The rat race is over.

Geo-TH,In

Well-known Member
The rat race is over and the rats won! Dirt grows on my pole barn floor. Sometimes I wonder why I went to the expense of putting a concrete floor down. I bring a tractor in and the floor is a mess. Dirt seems to grow under other places too. I'm tired of sweeping and the next day it's dirty again.

Instead of using oil dry, I just relocate the dirt pile to the oil spill. The rats have won.
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I have the exact same situation. When I park the tractor the mud dries and falls off the agri-tire lugs and I sweep it under the oil and hydraulic drips.
 
In 1980 , the IH dealer I worked for built a new building. It was kind of low where he built it so it had to be built up with clay removed from surrounding area before construction. You never saw such a dam mess when it rained or spring thaw. There just was not enough good gravel to go around and even that, when a customer brought his tractor to town, it was nice and clean. Then he had to drive through the lot to get into the shop. I always swept that floor before punching in on the job as I felt it was not customers fault for all the clay, gravel etc that got drug in. I kept a nice clean shop and the other guys took the hint(most of the time) to do likewise but it sure made for a lot of extra non profit work. Now days, the Anheuser Bush distributor has that site. They added twice as many buildings and all interconnected. Nice hard surfacing every where. More money in selling beer than machinery.
 
I think you are right. It would take less time. I
just pulled a tractor out and the dryed mud fell
off, made another mess.
 
Ya need to start issueing brooms to the rats; tell them if they want to keep their happy home, to keep the shop clean; otherwise the next addition to the shop will be a cat. lol

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Too late, rats know I have a cat. Training rats to use a broom may be a lost cause. They might chew the handle off and use the broom part for a nest.
 
Clean shop floors are overrated. Like you said, the dirt is nature's oil dry.

When you have to split a tractor you will kiss that dirty concrete floor.
 
Ya need a push-broom like I've got; Steel tube handle, soft plastic bristles on the outside (for dust) and stiff Steel bristles in the middle rows. Made specifically for cleaning industrial concrete slabs. I've had mine for 46 years, excellent quality; I believe it was made by L.A. Brush Co. in Los Angeles.

Doc :>)
 
You are right, a concrete floor is escential
when splitting a tractor. I woundn't attempt to
do it on dirt. Haven't had the urge to kiss he
floor yet. I think if I get the urge to do so.
I'll sit down and wait for the urge to pass.

Everytime I change the oil, oil gets on the
floor. Even put down cardboard to soak up the
oil. Never fails oil ends up on the concrete,
dirt make a good oil dry. Some of my dirt has
sawdust in it too.
 
I know a guy that power washes every thing that has been out of the shed working before driving it in. I have never seen a truck or tractor drive out of his shed or garage with a spec of dirt on it. That guy aint me that is for sure. I only sweep up where I am going to take a picture so I don't look like the slack I is. :)^D
 
I curse two of my buildings for their concrete floor - a 40x60 and a 40x50. It sure is nice to have to work on things but I feel like I need to broom them a lot. The machine shed does get broomed often because I am down on a creeper in there. In in that building more than the house. The other is machinery storage so the floor stays fairly dirty. The pickup and grain truck are in there, but everything else gets muddy tires frequently and then leaves a clod trail. The worst messes (sorting pen/feeders) are a mile from the farm so I fling off much of it from the feeding tractor. The gravel road and a little blacktop at the corner sure look pretty on days like today.
 
I will swap my dirty gravel and damp soil barn floor for one of your annoying concrete ones any day :) Any one interested ?
 
I think it would be difficult to ship to Aus. I put
down a 6 inch floor, about 30 cubic yards, 2 ton
per yard, 60 ton. Need a big truck, bigger fork
lift and then big boat.
 
(quoted from post at 13:29:44 01/31/15) Ya need a push-broom like I've got; Steel tube handle, soft plastic bristles on the outside (for dust) and stiff Steel bristles in the middle rows. Made specifically for cleaning industrial concrete slabs. I've had mine for 46 years, excellent quality; I believe it was made by L.A. Brush Co. in Los Angeles.

Doc :>)

I have a push broom about like that. I don't like it, it holds the dirt in the bristles, much worse than regular push brooms.
 

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