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   / Securing tractor from theft #233  
Um pat what about that 1 million square feet metal workshop with the overhead crane etc. dont you think that would be a better place to work on it than a mudhole ?

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.

Pat
 
   / Securing tractor from theft #234  
If you are only airing tires.. i think I'd drop a 80$ pancake compressor in there from the chinese store.. vs burrying an air line, if the place will have power.. etc.

soundguy
 
   / Securing tractor from theft #236  
If you are only airing tires.. i think I'd drop a 80$ pancake compressor in there from the chinese store.. vs burying an air line, if the place will have power.. etc.

soundguy


I have a failed portable compressor with a good 30 gal tank. I thought I might bury a small airline (inexpensive flex plastic) from my metal/welding shop to the barn. Cheaper than a HF pancake and hopefully more reliable. I don't know what all the air might be used for but a 30 gal buffer that is automatically filled when shop air is switched on would meet most needs. If I need more serious air volume of delivery for extended periods I can get it from the compressor mounted on my welding trailer which will probably be housed in the barn. That compressor supplies over 10 CFM @90 PSI.

I was just thinking of a way to use the 30 gal tank and a cheap run of plastic seemed like one. I have to trench anyway to run electricity.

I'll keep your suggestion in mind... who knows? Right now I'm thinking another compressor is something else mechanical to fail. Maybe my thinking is distorted as one of my DeWalt chop saws just died and 2 out of 3 of my 4 1/2 inch angle grinders. DeWalt says they are throw away, too expensive to repair compared to buying new. I wish I had bought Rigid instead of DeWalt's Chinese junk. At least you can get a decent warranty.

Oh, by the way. Two of my 4 1/2 inch angle grinders are identical in every respect except the color of the plastic housing and the brand sticker. Reminds me of Johnson and Evenrude.

Pat
 
   / Securing tractor from theft #237  
I'll keep your suggestion in mind... who knows? Right now I'm thinking another compressor is something else mechanical to fail. Maybe my thinking is distorted as one of my DeWalt chop saws just died and 2 out of 3 of my 4 1/2 inch angle grinders. DeWalt says they are throw away, too expensive to repair compared to buying new. I wish I had bought Rigid instead of DeWalt's Chinese junk. At least you can get a decent warranty.

Oh, by the way. Two of my 4 1/2 inch angle grinders are identical in every respect except the color of the plastic housing and the brand sticker. Reminds me of Johnson and Evenrude.

Pat

Dewalt got bought up a couple of years ago by Black and Decker. So sad to see a good tool go bad. I just hate all my Dewalt tools now. Overpriced and they break constantly.
 
   / Securing tractor from theft #238  
Dewalt got bought up a couple of years ago by Black and Decker. So sad to see a good tool go bad. I just hate all my Dewalt tools now. Overpriced and they break constantly.

I thought they were the same. We have a B&D service center here and they have serviced DeWalt stuff for a long time and nothing else (except Elu which was bought by B&D).

I have a Makita power miter that I purchased new in college in the late 70's. It is still running amazingly strong and it sits out in a dirt floor equipment shed. I think it will out last me! So when I decided to step up to a 12" sliding compound saw, I got another Makita. I kept the old one and use it to cut branches for kindling. Brutal work but it just loves to cut things :)
 
   / Securing tractor from theft #239  
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.

Pat[/QUOTE

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 ?
 
   / Securing tractor from theft #240  
Dewalt got bought up a couple of years ago by Black and Decker. So sad to see a good tool go bad. I just hate all my Dewalt tools now. Overpriced and they break constantly.

Used to string cables thru the trees to the DeWalt. Cut (2) 2x10' for headers and it didn't know it was working.. 1 nail in the end of 20'er's.
I think I weighed in at about 150 then... "Need some short studs?"
Framing w/2 16's instead of 4/8's... still have the chip in my tooth from a wayward 16.

Jake
 

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