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When the house was on fire Marianne asked the firemen if they could spray down the pen when they could. The aluminum frame of a 8×12 greenhouse 4′ away melted, the quaking aspen you can see growing up through the pen had all it’s leaves singed, but the chickens didn’t even have a ruffled feather. They must have hid out in the coop. :unsure:
No Bob, this is a part of about a 30′ x 20′ coop. I’ve got 22 accidental free ranging chickens! :wacko: There’s a 10’x8′ walk in coop to the left and a walkway inside the coop not shown.
Three weeks later and I about broke my back after work today clearing 6 feet of snow between two cars to get to the hay in the tractor shed to put on the ground in the chicken coop, or should I say chicken soup? What a mess. The snow load on the chicken wire roof was too much for the compromised burned 4×4’s supporting it . What’s holding up this whole cloning thing? I need about 5 more of me’s right now :wacko:
We’re just getting started on the house. I found out Deschutes County takes two to three months just to pull permits! (neighboring Crook County takes a few weeks) so I put that off for the winter for this very reason. We got three feet in one day, followed by another foot the next, with small amounts almost every other day. It broke a record from 1908 for February. The other day a 200 lb. icicle fell off a roof in Bend, damaging the house and breaking off the gas meter. https://www.ktvz.com/news/200-pound-bend-icicle-causes-damage-natural-gas-leak/1053534967 The next day the same thing happened to two houses in Madras. Can you picture a house in progress with 4 feet of snow on the bare floor and soaked studs and joists? I’m glad I chose to ride out a few extra months in the 5th wheel to avoid squeaky warped floors and a mold nightmare in a new house. :scratch:
Fast forward a couple weeks from the picture in “general chit chat” and it was time to clear a couple hundred feet of driveway as the black tank was full 🙁 The first pic is the car unburied. The initial clearing and finding the clean-out took a good part of the day. That box blade is a life saver, you can see it clearing a nice smooth surface in front of the transfer tank on the way down the driveway.
PEX does seem to be the way things are going, I’ve noticed the home improvement stores are full of fittings for it. A few years back one of the bigger local car shows (over 1,000 cars) had 2 first place, 2 seconds, 2 thirds and 2 forth place trophies. This fellow did the body and paint work on every one of them.
Because I’m digging up existing for temporary use only I can keep it buried as is. When the new house is built it will all have to be 3′ deep, in conduit. Not sure what code is for size and type of line for the water but I do know that will be 3′ deep as well, and I’m pretty sure it’ll have to be something better than the nobody even sells anymore paper thin 1-1/4 brittle PVC I’m digging up now. :negative: I’m convinced that the roots from all the 30′ spruce trees along the route have compromised the old pipe, we never had anywhere near the water pressure I have now hooking up right by the back flow valve.
And now on another note. I stopped by a customers house who’s mostly retired and finishing up one of his own projects, a 57 Chevy panel. Not to shabby, eh?
Hi Bob, no reconstruction yet, and I’d rather that wait until spring anyway. Our winters are cold and snowy, by spring the sky stays pretty clear here in the high desert. Building now would go a lot slower and wetter. I really don’t want moldy walls or floors that dry out later and squeak. As for the power and water the water is around a foot away from the power, two feet deep in a styrofoam box filled with fiberglass insulation. That’s all going to have to be dug another foot deeper to meet today’s code. At the left lower corner is where I’m bringing the cable closer to the driveway, I don’t want more than 50′ of extension cord. The reason so much is dug up is that the engineer for CEC (Central Electric Coop) wants enough to go up the post without a splice, and I’m moving it 8′ closer to the driveway.
