Outstanding thread, thank you for sharing. I've always stated my dream is have a plot of land, out in the country, woods nearby, and peace and quiet. Very exciting times, and best of luck to you! I am vicariously living through yourself and members like WeldrDave buying property to retire on and building their forever home.
Well, the wife spent the week in the camper at Glasir. Monday 11/20, she was supposed to have had a job interview so she went down Sunday, 11/19. It’s a 110 mile drive from our current residence. as luck would have it, she got a call Sunday to the unwelcome news that one of the interviewers went to the hospital over the weekend and could they reschedule to the following Monday. Uh sure. i started a new gig and rented a hopper bottom trailer that should carry me through to the spring hauling soybean seed. Nice part of it is, the routes I drive are all on the roads that take me directly past Glasir. I was able to pick her up and she rode with for a day and I was also able to spend one night at home as well. We left the semi at the farm as it’s saving me about 150 miles of driving in The semi I won’t be putting on it for the thanksgiving weekend. Add in her getting a job in the area too, we’ll be looking at moving 2 years earlier. I met with the hematologist on conference call Tuesday this week. “The good news is the blood testing came back negative for indicators of genetic causes for blood clots. You did test positive for Covid though. That’s likely what caused your pulmonary embolism.” Those blood draws were a MONTH ago. And I just got told the results.
Good news about being able to move earlier than planned. Nice looking trailer and of course the truck
Things sound like they're looking up I hope you and your Bride and doggies have a great Thanksgiving weekend.
The task should you accept the challenge is to reinstall the door to the door track to allow you to close off the one end of the Quonset shed to stop the wind tunnel effect… we keep the camper in the Quonset to protect it from the elements and also help keep it warmer in the winter. sometime last year, the door fell off the track. I wasn’t able to get it back on the track. But I at least got the door back up to slow the wind flow through the building.
I know you have a lot of work ahead of you but having that structure is a great thing, Some of us are envious, especially up in your neck of the woods. I've never felt a Minnesota winter, but I have done a few Wisconsin ones!
that structure is a heaven send. Just having a bit of protection from the elements, even not perfect is appreciated. this is life’s work coming to reality.
Thanks. the skid steer made it so much easier to accomplish. some kind of machinery is needed for sure to do this stuff.
I have an old 1973 IH backhoe loader up at my place in New Hampshire. The fuel lines are all gunked in with sludge and sediment. I gotta clean the tank and blow out all the fuel lines. Having equipment is essential.
Loaded up the skidsteer to take it back north to clean up the rented wood yard and pushed up the woodpile. Couple weeks ago when I brought the skidsteer down, the reality hit how to support the rear of the trailer to load.
I’ll see your dump trailer. So I loaded, well started to load all the cherry wood into the dump trailer. I was looking at 2-3 trips of 220 miles a full round to get all that pile to the farm wood yard. No way was I going to make one load out of that pile. And raise you a side dumper. brain child told me since I have to haul the side dump to the farm anyway… use it. That will let me get one trip down there with all the wood logs.
Friday I spoke with the rural water company. past a 300’ service line, they recommend installing a 2” pvc feeder line and then feeding with a 1” PVC. the mill idea isn’t going to happen. We started talking this week about building a cottage food flour mill. One of the requirements is to earn no more than $78,000 gross sales. The mill measured 460 feet from the Rural water tap. so now we’re looking to lay a 2” service main to that end of the lot since the shop exceeds even the 300’ limit. two things limit the 300’… is pressure drop. Flow rate and pressure on a 1” line just get too low. Service line can NOT contain a splice to the service location. Unless I want to spend big bucks to get a 1000’ roll… plus the granular foundation is 1 1/2” minus rock, minimum thickness is 12”. Granular fill over the top is a 1”minus rock, 12” minimum. In a 450’ trench, that’s 66 yards of rock. 22 loads for the dump trailer.. 4 loads with the side dump. under the driveway we have to place 1/2” rigid foam insulation on top of the fill. the entire trench also needs geo textile fabric above to prevent dirt from settling into the granular fill gaps. ETA… the entire project has to be done such that the water line is no less that 18” below the frost line (42”) and no greater than below 84” depth.
We have a local supply house that has 500' rolls too...another way to buy it is to talk with a plumber or contractor that might have some partial 1000' rolls laying around...
Got a firewood buddy that is a licensed designer for a plumbing contractor. he’s been a god send this weekend putting plans together. I have to submit some kind of formal plan to the county too for an install permit. since this is all non/conductive plastic pipe, it needs a tracer wire installed on it too. Talk about a million details that will go into this project. rock is like $11/ ton. So likely be buying 100 ton of rock.
The fruits of my labor this weekend. Hard to believe all that loose wood went into the side dump. I’d have had 3-4 trips in the dump trailer. Cleaned up nice.
