Terrick down Under
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Hey, down here most of the sparkies call those slip/crimp covers "boot laces".
BTW, The chook shed is looking good.
BTW, The chook shed is looking good.
Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road
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Wokspaces above 1200 squarefeet.
Progress is being made, slowly but surely.
The electricians have been here for the past week and have gotten a fair bit done. The fans are all wired in with shutoff switches.
Everything in the barn has it's own circuit except for the lights, they share one breaker. There are 4 100a panels on top, 2 100a breaker boxes down below that will control the boxes of contactors and one large box on the opposite wall that will have more contactors and relays in. Lots of wires !!
The power company showed up and dropped off some goodies.
The attic insulation guys have been here on and off for the last few weeks blowing insulation. I've been told it's ceramic based to help stop/prevent the spread of a fire if it ever happens.
We sold some soybeans on Friday and the bin was almost empty so I got a neat picture looking out the door.
We use a "bin sweep" inside the bin to help empty it out completely. It pivots above the center floor sump and brings the beans to the center of the bin so we don't have to shovel so much. It's hot dusty work but hey, that's how it goes sometimes !!
The electricians have been here for the past week and have gotten a fair bit done. The fans are all wired in with shutoff switches.
Everything in the barn has it's own circuit except for the lights, they share one breaker. There are 4 100a panels on top, 2 100a breaker boxes down below that will control the boxes of contactors and one large box on the opposite wall that will have more contactors and relays in. Lots of wires !!
The power company showed up and dropped off some goodies.
The attic insulation guys have been here on and off for the last few weeks blowing insulation. I've been told it's ceramic based to help stop/prevent the spread of a fire if it ever happens.
We sold some soybeans on Friday and the bin was almost empty so I got a neat picture looking out the door.
We use a "bin sweep" inside the bin to help empty it out completely. It pivots above the center floor sump and brings the beans to the center of the bin so we don't have to shovel so much. It's hot dusty work but hey, that's how it goes sometimes !!
We went to a local zoo over the weekend and saw a number of critters ... including a giraffe.
Both of the little people fed him some lettuce .... The markup was high on this stuff, $3 for 4 pieces ... of Romaine no less !!
I found something I need to build at least three of over winter
My three year old lawnmower has 40hrs on it already. I guess that's not bad for putting almost 2 hours on each time I cut the entire lawn. "I don't cut my grass often but when I do ...."
The littles wanted to go "Jeeping" so off we went. A storm cloud was on it's way in and we got the Jeep parked just in time !!
There was a bit of pea sized hail and a few bigger nickel sized pieces. It's pretty rare that we get hail of any size here but luckily nothing was damaged.
A few hours later there was still a little pile by one of the garage doors.
Both of the little people fed him some lettuce .... The markup was high on this stuff, $3 for 4 pieces ... of Romaine no less !!
I found something I need to build at least three of over winter
My three year old lawnmower has 40hrs on it already. I guess that's not bad for putting almost 2 hours on each time I cut the entire lawn. "I don't cut my grass often but when I do ...."
The littles wanted to go "Jeeping" so off we went. A storm cloud was on it's way in and we got the Jeep parked just in time !!
There was a bit of pea sized hail and a few bigger nickel sized pieces. It's pretty rare that we get hail of any size here but luckily nothing was damaged.
A few hours later there was still a little pile by one of the garage doors.
1949 caddyman
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When do you think you will get your first chicks?
I was told last fall that it would be Sept 1 2017 but that has come and gone. Last fall they were planning on building 5-6 barns and now they are going to build 25-28 more barns. The construction crew is working on getting footings and floors poured while it's warm out and will resume on my barn during rainy days or once it's cold.
Wow. That is truly a devastating deal !!Speaking of fire... LINK
So far, they are saying 120 to 150,000 dead chickens...yikes! (*edit* now they're saying 300K chickens)
Geez, $3 for 4 pieces of lettuce? That's even worse highway robbery than buying beer at a rock concert!
The littles had fun feeding the giraffe so I guess it was cheap entertainment in the long run
It took the Excel Energy crew three days to get three poles up. Gotta take your time and be safe I guess ....
The energytricians came out and got power in the little shed-in-a-shed last week. Gonna be nice to have a light and whatnot-all and not run it all off an extension cord !!
200a panel, 50a welder plug and a few other receptacles scattered around the room.
I like the work these guys do ... everything is very clean and looks great !!
I got the cabinets and countertops in their final resting place yesterday. It is coming together nicely
Oh my goodness what is this ?!?!?!?!? Looks like some sort of sporty Mopar of sorts !!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!! My parents wanted to be rid of their 99' Grand Caravan and I think it'd be a better family truckster than the Neon so we welcomed it into the fleet today. "Supposedly" it has a failing transmission but we put almost 100 miles on today pulling a small alum trailer and it didn't hiccup once so I guess time will tell.
The energytricians came out and got power in the little shed-in-a-shed last week. Gonna be nice to have a light and whatnot-all and not run it all off an extension cord !!
200a panel, 50a welder plug and a few other receptacles scattered around the room.
I like the work these guys do ... everything is very clean and looks great !!
I got the cabinets and countertops in their final resting place yesterday. It is coming together nicely
Oh my goodness what is this ?!?!?!?!? Looks like some sort of sporty Mopar of sorts !!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!! My parents wanted to be rid of their 99' Grand Caravan and I think it'd be a better family truckster than the Neon so we welcomed it into the fleet today. "Supposedly" it has a failing transmission but we put almost 100 miles on today pulling a small alum trailer and it didn't hiccup once so I guess time will tell.
C_F
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I think that trans isn't making it into overdrive...4 grand at 50? Or else you had it floored right there.
My younger brother had the twin to yours, 8 or 9 years ago. It was actually pretty peppy, I was surprised! I still made fun of him for driving a minivan.
My younger brother had the twin to yours, 8 or 9 years ago. It was actually pretty peppy, I was surprised! I still made fun of him for driving a minivan.
People underestimate the "cool" factor of owing a van .... there really is no cool factor I guess but the price was right and it'll be a handy little people haulerI think that trans isn't making it into overdrive...4 grand at 50? Or else you had it floored right there. <- Yup
My younger brother had the twin to yours, 8 or 9 years ago. It was actually pretty peppy, I was surprised! I still made fun of him for driving a minivan.
C_F
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If you look at that photo upside down, it resembles an airport runway at night.
After 38 years dad decided it was time to reshingle the old garage. Mom and I STRONGLY urged him to do steel but he's rather persistent so here we go.
Decided it was a worthwhile investment to purchase a shingle rake. It proved to be money well spent. I can't imagine doing it any other way !!
Half seems like the right amount for us to get done in one day. We didn't want to tear it all off as it was supposed to rain quite a bit.
Yet another use for these totes. We filled them up and dumped them into the dumpster by the chicken barn
Throwing shingles on the peak like the pros do.
Well look at that .... almost done.
Decided it was a worthwhile investment to purchase a shingle rake. It proved to be money well spent. I can't imagine doing it any other way !!
Half seems like the right amount for us to get done in one day. We didn't want to tear it all off as it was supposed to rain quite a bit.
Yet another use for these totes. We filled them up and dumped them into the dumpster by the chicken barn
Throwing shingles on the peak like the pros do.
Well look at that .... almost done.
ABSTIFFGS
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Updates?
C_F
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Did you have to go over the ground with a big magnet after you guys removed the old shingles? My neighbor had his roof redone a couple months ago & he's still finding nails in his lawn. Of course the tires on his riding mower are finding most of the nails. 
Terrick down Under
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LOVE the scaffold, my mate made a step ladder out of a cube. YES, it was rough and wobbly but worked.
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On the back side where there is grass dad put down a bunch of tarps to try and catch the old nails. I'm pretty sure my mother went around with a magnet to catch the stray nails after all was done. I'm sure there are a few that got away though ....Did you have to go over the ground with a big magnet after you guys removed the old shingles? My neighbor had his roof redone a couple months ago & he's still finding nails in his lawn. Of course the tires on his riding mower are finding most of the nails.
Yikes, I'm all for reusing stuff but that may be a bit far even for me !!
Not much has been going on at home the last few weeks but I've been busier than a mosquito at a nudist colony at work. We are installing one of the first of it's kind cow ID/locating systems at a 1,500 cow dairy. We have dubbed it "Cow GPS" because one will be able to locate a cows location down to 3 feet. Because the system will know where all the cows are literally all the time there is an incredible amount of data that can be gathered and utilized.
This is the main service disconnect in their electrical room. Seems beefy.
Well gol' dixie I didn't have an extension cord long enough so we fired up the ol' Ranger to create enough pixies to run the Lean Mean Garage Food Cooking Machine. There's nothing like a hot lunch.
There is going to be an antenna every 60' around all four sides of three barns so we needed a wire cart to be able to haul all the wire around. I couldn't find anything that would work so I built one. It won't win any beauty contests but it seems to work alright.
Four spools of ProfiNet Ethernet wire, two spools of Belden Industrial Ethernet cable.
It is going to be in by the cattle the whole time we're using it so I put car tires on it. It rolls very well over the small curbs and through the POOOOOOOOOP !!!!!
It is rather unpleasant getting it up in the stalls but it works great once it's there !!
We ran short on pull string so I grabbed a ball of baler twine from home
The electricians have been taking their sweet time in the Chicken Coop but this last week they got the "computer" and a bunch of contacters installed.
They also managed to create a little rework for me. I don't think I'm gonna be able to deal with having different male adaptors on one of the fan controllers. I know it really doesn't matter but it's gonna bug me every time I adjust them .... why not make them the same
This is the main service disconnect in their electrical room. Seems beefy.
Well gol' dixie I didn't have an extension cord long enough so we fired up the ol' Ranger to create enough pixies to run the Lean Mean Garage Food Cooking Machine. There's nothing like a hot lunch.
There is going to be an antenna every 60' around all four sides of three barns so we needed a wire cart to be able to haul all the wire around. I couldn't find anything that would work so I built one. It won't win any beauty contests but it seems to work alright.
Four spools of ProfiNet Ethernet wire, two spools of Belden Industrial Ethernet cable.
It is going to be in by the cattle the whole time we're using it so I put car tires on it. It rolls very well over the small curbs and through the POOOOOOOOOP !!!!!
It is rather unpleasant getting it up in the stalls but it works great once it's there !!
We ran short on pull string so I grabbed a ball of baler twine from home
The electricians have been taking their sweet time in the Chicken Coop but this last week they got the "computer" and a bunch of contacters installed.
They also managed to create a little rework for me. I don't think I'm gonna be able to deal with having different male adaptors on one of the fan controllers. I know it really doesn't matter but it's gonna bug me every time I adjust them .... why not make them the same
C_F
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They could have really messed with you & put three different adapters in there.
Nice work on the wire cart! When does it get powder coated?
Nice work on the wire cart! When does it get powder coated?
Muzzy
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Pulling Ethernet (or profi for that matter) in these giant barns, how do you guys usually solve the 100 m distance limitation?
I can see it getting redone a few times so probably not for a whileThey could have really messed with you & put three different adapters in there.
Nice work on the wire cart! When does it get powder coated?
There is an antenna every 60' around the perimeter of the barns and there is a switchbox with a POE switch every 360'. The design came from the company that makes the stuff so if they say it's okay it must be. I have very little experience with ProfiNet so this is a fun project to learn from !!
A few modifications have already happened to the wire cart. A bucket was mounted to the bottom to hold the pull string and a empty Busch's Baked Bean can was bolted down to serve as a coffee cup holder. Both very important modifications that have really boosted productivity.
I didn't get a good photo due to ****** lighting in the barn we were in but earlier in the day we were pulling 4 Profi's, 2 Cat5e's, and a power wire off the cart at the same time and it worked awesome !! Definitely worth the few hours I stuck into it.
It is a bit unruly to drag it around the yard so the lift gets to give it a lift. Ha.
I didn't get a good photo due to ****** lighting in the barn we were in but earlier in the day we were pulling 4 Profi's, 2 Cat5e's, and a power wire off the cart at the same time and it worked awesome !! Definitely worth the few hours I stuck into it.
It is a bit unruly to drag it around the yard so the lift gets to give it a lift. Ha.
Terrick down Under
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So, are you going to paint the dolly to match?
Due to the variety of different types of lifts we'd need we do not own a lift as a company so we're at the mercy of whatever the rental place has at the time. The primarily have Genie's but have a mix of SkyJack, JLG, and Mitsubishi's as well. I was gonna hit it with some rust converter and slap a coat of John Deere Classic Green on the frame and JD Yellow on the wheels. Gotta keep it classy
Terrick down Under
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sounds like a plan to me!
Here's a nice looking roof.
Let's open it up and put some conduit in the attic !!! Seems like it might be fun !!!
Gotta love having the right tools for the job. This Greenlee pipe heater is the ****. It gets this 2" conduit all sorts of flexible in just a few minutes.
Instead of trenching in a phone line and paying for a separate service I'll be getting it wirelessly from the house with a Ubiquiti link. Gonna be all sorts of neat. I'm planning on a few cameras in the barn, I just don't know where yet. The 2" conduit goes out to the barn for whatever I decide I need. It's a bit overkill but I had it and I figured with a 2" I really shouldn't ever run out of space in the pipe.
After that was all done I got some poooooooop hauled out to the pile.
Let's open it up and put some conduit in the attic !!! Seems like it might be fun !!!
Gotta love having the right tools for the job. This Greenlee pipe heater is the ****. It gets this 2" conduit all sorts of flexible in just a few minutes.
Instead of trenching in a phone line and paying for a separate service I'll be getting it wirelessly from the house with a Ubiquiti link. Gonna be all sorts of neat. I'm planning on a few cameras in the barn, I just don't know where yet. The 2" conduit goes out to the barn for whatever I decide I need. It's a bit overkill but I had it and I figured with a 2" I really shouldn't ever run out of space in the pipe.
After that was all done I got some poooooooop hauled out to the pile.
C_F
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What a huge load of ****!
Finallygotit
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Holy moly what a ride!!
I just finished catching up on this thread. Good thing I started it before PB went rogue.
I want to thank you very much for the continuing education on farming. I go fishing once a year with a few guys from Lucan, MN and I love hearing their farming stories. I feel like a kid sitting next to grandpa when they start talking; I just shut-up and listen. Great bunch of guys!
Anxious to catch up on the progress of the coop.
I just finished catching up on this thread. Good thing I started it before PB went rogue.
I want to thank you very much for the continuing education on farming. I go fishing once a year with a few guys from Lucan, MN and I love hearing their farming stories. I feel like a kid sitting next to grandpa when they start talking; I just shut-up and listen. Great bunch of guys!
Anxious to catch up on the progress of the coop.
....Holy moly what a ride!!
Get in, sit down, shut up and hang on !!!
I just finished catching up on this thread. Good thing I started it before PB went rogue.
I think I updated all the photos but maybe I missed some ???
I want to thank you very much for the continuing education on farming. I go fishing once a year with a few guys from Lucan, MN and I love hearing their farming stories. I feel like a kid sitting next to grandpa when they start talking; I just shut-up and listen. Great bunch of guys!
You are very welcome !! I also enjoy sitting around listening to the old timers telling stories. I always learn something and it's very interesting hearing about how good we all have it now
Anxious to catch up on the progress of the coop.
Not much has been made but slowly it is coming along!!
I started the day out fixing something that has been bugging me for a few weeks now.
Now on to other, probably more important, things. The steers eat through 7,000lbs of feed every three days so it's time to mix more !!
We've been drawing and redrawing a cattle handling area/loading chute for a few years now and finally have a design that we like. I think 100hp on an 8" auger should be enough
Pretty neat to use posts I tore down from the old unused feeding shed last summer. $0 invested so far is a win in my book !!
This afternoon we helped a neighbor put a new flock of chickens in his barn. He's a few miles away and has a chicken barn like mine that is 27yrs old. It was neat to see how things were holding up and how everything was laid out inside. 46,000 chicks that were a few hours old were delivered and we had them in the barn in about 30 minutes. Not bad. Here is one that kept following me around.
This is inside the barn looking at the partition in the middle. When the baby chicks are brought in only half the barn is used. When the chicks are large enough the barn is opened up and they can go in the whole barn.
ANNNNNNNNNNND that's MUCH better !!!They also managed to create a little rework for me. I don't think I'm gonna be able to deal with having different male adaptors on one of the fan controllers. I know it really doesn't matter but it's gonna bug me every time I adjust them .... why not make them the same
Now on to other, probably more important, things. The steers eat through 7,000lbs of feed every three days so it's time to mix more !!
We've been drawing and redrawing a cattle handling area/loading chute for a few years now and finally have a design that we like. I think 100hp on an 8" auger should be enough
Pretty neat to use posts I tore down from the old unused feeding shed last summer. $0 invested so far is a win in my book !!
This afternoon we helped a neighbor put a new flock of chickens in his barn. He's a few miles away and has a chicken barn like mine that is 27yrs old. It was neat to see how things were holding up and how everything was laid out inside. 46,000 chicks that were a few hours old were delivered and we had them in the barn in about 30 minutes. Not bad. Here is one that kept following me around.
This is inside the barn looking at the partition in the middle. When the baby chicks are brought in only half the barn is used. When the chicks are large enough the barn is opened up and they can go in the whole barn.
Finallygotit
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That looks like someone tossed a boatload of tennis balls on the ground.
C_F
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Wow, 46,000 chicks! I feel sorry for the poor ****** who has to count 'em all.
I'm glad you fixed the oddball adapter on the fan controller, all is right with the world again.
I'm glad you fixed the oddball adapter on the fan controller, all is right with the world again.
I went over to our bin site yesterday morning and saw that Dad had done something very clever. This grease zerk is impossible to get to once the auger is in place and the dryer is fired up so he put a hose on it so it sticks out of the corn. Simple fix that will save a ton of $$$$ in the future because that bearing won't wear out and potentially cause lots of issues in the middle of harvest.
I noticed a smallish dent forming where the entry door to the chicken barn was so I decided to head it off and put in a shotty rubber stopper for the handle to bang on. It doesn't look like much but works well.
The chicken coop is online !! I put up a mast with a NanoBeam and a PicoStation this morning. It'll provide internet and phone service to the barn. It seemed silly to trench in another phone line just to pay another $35/mo so I signed up for Google Voice, purchased an Obihai OBi202 and away we go. Free phone line and best part is, if the link goes down or something quits working I get an email saying the OBi202 is offline withing 5 minutes. Pretty neat.
I noticed a smallish dent forming where the entry door to the chicken barn was so I decided to head it off and put in a shotty rubber stopper for the handle to bang on. It doesn't look like much but works well.
The chicken coop is online !! I put up a mast with a NanoBeam and a PicoStation this morning. It'll provide internet and phone service to the barn. It seemed silly to trench in another phone line just to pay another $35/mo so I signed up for Google Voice, purchased an Obihai OBi202 and away we go. Free phone line and best part is, if the link goes down or something quits working I get an email saying the OBi202 is offline withing 5 minutes. Pretty neat.
Yeehaw !!! Harvest is underway !!! We started on soybeans yesterday after waiting about a week for the fields to dry out before we started.
The first 1,300/bu or so loaded up ready to go home.
We do not run the soybeans through the grain dryer as we typically harvest them at or under 13% moisture.
It's good to keep the auger nice and full so they don't rattle around and break on their trip into the bin.
The first 1,300/bu or so loaded up ready to go home.
We do not run the soybeans through the grain dryer as we typically harvest them at or under 13% moisture.
It's good to keep the auger nice and full so they don't rattle around and break on their trip into the bin.
sgfarm
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Do you know what kind of yield you are getting? Guys up here are struggling to get above 1.2 tons per acre with the cold and wet summer that we had.
We use gravity boxes to move 100% of the corn to the bins and then again to market. The soybeans and wheat are hauled to market by semi by a neighbor because they need to go farther away than we want to drive with a tractor.
We've been talking seriously about getting a semi but at the size we are it isn't cost effective unless we haul for neighbors to help pay for it.
The day started off with a meeting with a local construction company to build something hopefully next year. We got home and went out to the field to keep chipping away at the soybean ground.
Wagons both hooked up and following along nicely
Dad has to clear a spot for me to park them so they will be out of the way. This field ended up right at 54 bu/acre and we are quite happy with that !!
Once I got the wagons to the field I went to the first field to rake the soybean straw so I could bale it later in the day.
My mixer tractor got unhooked from the grinder mixer for the first time in months. It almost didn't know what to do being on the rake !!
There isn't a lot here but it all adds up.
Hopped in the 7810 to bale it all up !!
Look at that happy baler
I spoke too soon !!! The slip clutch that protects the pickup, infeed fingers and the stuffer is getting quite worn and kept slipping. A quick "adjustment" and I was able to get the last few bales done before dark. It's always such a PITA to look up the specs on each slip clutch so we went around and wrote the specs next to each one awhile back and it sure saved me time today having it handy !!!
Wagons both hooked up and following along nicely
Dad has to clear a spot for me to park them so they will be out of the way. This field ended up right at 54 bu/acre and we are quite happy with that !!
Once I got the wagons to the field I went to the first field to rake the soybean straw so I could bale it later in the day.
My mixer tractor got unhooked from the grinder mixer for the first time in months. It almost didn't know what to do being on the rake !!
There isn't a lot here but it all adds up.
Hopped in the 7810 to bale it all up !!
Look at that happy baler
I spoke too soon !!! The slip clutch that protects the pickup, infeed fingers and the stuffer is getting quite worn and kept slipping. A quick "adjustment" and I was able to get the last few bales done before dark. It's always such a PITA to look up the specs on each slip clutch so we went around and wrote the specs next to each one awhile back and it sure saved me time today having it handy !!!