What's your rainy day projects?

Rain yesterday, rain all day today.
Yesterday I cleared off my desk, a mountain of receipt that need entered them into the computer and filed away. Also had to get my oxygen and acetylene tanks filled.
Today it's time to change oil on tractors and grease terramite inside pole barn. Then clean off workbenches and put things away. I don't know who leaves tools on bench when they get done.

The radar shows solid green, so I'm need to take my time. Wouldn't want to run out of things to do.

What's your rainy day projects?

Post harvest cleanup.....wrenches, wagons, combine etc. Need to be cleaned up and put away....then the paperwork,ugghh!
Ben

Ben,
Nurse in charge of bedpans says her job isn't done until all the paperwork is done, ....agree paperwork,ugghh!

I need to reset the tank on the feed truck. Pull it off the back and clean it out. Service the pump motor calibrate the meter.Check the seals and hoses. Get it ready for the season. But with all this rain I will probably stay in bed. Can't do much with all this rain. Work has to be done outside.

Well, I could just copy your post and cover most of today.

I picked up an old Landoll three-point chisel plow to try behind my 4430. It is eleven shanks, seven in the main frame with a wing on each side carrying two shanks each. Without installing the duals, I had less-than-sufficient traction pulling it in one of my flatter fields and bean stubble. My rear tires are about 20% tread, which is just fine for the main tractor use of pulling the discbine, and I don't have any burning desire to install/remove the duals for a few acres of tillage every couple of years.

I originally bought it with the idea to remove three of the shanks and use them in the vineyard after spreading manure- I have a single-bottom subsoiler that has the same sized main beam- I plan to remove the subsoiler shank and install three of the chisel shanks and see if I can pull it with one of the narrow tractors.

With the wings removed, the donor plow is just as wide as the 4430, and I suspect it will do just fine with only seven shanks behind it. Now we've had more rain, and I probably will have to wait to test it out.

This plow was a real Frankenstein creature- I think I have identified four different types of shanks amongst the eleven. Three similar ones with spring setups will be used on the vineyard model. The others are spaced evenly across the donor frame, with one oddball extra left off. Must have had a rough life early on.

I wish I had the time and shop space for a restoration- sandblast and paint, all new hardware, etc. At this point, I'm just doing my best to get it all back together as is. The side sections have a hinge pin to allow the wings to fold back and get through a gate, those are rusted solid, so I'm in the process of cutting them off to remove the wings. If ever needed, I'll clear them out of the hinge and replace them.

After that project is done, back to cleaning equipment and prepping it for storage and packing the barns full.

I built a wood duck house for our son, he has a nice little river in his backyard. otherwise I'm about ready for winter, heading to the cabin today for some fishing, deer hunting starts Saturday.

Probably just stay at work and get some OT.

I'll be wet and miserable working out in the rain. Stuff has to get done before snow flies.

Keeping the recliner warm.

Ongoing remodel of the house...

Just when I think I can see the end, I look around, see that where I first started is now needing a freshen up.

Like painting the Golden Gate Bridge!

SNOW!!
It can't snow. I mow after Thanksgiving to mulch leafs. Then
remove mower, put chains on and 7 ft rear blade.

Only time I'm going to get wet is on the way to pole barn. I may
take a laundry basket with me. Use as an umbrella.

Then I'll spend some time removing all the clothes a homeless
person has left in my truck.

In 1991 I started remodeling. Finished in 1996. Put the last brick, 25,000 brick, on the house on my wife's birthday. We went to amish country in Ill and had lunch at Amish restaurant.

I doubled the size of my house. It was a major undertaking. I thought I might see the undertaker before I finished.

New brakes on the Super MTA, Leaking distributor shaft on the 1947 M, Paint sheet metal and fix steering rattle on the 1944 M. SWMBO is going to let me use the heated garage and keep her car in the barn off and on this winter!!! Ellis

I'd rather be working outside today because the sun will be out, although it's 20 degrees right now. I'd feel better working inside if it was raining. I have to stay in to keep going on the kitchen. All the cabinets are in the living room, as I am redoing all walls and all wiring. Got done sanding and staining the hardwood floor in kitchen a couple weeks ago. There were layers and layers and layers of chipboard and linoleums and tarpaper and newspaper and whatever. This whole house was covered in layers everywhere. The living room had 6 layers of wallpaper, over several coats of (Lead?) paint, over lath and plaster wall, over another lath and plaster wall with wall paper on that layer from 1900 or so. The newspaper on the floors and in the walls was from 1938. This old house built in 1900 has 6 or so different types of wires and is dangerous so I am rewiring the whole house, starting with the kitchen. Today it gets a second coat of mud on new sheetrock and I'll finish the circuit into the basement and while mud is drying, I'll start another circuit in a different room. Big project and kind of trying to feel like I'm drowning in the big mess. You guys have fun working on your tractors.

You have a lot on you plate! Big project, for sure. I've been in the middle of projects like that, doing everything myself. Finally, to get things moving along quicker, hired skilled local labor to knock out some time-consuming parts of the job. Of course, if you're set on doing everything yourself, there's a lot of satisfaction that comes from that. However, you may have some local people who are good and might not cost a bundle to get you closer to the finish line. Then again, maybe you work a lot faster than I do LOL! (not hard to do)

I have to do it all myself so then I know it's been done right. That's the problem in the first place is that people came over here years ago and kept adding on and it's all wrong and unsafe. last electrician's note I found was from 1979 and he did it all wrong. I am, however, sitting here with the second cup of coffee, wishing it was all done. I keep turning around and, no, it's still there unfinished, waiting for me. Darn. a few pics if I can figure how to load them... original wood wall with lead paint and today's new built out and insulated sheetrock wall.



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GotMyFarm!

Looks great, nice job! Had to laugh when I saw the pry-bar and hammer on the floor--universal tools of home renovations! Spent a lot of time with those two! Keep up the good work, post more pics!

okay, I'll post more pictures as it is getting more done. I can't wait to see how it will look all finished. Keeping the 1950's cupboards so it's not going to look like a million bucks, but maybe it'll be pretty good?

My winter tinkering project. A 44 H with shifting problems. Weather has turned nasty enough I can not paint the JD A, so I squeezed this in the barn to work on it.

Rodney 8)

I used to get so aggravated when my 2 sons would leave my tools everywhere. Now, they are grown and gone and the problem still exist...

Sounds like it would be cheaper just to build a new house.

(quoted from post at 16:55:26 11/01/18) Sounds like it would be cheaper just to build a new house.

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sure would've been easier

I need to sort all the crap in my 40 x 84 barn, put what I don't need on CL and organize the rest into the 36 x 72 barn across the road so I can get this place on the market come spring....a much bigger job than it sounds like

LOL I joined the Navy and was out on a cruise to the Indian Ocean. When my dad complained to my Mom that I had left his tools spread all over. I had been gone over three months.

(quoted from post at 15:55:09 11/01/18) okay, I'll post more pictures as it is getting more done. I can't wait to see how it will look all finished. Keeping the 1950's cupboards so it's not going to look like a million bucks, but maybe it'll be pretty good?

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I think it'll all look fine, nice clean look. If you get tired of the cabinets you can always change later. No wiring or plumbing involved ;-)

At least you're knocking out everything. My last house, the previous owners had gone through the years fixing this and that, temporary bandaids. Just a mess with everything getting ready to break again. So I did as you're doing--got everything up to modern standards. I remember a big old oil-fired boiler from the days of the dinosaurs--was first used as a coal-burner. Yep, they were still using it way into the late 1990s. I took that out and put in a high-efficiency natural gas boiler. Freed up a lot of space as there was no need for the fuel tank.

So, you'll eventually see the light at the end, just have to focus on what's in front of you, never mind how much or how little you've got done. There oughtta be some kind of support group for people like us LOL--But YT will have to do for now ;-)

Yes, I think it was coal in the basement here, too! AND, it obviously got a little out of control, as all the wood above the old coal door is black charred. Now that old chimney is sitting unused and a propane boiler is being used. Thanks for your support (hehehe!). You got through it, so will I! Now for some sanding to ready the walls for primer. Had a rough mudding day yesterday! Chunks in the plaster, ugh. Okay, let's get this done!

You got through it, so will I!

You don't know how true that is! No one ever accused me of being speedy LOL. But I'm starting on house #3 so yes. I'm a glutton for punishment

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You don't know how true that is! No one ever accused me of being speedy LOL. But I'm starting on house #3 so yes. I'm a glutton for punishment

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Oh, you are? Is this house #3, an old re-do house or new construction? What is your project for it now?

GMF!

Current house is mid-eightees construction. Updating everything, getting ready to do the kitchen. I want to expand it since it's just a galley kitchen and I plan to make it an eat-in setup since there's no formal dining room. I have some interesting pieces of cherry I want to use, just not sure how I'll fit them in. Not a huge space LOL.

Sorry for late reply--not always online weekends. I can read replies but too cumbersome to type on my little phone. Didn't teach us phone-typing in school ;-)

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I like the cabernet color, bold but very warm as well. Good choice. I think the cabinets are fine--and you can always paint if you want to change them without replacing. I always like seeing people make progress with their projects--not always the case with me ;-)

I'll post pics of the cherry--hope to make breakfast bar or some kind of countertop, not sure yet. One slab is live edge, other piece is straight cut slab about 3" thick.