What did you do today?

[D_Mac 8,618]

1 minute ago, ebinmaine said:

Good to have around.  

That's become Trina's go-to kitchen cookererer for campin'.    

Peppers, onions and sausage..... bacon, eggs, hash....burgers, hotdogs, and homefries. Mmmm. Yeah I looked up that piece of equipment,  guess they go for a couple thousand.  Hope he will be able to convert it propane. 

[8ntruck 6,999]

The conversion should be just a jetting change on the burners.

[ebinmaine 67,484]

13 minutes ago, D_Mac said:

Peppers, onions and sausage..... bacon, eggs, hash....burgers, hotdogs, and homefries. Mmmm. Yeah I looked up that piece of equipment,  guess they go for a couple thousand.  Hope he will be able to convert it propane. 

BBT ain't intah peppahs and I can't have on-yons but the rest.....

Oh nom nom nom nom!! 

[D_Mac 8,618]

1 minute ago, ebinmaine said:

BBT ain't intah peppahs and I can't have on-yons but the rest.....

Oh nom nom nom nom!! 

Crab cakes? Cheese steak ? Grilled cheese. Making myself hungry, maybe I should have kept it.

[19richie66 17,505]

Thanks to @953 nut, I added some yard art to the flower bed that will eventually have some kind of plants in it . After the concrete sets up I will remove the bricks under the wheels and add some more dirt to the bed. Saved some wheels that were rusted around the valve stem holes. Found a good use for yellow paint 

Edited August 21, 2022 by 19richie66

[ebinmaine 67,484]

Been some kinda warm here for a cold weather Maine Bear 🐻 today. 

Hit 90⁰ plus the last couple days. 

 

Today I worked on getting the

shed unstuffed from the wedding last weekend. We had put a pile n a half of various things in there to get the yard neatened up. 

 

Also got the large log pile left by the excavator chewed into a bit so we can cut n split that in the next few months.  

We need to at least get the pile sectioned down and moved because I need to get accurate measurements for the final location of the new building.  The logs are setting where the side of the driveway into the building will be.  

 

Here's a before n after of today's work.  

 

 

Pretty good considering the warmosity. 

 

Got about ½ a tank in and the chain went off track due to operator error. 😁

I decided at that point to disassemble the saw a bit and give it a good air powered cleaning.  

[Thompson1276 256]

Didn’t do anything listed my sears for sale and knocked my self out for the night

[Snoopy11 5,714]

Today? Hmm... I just took pictures today. But I've been working on this for years now. I actually cannot believe it myself that this pile is gone.

 

You can see the BIG pile in the background of this picture. Dozens of stumps, trees, logs, brush, everything you can imagine in that pile. Roughly 70+ feet deep into the woods, 40+ feet wide, and over 10 feet tall, stacked together.

 

 

I threw roughly 3 dozen... thousands of pound stumps into the gulley using my cable puller. The Wheel Horses have been working for this for years as well. Log after log after log. Brush galore. Stump after stump. Fire, chainsaw, tractors pulling... and BOOM.

 

 

 

 

 

When the pile was here... you can see there is a tree that has been cut. When I cut that tree down, it was in the middle of the pile, and where I cut it was at the very bottom of where I could access it. In other words, the logs were piled up to the point where I cut that tree.

 

 

There are about 3 dozen stumps like this at the bottom of the gully. This was the last one.

 

 

This is just a little of the gully area. It goes on like this for around 100 feet down the gully.

 

 

 

 

 

That area was such an eyesore... it is totally gone now.

 

These things right here... those are some legit bad behinds...  SOOOOO freakin' heavy... good thing I have a 10,000 LB cable puller...

 

 

Don

Edited August 24, 2022 by Snoopy11

[ebinmaine 67,484]

On 8/21/2022 at 8:39 PM, ebinmaine said:

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Working on this pile again today.  

 

 

[squonk 41,104]

"The shopping carts I think I'm going to try and make chairs out of them."

 

7:40 into the video. Shopping cart chair! 

 

 

[Stormin 9,981]

   Woke the Black Horse, (C-121), up this morning. Couple of squeeze's of the primer bulb and it fired up straight away.  As usually is the case, even when left standing for a while. Collected together all the bits and pieces I want to take tomorrow to the ploughing match. We're having an auction to raise money for the Heart Foundation. All money, gate, auction, raffle raised is for the charity.

  After lunch I drove through to the site with the signage I collect from the farm last night. After giving a couple of the lads a hand to finish off the erection of the tent, I went off and set out the signs to guide people to the site.

  Back home and loaded the Black Horse onto the trailer and loaded up the car. Need to be up at 6-30am, on the road by 7 and  hopefully at the site for 8am to man the gate.

  BTW. I'm not ploughing as the ground is to hard and stony. I may give it a try if time allows. We are having a static display of vehicles and machinery all being well. 

  

 

[ebinmaine 67,484]

2 minutes ago, Stormin said:

display

I don't s'pose you could take a pic or two? 

[Stormin 9,981]

 

28 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

I don't s'pose you could take a pic or two? 

 

I'll think about it. 

[ebinmaine 67,484]

Me, Trina and her mom got an impressive amount of work done today.  

 

 

Here's another part progress pic.  

 

All that brush is off the far edge of the drive basically straight past the hood of my little white Kia. 

 

Here's where we stopped for today.  

 

 

 

 

That wall o' wood

🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵 

Is ALL from today's stacking. 
Trina and her mom moved some existing piles and stacked 99% of that whole thing. 
All next year's firewood. 

 

[Handy Don 12,217]

43 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

All next year's firewood

Some serious work done there. Nice going Trina and Mom.

[ebinmaine 67,484]

3 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Some serious work done there. Nice going Trina and Mom.

Gives us a good start for sure.  Likely about ⅓ of a years wood there.  

[squonk 41,104]

Snapped the handle off of my jigsaw!   

[19richie66 17,505]

New Shoes Saturday. Finally got Jose some new shoes. Fun mounting them up with two screwdrivers and some soap. I won though. 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

After hard Work in office for an exibition and less time for me i had also not much time for my Hobbies.

That must now change.

 

 

So i decided yesterday the Boogie Van project must be pushed a little.

So i began yesterday to remove and cleanup all the Electrical mess in the Engineroom

 

 

 

 

this is one of the best repair‘s i have found.....

 

 

after i opened this connection i found lots of Wires just twisted together and insulated with gaffa Tape.

 

 

some other wires just twisted together and put in a open pipe strapped with a zip tie.

 

 

another „perfectly“ fix...

 

 

wires here and there all without any order, lot‘s of Wires where chaotic zipped together, i will remove.

A relay i have found for the Carb heater shocked me.

 

That i have found after remove the Gaffa Tape.

 

After all that findings, i didn‘t wonder it run‘s only for 5 minutes than it stalls.

It takes again 20 min break to be able to restart it.

 

I decided to remove the Pierburg Electric Carb and exchange it with a Weber 32/36 DGAV with manual Choke.

 

Separate all the Wires from the fuel water and other pipes and begin to remove unused wires exchange damaged Wires and 

give them a new Order and a Cleanup.

 

[ebinmaine 67,484]

1 hour ago, Tractorhead said:

Separate all the Wires from the fuel water and other pipes and begin to remove unused wires exchange damaged Wires and 

give them a new Order and a Cleanup

I'll be looking forward to seeing the new setup. 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

Ok, here you got.

 

after i removed all the chaos, i removed all unneeded Wires.

The Cleanup looks as follow:

 

 

There are just the needed Wires in Wellflex pipes i had here around.

 

 

New Mainwire to the Starter in 16 sqmm. The three wires in the Wellflex get later a Automotive connector,

that i was able to remove it all together at once.

Temp sensor, oil pressure Sensor and Carb electric Autochoke.

but i‘m unsure if i will using the Autochoke, we will see.

 

A new Groundwire to the Engine will come also later when Engine rework is finished.

 

 

than i removed Carb, intake manifold and Valve cover to do a closer look under the Hood.

My reason was a heavy smoker, i estimated in the Valve stem seals.

 

where i looked to the camshaft, i found a wear on the camshaft.

that causes the Engine must out of the Van and be reworked.

It is better than feared, but worser as hoped.

 

 

 

 

Also the 4. cylindre shows some Oil in it, another Sign it is time to reworked the Engine.

So i must prepare to pull the Engine...

[Stormin 9,981]

 HVC Ploughing Match photo's here. HVC Charity Poughing Match. - Show Pictures - RedSquare Wheel Horse Forum as requested. 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,484]

6 hours ago, Tractorhead said:

needed Wires

Boy does that look better.  

[ebinmaine 67,484]

Another good day of cleaning up the area in front of the future garage shop building.  

Trina and I grabbed our two favorite chainsaws (mine, Echo 33cc 16" with logging chain. hers, Kobalt 40V battery powered just recently acquired) and proceeded to section up the rest of the pile. 

 

She and her mom finished up the stacking. EASY over a cord here. Good strong start to firewood for the 23/24 season. 

 

 

We took down all the benches that were used for the wedding vows and stacked them a couple weeks ago. 

Today we fetched all the bases that were used and stacked all of them to season for next year as well.  

 

 

We got the Mackissic chipper shredder off Cinnamon Horse C160-8 for the time being and I used that tractor to haul the Monster Splitter out to the forest so we could work on firewood 🪵🪵🪵 needed for this fall. 

 

 

In order to get the splitter out through the woods we made two pathways on the side hill where all the current wood processing is happening .. one was pretty soft and tilty-ish. Enough so it basically scared the hell outta me trying to pull down through. 

While I was headed back up to the house Trina and her mom made another better more level path.  

 

 

[19richie66 17,505]

Been digging up the yard. Going to pour two 12’x12’ pads for small workshops with a covered center section between them. No permits needed for anything 12’x12’ or less. Eventually there will be a 12’x36’ or 14’x36’ concrete pad in front of it. Haven’t decided yet.