Bighanded 1,235 Posted March 18, 2022 On 2/4/2022 at 7:13 AM, Fishfiles said: Buddy picked up the excavator today , I had it for 3 months or longer so I can't complain , got a whole lot done and did not cost anything >>>>>>>> I should have never sold it still got about 8 trees to get rid of , will likely go with the stump grinder guy from this point >>> ( did I mentioned I was stupid for selling that excavator ) Got a 2 more loads of Mississippi River dredge sand coming , the little tractor with the grate rack works great for finishing up the top soil , I got that tractor about 11 years ago now , it is a 1972 Sears Suburban , 16 HP , transmission = 6 forward / 2 reverse , it holds 8 quarts of oil in the transmission Has been a fun project , kind of like Homestead Rescue LOL Love the pic of your tractor...that's how real men roll.. around the big city up the road, the boys wouldn't be caught dead on anything less than a shiney new top model rider..and of course are out there with their $60 cargo shorts and ArmourAll polo shirts etc. my old Husqvarna has a ripped up seat that makes yours look like new. but we get the jobs done (grin)...nice work on the landscape by the way. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted March 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Bighanded said: Love the pic of your tractor...that's how real men roll.. around the big city up the road, the boys wouldn't be caught dead on anything less than a shiney new top model rider..and of course are out there with their $60 cargo shorts and ArmourAll polo shirts etc. my old Husqvarna has a ripped up seat that makes yours look like new. but we get the jobs done (grin)...nice work on the landscape by the way. Thanks , the seat of the tractor is a Bobcat economy version replacement , if i remember right , it was about $75 at the time , about 10 years ago ---- I have a Husqvarna zero swing , I like them , it is going on it's 3rd season , one before it lasted 13 years , still have it , everything works but the engine lost compression on one cylinder ---- I put the three bin bagger on it last year and it is a leaf eating goat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted March 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Bighanded said: Love the pic of your tractor... I don't think mentioned , I have attachments for that tractor , plow , blade , row maker , cultivator , and a couple of other thingies , got the whole deal , not running for $300 The engine had been changed to a 16 from a 15 and he was pull rope starting it by wrapping the rope around the pulley for each try ----I put a generator/starter in it and wired in a voltage regulator added a battery back in it , had a new stainless steel fuel tank made for it ---love it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bighanded 1,235 Posted March 18, 2022 oh...so you do dress up to mow the lawn (LOL) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted March 18, 2022 15 minutes ago, Bighanded said: oh...so you do dress up to mow the lawn (LOL) Went to get a vasectomy and was wearing a tuxedo , Doctor asked why so dressed up , I said " if I am going to be impotent , I want to look impotent !!! " ----- it is a joke , LOL 2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shrade 197 Posted March 19, 2022 , also clearing a 100 yard shooting lane , got a feeder and a game cam When is the shooting lane going in? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted March 21, 2022 I dropped that deformed pine this weekend and lucky it went good and never hit the live oak and took down the swings ---- it hit the ground so hard that the wife came running outside to see what happened ---- don't know what happen to that tree , where it was damaged it was so juicy with pine sap , like the tree was trying to heal itself , when I burned that chunk it was insane-o el'flam-o, black sooty smoke and flames 6 foot in the air , should have taken some pics 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted July 4, 2022 Got a pretty good method to get rid of stumps going , bbq charcoal , a cut drum and a top from a old propane heater for a top , the charcoal been reasonably priced , goes for $30 for 40 pounds, 30 pounds was enough to take out this stump , cheaper than a stump grinder or excavator rental ---need to rack some meat during the burn process , LOL 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Goober 1,555 Posted July 4, 2022 That’s a great method FF. On big stumps i used to drill a bunch of holes in the stump and pour a box of powdered milk every month or so. Then i heap dirt over it to keep it moist. Fungus grows and eats the stump to nothing in about a year. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted July 4, 2022 I was trying to drill holes , found it very hard to do in fresh tree stump , but then after the wood was burned it would drill easier , so that was what I was doing , I'd throw a bag of coals and lite them up after they burned out I'd blow off the stump with a blower , then drill some holes as deep as I could , then lite it up again IDTpBpphT+OrhjAWeKQm1w.MOV 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted December 2, 2022 I found a hand pump at the flea market for $20 , there is a water well capped off under the bricks , so it can be connected and pump water , might do it one day , but no need for it now ---- the bricks were free , from a ringer around the oak tree that died in the yard , I need to drop that dead oak tree , I am scared of it , might paid a professional to drop it 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted January 24, 2023 Tried to dig the 140ft power and water pipes trench with the tractor and that wasn't working , so I started digging it by hand with a sharp shooter and a axe , good thing , it is coming out clean , there are so many little and big roots , that digging it with a machine would have destroyed the yard , broke my second double headed axe , so back to a single edge , the handles for them double headed axes are like $30 and the break easy ----- day 3 of the dig , 5 ft at a time I am putting 3 pipes in the hole , one 3/4 grey electrical pvc pipe for 120 volts for a light and a electric outlet , one white 3/4 pvc for water and a third 1/2 pvc for speaker wires and a surveillance cam wire , I would stick the speaker wires and cam wire in with the electrical wire , but I did that to the shed and there is a bunch of static ---- so the Question is ????? , do you'll use the same glue and primer for grey / electrical pvc pipe and white/ plumbing pvc pipe ??? I see I need to pressure wash that well pump shed 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_Wilson_™ 6,566 Posted January 24, 2023 (edited) This is what you planned to dig with that plow we talked about ? Good call.... Kinda thought roots might be a problem...I'm not following the static issue ? Are you talking the color of glue so it will be alike colors as appossed to white and grey ? Edited January 24, 2023 by _Wilson_™ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted January 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, _Wilson_™ said: This is what you planned to dig with that plow we talked about ? Good call.... Kinda thought roots might be a problem...I'm not following the static issue ? Are you talking the color of glue so it will be alike colors as appossed to white and grey ? Yea , need to be sure the glue and primer is correct for the color PVC pipe , couple of plumbers told me to use purple primer and clear glue for everything , going to get the pipe tomorrow ---- plan on using a vacuum cleaner and a sponge to suck the pull string thru the pipe 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_Wilson_™ 6,566 Posted January 25, 2023 (edited) Ah! Okay i gotcha .... Some of t he off white PVC plumbing under my home is indeed purple... I think purple dye is used just so you can tell where it needs primered ?? but of corse they have wet application etc etc ... I read just a bit ha! Never new picking out the right PVC glue could have so many choices.... Lol! One video showed a transparent PVC glue and primer.... Might be a new type of glue, but i couldn't say, nether did the spokesman in the video.... Ha! I like the sponge.. Vac deal Purdy slick idea! If that doesn't work (should be perfect) you could use compressed air and two sponges one at the beginning then thread the string in the other sponge and stuff it in the tube then push the air nozzle through the 1st sponge hold in in place and add air and shoot that sucker through the tubing ... I think that would work.. If y of follow my odd instructions... Lol! Edited January 25, 2023 by _Wilson_™ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_Wilson_™ 6,566 Posted January 25, 2023 Been a glue sorta day eh ? 1st jeeps home made stuff, then bsi .... Now PVC .... Lol! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted January 25, 2023 @_Wilson_™ I got a story about purple primer , I got two friends that are brothers , that are both , lifetime plumbers and both ride 4 wheelers with us , well the younger brother is Marvin whois an interior plumber for the most part , a new construction residential kind of guy , his brother is a commercial plumber that owns equipment and he digs and installs the underground plumbing , so Marvin did my plumbing on the construction of our house , he did such a nice , clean job that when the building inspector came for a final inspection and went to and looked at the kitchen sink first , he never went in another room of the house , then handed me the inspection passed sticker , Marvin is very neat --- a few years back my pump in the well house went out and it was Sunday morning , so I bought a 1 hp pump from HomeDepot to get me going , and plan was to get the 2 hp pump rebuilt , swop it later and keep the 1 hp as a back up , plumb it in with some valves so if the pump went out , it was just flipping a few valve and back on line --- I was doing the job by myself , so Marvin's brother Lance came over that morning as we were going to ride around noon , but I was working on the pump , so he helps me and I had purple primer , I wish I had a pic of the job he did , it was pitiful , there was purple primer dripped and splashed over every piece of white pvc pipe in the pump house , I remember telling him , thanks for the help , but you are the messiest plumber I ever seen , he said " nobody is going to see that " , I was like " I will , every time I open that pump house door I will think about you " , over the years all his crappy work has been cut out and replaced , if was free and he got me going so I should not be complaining 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted January 25, 2023 Finally made it to the pump house. 140 ft of ditch. That last 30 has been hard. Lots of roots. That sharp shooter shovel really helped digging. Had got that at a garage sale for $5. Looked like it was used one time. I think it is going to be too sloppy to lay pipe and wire today. I bet that ditch might be full of water this morning 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted January 27, 2023 Getting closer. One of these days. Nothing glued yet. Started to tap the water into the pump shed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riverc 1,317 Posted January 27, 2023 Did you use a trencher or dug with a shovel? I'm thinking about running some waterlines. Wonder how much it cost to rent one of those small trenchers from Home Depot or wherever I can rent one if the price is right. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_Wilson_™ 6,566 Posted January 27, 2023 No, he. Had planned on using a 3 point hitch tractor mounted plow, but with the roots .... I agree with him, could have damage the lawn / yard something bad. Fish been busy, but i agree with your other post i would not have liked a messy sloppy looking finished project... The hardy furness dealer from years ago... Wasn't much for doing a good job.... I'm just thankful for the new authorized hardy wood burner dealer.... Plus the fact i know that dragon so good i can do my own repairs... I say if a person sets out to do a job, least do it right...... Especially when working on someone else's property! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted January 27, 2023 3 hours ago, riverc said: Did you use a trencher or dug with a shovel? I'm thinking about running some waterlines. Wonder how much it cost to rent one of those small trenchers from Home Depot or wherever I can rent one if the price is right. Dug it by hand . I called Home Depot about renting a Ditch Witch , with the trailer and insurance , they did a 4 hour deal for a little over $200 and a 8 hour deal for a little more than $300 The price of the PVC pipe is pretty high , 3/4 pvc water pipe was $4.57 per 10 ft length , the 3/4 grey schedule 40 is $10.57 per 10 ft 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riverc 1,317 Posted January 28, 2023 On 1/26/2023 at 11:45 PM, Fishfiles said: Dug it by hand . I called Home Depot about renting a Ditch Witch , with the trailer and insurance , they did a 4 hour deal for a little over $200 and a 8 hour deal for a little more than $300 The price of the PVC pipe is pretty high , 3/4 pvc water pipe was $4.57 per 10 ft length , the 3/4 grey schedule 40 is $10.57 per 10 ft Lol will use the tiller & shovel.Not worth spending that much on a trencher for what I want to do. Pipe getting pricey too oh well everything is. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted February 16, 2023 Got the pipe in , rin made it hard still got to run the wire thru and connect the water supply to the well then get another load of river sand --- hit the biggest root along the entire way 3 feet from the end , really fought the rain to get the job done ---- working on a pump and sump setup for the future , I got this pump at the flea market for $25 , got a float switch for it for $45 ( not in the pic ) , tested it in the barrel that is going to be the sump , going to bury it along the wood line , then make a screen cover to keep the leaves out , run a 2 inch pipe to the street ditch 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,145 Posted February 16, 2023 I got firewood now ------ Got a friend of a friend to down that dead oak tree for me , I was a little scared, and rightfully so as the video will show , LOL --- he also thinks that tree was hit by lightning , there is a line going thru it from top to bottom We gave him $200 and he said he is going to come back with his big saw and cut the stump down low if I take a look at his EZGO gas cart that doesn't have spark I hope that video below goes thru , the wife has a video of the first drop on her phone , but it is a 2 plus minute video that needs to be edited 3X43fe%zRK21V9AFM3SYjw.MOV 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
