Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

I’ve been wrecking out chicken coops this morning. What a mess. Bennett built them with whatever he had. Then he drove a thousand nails in , wire wrapped everything and tied it with baling string.

Exhibit #1

I’m using 2 wrecking bars, 22 ounce framing hammer, bolt cutters and pliers.

There was 3 treated 10’x2x4’s I wanted. It took some doing, but I got ‘em. In case anybody wants to know, I’m not too fond of 4” ring shank nails..

I banged my head on that door header before I finally got smart enough to knock it off.

I’ve got my work cut out for me. Right now I’m mining the coops for building materials so I can go construct equally ugly crappy Pallet Palaces for the sheep. LOL

And in the coops are bucket nest boxes. They too are nailed, wired and hay string tied in place. Bennett made hanging feeders from cranberry juice jugs, good idea, but they are garbage now!

I stopped for lunch, going to haul this crap to the dumpster.

Chase brought me 4 more pallets. Let’s see, I got 4 pallets, three 10’x2x4’s,- couple of 8’x2x4’s and 2 pieces of 12’ R panels. I ought to be able to expand my Pallet Palaces with that!

Taking Carson to the dumpster! He loves to ride!

 

[Ridgetop]

Lots of work, but with the rain still to come you will be happy to have those Pallet Palaces for the sheep and lambs.

 

[Baymule]

I’m trying to make better accommodations for my sheep. It’s obvious that I won’t get a barn built anytime soon. Unlike my Pallet Palaces, when I put up a barn, it will be permanent and I want it to be nice. Nice to look at, nice for them to take cover in from heat, cold and rain.

Plans are to accumulate enough power poles to set, level, and enough treated 2x6’s to go around the top and bottom to secure the poles. Next will be the roof. Since bare metal roofs sweat and drip, I’ll pile up 1/2” plywood and radiant heat barrier and 2x4’s for lath strips, and R panels, to get the roof on. Then the same thing for the back and sides. The heat barrier is imperative to block the ferocious heat and give dogs and sheep a cool place to rest in the heat of the day.

So that’s my plans. It may take me awhile, but I’ll get it done. Then I’ll build another one to provide shelter for the middle and back fields.

 

[Simpleterrier]

If u ask kindly one day I will take pictures and post.them of the barn I made of recycled telephone poles 24x40 cost $800

 

[Baymule]

If u ask kindly one day I will take pictures and post.them of the barn I made of recycled telephone poles 24x40 cost $800

Please Mr Simpleterrier sir, would you be so generous with your vast knowledge of barn building, and post pictures of the barn you built?

 

[Bruce]

I would say that was asked with extreme kindness (and a bit of sucking up)

 

[Simpleterrier]

Now I'll just have to remember to take some

 

[farmerjan]

Did I read somewhere (maybe SS) that your son wants to sell his place where you lived for awhile? You still have stuff there stored in some Connex type storage containers right? Can you get them moved to your place intact? He might be smart to get it sold if he can realize some profit and not have to deal with it... he stays mostly with you anyway right ?, when he is in.... The scary way things are going, having the money in his pocket might be better at this point....
There was a discussion on one of the stations here, about the conditions in Argentina... they just elected a new president, a LIBERTARIAN I read... because of the disaster the economy has gotten into with the socialism policies and such... that this guy had campaigned against the establishment with tough talk about the way people were going to have to buckle down and tighten their belts in order to get the out of control inflation knocked down, and that they would be able to eventually get back to where things had value and a person could work and then be able to afford to buy things and have ownership again; to have pride in what they did and be able to "get ahead" with hard work and and not let the government dictate what they could and couldn't do and they would have to get off the hand outs..... but would be better off... Saying that this whole socialism WAS NOT WORKING and their lives were not better with the way things had come to be......
Surprised me to hear it on a "commercial" radio station... not a "right wing" station.... maybe someone is getting some brains to work after sitting on them for so long. I have seen very very little about it in the "world news"... hoping that the Epoch times will have an article on it...

 

[Baymule]

He’s getting me a couple of shipping containers and moving his to his land in Houston County about 25 miles from me.

That’s great news about Argentina. It used to be a prosperous country and now it’s a dump. I pray for this guy and I hope he can battle the corruption.

 

[SageHill]

Hopefully the woke and lemmings will see Argentina and start rubbing braincells together.