My bucket has a hole in it...
Thomas, I haven't connected up the down spouts to PVC pipes to direct dew (CONSIDERABLE) and rain (over an inch) away from the bld. It took a week to dry out for the most part and is still wet around the edges due to dew. The backhoe guy will be here this morning to trench for the drain pipes and electrical from the pole to the well house which is inop since it got its power from the big red barn which has been moved.
I did the math. Wire is so expensive it will be cheaper in my lifetime to pay a separate monthly minimum rather than run wires to the well house and hay barn from my house. The backhoe guy will also trench from my new metal working shop to the moved red barn to power it up. I think I will bury a water line and maybe an air line too. Would only need a small flexible plastic air line with an accumulator tank in the red barn and I could air tires and blow off stuff.
I already have new wires buried from the well house to the hay barn in the trench I used for running a water line.
I tried out the welding trailer yesterday. It was pretty nice. I have lots of work left to do on it but the genny and AC/DC arc are mounted and functional. I have the compressor mounted as well so the plasma is ready to mount/use. I found a gate with a failed hinge while driving through a pasture so just pulled up and welded a repair... very sweet. I decided that plasma does not completely replace oxy-acetalene so I have bottles on board too in custom holders with big bolts to secure them.
Eventually I hope top have a cover for the trailer that will fold out of the way for equipment access but that will wait till I do a few more things like pigeon holes for a selection of welding rods.
Thanks for your suggestions. If I were triplets or maybe better, quints...I could do all these things in parallel instead of ad seriatim.
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Red barn got moved. Is that the big metal building you have been talking about having moved did you finally get that done. We all want the complete story of how you did it. Last I heard you were waiting for some help to prepare it for the big move ?