ties to ensure they won’t rest back against the sheathing. Then applied liberal amount of expanding foam. Put the cut sheetrock back up and now have to wait for it to finish expanding. In a few hours I will trim excess, apply some spackle and figure out to doll up the back of the vanity.

Tha k god I have a great neighbor to help me. I know what I am doing, but am not really physically capable.

Frozen pipes suck. Best advice I can give is get a heat lamp pointed on those pipes. You might want to leave one on the pipe under the house where it comes up through the slab.

 

[usmcbuckwild]

Frozen pipes suck. Best advice I can give is get a heat lamp pointed on those pipes. You might want to leave one on the pipe under the house where it comes up through the slab.

Ha! Jokes on me: slab on grade

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Finally got around to mounting up the snow blower to my lawn tractor and cleaning out the drive way. The weather guessers are saying we're supposed to be getting a few inches of white crap tonight/tomorrow. So far the white crap hasn't been deep enough that my old dodge couldn't get through it but the wife's little Kia was starting to have issues. I should of done it in November.

 

[Marshy]

@usmcbuckwild

 

[usmcbuckwild]

@usmcbuckwild
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Wasn’t that bad, mine didn’t burst!


I worked at a friend’s house in Windsor, NY many years ago when the pipes froze and burst. The inside looked like that, but the 10” thick ice went all the way to the basement and out the back door. I was between jobs so they paid me strip the entire interior; trim, doors,plaster, lathe, insulation, flooring, sub flooring, plumbing and electrical. Electricians and plumbers updated everything. I then installed all new sheetrock, sub flooring, hardwood floors, tile, carpeting (contracted), new interior doors, new windows, trim it all out. Took me over 2 months. Part of the reason I was so pissed about the pipes freezing.

 

[Marshy]

Anyone get any work done this weekend with the big game and all?

My barn door fell off the track so I had the pleasure of fixing that by myself. Thst was a necessity because I can't get my tractor out to plow if I can't open the door... Then I replaced the battery cable terminals on the tractor. After that I did some more copper on my boiler system. I also finished up the chimney pipe on the boiler.

 

[ajschainsaws]

@Marshy have you built any stables yet for the horses and ponies coming this year

 

[Marshy]

@Marshy have you built any stables yet for the horses and ponies coming this year

Not yet. I have some regulated wetland on my property that is keeping me from future plans to support having horsed, like a driveway, dug well, clearing and grading the land. I am working through the permitt process or at least how to legally avoid the permitt process so that I can make these future improvements. The Department of Enviromental Conservation (DEC) are not very helpful in disclosing how to get wetland deregulated, it kind of goes against their purpose so I am trying to read through the legal BS and figure out how I can reclaim this land.

You can see the wetland boundary in yellow and the 100 ft buffer to the wetland is inside the green line. Any filling, clear cutting, excavating, leveling of land greater the 250 sqft requires a permit. Exemptions from this are limited but some are afforded in the form of agricultural exemptions. I'm trying to learn how to levy those exemptions and even get the wetland deregulated since the total wetland boundary encompasses less than 3 acres of land.

Looks like a dead squirrel doesn't it?

 

[Marshy]

I cut about 6 cord of soft Maple and Ash in the triangle area before i had the wetland boundary delinated by the DEC last summer. They askem me about the trees and I told them it was for personal use and personal harvest is exempt from permit. That is all true. What I didn't tell them was in order to get 2-3 years ahead I will likely have to cut everything inside the triangle and possibly more.