I’ve still got two tabs open from last week for Fire Cider recipes. The book looks like a cute novelty one to have.
Just drank my 5th cup of coffee waiting for the temperature to rise. Gonna go get a few bags of concrete here shortly. Ace opens at 9am. By the time I get back, it should be getting close to warm enough to paint.
I can kill time by digging holes for the tunnel frames. I had them all started but there’s been a change of plans. One of my arched pipes has rusted from the inside, probably before I got them, and I just now noticed it. That leaves me short so I’m going with 6 foot on center instead of 5 for truss frame spacing.
Kits come in either 4 or 6 foot spacing.
If I stuck with 5 foot, I’d end up with a 30’ tunnel instead of the original 35’. By increasing to 6’ spacing, I’ll get a 36’ tunnel but have to re-dig my holes. Luckily, I only dug them 6-8” deep so I could find and finish them later. I didn’t want a goat or myself to step in a 2 foot deep hole. Easy enough to fill them in with dirt scooped out of new holes.
I’ll only be digging one pair of holes today to get that first frame in the ground so it can set up overnight.
By the time you are done you could probably just about live in your high tunnel! (In an emergency you could set up a small tent inside the tunnel and live in it!)
“I’ll only be digging one pair of holes today to get that first frame in the ground so it can set up overnight.”
Digging holes is the fashion around here this week, too. Beau is replacing the posts at the entry to the barn yard so he can hang a better gate there. It gets used a lot and after 35 years it was due.
We also finished the last two kennel upgrades in the Kennel Shed. They all have cement surrounds now - the male dogs pee on the fencing, which eventually rusts it. We also made them longer so each dog has more room to run up and down. I got to mix cement this week, which was actually a lot of fun. We used the take-off shaft from the skid steer, attached to the ‘teeth’ that turn the cement bucket. I’m probably not naming the parts correctly, but it worked like a charm.
My only problem is getting up into the skid steer in the first p;ace. I’m only 5’ 1” tall (to Beau’s 6’3”) so I bring a step-stool to get into the machine in the first place. Meh. You do what has to be done no matter how dumb you look while doing it, LOL!