Goatgurl - life goes on at someday farm

[goatgurl]

youall I can tell fall's coming, mice always try to move into my house in the fall. so ok, I now have a mouse in my house so I put out a sticky trap to catch it but no luck. so far I have caught emma, my avitar, and tilly the granddog. I personally found it pretty amusing but they didn't... dogs have no sense of humor sometimes.

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[Baymule]

I hate mousies in the house!

 

[Bruce]

Must be s BIG sticky trap to catch the dogs!!

 

[CntryBoy777]

I probably shouldn't tell y'all this, but.....I was overseeing a warehouse for a grocery company and we had to be proactive for rodent control.....it was back when they were just coming out with the glue boards.....so, I got a few and brought them to Mom and Dad to help with mice in the house here....well, Dad has always been one to make use of everything to the fullest and never grasped the idea of something being disposalble....it just seemed a waste to him....well, I can down to visit and Dad was down stairs, so was talking to Mom and I asked what Dad was doing....Mom said he was down stairs attempting to get a mouse off the glue board so it could be reused.....I cracked up and told her they were to be thrown away....she said tell that to your Dad.....I did, but he didn't agree......he showed it to me and saud see it can be used again.....I told him it had so much fur all over in the glue that it wouldn't hold another......I went back up stairs to Mom and we laughed til we cried......I'd never believed it if I hadn't seen it......

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I hate mousies in the house too. But, we caught a little snake on a glue trap once and I couldn't stand it so I decided to get him off. Some cheap cooking oil will release what is stuck...just have to pour it all around and under the "stuckee" until it comes loose. But, I won't even try the catch and release method on a mouse....

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss @goatgurl,

As I mentioned on my own journal, I have caught up with what's going on with you. Thanks for letting me see how things should be done. I hope you catch the mouse.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[goatgurl]

alright all of you great minds @greybeard, @Mike CHS, @CntryBoy777, @Latestarter and anyone else that can help. I need some help figuring out board feet on some hand hewn timbers that I am planning to sell. these are from an old log cabin on my property that was built in the late 1890's and a contractor from the dallas area is interested in them for fancy houses. the logs range in length from 5.5ft to 17ft and are approximately 12inx6in thick. how do I figure the board feet and how much they are worth?
had a good work day Saturday. I only have 9 goats and 4 sheep left in my dwindling herd and at some point they got in my chicken house, i'm not sure how the ruckus started or who was at fault but they totally destroyed my old roost in there. we have to remember that this chicken house is probably 50 years old and i'm sure the roost was that old too. so my friend WR, the gentleman who hunts on my property, came over and with his trusty chain saw and other hand tools we cut down 7 nice sturdy persimmon trees (i'm sorry @Devonviolet) and made a new roost for the girls. chickens aren't the brightest bulbs on the tree and they weren't sure they wanted to sit on strange trees, grrr hopefully they will figure it out. JJ's in the pic checking things out.
poor old choco went into solitary confinement today for the duration of the breeding season. talk about giving a person the stink eye he did. if looks could kill i'd be laying out there in the grass beside his pen.
JR & SW delivered my winters hay this evening. looks really good and green. the girls minus choco are out cleaning up all the loose that fell off the truck. there isn't as much lespedeza in it as last year but its still really good grass hay and are you ready for this... it only cost me $3.50 a bale delivered and put in the barn. what a blessing. and speaking of blessings WR also brought me a 55 gal barrel of corn on the cob for the critters. woot!!
youall have a blessed evening

 

[goatgurl]

I forgot to mention @Senile_Texas_Aggie I think you must have me mixed up with someone that knows what they are doing... not sure if they are right or wrong I just do things in a way that works for me. but thanks

 

[Bruce]

A board foot is 144 sq inches of 1" wood. So to make it easy, 12" long, 12" wide, 1" thick. But 24x6x1 is also a board foot as is 12x6x2. As such, your 17' timber is 102 board feet.

I can't tell you what they are worth. Is this contractor planning to convert the beams into dimensional lumber or use them "as is"? If he is willing to travel from Dallas to get them, he is likely willing to pay relatively big bucks. He could buy new lumber cheaper than what people pay for "antique" lumber with "character". If he is going to keep them as hand hewn beams for fancy houses, make him pay, he'll pass it on the the rich people who will be buying the house I hope that is his plan, someone went to a huge amount of work to cut down, haul, square and get to the dimension they wanted all by hand 120 years ago.

And, actually, if they are truly hand hewn, they are likely 40-50 years older minimum. Before the US Civil war big beams had to be hand hewn, the water powered saws couldn't handle big timbers. Then the steam engine came about and those beams could be cut with large circular saws. Much faster and dimensionally consistent.