Above 1200 Sq/FT Harley Jim's place

[xtremek]

Glad to hear your back is getting better.

 

[racer-john]

Glad to hear your back is getting better, wish mine was. LOl.

 

[harley jim]

I haven't done much of anything for two weeks, I did go back under the bil's house to finish the plumbing so he could put his floor back together. Feel like I'm getting soft I need to get going.
Pat and I went to Murphy today and bought a laying box, it's in pretty good shape, it needs bottoms but I may have a set, I hope they fit.

It's a double six so room for 12 nests. Now I need to insulate and line the back wall of the coop with lumber and mount it to the wall.

 

[don long]

The back is getting better

Jim
That's good to hear. Ann just pulled something in her's and is not moving around well today. She dropped her phone and I had to go pick it up for her. We went to the chiropractor yesterday and he gave her a big brace to wear. she thought it worked well til this morning when she couldn't move to get out of bed.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Good to see you're moving again. Sitting still ain't for old folks.

 

[harley jim]

Don, I feel for her, it's not fun. I really think that the tens unit helped me more than anything else I did. Mine was 20 bucks and runs on a 9 volt battery.
Kay, thanks and your right. I need to get moving.

 

[xtremek]

Nice score on the box.

 

[shortykorte]

I guess you didn’t take a motorcycle ride. Always a beautiful area for a ride.
5x10 pallet, learned something new.

 

[harley jim]

Thanks Kirk, the antique people have discovered these and they are getting expensive and harder to find. Around here they are 150 bucks 50 miles down the road they run 60 bucks.


Shorty, I ran a lot of miles on those roads, did the tail of the dragon many times, the Nantahala gorge is the most beautiful ride. Sold the Harley when the back started to go.

 

[harley jim]

A few more pictures of our journey

A few minutes up the road from the house

Parksville lake it is a man made lake dammed up by the TVA

Just above the lake is where the kayaks and rafts come off of the river.

These busses haul the rafts on the roof and rafters to the top of the mountain then go to the bottom and retrieve them.

It's hard to get pics while driving, the trees are thick and play with the phone. Paddle faster I hear banjo music!

This is where they go into the river, on the near side of the pic hidden by the rock is a 20' wide sidewalk where they walk down to the lower side of the dam.

 

[harley jim]

Further up the mountain is the olympic center.
The water was turned off today, they can turn the river on and off at will and redirect it where they want the water. A loud bell rings before they open a dam so you can get to high ground quick or get washed away.

It was the site of the 1996 Olympics that were held in Atlanta Ga.

This is a power station, the large pipes coming down behind the building bring water down from the flume line to run the turbines

Then we made it to the top of the mountain

Looking down hwy 64

Then we made a left turn.
Note the slow sign, like you could go fast.

Then we drove about five miles to the mans house to get the nest box.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Sounds like around here. 90 miles over the mountains n thru the woods, to find out the ahole lied to me.

 

[don long]

Proof that you don't need to go out of our country to find the beauties of our world. Nice shots Jim thanks for sharing them.

 

[Bears Fan]

It's hard to get pics while driving, the trees are thick and play with the phone. Paddle faster I hear banjo music!

 

[harley jim]

Don, exactly right. All the beauty a man could imagine.
We have driven on the old fire roads around the area for hours and never see a person or structure.
Tony, we drive past Reliance on the way to Murphy, best banjo players in the state.

 

[shortykorte]

I’m thinking rally car or drunken teenagers.

Beautiful area.

 

[Kevkx125]

Thanks for the pics JIM, Looks like some nice area!!

 

[xtremek]

Looks like some fun roads for a dirt bike.

 

[harley jim]

That last five miles kept getting narrower and narrower the farther we went, we met a razor at the top and he had to drive into the ditch so we could get by. Gives new meaning to the term Pig Trail.

 

[harley jim]

I worked on Pat's nest box today, this is not the one that we went to Murphy and bought, it has been here for a couple of years.

This one is going to become a cabinet in the canning kitchen.

I removed the walk boards from the front. And started unbolting the entire box.

I took all of the pieces out to the lawn and pressure washed everything. Then I went through each piece and straightened everything that was bent and then wire brushed all.

That's as far as I got today, I had to help the bil for a short time. More tomorrow

 

[mybigwarwagon]

That will be an interesting cabinet.

 

[xtremek]

^ What he said.

 

[Bears Fan]

Hum! a kitchen cabinet? we have to stay tuned in for this one now

 

[Jayman17]

HJ, interested in your cabinet project. Never seen one like this before, should be good.

Jay

 

[harley jim]

Yesterday was our anniversary so I took the day off and bought Pat a flower.

 

[Chrisb62]

Happy belated anniversary.. 40 years for wife and I in April.

 

[harley jim]

Thanks Chris, only 7 for us. Wish we had found each other 40 years ago, we are just alike.

 

[harley jim]

Got back to the shop for a couple of hours today.
I started sanding and painting the box panels, I should say this nest box had to come completely apart and be totally cleaned even though it had been out of service for about 30 years it was still holding quite a bit of chicken litter (poop).

The top is always the worst piece,

The small angles are to hang it on the wall, the others are for the walk boards, one was broken and had parts missing. Everything is bent and will need to spend time on the anvil.

Cut a piece of angle to replace the missing part.

I drilled out the old rivit and put all of the necessary holes in the new piece. Then I got a new rivet to put it back together.

All of the parts cleaned and straightened, ready for paint

 

[harley jim]

New and old rivet

Painted them hammered silver

Painted the top

Painted one of the side panels

It has a finish close to galvanized but nice and shiny

 

[drivesitfar]

Great pics of your rides and sites!! Just curious are your spraying with a can, brush or air sprayer? Looking great so far and hope she loves it which I’m pretty sure she will.

 

[harley jim]

I went to buy a quart and they were out so I bought a couple of spray cans to check color, I wanted it to be similar to galvanized. I'm going to lowes tomorrow and see if they have a quart and I will spray that

 

[harley jim]

I went to Lowes today and not surprised they didnt have any quarts of hammered paint in stock so I bought three more rattle cans.
Had to call the Doctor this morning and get a round of steroids, I got into poison ivy about two weeks ago and it's still spreading, when its winning I get a symptom like pleurisy and my lungs ache. I didnt feel like painting today so maybe tomorrow.

Started here now it's all over me.

We stopped at an estate sale on the way home, I thought I was a hoarder this guy made me look like a total amateur, I have never seen so much stuff. He had three detached garages an attached garage and a drive out basement all so full it was hard to walk.
I bought a can of marvel mystery oil.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Jim, what works for me is a green ScotchBrite scrubby, and then gently scrub the patch with acetone and lacquer thinner. It stings, but breaks the urushiol down and stops things in their tracks. I usually give the area a daily wipedown with the thinners for a few days.

 

[racer-john]

Wow a CHEMICAL ATTACK ON POISON IVY.

 

[harley jim]

Kay, I'm going to try it. I have been using alcohol and ivy dry, started to dry out but last couple days it has flared up.

 

[shortykorte]

Had my first bout with Poison Ivy a couple of years ago. Hope the acetone and thinner works.
Coop cabinet is looking good. Are those aluminum rivets and did set them with a hammer and that cool anvil?

 

[harley jim]

I used to pull poison ivy bare handed and never get a red spot. Couple of years ago old timers set in and now bee stings make me sick.

The rivets are steel and I do peen them on that anvil.

 

[cbacres]

I went to Lowes today and not surprised they didnt have any quarts of hammered paint in stock so I bought three more rattle cans.
Had to call the Doctor this morning and get a round of steroids, I got into poison ivy about two weeks ago and it's still spreading, when its winning I get a symptom like pleurisy and my lungs ache. I didnt feel like painting today so maybe tomorrow.

Started here now it's all over me.

We stopped at an estate sale on the way home, I thought I was a hoarder this guy made me look like a total amateur, I have never seen so much stuff. He had three detached garages an attached garage and a drive out basement all so full it was hard to walk.
I bought a can of marvel mystery oil.

This was in HD today.

Guess we can add spray paint shortage to the list.

I‘ll probably catch the rash just from reading about it.


Jim, we‘re going to have and come up there and give you some pointers on estate sales. Three buildings and just a can of oil?

I also ****** up Marvel and other cans of thinner, etc.

 

[cbacres]

Jim, what works for me is a green ScotchBrite scrubby, and then gently scrub the patch with acetone and lacquer thinner. It stings, but breaks the urushiol down and stops things in their tracks. I usually give the area a daily wipedown with the thinners for a few days.

Damn you’re tough!

Makes Spence though, I’ll keep that in mind next time.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Poison ivy and oak never bothered me till I got into some poison sumac a few years ago. Now I can't get in any of it.