LilGiantsConstrCo

[tracksntreadslou]

Jeeze Joe I had to go all the way to page 3 to find you ..Been quite some time ..thought I would say hello anyway cause I saw you lurking on another thread a short time ago ..Guess you must be spending any spare time getting the inside of that new shop all buttoned up (any updates ) and getting ready for harvest ..Need a Farmhand ?..I can operate almost any machine ..Well in 1/14 scale anyway ...lol..It looks as though I may be alberta bound soon anyway and headng for the patch ..Anyway Missing the ole farmer

[Lil Giants]

Hi Lou, I've been doing some tinkering in the basement since spring, but it has been raining nearly every week since late May making it difficult to get any dirt outside, which I haven't hauled not one load out this summer. Working on a conveyer system to make export yr round - so the weather, no matter wet or cold or windy, the conveyer system will be totally enclosed to keep the weather out.

The shop is coming along, in stages... June was the building, then July was the door, then spray insulation. Yesterday the cement crew was here to pack gravel, get it the area ready to pour cement next week. Then it'll be me & whoever I can talk into helping to do the interior after harvest. And finally the electrician to finalize everything... hopefully November sometime and I can start using it for what it was built for.







Here's a couple of snaps of more excavation from the floor this summer, a semi circle around the outer edges, though some of it filled back in with dry fines.









Right above this loader is the window opening, where a pit built into the wooden roadway will be installed & 3 various lengths conveyers will be installed. I cleared this dirt away into the hole of the previous pics so I can stand/work in this area for the conveyer installation.



This is the corner that started the idea of my basement excavation, and seems most vulnerable with soaking up during wet summers, which the darker colored soil is rather damp, to drive on it with the trks - the tires would ball up with clay & make it dangerous driving on the steep wooden roadways. I scraped back the wet dirt surface a few times in recent wks, then with the screener on the JD850 sifted the crushed rock over it, it kinda works like floor-dry, but maybe not as well.



I found this lil beasty last Spring just before seeding, it arrived in late May. The opening is 2x2 inch, an inch or so rocks break to dust pretty well within it... they have bigger laboratory crushers available, like 6x4 would be sufficient for what I would want, but too big to put in the basement. This lil crusher will be ideal for crushing small rock & brusselsprout size lumps into finer material to go through the conveyer system to outside. Bigger stuff will just have to be trked out separately on occasion when the weather is agreeable.



Got a big pile of wet lumps drying out under the west porch, things to do during the winter, then start digging again to fill 'er back up.



Brought the JD850 upstairs a week ago, the pump needs some attn.. whether it's the bearing on the pump gone out again or the cog belt needs replacing or both.... I've got nowhere to tear this machine down right now, the workroom in my house is too full of everything! no benchtop space, and no where to put that stuff to make room... it seems. I'm looking forward to get that shop done and back to building, rebuilding, improving models once again soon.




Anyways, it's finally a bit breezy this afternoon, the high humidity of the last couple wks seems to have finally subsided, gonna try another moisture test on my hard wht right now to see if it's ready yet, then maybe combine through wkend by myself... I told the hiredhand last Wed to not come back till Monday and maybe then we can finally get harvest underway.

Thanx for your interest, talk to ya in a month or so.

[woodhog]

Looks like you have been pretty busy Hope harvest goes well some people down here are shelling corn and in 2-3 weeks most everyone will be under way. hope yeilds are high price is high and fuel and lobor low