The Old Folks Home

[Wisher1000]

There will be NO dismantling of our security system here, Peeps! You just stick to your coop building.

That project is both useful, and aesthetically pleasing.

 

[hennible]

I do.... self taught Manufacturing engineer here....  Dad worked at area 51...  He was always tinkering in his lab which was the spare bedroom... Next to mine.  He was self taught too....  His specialty was high speed machines...  One of the first to automate Contact lens manufacture.  Me... I make things better easier to build with fewer parts.

I will be cobbling up stuff out of the refuse bin....  tuning the TV to get better reception....  the math I know... where to look it up if I need it  Machinerys guide was my bible...  That and McMaster Carr.

deb "Who designed her chicken coop in Solidworks..."

 

My dad was a heavy duty mechanic with a flair for crazy experiments.... The most memorable ones being a pulse jet engine ( boom went the shop ) a moonshine still made with a microwave ( it worked ) and we had some good time harvesting hydrogen from water... Set some off in a plastic bottle man that thing dented the 12' high shop ceiling
We had fun.... Yes it was dangerous who cares i learned about browns gas

 

[getaclue]

hennible, following my DH around for awhile, I learned all I need to know about brown gas, and yes it's dangerous.

 

[hennible]

Getaclue your DH sounds like a crazy guy
I bet I'd like him

 

[vehve]

Egg production is on the rise! It seems Virpi has resumed her duties today too, it's a three egg day. Wilma still showing no signs of giving up her broodiness. Karin thinks we should throw a couple of eggs under her

 

[hennible]

Do it!!

 

[Double Kindness]

My bf has a metal workshop out back and has built me all manner of things, like our closed loop hydrocarbon extraction system for plant oil extractions (lavender etc ) 6 years ago, it's awesome to have tinkering skills.

My next coop I'm being so particular about, so idk when it's even going to start. I gotta have someplace to put my chickens soon that are in the barn. 4 more weeks until 30 birds go to freezer camp.

 

[hennible]

I have 1 extra roo I should send to camp but getting all set up for one bird seems like too much trouble..
Double kindness can I get a hydrocarbon extraction system too?

 

[LindaB220]

Oh cheese and crackers! I forgot Orlando Bloom.... Wow that guys pretty. For some reason I really like him as the elf Legolas in lord of the rings

He rides a horse perchie.girl

He played the victim in an old 1998 or so "Midsommer Murders" segment. Brown hair. Maybe 20. Not much yet.

 

[LindaB220]

Thanks. Truth be told, though, I think engineering is in the genes. Grandpa was a high-level civil engineer who designed the S.F. Bay Bridge and assorted tunnels into Yosemite...He almost was assigned Hoover Dam, but opted to reside in the S.F. Bay Area instead (I think Grandma in her way convinced him that she didn't want to raise 4 youngsters in Las Vegas with no air conditioning). And those genes filtered down... Uncle Bruce worked in Los Alamos on the bomb and later was a designer electrician for Westinghouse (creating the lights used in movie productions); Uncle Bob designed beautiful garden landscapes, my dad designed business forms (back before they were all templates on computers). And assorted cousins got the engineering affliction: One now works at Los Alamos in chemical engineering, one designs for Tesla, and I wake up doing geometry equations in my head. Can't explain it, really. But building stuff, I've found, is just a whole lot of math (angles) and a little bit of art...and maybe some attention to detail.

Yes, definitely in the genes. Unfortunately, I didn't get those. I DO know what a hammer looks like.