What was your prep of the day?

[Box of frogs]

Felled a 60 foot pin oak last weekend. The bottom was rotting out and it was too close to the power line.
Split the tree into firewood this week, finished it today. Probably 1.75-2 cords of wood yielded from the effort.
I will enjoy the fires in the wood stove with a glass of bourbon this December.
BoF

[Box of frogs]

Ordered seed potatoes today.
Collards, Cabbage, Beets, Cauliflower started in seed cups for the fall garden.
Will transplant in a week or two.
BoF

[T-Man 1066]

Felled a 60 foot pin oak last weekend. The bottom was rotting out and it was too close to the power line.
Split the tree into firewood this week, finished it today. Probably 1.75-2 cords of wood yielded from the effort.
I will enjoy the fires in the wood stove with a glass of bourbon this December.
BoF

Yep, we dropped a red oak that a 24" saw wouldn't make it through. Tried to save the trunk as saw wood... might be too rotted. F'n heavy, my #5000 forklift could barely lift about a 14' section of it...

[Slippy]

Felled a 60 foot pin oak last weekend. The bottom was rotting out and it was too close to the power line.
Split the tree into firewood this week, finished it today. Probably 1.75-2 cords of wood yielded from the effort.
I will enjoy the fires in the wood stove with a glass of bourbon this December.
BoF

Good work my man!

I've been known to mutter (as of late) that if I ever use a chainsaw again, it will be too soon!

[BucketBack]

Donated the out dated, off brand cream of mushroom soup to make room for the new in date Campells brand that's GMO altered brand

The in date cans taste bad as it is...

[T-Man 1066]

I am getting tired of my hoarder tendencies, and am trying to remedy that.
Sold my combine last week. I quit row cropin about 5 years ago, machine shop eats most of my time and energy now, so it went. Only farm stuff left is the 16' rotary hoe and a busted 24' drag.

Sold my old forklift yesterday. Guy came to pick it up, we couldn't get it to stay running, the propane solenoid is not opening up worth a crap. so I got the slidloader, dragged it out of the barn, went to push it onto the guy's tilt deck equipment trailer. Apparently the wood was kinda rotted, forklift tire fell through the deck. Had to unload it, he went and grabbed a couple 4' x 8' x 3/8" steel plates. Came back, we got that gone.

Sold my 30 HP 4 cylinder 2 stage air compressor. I bought a 30 HP screw compressor and air dryer about 4 years ago, had to take the 2 stage as well, didn't want it.

I have some machinery in the barn that belongs to a friend, he is starting to take some of that out, so I am atleast getting some space.

Next week hopefully I will make it the the scrap yard with the 26' trailer full of stuff.

I used to life by the motto, "Free is for Me". Just end up with shit I will never use.

I got a 4 station automated hydraulic cylinder testing machine and power unit that doesn't work. Old shop was junking it, thought I needed it. 4 years later, never once had a use for it or anything on it. Time to go. It's 14' long and 4 ft wide, so that will free up some space.

Cast iron disease I call it...

[Slippy]

T-Man,

I think you'll appreciate that FREEDOM sometimes means getting rid of "FREE" stuff that burdens/clutters our space and minds...I work hard to get rid of things that I don't use. Depending on the item, if I don't use it after 1 year I re-evalute it. Some items make it 5 years.

Obviously, some items are meant to be stored long term...JUST IN CASE!

I am getting tired of my hoarder tendencies, and am trying to remedy that.
Sold my combine last week. I quit row cropin about 5 years ago, machine shop eats most of my time and energy now, so it went. Only farm stuff left is the 16' rotary hoe and a busted 24' drag.

Sold my old forklift yesterday. Guy came to pick it up, we couldn't get it to stay running, the propane solenoid is not opening up worth a crap. so I got the slidloader, dragged it out of the barn, went to push it onto the guy's tilt deck equipment trailer. Apparently the wood was kinda rotted, forklift tire fell through the deck. Had to unload it, he went and grabbed a couple 4' x 8' x 3/8" steel plates. Came back, we got that gone.

Sold my 30 HP 4 cylinder 2 stage air compressor. I bought a 30 HP screw compressor and air dryer about 4 years ago, had to take the 2 stage as well, didn't want it.

I have some machinery in the barn that belongs to a friend, he is starting to take some of that out, so I am atleast getting some space.

Next week hopefully I will make it the the scrap yard with the 26' trailer full of stuff.

I used to life by the motto, "Free is for Me". Just end up with shit I will never use.

I got a 4 station automated hydraulic cylinder testing machine and power unit that doesn't work. Old shop was junking it, thought I needed it. 4 years later, never once had a use for it or anything on it. Time to go. It's 14' long and 4 ft wide, so that will free up some space.

Cast iron disease I call it...

[T-Man 1066]

T-Man,

I think you'll appreciate that FREEDOM sometimes means getting rid of "FREE" stuff that burdens/clutters our space and minds...I work hard to get rid of things that I don't use. Depending on the item, if I don't use it after 1 year I re-evalute it. Some items make it 5 years.

Obviously, some items are meant to be stored long term...JUST IN CASE!

Yea, I get that. Truth be told, I have got rid of ALOT of things. At one time, I had 16 or so garden tractors, now down to 4. Got rid of 6 big tractors, only keeping 2 little ones. My Jubilee and my C. 4 corn planters, a junk drill, etc.

I got 2 Bridgeports I am going to sell along with a lathe, welding table, surface grinder, two T&C grinders, a couple floor type drill presses, and I may offload my laser marker. Got a couple other grinders just going to scrap.

Also in the shop I have been trying to go through random boxes of "free" tooling, some of which I have had for 25+ years. Getting rid of anything broken, burned up, dull / not worth re-sharpening, or custom made for a specialty job I don't have. Then actually sort everything worth keeping, which is about 20% of the "free" stuff. I did pick up more industrial multi-drawer cabinets so I can sort and label, and more importantly, FIND what I am looking for.

[Sparkyprep]

Ok, so I have a confession to make. I have been off work for the past 32 days. A much-needed break. I go back to work tomorrow. I spent some time in the Bahamas and did some relaxing. However, I also got a lot of work done around here, but I have been lazy about reporting in every day. So, I'll list what I accomplished this month.....

Fell a 60 ft. pine tree that was struck by lightning and made a burn pile.

Removed and rebuilt the roof, including framing, on my well pump house.

Cleaned up my shop.

Replaced some of the lighting in my shop.

Cut up some oak wood and gave it to my brother for firewood.

Did some maintenance on my RZR. Oil and filter change, air filter change, new spark plugs.

Mowed my pastures.

Washed and waxed the tractor.

Cleaned out the chicken coop and replaced the bedding.

Test-ran my generator.

Cleaned out my food supplies of old food, and replaced.

Added a few Wise food buckets to the food supplies.

Installed an antique cast iron fireplace in my bedroom. It was a gift from my son.

Built a new cattle chute to make loading cows into the livestock trailer easier.

[Inor]

Ordered the "fall" batch of meat chickens today. But due to the chicken shortage, these will actually end up being a winter batch. I could have had them delivered in November, but that would mean they would be ready for cleaning in late January/early February. Since February is usually a wet/cool month, I decided to have them sent the first week in January. That will mean cleaning them will be in late March/early April once the calendar is working more in our favor. That also means our fall batch next year will have to come earlier than normal. But that is not really a big deal I guess. It is not like we are short on meat in the freezers right now.

I also ordered 3 new carburetors for my weed whip. I normally try to keep some extra parts on hand for all of our power tools, especially 2-cycle engines since AZ does not sell gas without ethanol at any price. (You can get it premixed in cans at the hardware store but it is stupid expensive - $20+ per gallon!). So it is just cheaper and easier to keep a supply of extra carburetors on hand for all of the tools. I thought I had at least 2-3 sets of everything for all of our tools but somehow I missed the weed whip. Oh well, they will be here tomorrow, so I should be set moving froward.