Good morning!!!!

[LS Tractor Owner]

A very productive day! Greenhouse is assembled and secured! A few plants will be going in there tonight! (we have some golden willow clippings that we are rooting.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

I was really surprised at how easy it assembled. Online reviews had people complaining about parts, fittings, and taking 8-10 hours.....

Start to finish, took about 4 hours. Wifey first started helping sorting the 50+ pieces, and helping hold together... then it got too tall for her to reach the upper parts. The son came over and got the roof done with me.

My only gripe was the overall measurements..... I had checked just about every site that had this exact model..... every single one reported "6.25 ft wide x 97" long..... so.... I made the 4x6 wood base so that the greenhouse would sit on top of the wood, in the middle of the timber......NOT!

The actual finished size of the base was 70" wide.... NOT 75" as spec'd
The actual length was only 94"..... NOT 97" as spec'd

I got lucky and the greenhouse fit inside the timbers with 3/8" to spare in the width. The length, not so lucky.... we had to unscrew the 14" lag bolts, add a 2" spacer to each side, and bolt them back together.

I am glad I dropped the pavers 2" below the top of the timbers. We were able to screw the bottom rail of the greenhouse around the perimeter inside the timbers. All worked out in the end.

The best laid plans..... yeah right!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

A very productive day! Greenhouse is assembled and secured! A few plants will be going in there tonight! (we have some golden willow clippings that we are rooting.

Was wondering why pavers weren’t to the top of the timber’s.

 

[RoyJackson]

Beautiful day! And fairly productive...

Finished aerating the lawn.
Got the blade properly positioned on the pallet I brought home from work. That is a very heavy duty pallet! None on the boards were less then 1¼" thick

Picked up a lot of fallen branches on the lawn and field...ran 'em through the chipper. Although I didn't do any trimming with the chain saw, had a good 3 loads on the Gator to chip...some dried out stuff, some fairly recent downed branches. I spent 30-45 minutes chipping. Mostly small stuff, but some up to 3-4 inches. Depending on the weather (and my motivation), probably do some trimming, felling tomorrow).
Got to admit, I'm really enjoying this chipper since I had the ring type PTO yoke with a push pin yoke...so much easier to connect!

Vacuumed the Tacoma's interior and washed the Weathertech mat...vacuumed the whole interior

Pretty decent day, all told...

I could use a trailer for the Gator. A few year's back, one member was posting about a Canadian manufactured tandem wheeled trailer. It was quite versatile and configurable...about $2K, IIRC. Anybody recall that? If so, do you recall the manufacturer?

 

[Looking4new]

Roy, you might try these guys website during the week. Their website doesn't work on the weekends.
All Inventory | PJ Trailers Ontario | Brechin
The town is pronounced breckin, another weird Canadian spelling.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Evening
Not sure what the weather was here today, I was gone for a good portion of it.

Yesterday went pretty well with the mechanical contractor. Got one heat pump installed and running, but couldn’t find the leak on the next stop. Apparently it’s a very slow leak, it took a couple of years for the performance to degrade, but was still working. I tried every tool and trick that I had, but to no avail.

Today’s trip to Marsh Harbour went very smoothly, but with a stop in FL it took all day. When I got home, my wife had bent the jack on the manure spreader, so I had to take it off, disassemble it and put some parts in the press to straighten them out

Tomorrow looks like a normal, but rainy day.

 

[rswyan]

RS.
What blade do you use?

It's a Diablo 40T, General Purpose blade, one of their cheaper ones ... got it from The Depot.

I believe it was this one (think the table saw takes a 10" blade):

10 in. x 40-Teeth General Purpose Saw Blade by DIABLO

It's been a good blade so far.

Any special technique? I’ve had the panels chip when using a skill saw type.

Not any that I recall particularly - other than using the fence whenever I could and feeding it in slow and steady. Maybe having the blade up higher than you normally would with wood ... but I can't recall for certain.

Most of my panel cutting was done when the blade was new.

Did have a couple of cuts slightly chip when ripping in the direction of the channels IIRC, but that was a fairly rare occurrence.

No idea whether one of their finer finish blades with more teeth might do better or not ... but I consider this one did pretty good.

Cross-cutting a full 4 x 8 panel on the table saw with The Woman assisting was a real treat ...

I'll probably try to avoid that in the future, ripping them to the appropriate width first and then cutting them down on the radial arm saw.

I’m like going to have to cut the roof panels for the green house as looks like my only choice is 8 or 12 ft. Hopefully I can avoid cutting the walls, but that might be too lucky. I haven’t measured the legs yet. My garage roof is 3:12 pitch and this will tuck under.

A fresh new blade may do wonders.

I wish you luck and success ...

 

[rswyan]

Beautiful day! And fairly productive...

Finished aerating the lawn.
Got the blade properly positioned on the pallet I brought home from work. That is a very heavy duty pallet! None on the boards were less then 1¼" thick

Picked up a lot of fallen branches on the lawn and field...ran 'em through the chipper. Although I didn't do any trimming with the chain saw, had a good 3 loads on the Gator to chip...some dried out stuff, some fairly recent downed branches. I spent 30-45 minutes chipping. Mostly small stuff, but some up to 3-4 inches. Depending on the weather (and my motivation), probably do some trimming, felling tomorrow).
Got to admit, I'm really enjoying this chipper since I had the ring type PTO yoke with a push pin yoke...so much easier to connect!

Vacuumed the Tacoma's interior and washed the Weathertech mat...vacuumed the whole interior

Pretty decent day, all told...

I could use a trailer for the Gator. A few year's back, one member was posting about a Canadian manufactured tandem wheeled trailer. It was quite versatile and configurable...about $2K, IIRC. Anybody recall that? If so, do you recall the manufacturer?

You might be talking about these:

Pronovost Dump Trailers

I believe the company is known for making very nice equipment, but they were a little too rich for my blood at the time I was looking.

But there was also another company that made ones that were even smaller IIRC ... don't recall their name offhand.

Maybe these guys ?:

ATV / UTV Trailers - Road Range

There was also another company named Woodland Mills, but apparently they have discontinued their ATV trailer (might still find someone that has inventory though)

I opted to go with a Country Manufacturing unit (the Model 8500 - on sale for around $750 at the time I bought it) locally made in Ohio and bit closer to home:

Utility Wagons & Trailers - Country Manufacturing

Not quite as nice as Pronovost, but still handy.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Definition of "Tractor Distractor"

LoL.
Mostly, very glad to hear about wifey.

Hooray! We got 3.3" of much needed rain. I'm burning a pile of mostly oak scraps. Got the HF engine going on the tiller. Too wet to till.
Son went fishing, but we had a river flowing into and out of the pond yesterday, so no luck. We have so much duckweed.

I miss Ron too. Hope he's doing well.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]