Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

[Muzzy]

Nice!
Concrete is always fascinating. You see the "stone" floor delivered in liquid form by a truck and molded into place by a knowledgeable team.

 

[jeepxj]

it's been long enough; what did you forget to put in the slab so far?

 

[Sifan]

last post: 07-15-2020, 09:58 PM

Hope he didn't forget to get out before it set up

 

[jblnut]

JBL: sorry i've been MIA from your thread and from GJ, but happy to see you were able to not only get the building framed in the best month of the year to do so, but also poured concrete floor on a perfect temp day.

looks amazing and best of luck with everything.

cheers

Hey guy glad to have you back !!!!! I was hoping nothing bad happened to you

Oh Yeah !

I couldn't agree more !! It's been hard staying off of it with stuff. I want to drag equipment in and start working on stuff but that's a ways off yet

Had to laugh about the pour temps. Went by a site last weekend and they already had pumped at least a dozen trucks and it was just 3 am. Went by going the other direction at 5 am and there were probably a dozen trucks lined up to hit the pump, and I passed several more on the road. Back by there that afternoon and the site was a ghost town. I think it hit 100 a bit later in the day.

Pumping at night to keep it all cool seems bonkers. I suppose you do what you have to do to get the job done though !!

I used to work for a construction company about 10 years ago doing IT work. They were building a small power plant in Montana and I was out there checking up on the jobsite temporary construction trailers for a few days. The PM on the job said you are here at a good time, you want to see something crazy come in early the next day. They were scheduled to pour the foundation/floor and turbine footings the next day. This was by far the most time critical and logistically complicated (and costly if goes sideways) part of the project. I think completion+acceptance of it was also tied to a large milestone payment. IIRC most of the footing/floor was like 4' of concrete and then there were taller areas where the turbines were to go. I think he said there was going to be about 300 truckloads of concrete in all. And they had contracted pretty much every truck within 100 miles. The pour started at something like 3am. It was crazy how focused everyone was. You could tell it was a huge deal even to the folks who did construction and concrete every day. I think there was about 3-4 pumpers and then a steady line of concrete trucks like ants coming over the highway and backing up to feed the pumpers.

Those are the things that I like to see. Watching all those crews working together and seeing the dance of equipment is always fun to watch and even more fun to be a part of if it's all laid out well.

Growing up in Houston, we saw some big pours. The biggest I remember required cooperation between every batch plant in town at the time. They were running trucks 24/7 for 3 days to make the pour. I think there were 7 plants, and they had 6 online at any one time. There were times they had over a hundred trucks on the site and they would dump into a dump truck and wash out and go back for another load.

They were pouring so fast they needed to dump it right into dump trucks at the batch plant ?!?!?! Yikes !! That would be something to see !!!

Nice!
Concrete is always fascinating. You see the "stone" floor delivered in liquid form by a truck and molded into place by a knowledgeable team.

These guys did a pretty nice job with the pour. The stuff leading up to the pour however was a whole different deal. At work I make damn sure the customer and I are on the same page before I begin whatever it is I am there to do .... these guys, not so much. They said they'd do one thing and did another, basically told me how thick, how much rebar, yes/no fiber in the mud, what PSI it'd be and pretty much everything else was also just assumed. That didn't sit well with me so we had a bit of a yelling match and I told him where to **** in the woods and he came around and we ended up having a decent "restart" to our working relationship. Proper communication can solve SOOOO many issues before they're even an issue. It's quite simple really.

it's been long enough; what did you forget to put in the slab so far?

Lol. Always something isn't there ??

I 100% spaced on the heavy duty anchor points in the floor. I did get 5 or 6 of the receiver tube holder mount deals and bolts for the tire changer in there though so it wasn't totally FUBAR'd

last post: 07-15-2020, 09:58 PM

Hope he didn't forget to get out before it set up

I'm alive and well. Just been WAAAAY to busy at the off the farm job to post much on here

 

[jblnut]

The Golden Harvest Agronimist Josh wanted to set some beetle traps on a few fields that have been corn on corn on corn on corn .......... to see how many there would be and it just so happens that the field we custom tiled this spring has been in corn for a few years. It's pretty neat looking at it all from above. I flew around and took shots of the rest of his fields as well and think this drone is going to be a major asset on the farm


We were given the OKAY from all the needed agencies to clean out the ditches in my meadow last year already and didn't get to it because it was so wet. Dad got one stretch done a few days back and it is nuts how much water is running out of the sides and into the ditch now. He even found a few old clay tile runs going out of the ditch that were all plugged up. Things should dry out quite a bit now !!!


This is a rather exciting picture as it is a major milestone towards building a house next year. All the needed buildings are down and the junk is all gone !!! Monday morning I'll be making a call to have someone come tear up and haul away all the concrete so we can start moving dirt !!!!


There were some things that we didn't want to get rid of just yet so they found a new home up by the new shop. They will probably be there until the shop gets longer one day


I am very happy with how the main floor drain in the 2049 Shop turned out !!!


We got almost 3" of rain Friday evening and all the skid loader buckets that were outside filled up. It was quite the rush of water when I dumped the snow bucket out !!!


I do not know why we didn't make the conduit protectors full height right away in the steer barn but there must have been a reason. They have chewed all the way through it and the wire was sticking out. No copper but it was only a matter of time .....


I welded a chunk on to make the old protector longer, flipped over (I don't remember why but there was a good reason at the time) and lag bolted it back in place. Should be good forever now


They sure are nosy creatures. Not as nosy as Jersey Heifers but close.


Mama Bear "hinted" that she'd like a hammock stand for her hammock instead of keeping it in the box it came in so Dad and I built one out of some scraps off a building we took down. It's HUGE but she was very happy with it so that's all that matters !!!


And then this happened The cord didn't get taken out of the end feed pan when the feeders got lowered and it stretched tight, broke and when it all came crashing down the tube got all bent up. Not a terribly difficult fix but it will be a PITA to get it fixed as the auger has to come out to do it.

 

[madison069]

Shop is trying out nicely!

The cows probably thinks you got some food for them. Right?

The hammock stand is big! I bought one of those metal pole setup that can be taken down and easily stored when going camping and such. So far it's a great added weight device as I've set it up 4 times and it's rarely used.

As for the chicken feeder, you can't have progress without setbacks. Well it's what I tell myself as things go wrong during a project.

 

[XJSuperman]

Bummer about the heavy duty anchors. Glad you are otherwise happy with the concrete. Does the bus get a home under the leanto portion of the new shop?
Do you have any use for the old farmyard concrete or is the person being hired going to haul it all off? You must be pretty busy if you are hiring someone for that. I would've guessed you and your father would just rip it out.
Did you have any of the hail that came through a week or two ago? Maybe I already asked that... I know the crops down here took a beating, but I think they are recovering pretty well.

 

[jblnut]

Shop is trying out nicely!

The cows probably thinks you got some food for them. Right?

The hammock stand is big! I bought one of those metal pole setup that can be taken down and easily stored when going camping and such. So far it's a great added weight device as I've set it up 4 times and it's rarely used.

As for the chicken feeder, you can't have progress without setbacks. Well it's what I tell myself as things go wrong during a project.

The shop has been stalled out since the concrete pour to give it a chance to cure so not much progress there unfortunately in the last week.

The hammock stand now has a hammock in it and it looks WAYYYYY better now

Dad's labor comes at a ridiculously reduced rate so I can't complain just too much. I assure you I've wrecked WAY more of his stuff over the years than he has of mine so far

Bummer about the heavy duty anchors. Glad you are otherwise happy with the concrete. Does the bus get a home under the lean to portion of the new shop?
Do you have any use for the old farmyard concrete or is the person being hired going to haul it all off? You must be pretty busy if you are hiring someone for that. I would've guessed you and your father would just rip it out.
Did you have any of the hail that came through a week or two ago? Maybe I already asked that... I know the crops down here took a beating, but I think they are recovering pretty well.

The HD anchors may have caused more long term issues anyway I think. If I used them for what I wanted I'd have had to have a yard of mud around them and who knows if that would hold what I had pictured for them. Sure would have hated to crack the floor and damage the heat pipes around them

The guy that is hauling it off is bringing it to his pit where he has a crusher and will turn it into crushed concrete. He's going to haul a load of old concrete away and bring back a load of Class 5 Gravel on the way back. I think he'll have a dozen loads of old junk and I want 25-30 loads of gravel to be spread by the chicken barn so it should work out just fine.

We started by asking him if we could dump old concrete in his pit and he asked what was going on and once we told him he laughed and told us he'd load up the old stuff while bringing new gravel for $50/load extra Well duh that makes it so we can't even do it for that !!

We've been dodging the hail so far thank goodness !! The crops are on track to do very very well again this year. We got the oats cut the last few days so we'll see how that does. I do not anticipate it'll be our best crop of oats by any means but we'll take what we can get !!!

 

[jeepxj]

you expecting an early harvest?

 

[jblnut]

you expecting an early harvest?

We got things planted around 3 week's sooner than last year so I hope so !!

 

[jblnut]

The hammock stand looks much more proportional with a hammock on it !!!


The first field of oats is cut. I took a few other pictures of the entire field but they didn't turn out very well so this is as good as it gets !! Now you get to see a different view of Dads farm site as well though


The broken chicken feeder was only bent in one spot so we bent it back and finessed it back into shape as best as we could. I think it'll work okay like this.


First picture with my new phone .... Sonim XP8. Seems okay enough but time will tell. Also, new chicks are here !!!


We let the oats lay for a few days and decided to combine it while the weeds were still a touch green as it is suppose to rain for the next few days.


The combine is munching that 21' windrow like it's not even there

 

[Finallygotit]

The pictures off the new phone are so much better.

 

[jblnut]

The pictures off the new phone are so much better.

Yeah I very much agree !! I guess the camera on the brand new phone is better than the one on a 6yr old phone

 

[jblnut]

All the foam is FINALLY behind the posts and we even put a bunch behind the vent pipe just to be safe.


Doesn't look like much but there is a morning worth of work up there in MC cable for the lights and ceiling fans.


The feeds for the 4 light circuits and the 1 ceiling fan circuit all coiled up waiting for the ceiling next week.


Not sure how this will show up but here is a panorama view from one end to the other.


There were two full loads of oats to unload so we set the auger up and started unloading.


Pops was checking the oats out trying to see if it was light or had a decent test weight to it. No idea yet but we'll sample some soon.


Oats is usually nice and dusty so once the floor in the bin was covered we started up the fan to blow as much out as we could.


Just as the last of the oats went into the bin it started down pouring. This camera is awesome and even captured some of the rain drops falling !!

 

[jblnut]

The new chicks have been here for a few days now and the little people helped with chores on Sunday morning. They all did their own thing. Alyssa kept "showing" Leo things and he was astounded at all of them. Lily kept making friends with all the chickens and naming them. We all had a good time


Time to rehydrate and wash up.


We got a water table from some friends and it needed a new plug so I made one up and the kiddos had a wet fun time with it


There seemed to be a large opening where the porch was so I foamed over it to stop a little more air flow.

 

[red]

Time to rehydrate and wash up.

Leo approves the hydration table/tub

We APPROVE

 

[jblnut]

Leo approves the hydration table/tub

We APPROVE

That is not the first time and probably won't be the last time Leo is in the chicken barn sink

 

[jblnut]

Omm nom nom time to bale up some oat straw


There were a few spots in the field that had very large windrows. I remember years where the entire field was this way !!!


Stupid smudged window ruined a neat photo opportunity


The soybeans are as tall as that straw bale !! I think that bean field will do quite well this year

 

[jblnut]

The last of the oats off this field is getting combined. Dusty and dry and wonderful


In the bin it goes !!


The little field behind my house was the last (and most weedy) field to combine.


The little people wanted to check it all out so they all took turns riding along. They had a fair bit of fun


This goofy looking angle iron deal is going to be a nice mount to hold the Tile Plow monitor.


Compound compound angles. T'was fun to get it all correct !!


Time to do something with all that large flat steel I purchased a few months back.


Look at all those curly shavings !!!


I got a new "toy" and Leo helped me out with it in the new shop. So far so good. It does a decent job and will be nice to use

 

[davo727]

Great updates and great pics! Fun.

And all the wheels are still on the combine so thats a plus.

 

[jblnut]

Great updates and great pics! Fun.

And all the wheels are still on the combine so that's a plus.

Thank you for stopping by again

I think the rear end of the combine has been beefed up well enough that it shouldn't break again .... at least I sure hope so !!!

 

[jblnut]

The insulation package is here for the shop as well as the beginnings of the rest of the stuff to finish the inside out


8' wide, 8" thick R-25 insulation for the walls. That should keep the heat inside the shop in the winter !!!


I am thinking about buying a horizontal bandsaw and was talking to our metalworker guy at work and he said to bring the one from work home and try it out. I am wobbling between this one and an Ellis 1600. This Grizzly can be had for around $1100 to my door and the Ellis will be over $3,000 so I'm not quite sure yet. I do know that doing miter cuts on this Grizzly is a major PITA but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra $$$$$$ to go to the Ellis .....


There has been a rather nasty vibration in the driveline of the 7400 for a while now so we jacked it up to see if we could learn anything. Turns out the 4wd is not disengaging which makes sense as far as the vibration is concerned.


Pops was trying to knock some of the weeds down to make tiling easier in a few weeks and got a weeeeee bit too close to a wet spot. Looks like this area could use some tile to dry it out


He really buried it !!!


There is a bunch of straw to bale again and the baler was missing a knot on the second knotter every couple bales so I went up to check it out.


Seems like there is a bunch of twine that has gotten wrapped around the knotter.


Ends up the twine feed that supplies this knotter wasn't going through it's set of rollers and there was no tension on line so it was getting boogered up when it tried to tie.


We got as much straw baled as was dry and got it loaded up to bring home.

 

[cvairwerks]

Lots of options on metal saws. What's the biggest raw stock you can think that you would want to cut? If you are under about 5" on the max dimension, I'd keep my eyes out for a cold saw instead. If you elect to go with a band saw, an Ellis or Wells would last you forever and your grand and great grand kids would still be using it...

 

[jblnut]

Lots of options on metal saws. What's the biggest raw stock you can think that you would want to cut? If you are under about 5" on the max dimension, I'd keep my eyes out for a cold saw instead. If you elect to go with a band saw, an Ellis or Wells would last you forever and your grand and great grand kids would still be using it...

I'm thinking I'll get an Ellis but I still haven't decided for sure. There are lots of things this saw doesn't do well that I think the Ellis saw will do much better. Miter cuts for one being the largest complaint. What a PITA BUT it does cut really nicely !!!

 

[purediesel]

Why 8" batt when you have a 5.5" cavity? It'll be an R20 when compressed. Or did I miss something?

https://dcpd6wotaa0mb.cloudfront.ne...Value-Chart-Tech-Bulletin.pdf?v=1428909128000

 

[jblnut]

I've turned that flat iron (and a few other things) into quite the welded up deal. The round pipe is 3/8" thick oil well pipe and I doubled it up so it's a nice thick 3/4" thick to provide that extra little bit of strength.


It is quite heavy and I needed the engine hoist to get it off the welding table and the floor jack to put it up to the front of the tractor.


6 3/4" bolts holding it up there. I think this thing is built well enough to lift the tractor off the ground !!


This is a guide/holder/deal to use while we are tiling. The idea is to run the chain through it and it'll keep the chain from diving into the front wheels. It needs to be built heavy because it might need to hold back quite a large amount of horsepower one day. The potential for just shy of 1,000hp to be hooked to the front of this tractor is quite real. The chain going through it will hook to the tile plow so this bracket won't hold any pulling force, just side to side forces. I think it'll do fine at that

 

[jblnut]

Why 8" batt when you have a 5.5" cavity? It'll be an R20 when compressed. Or did I miss something?

https://dcpd6wotaa0mb.cloudfront.ne...Value-Chart-Tech-Bulletin.pdf?v=1428909128000

The posts are 8" thick. It is what they spec'd the building with both for added structural strength and to provide a large cavity for insulation.

Thank you for the question

 

[purediesel]

Very nice!

 

[jblnut]

Very nice!

Things tend to get overbuilt up here due to snowload and generally winter junk. That results in large posts and relatively crazy rafters. I think the rafters are 8" top cord and a 10" bottom cord spaced every 4'. The ceiling tin will be screwed right to the rafters.

I don't think I ever really posted up the building specs other then the overall dimensions. I'll see if I can wrangle more details in a future post

 

[jblnut]

Amidst all the bustle and hustle of all the stuff going on it seems I've neglected the poor ol' Jeep something awful


The girls were pretty quick to volunteer to help wash it up !!!


Pops baled up some more straw and we picked it all up.


Straw is light so we stack them high !!!


Well this picture turned out pretty nicely ......


Made it home safe and sound with 48 bales of straw


So this is a tool that is in the shops future for sure !!! Incredibly handy !!!


Building a HEAVY bracket for under the 4wd tractor to hold a chain and hook to the tile plow ....... it'll all make sense in a few more posts ....


Someone (me) did a little online auction bidding and ended up with a pair of machinists tables, a double South Bend drill press, some metal sawhorses and a pallet jack. These are some really HEAVY tables


More work done on the bracket for under the tractor ....


It's mostly complete .... needs a little paint and it'll be good !!!

 

[RADcustom]

Well this picture turned out pretty nicely ......

You had one that didn't show up.

The tables look awesome. Nice haul.

 

[jblnut]

You had one that didn't show up.

The tables look awesome. Nice haul.

It's been a few days since I last posted pics .... I must have forgotten how !!!

I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't excited about the tables !!!!

 

[jeepxj]

you consider the newer style metal saws?

https://www.evolutionpowertools.com/us/steel/evosaw380.php

 

[jblnut]

you consider the newer style metal saws?

https://www.evolutionpowertools.com/us/steel/evosaw380.php

Briefly until I used one. T'was a nice saw but I saw that it could easily be a very dangerous sort of tool. Plus with talking to a few people who have them they all cussed about the cost of the blades and how easily the teeth seem to chip off. Using the band saw was a treat for the most part. Set the cut up and walk away while it does it's thing. That alone is quite nice.

 

[jblnut]

The builder guys got the shop insulated and the poly up. The interior steel is delivered and should be installed by the end of the week

 

[jeepxj]

Briefly until I used one. T'was a nice saw but I saw that it could easily be a very dangerous sort of tool. Plus with talking to a few people who have them they all cussed about the cost of the blades and how easily the teeth seem to chip off. Using the band saw was a treat for the most part. Set the cut up and walk away while it does it's thing. That alone is quite nice.

that is a perk of the bandsaw. set it and forget it

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Not only cool fabrication tables but you will have room for them.
Shop is progressing nicely!

 

[ripperd]

I bet the shop feels great inside already with the shelter and insulation!

 

[jblnut]

that is a perk of the bandsaw. set it and forget it

I think a band saw of some kind will be here before winter. I just need to decide if the nice features of an Ellis saw is worth an extra $2-$3k vs. buying something that will cut nice but be a PITA to adjust and miter with.

Not only cool fabrication tables but you will have room for them.
Shop is progressing nicely!

I'm pretty stoked about the tables. Not sure what they're worth but I'm into the both for a little under $400. I'm pretty happy about that.

It can't be done soon enough !!!

I bet the shop feels great inside already with the shelter and insulation!

It feels fantastic in there compared to how it was when I ran the underground conduit. 95F outside with no roof yet for most of it

 

[RADcustom]

I have used and owned several band saws over the years, (wellsaw, johnson, shop fox, ridgid) and as far as versatility, this style has been the easiest for cutting miters. It isn't the most robust but, it has done everything I have needed it to do.