New garage time!

[fatjay]

I made tailgate support wires for the cart. The bed was only 40" deep so I couldn't easily haul 2x4's in it. I drilled 1/8" holes, took my 130lb steel line, crimped loops on the end, stuck 1/8" steel rivets in, and riveted it in.

Now my bed is 47.5" deep, which still isn't deep enough to haul 2x4's. But I'm going to make something for the tailgate to make it a little taller. I want to embed eye loops flush in the bed itself so I can use ratchet straps to hold stuff down, but that's a different project.

 

[airbiscuit]

Nice

 

[fatjay]

Installed trusses in place in the chicken coop to hold up the top. The coons were sitting in the sagging areas pulling hte fence in and breaking the welds to try and gain entry.

Don't look to long, it's half-assed at best and I'll clean it up later.

 

[fatjay]

Time to go back to the battery room.

Since the tax credit is ending at the end of the year, I decided I'll boost up my battery storage. I ordered another 45kwh of battery that I'll be assembling.

 

[fatjay]

Ok so I ordered another full set of batteries. 96 cells for another 90kwh. That means I need to increase the size of the battery room. So I need to blow out that wall on the right.

My basement has a slab floor, and a floating slab on top of it. Except behind that wall, the floating slab bit is missing, so I formed up and poured enough for the room expansion.

It took exactly one 60lb bag of concrete, which is exactly what I have been tripping over in the garage for 3 months.

I drilled 4 holes and put nails in sticking out, so the new slab wouldn't move.

 

[fatjay]

My hot water tank was delivered today. Which means I need to get the safe off the back porch, to reclaim my big dolly, so I can move it out of hte middle of my driveway.

To do that, I needed to move the safe to the shop. But the shop is full. Of hay. Because my hay shed has leaks which allows water to pool on hte bottom, ruining hte hay.

So I had to build a little floor so the hay wouldn't sit directly on the ground. then move the hay from the shop to the hay shed.

 

[airbiscuit]

You need one of these

 

[fatjay]

You need one of these

I swear nothing I do is easy these days. I'd kill for easy.

 

[EddieWalker]

What is the hay for?

 

[fatjay]

What is the hay for?

Every time it rains I put a bail of hay down in the chicken run, which absorbs water, keeps smell down, and keeps chicken feet clean and not muddy. Keeps the eggs cleaner as well.

 

[EddieWalker]

Makes sense. I sort of forgot how nasty it gets inside the coop before we free ranged ours. But it got to the point that we didn't want to deal with the mess anymore and just opened the door to see what would happen.

 

[fatjay]

What is the hay for?

Every time it rains I put a bail of hay down in the chicken run, which absorbs water, keeps smell down, and keeps chicken feet clean and not muddy. Keeps the eggs cleaner as well.

 

[fatjay]

Makes sense. I sort of forgot how nasty it gets inside the coop before we free ranged ours. But it got to the point that we didn't want to deal with the mess anymore and just opened the door to see what would happen.

I've trapped and killed 3 coons this week. And just last night I saw 3 more on the cameras. If I let them free it would be a blood bath.

 

[airbiscuit]

What do you do with your spare time?

 

[fatjay]

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What do you do with your spare time?

Oh i like to curl up with a good book and a glass of wine under a heated blanket, you know, normal stuff.

 

[fatjay]

Fedex and UPS were fighting this morning because fedex was taking to long to unload the 24 boxes of batteries. UPS was in a hurry to drop the pallet of minisplit.

 

[EscapedSuburbia]

I've trapped and killed 3 coons this week. And just last night I saw 3 more on the cameras. If I let them free it would be a blood bath.

What do you use for bait? The previous owner of my property left a large live trap and I've got some coons living under my deck I want to get rid of. I don't know that they're causing any damage but eventually my dog is going to dig under there to get to them. At my last place I had to take up some deck boards to rescue my moronic stuck dog.

 

[fatjay]

What do you use for bait? The previous owner of my property left a large live trap and I've got some coons living under my deck I want to get rid of. I don't know that they're causing any damage but eventually my dog is going to dig under there to get to them. At my last place I had to take up some deck boards to rescue my moronic stuck dog.

Wet cat food. I just open a can and stick it in. I figure it's their last meal, they can have it.

 

[fatjay]

One ore thing off the list. Heat pump hot water heater.

 

[General Lee]

What do you use for bait? The previous owner of my property left a large live trap and I've got some coons living under my deck I want to get rid of. I don't know that they're causing any damage but eventually my dog is going to dig under there to get to them. At my last place I had to take up some deck boards to rescue my moronic stuck dog.

I use cat food or eggs