Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

[jblnut]

Here is the happy little group of the Ubiquiti stuff taking the barn pics


They "borrowed" 360yds of sandy gravel to put under the concrete floor from right here. These guys have been VERY good about putting everything back how it was before they disturbed my fields. I really appreciate that !!


The sand is down on the barn floor. Today they will be leveling it out and getting it ready for concrete in a week or so.



Hauling sand in with the scraper.


Spreading it out.


Compacting it with the HAMM roller. Never seen or heard of this brand before but they like it really well I guess.


The shop cameras detected motion and look-ie there. The Mosquito Squad was onsite doing their thing. We're gonna give it a shot and hopefully take our yard back from those little bastards.

 

[jblnut]

Sometimes life gets put on hold when there is new life to hold !!

Baby #3 has arrived !! Little Leo 8lbs 12oz, 20.5" tall happy and healthy. I figure I gotta start him easy so I'm gonna teach him to weld and run the skid loader today when we get home. The rest can wait until tomorrow

 

[Terrick down Under]

Life is wonderful!

 

[Nolift911]

Congrats!!!

 

[ABSTIFFGS]

Congrats Mike! He's adorable. I can already see a smooth welding hand.

 

[drivesitfar]

JB: congrats on the new baby boy. yep giving him a couple hours rest before you start putting him to work is a good idea. how's mom doing?

i can't even fathom how many yards of cement is going between those two curbings. any idea and how thick are they going to have the floor and any rebar or metal meshing?

definitely looks good and i hope your mosquito issue is solved with the guy's smoker or whatever he's putting out there.

cheers and have a great weekend.

 

[jblnut]

how's mom doing?

i can't even fathom how many yards of cement is going between those two curbings. any idea and how thick are they going to have the floor and any rebar or metal meshing?

Mom is doing well

There will be roughly 400yds of 3000psi concrete 3.5" thick with no rebar or mesh. It'll forever be heated and the heaviest thing ever on it will be a skid loader, so no need for anything thicker or stronger.

The contractor that is going to pour my barn plans to do one more the same day !! Apparently they can screed 120yds/hr easily with their laser screed. Crazy !!

 

[C_F]

Congrats on your new addition to the family!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Congratulations...

 

[ajohno]

Congratulations.

 

[MarchHare94]

Just made it through all 33 pages, love your farm and life man! Congrats on the new baby!


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[sgfarm]

Congratulations on Leo's healthy arrival.

 

[jblnut]

Life is wonderful!

Congrats Mike! He's adorable. I can already see a smooth welding hand.



JB: congrats on the new baby boy.

Congrats on your new addition to the family!

Congratulations...

Congratulations.

Congratulations on Leo's healthy arrival.

Just made it through all 33 pages, love your farm and life man! Congrats on the new baby!

Thanks for taking the time to dive through all of it !!!

Thank you everyone Going from 2 kids to 3 kids will be an adjustment, we're outnumbered now !!!

 

[Terrick down Under]

Ahhh, now we start the back seat shuffle, 3 spots and only two windows. My dad used to say to the one in the middle look up and check out the clouds while we drive! Yep that would last for about 5 minutes. Enjoy.

 

[ABSTIFFGS]

That boy welding yet!? He is almost 4 days old.

 

[jblnut]

Ahhh, now we start the back seat shuffle, 3 spots and only two windows. My dad used to say to the one in the middle look up and check out the clouds while we drive! Yep that would last for about 5 minutes. Enjoy.

We have three kids crammed in the back seat of a Subaru Forester. It's snug to say the least.

 

[jblnut]

That boy welding yet!? He is almost 4 days old.

No but he did help with chores last night

 

[Lunker]

Congrats on the Boy!

 

[jblnut]

The well from the chicken barn was drilled yesterday. I think I am going to enjoy these cameras !!

First puff of dirty water out of the well.

We've got clean water !!

118' deep and they developed it to 50gpm. They said there was ALOT of water down there and were at the bottom of the aquifer which was over 50' thick. Should have enough water for the chicks

 

[1949 caddyman]

Does the water need to be treated for the birds? Probably not.

 

[jblnut]

Does the water need to be treated for the birds? Probably not.

The water will be injected with hydrogen peroxide and beyond that, I have no idea.

 

[drivesitfar]

JB: i like the cameras too. any idea why the hole for the well was drilled where it is? seems like it's a fair distance from the new Coop (or do we call it a chicken's mansion).

just getting JR. his first sniffs of cow ****? i know you are a busy guy so remember to take the time to give a good lesson when you can to your kids and even though it might slow you down i bet they will benefit when they go out into the world. you might even get some quality help too while they are still living at home. i'm sure you already know this, but it seems like you work 80 hours a week and now you added a million chickens to the job list.

cheers

 

[jblnut]

JB: i like the cameras too. any idea why the hole for the well was drilled where it is? seems like it's a fair distance from the new Coop (or do we call it a chicken's mansion).

just getting JR. his first sniffs of cow ****? i know you are a busy guy so remember to take the time to give a good lesson when you can to your kids and even though it might slow you down i bet they will benefit when they go out into the world. you might even get some quality help too while they are still living at home. i'm sure you already know this, but it seems like you work 80 hours a week and now you added a million chickens to the job list.

cheers

The well needs to meet a 50' setback from the barns and needs to be out of the way for all traffic, snow plowing and such. We had a guy come out and witch it to find water and he said there was water there 100' down so we put it there. It's only gonna be 70' or so from the control room which isn't bad at all. I know a few barns whose wells are over 800' away.

Leo is gonna be my little farmer man so I gotta get him trained in early

There will only be 46,000 chickens so it won't be that bad

 

[jblnut]

End walls of the barn are poured. Just a couple of short 24' runs took them all day. For reference they poured two 624' runs in 6 hours with the curbing machine. Crazy.

I've been staring at this pile of parts for a while now and it's time to turn it into something useful.

I shall call them WiFi cam v2.0 and WiFi cam v2.1. They each have an AirGateway and a Ubiquiti POE injector inside the 2" PVC pipe. There is a Cat6 weather tight jack on the bottom of each so I can access the AirGateway to set it to a different SSID or whatever.

Side note .... These are the best damn inline connectors you can get. There is a little squatch of solder in the middle that flows out when they're heated. Great stuff.

HEY JACK !!!! I scored a little truck full of cabinets and countertops from the local high school and am gonna put them in the little shed-in-a-shed.

I decided it was a decently good enough idea to water the sweet corn this year so here goes. I got a 300' piece of 3/4" metric hose from work and a Gilmour sprinkler from the local Menards and am gonna have a go at it.

 

[Lunker]

Best Damn Sweet Corn in Minnesota!!!

 

[1949 caddyman]

Please tell more on the connectors, crimp or no crimp? Heat gun melts solder & then shrink insilation?

 

[drivesitfar]

JB: when does the floor get poured for the COOP? thanks for the 411 on the well location.

is that just SWEET CORN for your family and friends you are watering with a hose? yellow or white?

well i bet 46,000 chickens might seem like a MILLION. GEESH

are they all going to be at different ages or does the COMPANY bring in 46,000 chicks and leave with 46,000 (hopefully) 6-8 week old ones and replace with more chicks?

how long do you have to do this before you can tell THE COMPANY you no longer want to raise Chickens and at that point is the COOP YOURS?

cheers and hope you have a great weekend.

 

[Strouty]

Please tell more on the connectors, crimp or no crimp? Heat gun melts solder & then shrink insilation?

I have seen them before, but never used them, so I am curious about them as well.

 

[jblnut]

Please tell more on the connectors, crimp or no crimp? Heat gun melts solder & then shrink insilation?

I have seen them before, but never used them, so I am curious about them as well.

Power Phase connectors from Fastenal. I use a ratcheting crimper and heat them with a small butane torch. The solder will flow before the plastic melts while you're shrinky shrinking the rest of the connector. The ones with solder are a bit pricey at over a dollar each but they're the best of their kind for what I do with them.

 

[jblnut]

JB: when does the floor get poured for the COOP? thanks for the 411 on the well location.

is that just SWEET CORN for your family and friends you are watering with a hose? yellow or white?

well i bet 46,000 chickens might seem like a MILLION. GEESH

are they all going to be at different ages or does the COMPANY bring in 46,000 chicks and leave with 46,000 (hopefully) 6-8 week old ones and replace with more chicks?

how long do you have to do this before you can tell THE COMPANY you no longer want to raise Chickens and at that point is the COOP YOURS?

cheers and hope you have a great weekend.

The floor will hopefully be poured late this week or early next week.

The sweet corn is for us and whomever else wants some if there's extra. It's a Roundup Ready bicolor corn.

The chickens will all be a few hours old when they get delivered. The barn is ours from day one, we just have to pay for it. I'll keep growing for Gold'n'Plump until the barn is shot and maybe build another one after that. There are barns out there like mine that are 26 years old and are in great shape so 40+ years shouldn't be a problem.

 

[welder57]

About the chicken house-how are you heating and cooling them?-My uncle had (2) house here that were open with blinds on the walls that rolled up and down in the summer and closed in the winter with gas heaters that had blowers-if we had a ice storm-he lost a lot of chicken to the freeze. Just asking-have a Blessed Day!

 

[jblnut]

About the chicken house-how are you heating and cooling them?-My uncle had (2) house here that were open with blinds on the walls that rolled up and down in the summer and closed in the winter with gas heaters that had blowers-if we had a ice storm-he lost a lot of chicken to the freeze. Just asking-have a Blessed Day!

Just one house. It'll be a single story 60x624 building. The barn is totally enclosed with no curtains. There is a cool cell at one end and fans on the other. The barn is tunnel ventilated and heated with either 9 or 11 hanging LB White propane heaters.

Thanks for stopping by !!

 

[jblnut]

There are all sorts of sizes of the PowerPhase crimp/solder connectors. The ol' work van is loaded right up with them


Look at the weedy mess. Gonna have to get the RoundUp on soon !!


A smallish bit of progress has been made in the little shed-in-a-shed .....


Is amazes me how well veggies do in these tubs. They are all going crazy !!


Green beans !!


One of three tubs of onions.


Cabbage and cauliflower and one sweet yellow banana pepper. The peppers aren't doing that well so far this year, not sure why.

 

[jblnut]

When I got over to dad's shop this morning it became evident that it was time to fix the A/C in the 7400. It hasn't been working as well as it should be and the blower motors wouldn't start all the time. This ***** when it is hot as the cab is a giant glass box and heats up VERY fast in the summer sun !!

The two blower/fan units are under the damn seat. What a PITA to get to them.

Ah ha !!! There they are !!! They blow into the tubes in the center of the picture. It was an EXTREMELY tight fit to get them in and out but we managed. Once we fired up the new blower/fans it became apparent that this had been a problem for a while as neither of us could remember that much air ever coming out of the vents !!

We stopped in at the local Menards and picked up 40 sheets of 1/2" BCX plywood for the little shed-in-a-shed. My Bobcat 763 had all it could do to pick them all up. It was tippy !!

Those are 10' sticks of 3/4" black iron pipe in a Dodge Neon. Handy to know I can get 10' stuff in there. Neat.

I purchased a 4-way garden hose splitter on Amazon and it **** the bed in a week so it want back. I decided to build one myself, that way when it craps out I have no one to blame. I gathered the necessary fittings and valves and such.

If'fen you're ever thinking about acquiring a Ridgid pipe threading set, DO IT !!! Well built and works great. This one has been getting used for decades on the farm and still works great.

Throw a little cutting oil on and you get perfect threads every time !!

Here is the 4-way splitter I ended up with. All 3/4" valves and piping. I'm going to mount it to a steel fence post in the field so it stays put. I think this will last longer than the $25 POS I got off Amazon.

Also, I cut the 10' lengths of pipe down to a frogs whisker less than 7' so I can mount a Rain Bird brass impact on top of them to water the sweet corn patch. They will also be affixed to a steel fence post to hold them up.

 

[ABSTIFFGS]

When is the concrete getting started on the chicken coop. I feel it's just around the corner.

 

[jblnut]

The 4-way splitter valve assembly was deployed quite successfully. Hoses are color coded to each sprinkler head so I can't even screw up which one I want on


The sweet corn patch was looking a tid bit weedy so I got out the garden sprayer and went over it with some RoundUp.


We got some meadow hay cut on Monday and hope to bale it Thursday.


The little people helped me push up corn tonight. Not gonna lie, it was funny watching them use the full size scoop shovels.


After chores I went out to pick up some bales dad baled today on the hay ground that was already dry.


Look at all them bales just waiting to be transported home !!!

 

[jblnut]

When is the concrete getting started on the chicken coop. I feel it's just around the corner.

You've been yapping about pouring concrete of your own .... When is that gonna happen ?!?!?!?!?!

The barn floor will be poured soon. Probably tomorrow if it doesn't rain too much.

 

[1949 caddyman]

I use Roundup around the yard for weed control. Works good, I thought it entered the plant through the leaf & then into the root. I keep it off the leafs of plants I want.

Looks like you're spraying on the corn & the weeds. So it can be applied to the corn & the weeds?

 

[jblnut]

I use Roundup around the yard for weed control. Works good, I thought it entered the plant through the leaf & then into the root. I keep it off the leafs of plants I want.

Looks like you're spraying on the corn & the weeds. So it can be applied to the corn & the weeds?

Yes, it targets an enzyme in the plant and kills it. It is RoundUp Ready sweet corn so RoundUp does not affect it

 

[jblnut]

Hay !!! I got some hay raked yesterday that is


Good ol' John Deere hay rake. Decades old and works like a champ.


The idea is to combine two rows together so it takes less time to bale. This also moves the hay from the wet ground it is laying on to the dry ground beside it so it can continue to dry.


Pops coming in with the large square baler with duals to bale it all up !!


Since this meadow is close to my house I brought the skid loader out there to get the bales loaded up quicker.


I went to an auction today and purchased a bunch of stuff. The most notable being a 4.5" American Scale Co model 23a vise. It is a heavy SOB !!!



One of the other notable things was a 1/2" torque wrench. I've had this on my wish list for a while now and it's gonna be nice to have !!