I have the fb blanket covered with chicken wire and stucco lots and lots of stucco. Actually I like working with the stucco more so than with mortar. When I have the the oven at temp the shell is about 74 degrees pretty amazing
What Was Your Top Project in 2012?
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I have the fb blanket covered with chicken wire and stucco lots and lots of stucco. Actually I like working with the stucco more so than with mortar. When I have the the oven at temp the shell is about 74 degrees pretty amazing
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Briana03
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Wow, beautiful...
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Briana03
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What a life! All that sounds amazing...
PandDLong
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- Kubota L3540, JD Z445 Mower, JD LX188 Lawn Tractor
The year 2012 was characterized by lots of project work but nothing quite finished due to early winter/freeze-up- advanced the yardsticks but no touchdowns.
- Add more zones to my underground irrigation
- Build stairs and garden edge with decorative cement stone
- Install outdoor laundry lines
- Extend my yard by another 10,000 square feet of lawn, trees and plants to displace unsightly weeds, old gravel/dirt piles and a collapsed shed
- Add an implement shed for my most valuable/sensitive tractor attachments
- Add a small auxilliary irrigation system to water my garden from my pond
- Reshape and landscape the area around the dock, firepit and picnic area beside my pond
So, I think the one project I did start and finish in 2012 was trading in my old JD850 for a Kubota L3540 and a few new attachments.
I can hardly wait for spring to finish of those projects, use the new tractor and then take a few pics.
Then it will be time to tackle the next project a 600 sq. foot flagstone patio - although I will probably turn it into 900 sq. feet with lights, seating, integrated planting beds, etc so it won't be done until 2014 - do you see a pattern here?
- Add more zones to my underground irrigation
- Build stairs and garden edge with decorative cement stone
- Install outdoor laundry lines
- Extend my yard by another 10,000 square feet of lawn, trees and plants to displace unsightly weeds, old gravel/dirt piles and a collapsed shed
- Add an implement shed for my most valuable/sensitive tractor attachments
- Add a small auxilliary irrigation system to water my garden from my pond
- Reshape and landscape the area around the dock, firepit and picnic area beside my pond
So, I think the one project I did start and finish in 2012 was trading in my old JD850 for a Kubota L3540 and a few new attachments.
I can hardly wait for spring to finish of those projects, use the new tractor and then take a few pics.
Then it will be time to tackle the next project a 600 sq. foot flagstone patio - although I will probably turn it into 900 sq. feet with lights, seating, integrated planting beds, etc so it won't be done until 2014 - do you see a pattern here?
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Briana03
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Haha. Go big or go home?
LPB3
New member
First post here, hope this works. Short narrative with photos of most recent project.
Too much stuff under the roof of our home. Momma wants to park her car out of the weather. Time to add another outbuilding.
Chose to outsource grading to a contractor. Better quality than I would have been able to achieve on my own and in far less time.
Finally got motivated to buy a 3-point auger and found a good deal on Craigs list. Never dreamed it could be so easy to dig postholes.
A box beam made from 2x6s slipped over one of the lifting forks creating a jib boom. Wouldn稚 want to attempt any heavy lift, but worked great for the trusses.
Trusses went up in a day with only one helper.
Overall size is 36 x 20?
Exterior siding is re-sawn yellow pine.
Move in day was about 2 months after starting. Had to work around my day job.
Last part of the project was lighting. Did not want to trench +300 to the house so electric system includes 15 watt solar panel, a garden tractor battery, 2-27 watt LED flood lights and a couple of motion sensors.
Let there be light.
Too much stuff under the roof of our home. Momma wants to park her car out of the weather. Time to add another outbuilding.
Chose to outsource grading to a contractor. Better quality than I would have been able to achieve on my own and in far less time.
Finally got motivated to buy a 3-point auger and found a good deal on Craigs list. Never dreamed it could be so easy to dig postholes.
A box beam made from 2x6s slipped over one of the lifting forks creating a jib boom. Wouldn稚 want to attempt any heavy lift, but worked great for the trusses.
Trusses went up in a day with only one helper.
Overall size is 36 x 20?
Exterior siding is re-sawn yellow pine.
Move in day was about 2 months after starting. Had to work around my day job.
Last part of the project was lighting. Did not want to trench +300 to the house so electric system includes 15 watt solar panel, a garden tractor battery, 2-27 watt LED flood lights and a couple of motion sensors.
Let there be light.
Lazarus
New member
Building tables capable of gremimating 9320 seedlings in the small greemhouse, building tables to pot all of those in peat pots in the high tunnel greenhouse, getting 300 ft of tall peas in by st patricks day, opening up out first ever retail operation, moving all plants through and making the most of then for either retail or planing, that is my task, it must be done or we will fail.
jinman
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Wow! This is a real project crowd. Nice stuff everyone!!!:thumbsup:
This year my most beneficial project was going on a diet. I lost 65 lb and could afford to lose 30 more, but I feel terrific. I look forward to the springtime and spending time outside doing catch-up on all my projects that we slipping. Of course, I also built three dams and three ponds this last year, but until we get some rain, they will remain ugly holes in the ground. If my ponds were full, I would have put that at the top of my list.
This year my most beneficial project was going on a diet. I lost 65 lb and could afford to lose 30 more, but I feel terrific. I look forward to the springtime and spending time outside doing catch-up on all my projects that we slipping. Of course, I also built three dams and three ponds this last year, but until we get some rain, they will remain ugly holes in the ground. If my ponds were full, I would have put that at the top of my list.
meburdick
Platinum Member
I'd suggest you always put the things you do for your general health at the top of the list. Glad you were able to make some changes and feel great as a result.