Below 265 SQ/FT Very small garage in Russia

[kaymccampbell]

In my childhood we used to have -25 to -35C days frequently in the depths of winter. The chimney smoke would rise, then curl down like a cane handle, then dissipate. It never made that long tail like your neighbor's chimney.

I designed my home's heating system to this standard, and it's only been tested a few times in the last 30-ish years. This next week's cold snap will only be -10C. And then only on the overnight. The boiler will barely be idling.

 

[gman007]

Looks like your building a John Deere tractor with that green paint or maybe its a Vladideere

Nice job! The “Vladideere” is coming along well.
Love the VIN as well!

Weather wise we are having similar cold snap as you.

 

[jon72vega]

Looks like your building a John Deere tractor with that green paint or maybe its a Vladideere

Good one Tony!

 

[gman007]

My wife had a Dr appt this afternoon, so even though it is still snowing , I had to go and clear the snow from the driveway.

I was almost done when this crazy teenager on snowmobile showed up, doing around 50 miles per hour! This is a residential suburban area (speed limit 25 miles/hour) where none street legal vehicles such as snowmobiles are not even allowed in the first place!

I guess teenagers will be teenagers!

 

[gman007]

And bad drivers plus bad weather makes a very bad combination.

This happened all around me just today

 

[Vieux]

My wife had a Dr appt this afternoon, so even though it is still snowing , I had to go and clear the snow from the driveway.

I was almost done when this crazy teenager on snowmobile showed up, doing around 50 miles per hour! This is a residential suburban area (speed limit 25 miles/hour) where none street legal vehicles such as snowmobiles are not even allowed in the first place!

I guess teenagers will be teenagers!

There is a saying in Russia on this topic - fools don't have a law.

 

[Vieux]

And bad drivers plus bad weather makes a very bad combination.

This happened all around me just today

There was information in our news about this accident due to bad weather.

 

[kaymccampbell]

There was information in our news about this accident due to bad weather.

Must've been a slow news day.

 

[Grizz1963]

Saw this…….

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[ChefRex]

Saw this…….

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I think he needs chains and a larger fuel tank.

 

[gman007]

Holy ****! I went to check the link and I saw another post! It seems a tractor is trying to pull a car out of ice on a lake or river and the tractor itself falls through the ice! I hope the poor guy survived!

https://m.facebook.com/reel/931305269219640/?referral_source=external_deeplink

 

[Vieux]

The frame is reinforced and well-welded. The motor, transfer case and rear axle are installed in place. Now it is necessary to weld the transverse fastening of the frame and make the front suspension. At the moment, the tractor project looks like this.


We have severe frosts. And tonight, the city was bombed by drones again. I woke up to the sound of sirens and explosions.

 

[bugnut]

Vlad stay safe. Tractor looks like it is moving right along.

 

[gman007]

Vladimir
I hope that nobody was hurt in the bombing and property damage was limited.

The tractor is definitely taking shape and the build, in your skilled hands, is coming along well.

Great job!

 

[xtremek]

I pray that you and your family stay safe my friend. The tractor looks good so far. Since we're in the winter months, are you thinking of making some kind of plow to fit on the front of it? Or maybe a snow blower? Or will it be strictly for garden work? Again, I pray you and yours are safe.

 

[Vieux]

Vlad stay safe. Tractor looks like it is moving right along.

Thanks! Unfortunately, not much depends on me...

Vladimir
I hope that nobody was hurt in the bombing and property damage was limited.

The tractor is definitely taking shape and the build, in your skilled hands, is coming along well.

Great job!

Thanks!
As a result of the explosion, there was a severe fire at the oil depot. It was extinguished for several days, there is no official information about the victims, but this does not mean that there were none.

I pray that you and your family stay safe my friend. The tractor looks good so far. Since we're in the winter months, are you thinking of making some kind of plow to fit on the front of it? Or maybe a snow blower? Or will it be strictly for garden work? Again, I pray you and yours are safe.

Thanks!
I plan to make a snow shovel and also various tools for gardening. Maybe it will be a plow, and I'm thinking about how to attach a hand-held cultivator to the tractor that I have now. So far, everything is in the project.

 

[Vieux]

Some progress on tractor assembly. I decided to install the rear wheels with a radius of R15 and the front wheels with a radius of R13. It will look like in the photo. I had to redo the seat of the R15 disc. To do this, I used a spacer ring and turned out a centering ring on a lathe to put everything in the center. Now we need to weld it all firmly and paint it. I also bought the material for making the front suspension.


We had heavy snowfall for several days in a row. I don't remember seeing so much snow. I can't drive to the garage. The whole city is also covered with snow. Of course, the snow is cleaned and removed, but it will take a long time. Some photos from surveillance cameras in my house in the village. And now there are severe frosts, up to minus 33 degrees Celsius. It's been an abnormally cold and snowy winter this year.

 

[Grizz1963]

Beautiful but not ideal for man or beast.

I trust your animals are all well.

 

[bugnut]

Good work on the adapters, tractor moving along. How do you keep the shop warm when you are not able to be there. I have the luxury of a NG overhead heater in my shop.

It has been very cold here also, with much snow-lots in places that only get a dusting if any most years. Saturday morning I was out early and it was -17F, bitter cold for a couple days. house uses fuel oil and consumption has been quite heavy. About 200 gallons in the last 6 weeks. Need to order more.

Stay well and warm, be careful shoveling snow!

 

[gman007]

Good work on the adapters, tractor moving along. How do you keep the shop warm when you are not able to be there. I have the luxury of a NG overhead heater in my shop.

It has been very cold here also, with much snow-lots in places that only get a dusting if any most years. Saturday morning I was out early and it was -17F, bitter cold for a couple days. house uses fuel oil and consumption has been quite heavy. About 200 gallons in the last 6 weeks. Need to order more.

Stay well and warm, be careful shoveling snow!

Vladimir
The tractor project is coming along well!

As for weather, it is about the same here, very cold and snowing pretty much most days.

Here is a photo of my neighborhood. I have also included a photo that one of my friends who lives about 30 miles away. He has 4 cars, three newer cars get parked in his garage but poor older 4th car is parked outside. He said it took him several hours to dig this car out. And frankly his efforts was a bit of fool’s errand as it keeps snowing.

Stay warm

 

[Vieux]

I started making the front suspension for the tractor. I've only done one side so far. I make VAZ out of the front suspension. I also put the generator on the engine, it's from a different engine model, so I had to redo the mount. I don't have enough time, I spend a couple of hours a day making it. The weather also makes its own adjustments, sometimes a severe frost and it takes a long time to warm up the garage so that it would be comfortable to work, then snowfall and it takes a long time to dig out the garage. Winter is full of surprises this year.

A few days ago, this car was completely cleared of snow. Even the night before, it was possible to determine the model and color. When I looked in the morning, I saw a solid snowdrift. This is my car Oka number 2 in the village.

 

[Grizz1963]

That snow really is a nightmare.

Imagine having to wake up and go to work in the morning, and finding that outside.

 

[bugnut]

That is a lot of snow. We've had cold and snow here longer than usual, but nothing to compare to your image. It did warm up yesterday to 50f and I could see some melting activity, it is gonna take a while for all of that to melt.

Does your village clear the area and bury your car in with plowed snow?

 

[kaymccampbell]

That snow really is a nightmare.

Imagine having to wake up and go to work in the morning, and finding that outside.

No need to imagine, I'm looking at it right now. Luckily, I no longer work for a living, but I do have to be out the door by 0945.

 

[Vieux]

That snow really is a nightmare.

Imagine having to wake up and go to work in the morning, and finding that outside.

You're absolutely right. It's not pleasant

That is a lot of snow. We've had cold and snow here longer than usual, but nothing to compare to your image. It did warm up yesterday to 50f and I could see some melting activity, it is gonna take a while for all of that to melt.

Does your village clear the area and bury your car in with plowed snow?

In the village, the utility tractor clears only the road. The car is parked in the yard and it is covered only with fallen snow.

No need to imagine, I'm looking at it right now. Luckily, I no longer work for a living, but I do have to be out the door by 0945.

You can only be envied

 

[kaymccampbell]

You can only be envied

Only for the hours I get to keep. There's a lot less money available, being retired. Of course there's a lot more incentive to make things for myself, and make the shop pay.

 

[gilr]

Vieux, I haven't comment on your thread but have enjoyed it immensely, seeing things in Russia through your excellent pictures that I may never get to see. As for this winter, yours is much worse than here in Virginia, but we have had snow several times and then coated with sleet and freezing rain which produced a solid mass of ice several inches thick making it impossible to go outside the house. We were trapped inside for 7 days before a friend with a tractor and plow was able to get to my house and plow my driveway. The schools were closed for a week and a half and the hospitals had over 12,000 people come to the emergency rooms with broken bones from falls. This easily is the worst winter here in may years, with temperatures near 10 degrees for Fahrenheit for weeks. I can only imagine what winter there must be like. I live in a house on a lake and even the Canada Geese are confused with the lake frozen over solid. We pray for spring!

 

[Vieux]

Vieux, I haven't comment on your thread but have enjoyed it immensely, seeing things in Russia through your excellent pictures that I may never get to see. As for this winter, yours is much worse than here in Virginia, but we have had snow several times and then coated with sleet and freezing rain which produced a solid mass of ice several inches thick making it impossible to go outside the house. We were trapped inside for 7 days before a friend with a tractor and plow was able to get to my house and plow my driveway. The schools were closed for a week and a half and the hospitals had over 12,000 people come to the emergency rooms with broken bones from falls. This easily is the worst winter here in may years, with temperatures near 10 degrees for Fahrenheit for weeks. I can only imagine what winter there must be like. I live in a house on a lake and even the Canada Geese are confused with the lake frozen over solid. We pray for spring!

Thanks! I can imagine your condition from such a winter. We usually have much warmer winters too, it's just that this year's winter is kind of abnormal, snowfall and frost. I don't remember such a winter anymore, maybe when I was a child there was something similar. I remember the huge snowdrifts and the cancellation of school because of the cold... But that was about 50 years ago.

 

[Vieux]

Another day and another unpleasant news from Russia. Our legislators have not yet made a single decision, I emphasize not a single one, to improve living conditions in the slightest. Their favorite solution is to ban, block, punish, increase prices, and so on. Tariffs for utilities, groceries, and gasoline have already been raised many times. Cars have become much more expensive and not only. First, Viber was blocked, then WhatsApp, now it's time to block Telegrams, and judging by the news, Google is next in line. It's already quite problematic for me to make ends meet, I simply don't have enough money for everything, I have to limit myself in some ways. I'm already tired of all this, I understand perfectly well that everything ends sometime, but this insanity that is happening now in our country is already very tired...

I do not know if I will be able to visit GJ tomorrow.
I do not know what will be blocked tomorrow.
We have a saying, "******* in our ears" means lying, cheating, promising and not doing or doing something completely different from what we promised, etc. So much" *******" has been sucked into our ears that we can drown.

 

[Finallygotit]

I don't know what to say other than I'm sorry your life has come to this. I really do hope things turn around and get better soon. One can hope.

 

[Grizz1963]

Another day and another unpleasant news from Russia. Our legislators have not yet made a single decision, I emphasize not a single one, to improve living conditions in the slightest. Their favorite solution is to ban, block, punish, increase prices, and so on. Tariffs for utilities, groceries, and gasoline have already been raised many times. Cars have become much more expensive and not only. First, Viber was blocked, then WhatsApp, now it's time to block Telegrams, and judging by the news, Google is next in line. It's already quite problematic for me to make ends meet, I simply don't have enough money for everything, I have to limit myself in some ways. I'm already tired of all this, I understand perfectly well that everything ends sometime, but this insanity that is happening now in our country is already very tired...

I do not know if I will be able to visit GJ tomorrow.
I do not know what will be blocked tomorrow.
We have a saying, "******* in our ears" means lying, cheating, promising and not doing or doing something completely different from what we promised, etc. So much" *******" has been sucked into our ears that we can drown.

Vladimir
Unfortunately the story of the world as we know it.
We can only be kind to each other and fight them with our own values that define us.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do for you, but offer up my undying hatred for our world leaders. It's tiresome to be forced to actively hate so many ****** people.

 

[DAustin]

I enjoy your posting and seeing what you have been doing and really hope you can keep it up. I hope things get better for you soon.

 

[PugetDude]

I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do for you, but offer up my undying hatred for our world leaders. It's tiresome to be forced to actively hate so many ****** people.

Life is too short to actively hate that many people.
YMMV

 

[gman007]

Vladimir
As others have said we are all so sorry about your situation.

While it is easy for someone from afar, who is not in the same situation, to preach about not losing hope, never the less one has no choice but to persevere and keep hope.

Do not despair, things will improve before it comes to drowning.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Life is too short to actively hate that many people.
YMMV

MMDV. I consider hate a warm, comforting emotion. Many times it's all I've had.

 

[bugnut]

Vlad, I am saddened to read this. I would offer you my most sincere prayers and the hope of family and spring, when the birds and animals, play, procreate and live. The blooming of spring flowers is proof yet of another sunrise and the continuity of time, regardless the leadership climate.

The ability you have shown to do making things thru difficult times-I hope inspires you to continue building whether we see it on our shared forums or not.

Prayer to you and your family & friends.

 

[Vieux]

Thanks for the support! I'll hope for the best. My tractor drove its first few meters yesterday, though I was the engine for now.

 

[gman007]

Looks great! Well done!

Looking forward to seeing it move under its own power!

 

[drivesitfar]

We aren’t allowed to mention politics on here so I won’t go on about the evil parts of our world but my hopes and prayers are that hopefully sooner than later the evil will disappear.

There are people out there spending every waking minute of their valuable time to fix this so keep thinking as positive as you can.

Here’s to getting the tractor moving on it’s own and to another grand day above dirt!!