Day 483 - Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

BPO3 is supported by Timber King sawmills. For more information on my 1220 CRZ mill or one of many fully hydraulic options, go to timberking.com. [Music] [Music] Today is August 4th when I'm recording this. I published the uh poison ivy powder video this morning. And I mean I still have it. Still kind of annoying. Uh I don't uh I don't think it's bad enough to like go to urgent care or anything like that and get some steroid something or other and all that good stuff. I'm just just itchy, you know, just I'm just itchy. Honestly, what I think is the reason why I'm not really um going to get some type of medical help with it because I think it's getting better. Number one, and number two, the weather is too overcast day and our highs today are in the 80s. Like the other night, last night, it got down to 66° for our low. Oh my goodness. woke up kind of cold. It's great. It's really, really good. This is unusually cold for us in August. Uh our our high today, like I said, is uh it's in the 80s, like 88, 89, something like that. So, we're not going to have the heat index over 100. Our heat index today, I think, is supposed to be like 95, 96. So, it's less miserable. Anyway, I I've been neglecting this side of the shop for far too long. We got to make some progress. Let's walk up to this mound of dirt. Whoa, I'm sliding off. All right, so I've got two Tposts marking the septic. So, I do not want to drive the tractor in between these posts and the shop. Nothing heavy goes right there. I have a water line underground about that far away from the shop all the way along this edge. And I'm now I have two gutters to deal with. These gutters were a tremendous help getting as much of this rain water uh down to a a concentrated location rather than just plump pummeling and splashing up everywhere. So, I have 100 ft of corrugated pipe and two down spout adapters. So, I'm going to take these elbows off. And this one I'm going to probably bring over on an angle to right about thereish. And then I'll bring this one over here the same way. This is the initial game plan. And I'm not going to connect them. They're two independent 4-in pipes. And I'll have both pipes in the same trench going out that way. I'll have 50 ft for each one of the pipes. That's 100t roll. So, that should get the water, the majority of the water away going through the ditch system out into the woods. Um, whoa, I almost fell backwards. Uh, what was I going to say? I was going to say something else. The dogs like to dig over here, which is kind of annoying, but at the same time, doesn't bother me too much. Dogs will be dogs, and this is just fresh dirt. Uh, once we get all this settled the way we want it to be settled, I'll come back with some grass seed and all that. And at that point, you better not dig into my grass. We'll figure something out. I have to elevate that over there. That is the airator for our septic system. That's an air pump that runs 24/7 and it needs to go about 5 or 6 in higher. I believe I have everything necessary to do that. I have to extend a 1/2 in pipe um/in diameter PVC and I think the rest of this is just smooth it all out after we get these pipes buried. Now, here's the thing. Let me actually jump down. That's higher than it seems. That's about 5t off the ground. 4t off the ground. Um, when I get these buried, I also want to build this up to the bottom line of the um, siding there. Uh, and I still have to spread this out. I I kind of abandoned this job for a while because we went through this stretch of of really really wet stuff in in the beginning of our summertime. Are you Are you about to slide? Are you about to slide? Go ahead. Go ahead and slide with your new sled. You're fancy. Only the best. spare no expense for the child's sled. Let's see what you got. You went so fast it blew my hair back and I didn't even go on the slide. Isn't that awesome? The simple pleasures of a six-year-old. Uh where was I going? I don't know where I'm going with this. Um I've got to go get diesel fuel before I do much. Uh I do want to spread this out. Oh, this sand. So, when I got this sand, we get these uh loads of sand for 80 bucks a load, which is pretty darn cheap. And for the most part, they're fantastic. This particular load, it has several of these large rocks. So, I need to go out here with the grapple and grab all these rocks and move these rocks elsewhere and then start spreading this out. Uh, and then we'll be able to dig this trench. I'm not sure how I want to dig this trench. If I'm gonna use the bucket on the tractor or if we're going to do it by hand, I'm not too sure. But we've got some work to do and I got to go get some diesel fuel before we start. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] So, this is a root rake grapple, meaning you can shove the bottom tines into the dirt and kind of sort of use it like your rake, but your depth is limited because of this bar that goes across right here. So, it's not like a deep rake that you just plow through. Uh, but there is, you know, a good 4 in or so that you can angle down and and get through it. Uh, that is fantastic for screening out larger debris and also fantastic for just plucking the rocks out of here. We got all of these big big rocks that I don't know what we're going to do with, but maybe Jamie wants to put them around her garden or something. Regardless, I don't want to bury them. I don't want them in this area. So, I think my grapple work is done and I can switch out to the bucket and then just start spreading this thing smooth. Once I get it smooth, then we'll switch gears and get the gutters out. Heat. Heat. Heat up I got the pile knocked down. And I will say that I wish I had a tracked machine right now. Um, you know, like a skid steer or track loader, the the tracks don't fall down into all these little itty bitty bumps, whereas the front tires on the tractor do. So, every time you hit a bump in the front tire, what does it do is it it raises up the back, which is the box blade, and then you go back down, and you're constantly doing this. And uh well, lumpies and bumpies. Uh once I get all of the the trenching and all this done, I'm going to load up the tractor bucket and use it in float mode to back drag. And that does a pretty good job to flatten out, especially if I go one direction in a grid all the way across and then go like 45 degrees to that and a grid the other direction. Um, that seems to do the job just fine. But now that this pile's not here, nothing's in our way. Uh, this is what I wanted so that I can actually start digging for the trenches. Also, we're going to tidy up the the wall area here uh with hand tools, just garden rakes. Uh, in the front of the shop, I did it all with the tractor and I got real close like like don't don't sneeze or fart. You're going to hit the you're going to hit the building. I got real close. Don't want to do it here because I've got that in the way. I've got the down spout in the way, the down spout behind me. But anyway, we'll get it done with hand tools. What? I'm going to be doing side. All right. This can fill in mine. It's like right here. Right. No, because that's where I'm going to flip through. I'm going to scoop and drop. Scoop and drop. Scoop and drop. Okay. This is a race. That one first. This is a race, guys. Whoever gets stuck to their work first gets to decide what we are eating for supper. Don't bring that back over here. All right, I got to go get the materials to raise this over here. [Music] I set the glue down. Where did I set the glue down? Mom, what? We're in the lead. Hey, look. Wait, that's your rock. Put them all over there. Yeah, Gracie. No. No. Grace. No. How many have you got? [Music] Been meaning to do that for nine months now. All right. Look at us marking things off. You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the saying that when a man says he's going to do something, there's no need to remind him every 6 months. Uh that was installed uh late October, early November. Let's just say November of last year. It's August 4th and I'm just now elevating that uh so that the the platform that that sits on is higher than the edge of the foundation. Eventually when money starts to come in uh I'll I'll a ford some gravel to put gravel right here or some rock anyway. Stone. That's what it is. Stone. Number 57. Limestone. Something. I'll put something right there to stop the water splash. That being said, since we've got gutters, there really isn't much of a water splash at all. So, maybe grass is just fine. Uh, anyway, check that box. I still need to add a little bit more here. I want the rim of this to be at grade. So, I need to add a little bit more. Not much at all. Um, this over here, I keep going back and forth on whether or not I want to take this out to right there. And then I have both pipes right there. That way, that'll require a separate trench. I don't think the water is going to be super mad at me if I instead just take that that elbow off and come down and go 90° up against the foundation and then sweep out this way and attach to the trench right there. I think I think there should be enough gravity to get that water out anyway, especially if I come up about say like that high uh with the attachment. I think that should be fine. And what that'll do is allow me to only have to cross the water line one time. So, I'm going to have to dig with the tractor for the majority of this. Uh, but where it crosses the water supply line because I've got my water supply about a foot and a half away from the the shop all the way to that spigot right there. Uh, it'll stop me from having to do it in two spots. Cross it. Anyway, so I think I'm just going to sweep around this way and go yonder way. I'm from the north and everyone says yonder here in the south. Where is yonder? It's an indefinite indefinite location. Anyway, um so I think I'm gonna start digging from this side. Figure out where I want it to exit, which is essentially right here. I've already made a low spot going that way that connects into the ditch. So either this one I'd really like to stay away from right here because there's that tree trunk right there. But it may end up being right here. Actually, I may put the tractor on the gravel side and start scooping and forming this ditch a little bit more pronounced right there going that way. And then I can tie in like a soa like a soa right there. I think that's going to be just fine. But that's it for me for today. We spent all morning doing errands, running around in town, and man, I know you've got to go to town to get stuff done, but every time I leave this property, it just feels like a waste of time. even if I'm not doing anything productive, even if I'm just sitting on my butt, when I leave this property, I'm like, "Oh, what a waste of time. I should be doing something else." So, anyway, we did all that this morning. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to come out here and we're going to get started early hopefully. Anyway, uh but we're quitting today at 3:30 because our daughter is in Kung Fu and she goes to Kung Fu twice a week and uh that's that's a family event for us. So anyh who, not a lot of time. Good progress. See you tomorrow. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] Hey, Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. 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