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I am in the process of rehabilitating a small (1/8 acre or so) pond. Prior to grubbing all of the vegetation around it (nasty Russian Olive and Multiflora Rose, etc…) the north side was very swampy because the pond is fed by multiple groundwater seeps that just oozed out of everywhere before...

I'm on 2 acres with a small (75' x 150' give or take) pond in the back that is about 6' deep in the middle. Essentially its just a hole in the swamp that the previous owner dug about 50 years ago. He took his backhoe into a wet area and started digging and mounded up the spoils on the low...

I've got five or six large (60-70') locusts that are all right next to my barn (within 10 feet) and they range from 18 to about 24" in diameter. Obviously there is no room for error removing these trees. The barn is old and not particularly large, but it does keep the rain off of my tractor...

I am building a small office/guest cabin on the foundation of an old barn on my property. The barn did have electric and water but it was torn down before I bought the property. I've located the services and the electric is adequate but I'm not so sure about the water. The service is 3/4"...

Still kicking around ideas for an office/guest cabin in the back of my property and contacted an Amish builder about 3 hours away. They usually do LP Smartside but will also do metal over 7/16" OSB. I am considering ordering a building just skinned with OSB which would be a cost savings and...

I've seen these types of gambrel trusses discussed from time to time with various opinions of how well they work and how strong they are or can be if built in a certain way. The first time I had ever encountered them was in a factory built shed that my dad purchased years ago. It's 14'W x 18'L...

I recently bought a well used 1979 Kubota L295DT. The rear tires (12.4-24 ag tread) are pretty rough (cracked sidewalls, chunks missing, etc...) and have tubes that are filled with brine according to the previous owner. The left rear has not only developed a leak, but the valve stem got pulled...

After I finished my rear lean-to I turned my attention to the side lean-to on the barn that someone had put on fairly recently judging by the fact that it was built with modern 2x4s, newer looking tin on the roof and Homasote sides: It was roughly 6' x 12' and I had just been stuffing crap...

I had been wanting to put a lean-to on the back of my barn for a while. The barn is 16' x 20' but I have a survey showing it used to be about 16' x 32' or so-there were horse stables on the backside at one time and the rear of the barn was open so that hay could be pitched down from the loft...

Over the years I've accumulated a bunch of freebie steel stock from various places and stashed it behind my barn. I finally have accumulated enough to build a flatbed, but the stuff I have is on the heavy side. To start, I have two pieces of 6 x 2 x 1/4" box channel that I'll use for side rails...

I have these two items sitting in my basement collecting dust which I got for free: Craftsman (Generac-I think) 5000W Surge/4200W Continuous Generator-will supply up to 17.5A @ 240V Craftsman AC/DC Stick Welder-welding voltage is 30V, input voltage is 230V Both are in good working order...

This is an undated photo of my great grandfather. I was hoping someone here could identify the model which may give a clue as to when the photo was taken. I'd also be interesting in learning more about the model, etc... My great grandfather lived from 1890 to 1957:

I have a 2 acre property and mow about 3/4 of an acre of it, a good chunk of which is my septic mound. The mound is built into a hillside and not far from the house so I don't like to let the grass get higher than 6-8" between mowings. The problem is the fact that north, south and east sides...

I brush hogged along our 1/4 mile long lane and got rid of a bunch of invasive brush. Now I'm doing cleanup of all of the slash, etc...and coming across vines growing up the trees that line the lane that I was not able to remove with the machine. The vines range from about 1/4" to 4"...

We have about 2 acres tucked back among 250 acres of farmland and woods which surrounds us. About half of our land is cleared with the house, deck/patio, barn and small toolshed. Behind that is the "yard" which I mow with a zero turn. Then there are a few old animal pens (previous owner had...

I rented a skid steer mounted brush hog this weekend and reclaimed anywhere from 15-30' on both sides of our long and narrow lot. Stonerows from the neighboring fields mark the lines and over the years the stonerows themselves and the areas immediately around them had become choked with...

I've checked around and there are plenty of threads on stone boats here, but I have some questions that are somewhat specific to my conditions. First, I've seen stone boats both with completely flat bottoms that fully contact the ground like a toboggan, such as a 3/4" sheet of plywood with a...

Any TBN'ers out this way who can give me some guidance? We are looking for a lake property in this area, around Otisco/Owasco. What I'm trying to figure out is what building codes are like as there seem to be two different kinds of places: Actual lake "houses" which are just that-year round...

I started posting here a while back about our small pond and started getting some good information but work and other things got in the way and I had to put it all aside. My attention has turned to the pond once again and I've come to the conclusion that job one has to be removing as much muck...

I'm trying to help my 81 year old neighbor with his old Kubota L245DT. It's a '78 or '79. The tractor itself runs great and has no issues except for the fact that apparently for only one or two years, Kubota built the tractor such that in order to change the fan belt (driven from the crank...

I have a McCulloch PM650 which is a 60cc saw-the biggest I own (I also have a Stihl 025 and 026) and I'd like to set it up to handle some larger diameter logs for firewood bucking. As big as the saw is its nowhere near as fast or as powerful as a 60cc saw produced today, but its what I have...

I'm planning a 16' x 32' x 12' high shed. My local Lowes has steel siding and roofing as follows: 36" x 12' 29 gauge corrugated siding panel (red) - $60.98 each 36" x 12' 29 gauge 5 v crimp roofing panel (silver) - $33.97 each Since steel is the single largest cost of the project (more than...

We live on a small old farm property. There are three different outbuildings-an old 16' x 25' haybarn, the former summer kitchen which was converted to a toolshed/small workshop (about 10' x 12'), and a 16' x 22' run-in shed. There's also a chicken coop, but it's currently occupied by...

Anyone ever do this? We have an older farmhouse that had a major renovation done 20 years ago in which some new roof was installed over the new addition and the old roof was torn off and replaced over the existing house. The shingles are standard 30 year three tab that are 2/3 of the way...

We've been in our place almost a year now-150 year old farmhouse on acreage with lots of updates to various systems (electrical, heat, etc...), but when we bought it, it had a cesspool and no water treatment. As a condition of the sale the previous owner put in a brand new septic, pH balancer...

Seems these days that the market is flooded with cheap Chinese mini-splits with a million different names (my guess is that they are made by a handful of manufacturers) that are skewed to the DIY market.* Unlike the major brands like Mitsubishi, Sanyo, etc...which usually carry a disclaimer of...

Just curious if anyone here has a small pond that they manage.* The rear of our property is basically a small valley where everything drains through, going north to south (from the hay farm down to my neighbor on the other side). The previous owner took what was basically swampland/a vernal pond...

I've been wanting a good "bowl" type fire pit for our patio but really heavy ones (ie: won't rust out in one season) are extremely expensive. The other day I was driving down the road and saw a 420lb/120 gallon propane tank laying on its side next to an old garage. I got in touch with the...

Last weekend I pushed out this path with my neighbor's 4x4 Kubota through a thicket that leads to our pond: I had gone in with a chainsaw and cleared a lot of the brush to start, but it wasn't until I started scraping the debris off of the ground with the bucket and got in there that I...

I have two generators. One I've had for years and used to use to power my old house during outages. It's a Craftsman (Generac) 7.8HP 4200W continuous (Not sure of the surge rating) that I got used but it starts and runs well. The other I just recently received as a gift after moving into our...

We're about to close on 2 isolated acres with a small pond in the rear. It's a nice little spot in the woods that we want to use for picnics, bonfires, campouts with the kids, etc... One of the first things I'm too going to do is put up a bat house and drop some mosquito fish in the pond...

In about two months we'll be closing on a property at the end of a 1/4 mile gravel road that I'll be responsible for maintaining. We're coming from a half acre lot on a public road so I have some equipment (lawn tractor, chainsaw, other OPE, etc...) but I don't have a CUT yet and and will...

I have a friend who purchased a bunch of generators at an auction down in Maryland recently. He doesn't really know much about them-he owns an excavating company and buys and sells a lot of equipment-he has bought and resold a couple of deuces, but these are the first generators he's bought...

After a lot of back and forth about what to build and how to build it (and thanks to folks here who offered their knowledge) I finally pulled the trigger on the permits yesterday and got my approvals from zoning and construction in town. I'm doing a 16' x 24' Mini-barn which is probably the...

Can anyone tell me how I can find the bearing capacity of my soil short of having an engineer actually test it? I need to know how many piers/what size I will need to support my new building. I pulled an NRCS soil report on my area and the soil taken from test holes I dug at the building site...

How is it that I can go online and see that Menards' has 36x96 ribbed steel panels for $16.66 each, but my local Lowes (in NJ) is selling basically the same panel (in galvanized, not even color) for $25.98!? I've checked a couple of lumberyards in my area and nobody stocks it or can seem to...

I have some issues with the site for my pole barn such that I don't think I'll be able to build one. Basically I've got a lot of old tree roots and stumps that were ground down and covered with about 6" of topsoil right around the perimeter that will make boring the holes for the posts...

I started a thread below about concrete columns because all of the conflicting information about the potential for rot in pole barn posts was driving me toward concrete. However, I stumbled upon these links: AWPA Technical Information for Homeowners...

I've seen those concrete columns that you bury and bolt your posts to for pole barns. I've been leaning that way because Googling "pole barn" and "rot" yields 1000s of threads about barns that have rotted off at ground level and are needing to be jacked up and redone. I'm wondering how...

I was searching around for plans for a smaller pole barn with a large gambrel roof loft and a thread about something similar on another forum: http://www.mytractorforum.com/showthread.php?t=42443 He hasn't logged on in over a year so I don't think he's around anymore, but what I did was study...

I need a shed for my yard equipment as well as a new woodshed. The old pallet shed is probably about to see it's last winter. I looked at the DIY kit sheds at Lowes and they want $2000 for a 10 x 12 shed with 7' high walls and a gambrel roof: I stepped inside one at the local store and...

We recently got rid of our electric stove in favor of a gas stove, so now I have a 50 amp breaker in my box and about 30' of 8-3 cable that now feeds nothing. The breaker is at the top left of the box. Everything is relatively new-when we moved into our home in 2008 the house had a maxed out...

I have a 1991 Toyota pickup that I am building up as an off road firewood hauler. Basically a truck that can be taken down tight, and sometimes very rough trails, pickup a heavy load, and get back out again. This is the truck as it is now: Mild lift, 32" D-rated mud terrains, 5...

I need to get some stone down in the back yard where I bring my truck in to dump firewood/run the splitter, etc...I also want to make a sitting area with a firepit so it all needs to be built up and covered with stone. After measuring a series of boxes I added up all the square footage to just...

We just got power back after four days out in Northwest NJ due to the early snowfall on trees that still have most if not all of their leaves. My town looks like a bomb hit it with the amount of splintered trees, broken poles, downed wires, etc... I have a generator and it allowed me to save...

I have two log splitters and I'm in the process of swapping the engine from one into the other. Both were purchased used and have pumps of unknown GPM. I was initially planning on just swapping the engines, but if the pump from my old one is higher capacity than the pump on the new one, I'll...

I have a 75' x 150' lot which slopes down from front to rear (away from the house) and also to the left (if you're standing in the yard with your back to the house)-with all of this wet weather (I'm in NJ) I've had standing water back there basically all summer. I also get water from the...

I am constructing a gate with a kind of archway over it because I want to be able to hang/hoist things from it if need be. One of the reasons I'm doing this is so that I have a place to hang deer before butchering which it can certainly handle, but I have a habit of overbuilding things, so I...

I'd like to get rid of the rusted out stock bed on my 2003 F-350 SRW and replace it with a flatbed, partially for looks, and partially because I think it would be a lot more user friendly. All of the articles I've found online are about building beds for a chassis-cab truck, not a truck that...

I have about 1500 SF of my yard that I want to cover in stone because it's the area where I back my truck in from the driveway and dump logs/rounds for processing into firewood. Between the truck tires, the wood laying around, dragging, rolling, walking, etc...the pieces to splitter the grass...

My dad came across a 20 ton Lickety Split log splitter on Craigslist for $675 and jumped on it. He was thinking of reselling it but I'm going to take it instead. I just went to see it this morning and it looks like one **** of a machine! I'm not sure how old it is, but it's definitely got...

I'm installing a fence and need to incorporate an 8' wide gate where it runs along the end of the driveway so that I can get my pickup, lawn tractor, etc...into the backyard. The gate will consist of two 4' wide doors which will be hung on 6 x 6 x 10' posts sunk about 30" in concrete. The...

I've been slowly accumulating the parts needed to build a decent sized splitter, most are used and I've gotten them for free or at very low cost. The one missing piece so far is the pump. From what I've seen my choices are either buy new or hope to find a splitter with a dead engine (which...

I'm planning on adding a 16' x 26' addition to the rear of our one story ranch which is currently two bedroom/one bathroom. The addition will make the home a three bedroom/two bathroom home. We'll be combining the existing bedrooms into a "master suite" (bedroom, dressing area/closet, full...

I'm putting up a 6' dog ear privacy fence around my backyard-about 400 linear feet total. We will likely sell our house in the next 10-12 years so what I would like to do is put up and largely leave it alone aside from washing/painting it every so often. I'd also like it to still look good...

Hey all-I came across this site looking for information on pole barn construction techniques and I've learned a lot! My attached one car garage is stuffed to the gills and I really need to put up a detached building to hold all of the outdoor power equipment, but I'd also like to incorporate...