The tools I got from Sears. Amazon has them too.
The holder racks I made from those STUPID socket holders. I hate em as socket holders but love them now that they've been reincarnated as something useful.
Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road
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Wokspaces above 1200 squarefeet.
The tools I got from Sears. Amazon has them too.
The holder racks I made from those STUPID socket holders. I hate em as socket holders but love them now that they've been reincarnated as something useful.
Terrick down Under
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Hey, thanks for the pics, they are great. A lot of time was obviuosly spent on the top as that would not be easy. It looks fantastic.
Well we got 5.5" of rain here yesterday and my meadow has flooded like it does when 5.5" of rain falls. Good grief.
I debated on not cutting hay because there was a "chance" of rain. Ha.
This is what a "Chance of Rain" looks like. It's okay though, I'd much rather have the rain than the meadow hay. 5.5" is a bit excessive but it's better than nothing I guess.
I debated on not cutting hay because there was a "chance" of rain. Ha.
This is what a "Chance of Rain" looks like. It's okay though, I'd much rather have the rain than the meadow hay. 5.5" is a bit excessive but it's better than nothing I guess.
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Oh what a beautiful morning. Sweet corn is tasseling and the field corn isn't far behind.
The bin I have been taking corn out of to feed the steers is almost empty and I need that bin to put the wheat in so it had to be emptied and cleaned out.
Yesterday I was doing stuff at my job in town and spotted this old ************* manure spreader in a farmers yard and asked if there was a story behind it. Long story made short it's mine now. I gotta pick it up in a month when I'm up there again. It looks tough but it's all there.
Looks like the ol' work van made it into this one. I almost feel like I'm lying when I tell people that I drive a one ton diesel for a work vehicle ...
The bin I have been taking corn out of to feed the steers is almost empty and I need that bin to put the wheat in so it had to be emptied and cleaned out.
Yesterday I was doing stuff at my job in town and spotted this old ************* manure spreader in a farmers yard and asked if there was a story behind it. Long story made short it's mine now. I gotta pick it up in a month when I'm up there again. It looks tough but it's all there.
Looks like the ol' work van made it into this one. I almost feel like I'm lying when I tell people that I drive a one ton diesel for a work vehicle ...
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ABSTIFFGS
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You should turn that manure wagon into a flower garden for the Mrs. But keep it under $500 because you're cheap, er, um, I mean "thrifty"
The whole "project" has to be under $500. That includes landscaping and the purchase of all needed materials such as but not limited to: Hostas, landscape materials (fabric, timbers, crushed rock), flagpole and farm sign. I still need to find a basket case tractor like the one below to put in front of the manure spreader.
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1949 caddyman
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Ok I'll bite, where is the couch on wheels used? Nice coffee & end tables with it!
It started out as a joke project that turned into something sort of neat. The couch is a high end Lee brand leather sectional that I picked up at a garage sale for free to put in the garage. It had been destroyed by cat urine (hence why it was free) so it stayed outside and got mounted on a trailer.
Trailer built just for it
It actually tows quite nicely. It's been pulled by the Jeep, the camper/bus and multiple UTV's.
This has been insulated and is used as a cooler
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sublime68charger
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Nice thread just read through the whole thing.
Keep up the great work and pics!
Love the meadow hay under water as well!
Keep up the great work and pics!
Love the meadow hay under water as well!
Boy oh boy oh boy I feel like a little kid today. I got to take one of my toys out of the shed and play with it !!
This is the first of the winter wheat getting combined. The combine is a 1997 Case IH 2144 with a 180hp Cummins 5.9l.
A crappy view from inside.
It is busheling very well. This was through a low spot but the field averaged 68.2 bushels per acre. Very good for wheat in this area.
This is the first of the winter wheat getting combined. The combine is a 1997 Case IH 2144 with a 180hp Cummins 5.9l.
A crappy view from inside.
It is busheling very well. This was through a low spot but the field averaged 68.2 bushels per acre. Very good for wheat in this area.
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My mother was helping haul the wheat home and didn't have the tractor she was driving in 4x4 and got stuck. She unhooked and drove out, however, the wagon was still in the mud.
I decided not to mess around and just get it done.
Never pulled gravity boxes with this tractor before. It was a strange feeling and looked even stranger.
Now all we have to do is get it baled up and put in my hay shed so I can use it to bed the steers. Should be enough here to keep them happy for 4ish months.
I decided not to mess around and just get it done.
Never pulled gravity boxes with this tractor before. It was a strange feeling and looked even stranger.
Now all we have to do is get it baled up and put in my hay shed so I can use it to bed the steers. Should be enough here to keep them happy for 4ish months.
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Well we got all the straw hauled home.
I hauled 245 bales home 36 bales at a time with this rig. 2010 Deere 7630. 414c.i. inline 6 with 175hp, 26mph IVT, 5 SCV's, 14k lift 3pt, John Deere Active Seat and every option but GreenStar is installed. I really like this tractor.
Shed is filling up ! !
These came from a field that wasn't ready to bale yet, they are around 30% moisture. It was suppose to rain overnight so I baled them anyway. I like straw as dry as possible, preferably under 12%. It has to stay separate because if I pack it in with everything else it'll start to heat and will start on fire. Not good. I'll use it first, no big deal. It'll be gone in a few weeks.
The sweet corn is setting some damn nice cobs ! ! The field corn is not far behind.
I hauled 245 bales home 36 bales at a time with this rig. 2010 Deere 7630. 414c.i. inline 6 with 175hp, 26mph IVT, 5 SCV's, 14k lift 3pt, John Deere Active Seat and every option but GreenStar is installed. I really like this tractor.
Shed is filling up ! !
These came from a field that wasn't ready to bale yet, they are around 30% moisture. It was suppose to rain overnight so I baled them anyway. I like straw as dry as possible, preferably under 12%. It has to stay separate because if I pack it in with everything else it'll start to heat and will start on fire. Not good. I'll use it first, no big deal. It'll be gone in a few weeks.
The sweet corn is setting some damn nice cobs ! ! The field corn is not far behind.
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Terrick down Under
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Hey, can you tell me the difference between sweet and field corn?
Field corn is harvested in the fall once it has dried to 15% moisture so it can be stored until it is fed to cattle or any type of animal that wants to eat it. The entire stalk can also be harvested and stored as corn silage.
Sweet corn is harvested when the kernels are still soft and juicy. We never planted sweet corn growing up, instead we would watch the field corn and pick a bunch when it was just right. It tastes different of course but it was still good. Sweet corn has been bred to be sweeter tasting and higher in sugars than starch from my understanding.
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Concrete is poured for the 36' bin. It's coming along much slower than I'd like but they assured me it'd be done by harvest.
Here are a few pictures of the wheat being unloaded and put into the bin for storage.
Westfield 10-71 auger. 10" diameter and 71' long. Not even close to the largest one out there but it works great for us.
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My bale hauling rig out in the wild.
Headed home with the last load. My mom helped out today and is in front of me with the truck and skid loader.
The straw was very thin in the last field and kept causing issues with the baler. The stuffer doesn't work properly when the crop is thin and the baler makes stupid looking bales because of it.
Total of 460 bales in the shed so far. 360 straw and 100 meadow hay. It's roughly 9 months of bedding and 12 months of hay for the amount of animals I have right now. The last few rows got very crooked but they won't be there for more than a week so don't worry about it.
Here are a few pictures of the wheat being unloaded and put into the bin for storage.
Westfield 10-71 auger. 10" diameter and 71' long. Not even close to the largest one out there but it works great for us.
My bale hauling rig out in the wild.
Headed home with the last load. My mom helped out today and is in front of me with the truck and skid loader.
The straw was very thin in the last field and kept causing issues with the baler. The stuffer doesn't work properly when the crop is thin and the baler makes stupid looking bales because of it.
Total of 460 bales in the shed so far. 360 straw and 100 meadow hay. It's roughly 9 months of bedding and 12 months of hay for the amount of animals I have right now. The last few rows got very crooked but they won't be there for more than a week so don't worry about it.
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ABSTIFFGS
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I'm never going to be able to fit cars in there if you keep putting hay in your hay shed.
Well I've been 4.5 hours north of home this last week putting in a surveillance system in a brand new automated dairy barn. Two Lely A4 Astronaut Robotic Milkers and a Lely Vector. This Vector is the first like it in the country so it's very exciting to be installing it. I put a camera looking at each milking robot, each freshing pen, the special needs pen and three looking at the Vector and it's loading area. The Vector is a fully automated feeding robot.
The grooved areas are the dry cow pen and the freshening pens. The black rubber dealios are individual waterbeds for each stall.
I didn't get a lot of pictures but here is what one of the cameras will be looking at. One of the robotic milkers.
The first morning back I had to have a good hearty breakfest. Steak and eggs. Oh yeah ! !
Then it was back to work. Amongst a million other things I pumped 250,000 gallons of manure from one underground pit to another today.
Discharge side. Well placed hole.
Pump side. Typically this is the pipe that loads the tankers that haul it to the field but we made it the correct length in case this ever had to be done.
I found this today on the kitchen table. Looks like mama bear has something interesting up her sleeve as this looks like a shouse to me ..... needless to say I am intrigued.
The grooved areas are the dry cow pen and the freshening pens. The black rubber dealios are individual waterbeds for each stall.
I didn't get a lot of pictures but here is what one of the cameras will be looking at. One of the robotic milkers.
The first morning back I had to have a good hearty breakfest. Steak and eggs. Oh yeah ! !
Then it was back to work. Amongst a million other things I pumped 250,000 gallons of manure from one underground pit to another today.
Discharge side. Well placed hole.
Pump side. Typically this is the pipe that loads the tankers that haul it to the field but we made it the correct length in case this ever had to be done.
I found this today on the kitchen table. Looks like mama bear has something interesting up her sleeve as this looks like a shouse to me ..... needless to say I am intrigued.
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Bib Overalls
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250,000 gallons of cow manure. Now that is a lot of "honey." My only experience with the stuff was during my Army time in Germany. Over there the farmers collect everything that comes out of man and beast in a open tank. They also collect the bedding hay and put that in the tanks as well. In the Spring and again in the Fall the liquid honey is pumped into a tank and spread on the fields. At the same time the collected solids and bedding hay are pitch forked on to a flat bed wagon and distributed across the fields as well. The stench is overwhelming but that abates a bit when the fields are plowed.
The only thing I miss about that is the sight of pretty German farm girls wearing rubber boots out in the honey pit pitchforking the solids on to the trailer.
I guess you let your honey age until it has liquefied to the point where it can be pumped and sprayed. What do you do with your bedding hay.
The only thing I miss about that is the sight of pretty German farm girls wearing rubber boots out in the honey pit pitchforking the solids on to the trailer.
I guess you let your honey age until it has liquefied to the point where it can be pumped and sprayed. What do you do with your bedding hay.
Up until last summer I had all the 700+ pound steers on slats with a manure pit directly below. They pooped on the concrete slatted floor and it found it's way below them. It was stored for one year and was pumped into tanks and spread on the field.
I currently have steers ONLY on bedpack and love it. I haven't had near the health problems in the new barn and am not looking back. These are a few pics of the old barn. You can see the slatted floor in one of them.
Old bedpack barn for the little calves.
The bedding builds up to about a foot and a half and I clean it out and stockpile it. This is the solid floor in the new barn,
Here is the stockpile for the bedding.
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I've been on a continuous quest to clean this place up and here is what I got done last saturday. This is the entire feeding shed, minus the rafters, and a bunch of other junk lumber that was laying around.
Milwaukee 15amp Super Sawzall. Worth it's weight in GOLD ! ! I've had a number of Milwaukee Sawzall's over the years and this one does not disappoint.
I've been a Lenox blade user for years and was given this Milwaukee blade to try out at a tradeshow and I've been converted. This single blade has cut every piece in that first picture. It's showing wear but my goodness, what a trooper.
I also got the first of my Ubiquiti Gen3 cams hung up. I've got to say, initial impression is blown away. SUPER easy to hang and a way better design all around. PLUS they're 1080p and less than half the overall size. Way to go Ubiquiti.
Milwaukee 15amp Super Sawzall. Worth it's weight in GOLD ! ! I've had a number of Milwaukee Sawzall's over the years and this one does not disappoint.
I've been a Lenox blade user for years and was given this Milwaukee blade to try out at a tradeshow and I've been converted. This single blade has cut every piece in that first picture. It's showing wear but my goodness, what a trooper.
I also got the first of my Ubiquiti Gen3 cams hung up. I've got to say, initial impression is blown away. SUPER easy to hang and a way better design all around. PLUS they're 1080p and less than half the overall size. Way to go Ubiquiti.
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I made some progress in getting cameras and internet out in my barn today. Last summer I put this antenna here. It's a 60' tip down antenna and is quite nice for the price of free I paid.
Four Cat6 lines going up it. Two to the top for LiteBeam 5AC 16 120's, one mid-way up for a NanoBeam 5AC going to the house and one going mid-way up for a PicoStation for WiFi throughout the rest of the property.
NanoBeam and one LiteBeam mounted. I ordered a UAP-AC-PRO for the house and the PicoStation that is currently in the basement will be going on the antenna later on. I gotta say I think it turned out quite nice for the amount of effort I put into it.
Four Cat6 lines going up it. Two to the top for LiteBeam 5AC 16 120's, one mid-way up for a NanoBeam 5AC going to the house and one going mid-way up for a PicoStation for WiFi throughout the rest of the property.
NanoBeam and one LiteBeam mounted. I ordered a UAP-AC-PRO for the house and the PicoStation that is currently in the basement will be going on the antenna later on. I gotta say I think it turned out quite nice for the amount of effort I put into it.
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Terrick down Under
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Well, that lot went straight over my head....
Cow magnets, I wonder how many caught that or know what they are for ?
I'm gonna fly the internet to my barn and my dad's bin site.
I put another NanoBeam on top of one of the grain bins tonight and the signal is very strong 3 miles away ! ! It should work great ! !
Everyone knows that if a cow steps in a puddle they need to be hung up to dry. The magnets allow you to stick them to anything metal
Strouty
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Are cows really stupid? I remember my buddy told me he would never haul cows ever again. He said they are so dumb, that when the truck goes into a corner, the cows lean with it rather than leaning the opposite way like any normal animal would.
It's all relative Strouty. Some people think cows are dumb but people are smart, yet some people think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
mwbailey
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I thought everyone knew that cow magnets prevent bovine traumatic reticuloperitonitis -- at least, that's what Wikipedia says!! I do know that cow magnets are generally a few inches long, cylindrical, and rounded at each end. That makes them ideal for demonstrating generation of electrical current by moving the magnet through a coil of wire connected to a multimeter -- they are large and powerful enough, and have the rounded ends that don't catch the coiled wire as the magnet is moved through the wire coil. Of course, the curious students ask why it's called a cow magnet so you suggest someone research it. Then they ask, "Where did you get your cow magnet?" I'd never tell. . ..
ABSTIFFGS
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Do you want some outdoor cat6 Mike. That plenum cable won't hold up real well to the weather
Got some hay baled yesterday before it got rained on. It wasn't quite dry enough so we had to put some treatment on it so it didn't heat and spoil.
I've had a knotter giving me issues the last few hundred bales on and off so I tore into it and found some twine wrapped around something that shouldn't have twine wrapped around it.
4,000ft balls of twine. Eight on each side. Should be enough for 750 bales but the balls on the right get used quicker due to how it all works so I fill it up every time there is a ball that goes empty.
I buy a full pallet, 64 balls, at a time.
I got the baler ready and headed out to the field to do some tiling.
It would be much more fun if these stupid rocks had some value. I'd be able to retire if I could sell all the rocks we have on piles at the edges of fields.
It's been years since I could drive through this part of the field in the spring and it's obvious why. Lots of water. The bottom of the trench has only been open for about 5 minutes at the closest part water is visible.
Really wet ....
I've had a knotter giving me issues the last few hundred bales on and off so I tore into it and found some twine wrapped around something that shouldn't have twine wrapped around it.
4,000ft balls of twine. Eight on each side. Should be enough for 750 bales but the balls on the right get used quicker due to how it all works so I fill it up every time there is a ball that goes empty.
I buy a full pallet, 64 balls, at a time.
I got the baler ready and headed out to the field to do some tiling.
It would be much more fun if these stupid rocks had some value. I'd be able to retire if I could sell all the rocks we have on piles at the edges of fields.
It's been years since I could drive through this part of the field in the spring and it's obvious why. Lots of water. The bottom of the trench has only been open for about 5 minutes at the closest part water is visible.
Really wet ....
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This brings back memories. Front seat mounted on the back axle from a donor 81' Chevy Citation. This was built by me in 2000. My older cousin had his way with the car and we reincarnated it into this. Affectionately dubbed the "Yacht", as you can clearly see. It's still got the seat belts, mostly so you don't fly out. It's been towed at 70 down the interstate with passengers and through many a plowed field behind my old S-10.
In about 2005 the potato gun got mounted to it. It pivots around on a turret style mount and is a damn good time. I had to fire it up. I stood in the shed while it pressurized up to 100psi, it's sweet spot.
In about 2005 the potato gun got mounted to it. It pivots around on a turret style mount and is a damn good time. I had to fire it up. I stood in the shed while it pressurized up to 100psi, it's sweet spot.
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Bib Overalls
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The things you find laying around an old farm. I think I would have preferred to ride in the truck. How far does the cannon fling potatoes?
It throws a potato about 1,000ft but it'll toss a golf ball almost a half mile.
Back in the day we'd shoot produce at one of the Harvester silos and watch it disappear.
They "Yacht" may have been safer than the truck ...
The yellow letters are the tagline for the Cerwin Vega Strokers from 2004ish. The Stroker Pro lineup still makes me wet myself a little bit ....
All the rusty stuff, impact holes from apples from a much larger potato gun made from an 80gal air tank on wheels with a 15' barrel.
The box Literally rusted off the truck ... hit a bump in a corn field doing 50 and off it went. It was a fun day. We made the best of it and gave it "Dual" exhaust. It was much faster and leaner in this form. Still got stuck though ... The hitch in the front hooked to everything we have to drag it to the field so we could drive the S-10 home instead of the tractor ... [
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