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To: Pollard

Warm for a while. Freeze predicted for Wednesday.

If you have some pallets maybe you have some raised bed sides! You need to get that high tunnel done this year! (And maybe get a well!)

I have already planted radishes rutabagas and turnips in a fall prepared bed. Cold might return and they might die. If they do, I have more seed!


64 posted on 02/24/2024 7:06:39 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
If you have some pallets maybe you have some raised bed sides! You need to get that high tunnel done this year! (And maybe get a well!)

Guy at work asked me if I started on the new house yet. Thought to myself, dude, it was 15 degrees a couple of weeks ago.

Some metal that neighbor gave me. This pile is no good for a roof. I'm thinking it can go down on the ground to put pallets on that I stack firewood on. Will keep the pallets from rotting away so fast.

This pile is half way decent. Good enough for an equipment shed, potting shed etc.

Three pieces of wood, 2x8 rough sawn oak, that I tossed on the metal to prevent the wind from getting under it for the trip home. I need to go back and get the rest of the wood he has for me. Lots more like this, some beam sized and some old solid wood doors, really tall, like 8 foot doors. Could make a wall or two from them.

Some of the wood's not good enough for building but is still solid. I'll have plenty of wood for raised beds. Thinking I might want to char them so the termites don't eat them in a year's time.

Don't have $20k for a well though. I'm going to buy more of those $50 - 275 gal IBC tanks soon. Sometime this year, I'll start fixing up one of these antique Chevy trucks I have. One of them, when done, ought to bring in about what a well will cost. BUT, that's about the same as it will take to pay off the land. Second truck will do the well. Will take a few years to do them.

Gotta get other things done first, like the high tunnel.

Got the F150 moved out there yesterday to set it back up as a makeshift crane for setting the trusses in their holes. I have another truck to drive now so I won't have to tear down the F150 crane until the frames are all up. Then I'll get an 8 or 10 foot step ladder and strap it standing up in the bed of the truck and use it to add cross bracing, end walls, put up gable vents etc.

Things will get done as we get more warm days. Got a vacation due so I'll probably take it mid to late March. Going to make a trip for more of that oak lumber and get the truck crane set up today.

Will probably dig on some tunnel frame holes. I could set the next frame but I hit a big rock about 2-3" shy of my depth. Going to cut 2-3" off the frame but I don't feel like listening to that or dealing with the spark shower today. Heading out to the little front yard garden right now to take measurements for the raised beds. I may make sides for the trailer and cut wood for beds instead of digging. I can char the boards next weekend, weather permitting. I have a brush pile ready to ignite for a bonfire.

Fired up the tractor yesterday and was filling up the front tires that go flat and one wouldn't pump up. Only thing that will fit those rims are rear riding mower tires. Need to get some Carlisle tires for it. Cheapo ones I got didn't hold up. I can patch this one up for now. Longer days and the removal of daylight savings soon will gain me some after work daylight time for little chores. Things like patching a tire.

10:30 and 60 degrees(and windy), I'm off to the great outdoors.

68 posted on 02/25/2024 8:28:26 AM PST by Pollard (#BoycottBlue)
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