The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

Here is my first batch of chicks still getting warm, will move them to the brooder as soon as DH gets the top on it. lol


There are a few Buff Orps, Lt. Brahma's, and some RIR.

 

[ronott1]

Here is my first batch of chicks still getting warm, will move them to the brooder as soon as DH gets the top on it. lol


There are a few Buff Orps, Lt. Brahma's, and some RIR.

They look so good!

 

[drumstick diva]

who wouldn't love a box full of LIVE fuzzy butts? So sorry to hear about the DOA shipment.

It seems to be a coin toss when you have chicks shipped

 

[chickadoodles]

who wouldn't love a box full of LIVE fuzzy butts? So sorry to hear about the DOA shipment.

It seems to be a coin toss when you have chicks shipped

They look so good!

Thanks Ron.

 

[Arielle]

Here is my first batch of chicks still getting warm, will move them to the brooder as soon as DH gets the top on it. lol


There are a few Buff Orps, Lt. Brahma's, and some RIR.

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Have to laugh, because today's LOW is tomorrow's HIGH. Minus twenty Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit).

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Pic I took this morn, it looks cold but is only -20C (-4F) not the -40 fer tamorrah.

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Thought you all might like to see a glacial boulder I drive by each week...funny how glaciers just dump these...wherever!

Got a great big pot of chicken soup stock on the boil. Soup will go down real well this weekend, make me warm within fer doing meh chores.

Now they are predicting lower than originally stated temps. Forty below for Sat and Sunday with a windchill, saying -50C (-58 F)...not the worst we have seen, been -53C (-63 F) here and we managed it all. Not all springy sprung but we do get on by.


So with the nasty weather and both my spouse and I chomping at the bit to get some things completed...it is always a challenge to find good interesting projects to do where you can avoid being outside for any extended lengths of time but still be AMUSED! Chores are one thing that are always done, but playing, well that is quite another. You can be a tad more picky your poison!

Good time of year for Rick to do some of his more inside truck projects. Right now, he's getting a bunch of parts put together (cleaned up and painted) to send out to have the one of our two 1928 One Ton Chev's wooden spokes done up.

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This is the unit he is working on now. That's old girl dog Makins...Inspector Makins!

Lots of neat things on these old trucks, like the inside of the headlamps were slivered and in this case, the glass is clear and the reflector is rippled. Opposite in the 1936 Chev Maple Leafs...the reflectors are smooth and the glass is textured...makes a rock flying up rather a bit more expensive...is that an improvement or a way to make us pay more for PARTS...Hee hee hee...planned expenditures in running a truck that cost the consumers more...hee hee...

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Rick has done up some (what I find interesting) work...he refurbished the fuel canister....I find things like this neat because, well new vehicles use different technology than back then. One of the canister's leaked, so we had to go hunting in some rather odd places to find an old one that was still good to clean up and use. The worst fear is always that parts will not be available. Best when we find new old stock, but there are some places that have reproductions you may purchase...better than none at all!

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I also like learning things like the major difference on the 1928 engine from the 1927 engine in the Chevrolet one ton was the push rods are now covered...on the '27 they were open (dangerous and probably harder to keep clean too!). Engines back then were babbitted...lead was used. Only a few people that we know of now even know what we are talking about when you mention "babbitted." LOL


We agreed we did not want to invest in a wood lathe and such...so getting one set of wooden spokes done up outta hickory by someone else was a rational plan.

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This is a pic of one of our parts truck wheels...86 year old wood...on this wheel, she looks very much her age, eh?

We had the felloes sand blasted and powder coated two years ago and Rick WAS thinking of reusing the current wooden spokes. Here is one he has been working one, not terrible by any means but sure gonna be kinda spiffy to have new wood in there.





Yeh, this wheel he has refurbished would be great for making rolling stock but...note the chips on the spokes...I'd like the wheels to be completely redone, so we are. Great spring project for Rick.

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Truck is pretty old and looking at this mess that Rick had to clean up (yeh, is that really 86 years of build up? GACK!), I know now what a clean up job he had to do to get the parts cleaned, primed and painted up.

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Here are the parts all ready to be shipped out. Funny that, lotsa work done to make them look, well like they shoulda l00ked...hee hee! Like painting a chook coop...when done well, it just looks like she should...how UNgratifying. Looks like it should!

We have new rubber, tubes and liners waiting.

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The wooden spokes should be completed in May and I will be absolutely thrilled to see the new old wheels ready to go on the one truck...no longer scared to "kick the tires." Ha ha HA!

Oh yeh, and for the bird bird hearts out there...this is the decorated radiator cap on one of the 1928 Chev one tons trucks....now how very KEWL is this setup...

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"On the wings of a snow white dove..."​

So when the weather says nasty and it's gonna be forty below out...what you other "old folks" doing besides like Rick working on the indoor projects such as cutting threads in nuts and bolts with his taps and dies, cleaning and painting parts, OR like me, tossing more straw, adding more cracked corn to the rations, and making chook soup??

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Arielle]

Love to see an old truck, or old car, back on the road.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

They were straight run and I am 98% sure one is a cockerel. Full of piss and vinegar.

You'd probably think I was a cockerel if that's how you make your determination.

 

[kingfrodo]

You'd probably think I was a cockerel if that's how you make your determination.

Hey you and I must be alike! My papa always said I was full of piss and vinegar.

ps....and I'm a girl.

 

[Cynthia12]

Canuck, Had to show my DH the photos of the old truck. He wishes he had the old 1926 Model T he had back in the day, just sitting in the back of the yard. His dad..sold it for a load of coal while he was away training in the military.

He sure was disappointed when he got home, but mom and dad stayed warm.