The nice thing is that it is good to do to remind you what you could be doing for a living. Hard labor sucks. Especially in prison
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What did you do to / in your garage / shop today?
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The nice thing is that it is good to do to remind you what you could be doing for a living. Hard labor sucks. Especially in prison
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I’ve always loved to dig. I got my PHD at 6 putting up chain link fencing for my Dad’s company. I have a gas powered post hole digger and gas powered T-post driver. Makes life much easier. I put in 300’ of 8’ chainlink with barbed wire last yr by myself. At 64 I can still out work the youngins .
I live in an area that is 0" to 12" of clay on top of solid limestone. The aquifer that my 800' deep well draws from is just about out of water, and there are no water mains within about 6 miles of our place. My only option is rainwater collection and treatment. I've been slowly preparing for that. About two years ago, I put about 1500 ft of 3", 4", and 6" collection pipe in the ground. I had to use two rock saws (one was a 40 ton monster) and a jackhammer to do it, and it took me one long, hot summer to get it done. I'm not quite as old as you, but almost there (incidentally, I'm also a native Cheesehead).
The rock saws don't leave a clean trench, so after using the saws to cut the rock into dust mixed with clay, I had to shovel the trenches. I used a mini-excavator for the wide trenches cut for the 6" pipe, but for the narrower pipe, the mini-ex bucket was too wide. I hired some young fellers from one of our construction crews to help shovel on a Saturday. Wow, are they lazy! I run our engineering company, but if I ran our construction company, I'd go out of my mind. I cleared 2' of trench for every 1' that two youngins, not even half my age, cleared. They actually stood leaning on their shovels watching me work. At noon, I paid them for a half-day's work and sent them packing, and said that I'm not paying fellers to watch ME work!
This country's in a world of hurt if Russia, or China, or North Korea decide Biden and his hapless administration are defeatable...
Well since Mom is gone to heaven now, we are trying to stay busy and keep Dad occupied. Pictures from last year in the garage.
Yesterday and today clean up organizing all that big equipment and moving some around.
We moved the big Kubota mower and leaf bagger, the Zero turn Kubota and the Thomas Built garden tractor to our small garage.
Now I have a garage to work on the Jeep and as the one picture show any of our equipment.
Anyone need a place to turn wrenches and wants to come up the door will always be open.
Now I have a garage to work on the Jeep and as the one picture show any of our equipment.
Anyone need a place to turn wrenches and wants to come up the door will always be open.
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks bud!!!! She is a lot better off now, she was diagnosed with alzhimers 10 years ago, only the last 2 were hard on us (caregivers). So we spend our time trying to help dad stay busy.
Trenching at Greg’s Gulag, my 12yo son agreed to do it for $.50/ft. Good Midwest soil but ran into a few roots. He got screwed. He’s got a degree from Purdue now but still can handle manual labor.
Good on ya for raisin' him right! And gettin' him through Purdue. Was it an engineering degree?
He debated engineering but went for Agronomy. (Plant and soil science)
He’s doing his own thing, some agronomy, helping me on the farm and farming some of his own, welding and fabricating for local farmers. Drainage tile install and repair.
Here’s another pic from the same era. We’ve got 35 acres of woods. The ash borers decimated ash trees. We installed an outdoor boiler to use the wood.
When he was in college he asked when I was going to quit burning wood and buy LP gas. My response: “how much does your apartment cost at college?” (Which I was paying for) he mumbled something but still helped split firewood.
His sister didn’t skate by either
When all the ash trees are slit and burned is when I’ll be done.
When he was in college he asked when I was going to quit burning wood and buy LP gas. My response: “how much does your apartment cost at college?” (Which I was paying for) he mumbled something but still helped split firewood.
His sister didn’t skate by either
When all the ash trees are slit and burned is when I’ll be done.
I asked because it's a top engineering school (I started grad school there a long time ago, but the racing bug had me quitting to do that). It's probably an even better ag school than an engineering school, though!
By the way is the Triple XXX still in business on the hill there in West Lafayette? Until I tried a Duane Purvis Burger, I never would have thought peanut butter on a burger was palatable. I haven't had it since, but it wasn't as bad as it sounds!
Well, that would be a new one to me, but I'd be game. It's hard to screw up a burger (within reason, of course). The Duane Purvis Burger doesn't have jam/jelly on it. Just peanut butter. It's named after a Purdue football player from way back who liked PB on his burgers. The only time I ever made it to the Twin Cities was for corporate events when I worked for Polaris. I'm a country boy, so I always feel hemmed in when I'm in the city.
I’d stay away from it to if I could
The PB & J
Stuffed with creamy peanut butter & American cheese, this delicious burger is topped with strawberry jam.
Congratulations/kudos for taking on the task, you definitely have my respect! Our family ran point as caregivers when my Grandma got it and passed away from Alzheimer’s. 7 years of yesterday was better than today.