Evening Yard!

We had another power outage today. I know we have had at least 4 outages at our place so far this year. 1 was about 24 hours and it was still winter. It's time to start looking for an electrician who can install a manual transfer switch for a generator. I need to budget for a bigger gen set. Which works for me anyway. I want to get a 20ft shipping container to make into a shop. Technically the back of my property is s separate address. If I use a gen set I won't have to pay the man for an electrical hookup and a meter. I'll bypass that particular Gov tax and have a gen set big enough for the house. Plus a movable shop.

Good thinking MB

Sounds like a good plan M/B.

G’Day Dawgs.

Morning Yard!


Another beautiful day. I was going to fell a tree in front of our house. I limbed it up to about 20 ft yesterday and then noticed it leaned towards the house a bit more than I liked. I attached a rope and was thinking about just pulling on one side while I sectioned it down. But I have since slept on the thought and it may very well need someone with more experience and better equiped than me to do it.

I think I'll call around and get a bid. If it's less than my homeowners insurance deductible that may be the route to go.

Don't worry, I still have plenty of work around the property to keep me busy. I have at least 3 more trees to drop. Those are pretty easy drops though.

I have used a rope tied up about 20 feet in the tree and then tied to the back of my tractor. A truck would work also ; once you have made the initial three cuts in the tree the vehicle pulling should help guide the tree falling in the right direction. A second person in / on the vehicle would allow you to make the final cut before backing away a safe distance.

And a good rainy mornin to ya dogs.

Good afternoon, Yard.

Howdy folks. Today turned out pretty nice weather wise and the dogs are loving it.

Monsoon here.

Torrential rain today, with about a half hour with no power

Good morning Scrap Yard. Today is supposed to be nice like yesterday so we might pick some more green beans and cherry tomatoes.