It's been a busy few days out here. Thursday I installed a NanoStation Loco M2 on a dairy barn. The attic sure is nice looking.
And hot. OMG. The insulation was 115F and when I pointed it at the roof steel it read 135F. It was probably 85F outside and really sunny so it all makes sense. I was a puddle after only a few minutes at a time up there. Good grief.
The antenna looks nice if I do say so myself. It is pointing at a buddy antenna about a mile to the North and will be bringing internet to the dairy barn from the owners house.
The top screws go into a 2x4 with that grey electrical schmoo under each hole to keep Mother Nature out. I usually use a 2' piece of 1/2" flexible EMT to transition from the roof under the ridge cap and around the sharp piece of tin sticking out under the ridge cap. Hasn't failed me yet.
A few miles down the road we had more guys doing maintenance on a GEA 60 stall robotic rotary parlor and I had some extra time at the end of the day so I stopped in to help for a bit. I don't have much experience with the rotary as a product but GEA has mostly used components in the control module that are in many other types of milking systems as well. Basically, I don't know how to put all the pieces together but I can rebuild any of them if they're laying on a bench. I did the bench work while someone brought me stuff.
Friday morning I started by washing the water sight tubes for the entire barn. They get this nasty rusty buildup on the inside that needs to come out. I guess it doesn't "have to" come out but it looks better and has to work better when it's all clean. There is some extra goober on them because I soaked them overnight .... for a few weeks .... and something started growing
Squeaky clean and good as new !!
The chicken barn now has a toilet for all to use. This will make bringing the kiddos out there to help MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH easier !!!!!!
Speaking of kiddos Mr. Leo helped me loosen the feed up while filling the feeders up. It is very powdery and gets bound up when it gets dropped in. A couple taps with a rubber mallet loosen it right up. He has a blast smacking at it for a bit
The needy cattle need more feed so in goes another 7,000lb load !!
It was suppose to rain Saturday morning so I ran and got the baler before it did. We had Arnolds in St. Martin go through it for us so we wouldn't have any surprises when we went to use it. It was a little bas%#rd when Dad tried baling for a neighbor last week. He said it kept missing bales and was not working well. At least I got it home before it rained
While it was raining Dad and I switched the new combine over from soybeans to wheat. It's a fair bit of work but should be worth it in the end. It'll do a better job of thrashing and will not beat the straw up as much. There are a number of setting/speed changes made to the internal components but the largest change is to swap out the concaves.
These are the corn/soybean concaves. The spacing between the wires is much larger than the wheat concaves.
This is the rotor, or part of it. It's the rotor that rubs the crop between itself and the concaves to thresh the grain. These teeth do the rubbing and they have an angle to them that makes the crop move rearward.
Not sure if the difference is visible but the wires are smaller and the spacing is much closer together on the wheat concaves. We'll see how it does I guess !!
We got our first use out of the camper on Saturday night. The town my wife grew up in had their town festival and parade and we brought the camper to her parents place so we could stay later. We can see the 10PM fireworks very well from their yard and thought it was a good excuse to use the camper. The ol' 95' Ford farm truck didn't hardly notice it back there
: really need to fix that.. 
