Farm and Garden

[Uncle Gump]

Well the compost made it to the garden... and it's 87 degrees. This is getting tilled in tomorrow morning.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Got the plywood on yesterday, doing more drafting on my walls so I know what my next purchase of materials will be. Seems like anything I build gets revised as I go until its done. Thinking of making the nesting boxes accessible from inside the supply area, going with sliding style doors instead of a conventional swing door. Right now its merely a deck. More to come!
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A friend of mine made his coop so that you can reach the nests thru the wall. Open the little door and grab the eggs from under the chicken. I think you should do the same from your supply room. Or is that what you were planning?

 

[racsan]

A friend of mine made his coop so that you can reach the nests thru the wall. Open the little door and grab the eggs from under the chicken. I think you should do the same from your supply room. Or is that what you were planning?

Yes- at first I was thinking of the nest boxes protruding into the supply area, then I thought, why not just have a drop-down door on the wall that is the backside of the nest boxes? It wont take space away from the supply room and can clean out the nest boxes from outside the coop area. I will have a big sliding door on the north wall, just lock the birds in their outdoor area and clean out the main shelter into a yard trailer. Im unsure of what to use for flooring. Bare 3/4 plywood? rubber mats? kitchen linoleum? ceramic tile? Im a aways from that, might be the last thing done besides paint. Ive made a roost already, its 2x4’s and looks like a ladder, mount it sideways along the south wall. Its in the kennel-coop now, so they will have at least 1 thing they are used to.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Last one I saw the used a remnant of some vinyl kitchen flooring. Easy clean up with a wet mop.

 

[Roert42]

I just painted the floor with Killz, I painted the whole thing with it. Seems to hold up ok, I use a garden hose to scrape the poo off out of the coop when I clean it.

 

[CrabGuy]

The sheet vinyl flooring works great. My son has chickens and he used a remnant that was super inexpensive. He curved it up the walls about 6" so he can hose it off after sweeping out the chips. Most coatings will probably deteriorate over time, especially if chemicals are used to disinfect the coop.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Well it rained most the day Monday. Today was nice enough to let me get finished up. Take a little run tomorrow for some plants. It will be up and running by mothers day.

That was the second picture... Goober photo bombed me on the first...

I love that bone head anyway....

 

[scotts90ranger]

Been fairly busy around the house while I've been home and not helping my brother or doing something else... A couple weeks ago I pulled a couple of the posts left over from the picket fence that was removed before I bought the house, they cut them off just about flush, the two I pulled weren't in concrete or anything, was going to pull a couple on Saturday but they were, and half covered in asphalt... so I'll just cut them shorter (they're tall enough to hit the mower deck which is annoying). Then this last weekend I decided to dig out my ditch that's annoying to mow, put in drainage tile between the two culverts, cover with underlayment fabric then fill in, put a few inches of sand I have had stacked up (was there when I bought the house) over the underlayment then will fill up with the dirt from the next project. When I dug out the spot for the shop it left a little bit of a berm, that combined with the indents from the trenching for power I decided to work up part of the yard, started off with the 3 point disc but it's not heavy enough and neither is my tractor so I switched to the tiller which worked very nice, at least the disc got through the grass which made it nicer... also put the 3pt finish mower on that same day and mowed the back yard, grass was too tall and wet for the riding mower...

 

[Roert42]

Had 4 yards of mushroom soil dropped at the house and used the little Honda loader to fill the box. Beats the hell out of using a wheel barrel and a shovel. Used about three yard and put about one in the back of the ranger to deliver to the in-laws.

 

[Uncle Gump]

At my old house... I filled my raised beds with mushroom compost. Amazing stuff.

I bought my plants Friday I think... and it's been to muddy since. Been nice today so maybe I can plant tomorrow.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I wasn't happy with how flat the lawn area was so I disked it again so I can start over with harrows... last time I disked there was something that made the disk mad, found it tonight... a 2'x3' by 4" chunk of concrete a couple inches down...

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

I wasn't happy with how flat the lawn area was so I disked it again so I can start over with harrows... last time I disked there was something that made the disk mad, found it tonight... a 2'x3' by 4" chunk of concrete a couple inches down...

How much weird crap do you have in your yard...

Like a year or two ago you found the corpse of a house...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

@Mrs. Eighty Five thought we needed a bottle lamb. I really didn't think we did. So we compromised and got a bottle lamb.



But wait there is more! It is getting a friend tomorrow.

Time to do tractor things again!



Monitor is installed.



Gotta install the soybean meters



Time for seed



Making sure it was working, my little "helper" found a partial ear of corn from last year and was kind enough to plant the seeds for me.



Smooth sailin'



Done for one day



Covering more ground on day #2



Pulled over to shift seed beans around in the boxes as I was starting to get low.





And 6 days later!



It was the first time running the 7000 on the WD-45 and it was a riot. Tractor is very maneuverable and has excellent visibility. Hand clutch worked great for live hydraulics. Awesome to have a monitor and decent markers unlike the old 1240. 10/10, will do again.

 

[scotts90ranger]

How much weird crap do you have in your yard...

Like a year or two ago you found the corpse of a house...

No idea how much weird junk is left, kinda wish I knew... I wasn't expecting that kind of surprise there... I've found concrete and asphalt in other places... Found the front angle of a hack saw last time around... There's an unnatural burm on part of the property that's I'm sure all fill dirt I'm sure I'd find all sorts of stuff... when working up the back part of the property a few years ago I found an old faucet, hose clamp, in the pond I found 10' of chain and a partial roll of barb wire fencing... not to mention the 6' deep hole of lumber and truss scraps when I was digging post holes for the shop... the house has been here for 110 years though so it's seen some things...

 

[Curious Hound]

No idea how much weird junk is left, kinda wish I knew... I wasn't expecting that kind of surprise there... I've found concrete and asphalt in other places... Found the front angle of a hack saw last time around... There's an unnatural burm on part of the property that's I'm sure all fill dirt I'm sure I'd find all sorts of stuff... when working up the back part of the property a few years ago I found an old faucet, hose clamp, in the pond I found 10' of chain and a partial roll of barb wire fencing... not to mention the 6' deep hole of lumber and truss scraps when I was digging post holes for the shop... the house has been here for 110 years though so it's seen some things...

Next time, instead of discing it, invite a bunch of treasure hunters over with their metal detectors. It'll be tilled up In no time.