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Post by richardw on May 22, 2018 14:39:02 GMT -5
To keep the amount of 'stuff' to a minimum ether move house every 5 years or if you are staying put dont have to many sheds, you only end up full them with stuff.
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Post by prairiegardens on May 22, 2018 15:43:50 GMT -5
I think "motivation" is something that may or not be available in adolescence; can't say I felt it before my late 30's (guess I'm a late bloomer). Adolescence was a few years (decades!) ago, if that's the criteria I'm doomed  |
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Post by prairiegardens on May 22, 2018 16:02:31 GMT -5
To keep the amount of 'stuff' to a minimum ether move house every 5 years or if you are staying put dont have to many sheds, you only end up full them with stuff. Some of the 'stuff' I've accumulated are those wooden shelves that big box stores get their nursery stock in. Quite astonishing what can accumulate on such shelves from plant pots to tarps to boxes of nails and plumbing paraphanelia etc they're perhaps unfortunately quite sturdy and need little help to make a few of them into yet another shed. The burn pile is getting bigger by the day, need to put up something the scarlet Runner beans can climb on to mask it for the summer. It's so very dry already chances are slim the right conditions to burn will turn up until fall now. Bonfire extraordinaire come October  |
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Post by prairiegardens on Jun 15, 2018 16:01:08 GMT -5
Ok giving up on getting any help and about to try to install some windows myself. How hard can it be? She says hopefully. The hardest part will likely be trying to lift them into place, may have to figure out some way to do that with extra pallets as a platform or some such. Damn life gets complicated if you try to do anything.
Otoh got the burn pile taken care of, we had torrential rain (almost 3 inches in 24 hours) so took advantage to get rid of it. With the wind the grass was still trying to catch fire so I was grateful for the ongoing rain!
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Post by oldmobie on Jul 14, 2018 20:05:13 GMT -5
I'm trying to incorporate a wicking bed into my aquaponics, kinda Jack Spirko style. I have an old stock tank the boys poked a hole in while breaking ice with a crowbar. That should do. For the wick, I have buckets of sand left from when the back porch was poured. I wanted to move less sand and reduce the weight, at least a little. Meanwhile, I've been trying to find uses for (non-canning) jars. Pickle jars. Relish jars. Alfredo sauce jars. Here's what I've come up with.  I used some leftover pipe and fittings to make a drain.  The CPVC pipe inside connects to a brass hose fitting in the drain bulkhead. That took an elbow and a ½" male pipe thread adaptor. (The brass hose fitting has ¾" male threads that fit the bulkhead, and ½" female threads on the inside. Outside the tank, it's other end is male hose thread.)  I'll put a hose on that brass fitting. I'll connect the two volumes of water, either by buying a bulkhead and putting it into the IBC below the surface, or by getting the hose completely full so any deviation from level is corrected by siphon. |
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Post by prairiegardens on Aug 11, 2018 21:41:16 GMT -5
Nephew and niece arrived for a week and put up 5 windows, two doors, finished the metal roof soffits and all, completel metal siding and put in a water catchment system. I am still in grateful shock! My pallet house is now "looking like a regular house!" as several people have noted with shocked surprise. I'm trying to wrap my mind around it all, it's been SUCH a struggle for the past three or so years, that I had almost lost faith it would ever happen and here I am in the process of moving in! I can still hardly believe it. What a difference a week can make!
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Post by steev on Oct 22, 2018 22:15:40 GMT -5
Scored 40 heavy-duty drying trays, which will see service on the farm drying fruit. A woman who was also loading some asked whether I would use them to dry dope. Nah; haven't done that for forty years; there's something about getting a family, (and legalizing things) that lessens the thrill.
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Post by steev on Nov 30, 2018 14:47:23 GMT -5
Found a source of granite sink cut-outs which will be great pavers, so much spiffier than concrete pavers. Freeconomics rule!
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Post by khoomeizhi on Dec 1, 2018 7:09:14 GMT -5
i would post a picture if i hadn't lost my phone, but we at my nut-processing group were working last night on the finishing touches of a rotary sifting machine that's comprised of 1/8", 1/4", and 1/2" hardware cloth for sifting cracked nut bits into different size groups. there are pieces of three different plastic barrels involved (which i have been taking from the hummus factory i've been working at - and have been the true workhorses of re-used junk - we've been using them for curing chambers [with repurposed bathroom heater/blowers], storage for shell and chaff from processing as well as presscake from oil-pressing, and more...), and various other re-used bits - a piece of found tin for the chute at the end where the big shell pieces drop out, an old motor and piece of rope to drive the thing.... it's kind of a miracle of lashed-together 'technology' that works surprisingly well (minus a few kinks that still need to be worked out). one day i'll get a pic.
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Post by steev on Dec 7, 2018 19:49:46 GMT -5
Gonna get up early tomorrow to go to the granitry for another load of cut-outs. Cogito ergo scrounge.
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Post by steev on Feb 26, 2019 2:25:14 GMT -5
Scored a very nice five-drawer dresser on the street, solid wood, beautiful; it never ceases to amaze (and gratify) me what people will just discard. I'll need to buy a bed, but now I've got a spiffy dresser.
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Post by steev on Mar 1, 2019 15:56:21 GMT -5
Scored two high-end outdoor adjustable recliners (rotted mesh, but replacement fabric came with) and an antique dining table; these all need a bit of TLC, but I'll have plenty of "project" time OTF.
Came in second on a nice cast-iron railing, but it'll be mine if the other guy doesn't show early tomorrow; there's also what looks like two loads of nice used brick, which I have first dibs on.
Later, it's raining, so maybe the other guy is a wuss; one can hope; I sure wouldn't mind getting wet for that railing; vamos a ver, n'est pas?
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Post by steev on Mar 4, 2019 22:21:20 GMT -5
S'posed to haul off a couple loads of nice used brick tomorrow, sure hope the rain holds off, as I've outgrown any youthful enthusiasm for working in the rain.
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Post by reed on Mar 5, 2019 17:01:36 GMT -5
I went in the re-store the other day and they had these things a young fella said were office cubical dividers from a bank and they were not for sale cause they might use them in the office at the re-store. Got to talking and he gardens so I went back couple days later with some seeds and he sold me one for ten bucks. Kinda high but it consists of an extremely heave steel frame trimmed in walnut with a 3' x 6' panel of 1/4 inch acrylic. Way too heavy to use as is but I got the acrylic panel for a new cold frame, the walnut trim, I'll make into something and the steel frame I'll use to make a new gate for the back garden.
Gonna go back with more seeds and some berry and grape plants and see if I can score some more. There is more than enough to build a nice green house and pricing that stuff on the internet one panel is easily a hundred bucks, I think these are what they call architectural grade and not really even for sale in small amounts to general public. I'm pretty sure unlike poly-carbonate that acrylic is inherently UV stable. They are the kind of stuff high end sky lights are made of but lack any tint.
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Post by steev on Mar 5, 2019 21:42:57 GMT -5
We hauled off the used bricks without getting too wet; there's a place nearby that makes tinctures, or extracts, or some-such; anyway, they use a lot of ethanol and discard the empty translucent white 55gal barrels; there are four there right now, so I'll haul them and bricks to the farm; I cut the barrels in half longitudinally and use them for mini-greenhouses, when cold could be a problem.
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