Helpful hints for building coops

[aart]

I can't believe they would sell one without a battery ???
what are you supposed to do with it?

Well, I think it's because of the multiple tools folks have that run on the same batteries.
Think they are all available with or without batteries...
....or could be a 'sucker the dummies in' low price marketing ploy.

I found my battery wacker Monday; outside on the junk pile ..
still raining and 40F.

So how long has it been there....got batteries?

Raining again here too, but near 60.

 

[jvls1942]

I imagine it has been on the pile since last year.
when I was cleaning the garage .
no battery. DD found it at a rummage sale. cheap or free.. she probably thought that I might get it going somehow.. I didn't look at it too closely, but in the archives of my mind I think it has a rechargable battery built in it.
or else it might be one that you use an electric cord with ?? in any case, it didn't work..
.........jiminwisc.......

 

[jvls1942]

Art , I stumbled upon a B&D trimmer for under $100.oo on Amazon.

LSTE 525 20A two batteries included.
$89.oo
FYI

 

[CapricornFarm]

The garden is doing great!

 

[jvls1942]

you are way ahead of us..
39F this morning. heading for mid 50's this afternoon.
our plum tree is trying to bud out.. grass is turning green.
still too wet to drag the garden with the tractor..
........jiminwisc.......

 

[NewBoots]

Just got back from the Linton Feed Store. I couldn't even find a good excuse, just went to fawn over the baby chicks. OMG SO CUTE!!! I honestly had more trouble not buying the vegetable seedlings than the chicks but either one would just make the move harder.

Most (but not enough) of our stuff is in the storage unit. The handyman has been a total no/show, no/communicate, the landscaper pulled the same trick. What is it with these guys? Are they that busy they can afford to just blow customers off?

We have a guy building the 6' solid fence along the west side and waiting on a bid for the back of the property. They've started building the house and the slab is supposed to be ready by the time the house is. Same with the shed/workshop.

9 more weeks of work...

 

[jvls1942]

the squeaking wheel gets greased..
I worked for a carpenter , his daily job was where the people were crying the loudest. I never knew where I would be working until I got to work in the morning..
I was sent to mud some drywall. the people told me that he had been there for two months.. the next day I was sent somewhere else.. LOL
I spent one summer overbooked. It got so bad that I didn't know who to please next.. after I got all those jobs done, I told Annie, Never again.. from then on it was one job at a time.
I told people the truth. If they chose to wait, fine..if not...
I know I lost jobs because of it, but that was my choice..
you might have to come up with a real good sob story to get your projects done..
today we went to a brunch , courtesy of DD#2..it was at a local rural dance hall..
they had 6 long tables set up..probably 60 people at each. buffet style. as people left, others were on hand to take their places..
great breakfast and dinner food. desserts and salad bar.. we were home before noon. as we left there were cars pulling in..
I need a nap.. I can hear the couch calling me,
jim, ji im.. I need slee........

 

[NewBoots]

Fortunately I know how to do everything we need to have done I just can't do it all in time. I'm taking a week off so we should be able to get a lot of the most urgent stuff done. Hopefully we can get the painter to show up. The cleaner bid 300 for a final cleaning so we're good there.

 

[jvls1942]

did I get it right ? you are putting a house on a concrete slab ?
what kind of thermal break are they putting into the concrete ? if any..
cold will radiate into concrete and it will be cold along all the outside walls , won't it ? just wondering ..

 

[NewBoots]

It's a manufactured home and it'll be about 30 or 36 inches above the slab on cinder blocks. According to what we are told, that's the best way. As far as cold goes, the temperature rarely drops below freezing in the wintertime at the coast.

Had a minor disaster today. We were trying to move a massively heavy exercise bike and it slipped and hit the water pipe that supplies the house and that immediately started leaking water from behind the drywall. I ran to Ace to get a street supply wrench and when I got home I had my DP turn on the kitchen and bath faucets to lower the water pressure on the supply pipe and got the water turned off at the meter.

Good news is we have lots of out of date emergency water bottles stored in the basement for hand washing and flushing. Bad news is we can't get a plumber out here until tomorrow.

Oh well, it's a good excuse to take it easy the rest of the day. We had already gotten a lot done. Time to send for another dumpster, it's amazing how much junk builds up in 25 years or so. I love purging.