Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road
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Wokspaces above 1200 squarefeet.
Thank you for following along !!!
It is a lot of work keeping all the crazy stuff going and not going crazy myself some days but it's worth it
Every post about baling hay or fixing broken **** is one post closer to showing the whole world my perfect idea of a new shop/house !!! It may well be thousands of posts and years away but we're getting there !!!
peth
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Lol at garden sprayer
As a now suburban transplanted farm kid I appreciate every opportunity to use the farm tools on my small property. Keeps the neighbors guessing about my sanity.
As a now suburban transplanted farm kid I appreciate every opportunity to use the farm tools on my small property. Keeps the neighbors guessing about my sanity.
Monday a coworker and I drove 5hrs out to a farm to diagnose some communication problems they've been having in their 36 stall GEA AutoRotor milking parlor. The first thing to do was get rid of the ancient wireless units they had on the rotary and put in something newer. In this nice white piece of 2" PVC is a Ubiquiti AirGateway Pro. The thought is that it will be water proof in the sealed up pipe. It is picking up signal from a 5Ghz NanoStation mounted stationary on the wall by the office. The communication problems have been solved but there are a few other ghosts in the system we need to get out today. Once that is done, it's off to Dickinson, ND to work at another farm with similar issues. Gonna be a hell of a trip ending up almost 7hrs from home.
C_F
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Sounds like the word is out, that you are the best man for the job! 
Good thing too, because if it was me trying to figure that stuff out, it would take me months...if not years!
Good thing too, because if it was me trying to figure that stuff out, it would take me months...if not years!ABSTIFFGS
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Damnit Mike! I was expecting to see pics of a small concrete pad.
I don't know about the best man for the job but we got it done. We got back to the hotel last night about 8:45pm and have to drive 1.5hrs to the next place this morning yet ...... then 7hrs back home this afternoon/evening. Gonna be a ****** day again.Sounds like the word is out, that you are the best man for the job!
Here is what I was working on the last two days. The cows enter and leave in the area under the fans. They ride around the rotary while getting milked. It is a neat deal until you have to ride on top of it while monitoring things with 4 different multi-meters and an oscilloscope !! There ended up being a broken Can-Bus shield wire in the loop that runs the take offs and milk meters. T'was a simple fix but a nasty one to find !!!
Ok ok ok, settle down.
George and his laser screed showed up at the buttcrack of dawn to get ready for the pour.
There were between three and four trucks onsite all the time. Their goal was to pour 80ish yards an hour.
All hands on deck !!!
T'is a nice picture of the laser screed doing its thing.
Since I am 6hrs from home my Dad was there to snoopervise.
They were barely done with the concrete and the lumber showed up !!
Getting everything washed off and ready to pack up. Their goal was to be done just after noon but the screed had some hydraulic issues and was shut down a few times throughout the pour. 395yds total. It looks good from what I can see !
Terrick down Under
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Hey, something for everyone to ponder.... just imagine that was your garage!
C_F
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It looks like they poured a cement highway right there! Where's the on-ramps?
Oooohhhh yeahhhh, I can imagine...
forAK
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Dem workers sure look small on that airstrip! WOW!
It's only 3.5" thick so you can't work on much more than chicken handling equipment
I can imagine there may be a pass or two made at full speed down the center of the drag strip !!It looks like they poured a cement highway right there! Where's the on-ramps?
I sure hope no one spots it from the sky and lands on it
I got home today and went to check out what 395yds of concrete looks like all flat and such. Not gonna lie I was smiling 
Look at all that lumber !!!!
Whilst I was South of Bismark I spotted something I thought I needed. It was sitting in the weeds by the dairy we worked at Monday and Tuesday and I brought it home today. It barely fit in the work van.
It is the neatest skid loader bucket I've ever seen. It is a grapple that you can quick attach any other skid loader bucket to and turn into a grapple bucket. Damn cool !!!!! This will be well used around the ol' farm for everything from moving brush to cleaning the barn out and many other things I don't even know of !!
Look at all that lumber !!!!
Whilst I was South of Bismark I spotted something I thought I needed. It was sitting in the weeds by the dairy we worked at Monday and Tuesday and I brought it home today. It barely fit in the work van.
It is the neatest skid loader bucket I've ever seen. It is a grapple that you can quick attach any other skid loader bucket to and turn into a grapple bucket. Damn cool !!!!! This will be well used around the ol' farm for everything from moving brush to cleaning the barn out and many other things I don't even know of !!
drivesitfar
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JBL: nice to hear even you were impressed cause sometimes i wonder if any of these big machines, shops and stuff does. WOW and WOW and WOW that is cool and they poured it and were done in less than a day!! JUST WOW!!
They had a few issues with the laser screed and didn't get done until after 2pm. They were planning on being done around 11 so they could load up and do another barn in the afternoon. It rained almost an inch yesterday so they will do that barn tomorrow I believe.
There are many things that impress me !!! It's usually the small things actually, someone's attention to detail or the effort someone put into doing something the correct way the first time are the two biggest things that impress me. It takes a fair bit to impress me as far as a machine goes because I've seen a lot of neat machinery over the years
All day as I've been walking by that grapple I purchased I am wowed at the ingenuity someone had to create such a thing and wonder how many different ways I'll use it because it's so versatile !!
Terrick down Under
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I wonder if you could make one of those vibrators to fit the skidsteer and make it to do driveways.
PLOWJEEP
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Even with the laser screed,still looked like a lot of work. I can't wait to see how fast the framing goes. Brian
I don't do concrete directly (I test it)
But the laser screed is one of the concrete guys favorite tools, it speeds it up a removing one of the worst bits of the job but 400 yaards is no joke even in an area like that with easy egress/outgress.
But the laser screed is one of the concrete guys favorite tools, it speeds it up a removing one of the worst bits of the job but 400 yaards is no joke even in an area like that with easy egress/outgress.
C_F
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Congrats on finding that grapple, that thing looks extremely useful! You said you spotted it out sitting in the weeds, but the photo of it in the trailer, looks like it's brand new...is it?
This guy has a smaller one that he does sidewalks with so I'd imagine something in between could do driveways.
The contractor told me that when they are really busy they will hammer one out in a week. Walls Monday, Rafters Tuesday, Roof/wall steel Wednesday, Trim/doors/insulate Thursday and interior sheeting and touch up work Friday. They said that it should be complete by me by July 14th and the subs will move in.
The owner of the screed said he's done 1,200yd pours in a day when everything goes perfect. I know someone whom he screed'd 1,000yds for in 14hrs or so. That's crazy !!
The grapple is inside the sliding door of my 3500 Ram ProMaster work van. T'was snug. It was used for a while on a dairy until they upgraded and purchased a grapple for their payloader. It didn't get much use after that. It is in pretty good shape but one of the cylinders has a pretty good leak. I'm gonna order two seal kits and do them both soon.
Most of the plywood is up in the shed-in-a-shed and we got the ceiling steel up. There is a post with pictures of it's original location somewhere in this thread. Until I update all the linked photos to Flickr they can't be seen because Photobucket has them all trapped and want's $399/yr for a subscription !!! I think not !!!
We even managed to get some of the insulation in. Why we went with kraft faced stuff for the ceiling I have no idea. We were both surprised when we cut it open and saw the paper. Gotta look closer I guess.
We even managed to get some of the insulation in. Why we went with kraft faced stuff for the ceiling I have no idea. We were both surprised when we cut it open and saw the paper. Gotta look closer I guess.
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Yeah, to hell with those guys.
It royally ***** that everyone who has used PB now has to go & redo all their photos. Nice progress on the shed-in-a-shed!
drivesitfar
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JB: it looks like you weren't using PB for your pictures. what do you use so maybe i can tell some of the other members that are looking for options?
when does the CHICKEN COOP (MANSION) start putting some of that wood on the foundation? are you set up to post time lapse videos with your COOP CAM cause as fast as they build and do things i'd love to see a 1.5 acre building built by them. granted you might not want to have a garage/shop built by them, but so far i've seen pretty that their quality is top shelf.
cheers and have a great 4th. (also nice pictures of the young farmers moving the feed around!!)
when does the CHICKEN COOP (MANSION) start putting some of that wood on the foundation? are you set up to post time lapse videos with your COOP CAM cause as fast as they build and do things i'd love to see a 1.5 acre building built by them. granted you might not want to have a garage/shop built by them, but so far i've seen pretty that their quality is top shelf.
cheers and have a great 4th. (also nice pictures of the young farmers moving the feed around!!)
Yeah, to hell with those guys.
Nice progress on the shed-in-a-shed!
I used photobucket for years on another forum that has gone the way of the Dodo so this is the only thread I have to repair. Not a crazy big deal, just a pain in the ***. I've been a Flickr Pro fanboy for a while now. It works and is owned by Yahoo so it'll probably be around for awhile.
Tomorrow they should be starting on the wooden parts and pieces of the chicken barn. The cameras are recording 24x7 out there so I'll be able to take some photos from different times throughout the day !!!
All this construction company does is build Gold'N'Plump chicken barns so that's part of why they can put one up so fast. The foreman has been working there for 30 years and has built hundreds of barns.
The barn is only 37,440sq/ft so that's only 0.88 acres
drivesitfar
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JB: i went off memory instead of looking up the actual size and thought i recalled your Chicken Coop being 100x650 so 65,000 which put it at about 1.5 acres.
so just shy of an acre and not that big at all?
in case you didn't know Verizon just finished the purchase of YAHOO. so things might be a changing for better or ??
best of luck with the Coop build and hope you have a great Chicken business as it gets up and running to go along with all the other things at your family's farm.
cheers
so just shy of an acre and not that big at all?
in case you didn't know Verizon just finished the purchase of YAHOO. so things might be a changing for better or ??
best of luck with the Coop build and hope you have a great Chicken business as it gets up and running to go along with all the other things at your family's farm.
cheers
The barn is 60x624 with a 16x16 office/control room on the west side. Not that big at allJB: i went off memory instead of looking up the actual size and thought i recalled your Chicken Coop being 100x650 so 65,000 which put it at about 1.5 acres.
so just shy of an acre and not that big at all?
in case you didn't know Verizon just finished the purchase of YAHOO. so things might be a changing for better or ??
best of luck with the Coop build and hope you have a great Chicken business as it gets up and running to go along with all the other things at your family's farm.
cheers
I heard about the Verizon deal last summer but didn't know it was finalized. I don't see that being a bad thing for my photos
drivesitfar
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JB: i've had a Yahoo email for maybe 20+ years and even though i can't really reach anybody in customer service even though i had a yearly bill my Yahoo email seems to work better than other servers i've used. i hope the pictures keep working the same as before for you cause if you are like me it's a pain to change and learn new stuff to accomplish what you had before.
cheers and best of luck with the Coop this week.
cheers and best of luck with the Coop this week.
The pads outside the loading doors were completed today.
The got the two walls beefed up that the tunnel ventilation fans will mount in.
Rafters were delivered today as well. Seems to be 52 in a stack or 104 total which works out to 6' spacing. The neon looks pretty small next to this massive pile of lumber !!
The got the two walls beefed up that the tunnel ventilation fans will mount in.
Rafters were delivered today as well. Seems to be 52 in a stack or 104 total which works out to 6' spacing. The neon looks pretty small next to this massive pile of lumber !!
C_F
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Wow, those are some looong freakin' rafters!
That second photo looks like it could be a good drag strip.
That second photo looks like it could be a good drag strip.
I was told they are waiting on another stack of 52 rafters which would put the spacing at 4', which is what I though it was suppose to be all along ...Wow, those are some looong freakin' rafters!
That second photo looks like it could be a good drag strip.
With the 20 pads at each end of the barn there is 664' of concrete ... I believe 660' is 1/8 mile. Fun will be had at some point with a few vehicles and a stopwatch
Lot of exciting things happened today !!!
My Poultry Hawk came and I had to unload it at 5am this morning. Good grief I was groggy but I didn't drop it !!! Click the link and learn all about it !!!
The 1200' of rail it'll ride on.
Doug the excavator had a leaky cylinder so it needed to be repaired. A simple seal kit is all that was required. I will probably log a dozen or so hours tomorrow digging the water line in to the chicken barn so it needs to be in tip-top shape !! It took a bit of doing but we got it loose !!
The shaft and piston is out of the housing.
Here is the driving end of the piston/shaft.
Here is what I'll call the retaining end. It holds the whole works into the cylinder itself.
AHHHHHHHHHHH !!!! Something is missing !!!!!
Oh thanks Martha !! There it is all repaired and happy again
It is a rather MESSY process so a 220F bath was in order to get the oil and grease off.
The next task of the day was to get the meadow across my creek cut.
The picture doesn't show it very well but the grass is over 6' tall !!
DAMN big windrows !! This area hasn't been cut in 4 years because it's been so wet and hard to get to. There will be a lot of bales in here !!
Look at all the pretty rows lined up
Today the construction guys got a lot of lumber cut and ready for next week. Here are 312 wall girts
They generated this many scraps today. Little Miss was helping pick them up and put them in the trailer. I only had to pick up a few scraps, they cleaned up very well after themselves today. Quite impressed.
My Poultry Hawk came and I had to unload it at 5am this morning. Good grief I was groggy but I didn't drop it !!! Click the link and learn all about it !!!
The 1200' of rail it'll ride on.
Doug the excavator had a leaky cylinder so it needed to be repaired. A simple seal kit is all that was required. I will probably log a dozen or so hours tomorrow digging the water line in to the chicken barn so it needs to be in tip-top shape !! It took a bit of doing but we got it loose !!
The shaft and piston is out of the housing.
Here is the driving end of the piston/shaft.
Here is what I'll call the retaining end. It holds the whole works into the cylinder itself.
AHHHHHHHHHHH !!!! Something is missing !!!!!
Oh thanks Martha !! There it is all repaired and happy again
It is a rather MESSY process so a 220F bath was in order to get the oil and grease off.
The next task of the day was to get the meadow across my creek cut.
The picture doesn't show it very well but the grass is over 6' tall !!
DAMN big windrows !! This area hasn't been cut in 4 years because it's been so wet and hard to get to. There will be a lot of bales in here !!
Look at all the pretty rows lined up
Today the construction guys got a lot of lumber cut and ready for next week. Here are 312 wall girts
They generated this many scraps today. Little Miss was helping pick them up and put them in the trailer. I only had to pick up a few scraps, they cleaned up very well after themselves today. Quite impressed.
C_F
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Those wood scraps should keep you in firewood for a while this winter.
The Poultry Hawk looks like a really cool tool to have in such a large building.
The Poultry Hawk looks like a really cool tool to have in such a large building.
That is from the first day of them being onsite. I was told by the foreman the trimmings along would be a few more trailers full next week. I'm all in for that !!!
If the Poultry Hawk works as well as I'm told it does it'll save a ton of time and work in the barn. I had it shipped up here from Olar,. SC and it's the first one like it in the Midwest. The goal is to become a dealer for them and install them for other growers.
Dividing Creek
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Whats does the Poultry Hawk do ? Small scale angus cow calf operation in Virginia here. We have 600 acres between the three farms and three green tractors (my favorite is an old 1973 JD 301a).
Few things in farming compare to the smell of drying hay. Will you run a tedder over this thick stuff ? Everyone spins up round bales around here. Your square baler is uber cool.
There are chicken and turkey operations in the area with Tyson being the primary co in the area. Read your thread regularly. Cheers
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Thanks for following along !!!
The Poultry Hawk will ride on a 1"x3" rail that runs in a loop all the way around the barn and hangs from the barn ceiling. Most growers carry a 5 gallon pail when they walk the barn to pick up and dead birds. On a nasty day there are a fair few pails of birds to carry out. The Poultry Hawk will carry 6-8 pails (maybe more) and will save a lot of trips and time.
Very few smells in life compare to the smell of fresh cut alfalfa !!!! The hay we have cut right now is primarily reed canary. The ground it is on is very boggy so the fewer trips across the ground the better. It'll get raked the day before we bale it. There is a little bridge across a 6' wide ditch that needs some bolstering up for the baler to cross it. There was A LOT of creaking and groaning when the tractor and discbine went across !!!
All of the broiler barns in this area are Gold'N'Plump barns. There are a few laying barns owned by Daybreak but not many.
Looks to be time to dig the water line in !! I started on it yesterday morning right away and we're still not done. This is some hard ground !!
This picture was taken at my eye level. It's about 8.5' to the bottom where it goes under the driveway. It shouldn't freeze way down here !!
My dad stopped in while I was digging and he had to get in on the fun
After we got the waterline laid in the trench Dad was throwing the dirt in and leveling it so I could tamp it down.
This thing is a damn brain rattler. I am still walking with a bounce in my step.
This morning I started digging the well out so they can put the pitless on tomorrow. I sure went slow while doing this !!
Right about here it started to rain. It was just windy enough that the rain was blowing sideways and I was getting soaked.
It didn't get too muddy though so I was able to keep going. Gotta dig fairly evenly on all sides to keep the dirt from putting too much pressure on the pipe and breaking it.
This picture was taken at my eye level. It's about 8.5' to the bottom where it goes under the driveway. It shouldn't freeze way down here !!
My dad stopped in while I was digging and he had to get in on the fun
After we got the waterline laid in the trench Dad was throwing the dirt in and leveling it so I could tamp it down.
This thing is a damn brain rattler. I am still walking with a bounce in my step.
This morning I started digging the well out so they can put the pitless on tomorrow. I sure went slow while doing this !!
Right about here it started to rain. It was just windy enough that the rain was blowing sideways and I was getting soaked.
It didn't get too muddy though so I was able to keep going. Gotta dig fairly evenly on all sides to keep the dirt from putting too much pressure on the pipe and breaking it.