What's everybody doing?

I guess, something to do lol.

Yesterday was the last really nice day for the rest of the week so it was a good day to get ready for mowing season, sharpening blades, greasing equip, getting out the pull behind sprayer and putting new hoses on it, cleaning the nozzles, etc. I hadn't used the sprayer in several years because it needed some work and I never made time for that, but like I vowed this year, all of that's gonna change... Even got a little time yesterday on the mower for a bit, it's easy to forget in the Winter months how nice it is to get out and spend some nice quality time on the mower.

Finishing up some blasting this morning of some extra parts that have been on the blasting cart for well over a year, and some other little way overdue things... I hope to get back to the sheet metal on the new tricycle this afternoon and maybe even paint a piece or two.

The 2nd pic is something I found in the back that I was wondering if anyone knows what it is. I'll prob use it for a balancer or to lift something odd on the engine lift and forklift. Dad thinks it's for an old piece of horse drawn farm equipment, anyone else know what it is?

Geno wrote:

Yesterday was the last really nice day for the rest of the week so it was a good day to get ready for mowing season, sharpening blades, greasing equip, getting out the pull behind sprayer and putting new hoses on it, cleaning the nozzles, etc. I hadn't used the sprayer in several years because it needed some work and I never made time for that, but like I vowed this year, all of that's gonna change... Even got a little time yesterday on the mower for a bit, it's easy to forget in the Winter months how nice it is to get out and spend some nice quality time on the mower.

Finishing up some blasting this morning of some extra parts that have been on the blasting cart for well over a year, and some other little way overdue things... I hope to get back to the sheet metal on the new tricycle this afternoon and maybe even paint a piece or two.

The 2nd pic is something I found in the back that I was wondering if anyone knows what it is. I'll prob use it for a balancer or to lift something odd on the engine lift and forklift. Dad thinks it's for an old piece of horse drawn farm equipment, anyone else know what it is?

I think your dad is right on that part....

Sure looks like horse equipment to me, maybe stump pulling.

The peeps right across the street have a few young strong horses, maybe I could borrow them lol.

Been priming some parts for the trike and cleaning up some hubs that were blasted the other day that looked pretty rough in between coats.

I went over to the farm yesterday to pick up another hood for the trike and took a few pics. The place is cleaned up and looking really nice, all of the fences are gone and the trees pushed out that were all grown up in the fence lines. All that's left is a few big piles to burn in some small groups of trees then it will look great. I've been trying to convince dad to take out the fence that is left on some of his property but for some strange reason he want to keep it, maybe he'll do it once stuff starts to grow up in those lines lol...

Wow, if I am looking at the first pic correctly all the barns and milk house are gone.That is a BIG change!

It's all still there GT, that pic is at the entrance and looking left or South, you can see the stone front where the cattle guard is in the car side mirror. The barns are all behind me in the 2nd + 3rd pic, you can barely see the end of the rain gutter in the 3rd pic on the lower right where I keep all of the other tractors and stuff not here at the shop.

I'll add some old pics in here from 2015 to get a better idea. The new 1st pic from the other post was taken from right inside the stone gates. What looks so good now is the 2nd pic from 2015 shows some of the fence lines with all the stuff grown up in it that is all gone now.

I'll try to get better pics that match where the old ones were taken from next time I'm down that way with the camera. These may be a better comparison though, 1st older 2015 pic was taken from right outside the main stone gates, 2nd one was taken from right inside the main stone gates. Angle is a little different but where they were taken from was less than 100 feet apart. A good thing to go by in both (minus the fence line mess) is the electric poles are in both of them.

I had a work list for today and got it all done plus a few things, I still can't hardly believe it myself lol.

All the grass is mowed and sprayed with 24D, another pond is cleaned out and the 2 waterfalls are going, only 1 left with the little fountain in it. Rear porch is cleaned up, the lot is blown off, shop is swept and blown out just needs a mopping, everything is cleaned up and put way from the different projects today, the tricycle fenders + hood are ready for paint, and all the bodywork stuff in the shop is put away.

I think it's time for a little supper and a Stewart's root beer to celebrate.