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Still painting in my sons garage. Gettin there. Priming to finish, then top coat Left wall , rear wall and ceiling. 19 degrees Celsius in garage today. Not bad. 28 degrees Celsius outside today. New insulation is working keeping the heat out.
Noel
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This was on the inside of the out side wall when the barn was all torn apart. Not any of my relatives, that I know. These people built the garage, I’m guessin. Hired hands, as they were called back then. Built 1919. Barn was a slaughter house when I was a kid. 1957 onward. I’m not sure when it stopped. Guessin about 1970. Give or take a few years.
Grandfathers house built 1920. He had just came back form First World War in about April, 1919 I think. Was married 1920 and moved into this house. So rigth now 100 hundred years ago. This house would have been under construction. They moved in October 1920. $7000.00 in 1920 House was white with black trim for years. Green and white trim before that we think. Before my time. I have never found any green paint while scraping. My sister in law lives there now. So sort of still in family.
Noel.
Grandfathers house built 1920. He had just came back form First World War in about April, 1919 I think. Was married 1920 and moved into this house. So rigth now 100 hundred years ago. This house would have been under construction. They moved in October 1920. $7000.00 in 1920 House was white with black trim for years. Green and white trim before that we think. Before my time. I have never found any green paint while scraping. My sister in law lives there now. So sort of still in family.
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I love finding writing or marking from when stuff was built.
That is a great looking place Noel! Very cool to find the builder's mark all these years later! In the late 70's the contractor I worked for building houses would take a chewing tobacco can, nail it inside a wall, write a note to put inside it and put the lid on it. He would write the date, company name and his carpenters names on the note.
Glad the place is still kind of in the family!
DAC
Actually did a bit of tractor work today. I took the recoil off the MF12G, stuck the shop vac in the flywheel fins and blew compressed air in the other side of the blower housing. Got rid of fine debris that sucks into the blower housing best I could until I can take the blower housing off the engine. There was a lot of cottonwood blown out so at least some is removed. Then I greased and fueled it up to mow tomorrow if it's not raining.
Spent the earlier part of the day building a seal driver to remove and replace the inner seals on a Dana 44 front axle.
DAC
Spent the earlier part of the day building a seal driver to remove and replace the inner seals on a Dana 44 front axle.
DAC
No trouble with the deck, it was the tractor pulley that drives the deck belt. It up and fell off. Nothing worn out or broken, the bolts that hold the pulley on the shaft loosened up just enough to walk the pulley off.
Glad you had a good Father's Day Noel! Besides text messages and a couple of facebook posts no different from any other day. Wife is working until 10:30 pm. That shop looks great!
DAC
White paint surely brightened that place up!
I did my basement areas in white and didn't change any lighting. Its a 100 times brighter
I did my basement areas in white and didn't change any lighting. Its a 100 times brighter
Ya sure did Aaron. The back will be done too at some point. It’s about 12’ deep. May not be white back there, but a light sort of colour. But ceiling will be white. Son want to make a sort of Man Cave back there. Hehe. Wood stove is gunna be moved at some point.
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Primer on the ceiling today. Son did most of that. I did edging on the ladder with primer and top coat. Staging is not for me. Finish top coat will be on tomorrow. Then that’s it for painting for a while. Will start on installing the hoist, this week or next.
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Finally finished up the concrete repair from last fall's sewer line problem: 
Estimated 10-80 lb. sacks of mix, bought 12, used 9, so I took the other 3 back to the lumber yard. Dad's old mixer doesn't look like much, but comes in handy at times:
Once that project was finished, I finished up the front driveshaft shield for the JD 2025R. First time out with the brush cutter, I wrapped the driveshaft with tall Orchard grass & twisted off the shaft out of the transmission, don't want that happening again! For now, I used what I had, a piece of 4" thinwall PVC with the side cut out:
I plan to replace it with some black ABS when I get somewhere to buy a stick. The rear end slides into the tractor frame:
The front is pinned to the deck hanger brackets so it's easy to remove when needed:
Estimated 10-80 lb. sacks of mix, bought 12, used 9, so I took the other 3 back to the lumber yard. Dad's old mixer doesn't look like much, but comes in handy at times:
Once that project was finished, I finished up the front driveshaft shield for the JD 2025R. First time out with the brush cutter, I wrapped the driveshaft with tall Orchard grass & twisted off the shaft out of the transmission, don't want that happening again! For now, I used what I had, a piece of 4" thinwall PVC with the side cut out:
I plan to replace it with some black ABS when I get somewhere to buy a stick. The rear end slides into the tractor frame:
The front is pinned to the deck hanger brackets so it's easy to remove when needed:
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What a big change! It's going to be a shop to be proud of again! And a great history to go along with it!
DAC
Need to teach my kid a lesson
I didn't buy an old truck as a test bed for parts he can rob for his truck. And sometimes you just gotta disappoint your buddies and say "sorry I have more important things to do than to go throw bean bags and drink beer"
His thinking: dad never gets invited anywhere (me) I'll leave my acting up truck in the parking lot where my wife works, call Dad to come figure out what's up with it, while I go have fun"..... on a truck that I told him that it's carb was shot on 8 months ago when he brought it home.
While I have 2 others sitting here waiting for me to get to besides.
His wound up just being a shorted out ignition box, that got it home, but then I had to deal with the bad carb, so I wound up taking the new one off of my truck and putting it into his.
Over last weekend we were supposed to go out junking to find a gas tank for it that didn't have a split in it. No, kid and daughter in law went to some silly party for one of his groomsmen's kid
/ my kid got married last October. The baby's dad was a groomsman for my kid.
at 1 year old you think that kid will remember who was at her 1st birthday party? Again dad (me) was the one driving all over and climbing around junkyards, and then pulling a gas tank for the kid..... I would like to be done with this. His machinery, he needs to at least be present while I HELP HIM fix his own. Not have it dumped in my lap while he goes and has fun.
I didn't buy an old truck as a test bed for parts he can rob for his truck. And sometimes you just gotta disappoint your buddies and say "sorry I have more important things to do than to go throw bean bags and drink beer"
His thinking: dad never gets invited anywhere (me) I'll leave my acting up truck in the parking lot where my wife works, call Dad to come figure out what's up with it, while I go have fun"..... on a truck that I told him that it's carb was shot on 8 months ago when he brought it home.
While I have 2 others sitting here waiting for me to get to besides.
His wound up just being a shorted out ignition box, that got it home, but then I had to deal with the bad carb, so I wound up taking the new one off of my truck and putting it into his.
Over last weekend we were supposed to go out junking to find a gas tank for it that didn't have a split in it. No, kid and daughter in law went to some silly party for one of his groomsmen's kid
/ my kid got married last October. The baby's dad was a groomsman for my kid.
at 1 year old you think that kid will remember who was at her 1st birthday party? Again dad (me) was the one driving all over and climbing around junkyards, and then pulling a gas tank for the kid..... I would like to be done with this. His machinery, he needs to at least be present while I HELP HIM fix his own. Not have it dumped in my lap while he goes and has fun.
He won't learn until it sits and he wonders why it isn't fixed.
My dad would of dragged the vehicle to my house and dumped it.
My dad would of dragged the vehicle to my house and dumped it.
