Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 7

[Flyin6]

Next up, the new 3/4HP jet type shallow well water pump was installed

It is wired in hooked to a 30 amp double pole breaker. I may pull that back to a 20 amp...thinking

I wired it up 220VAC. It had an option for either 110 or 220

I ran out of crimp-type PEX rings, so I'll have to get some more and finish the install a bit later on

[Flyin6]

Next up, I tossed up the flood lamps over the two main doors

[Flyin6]

I placed the switch beside the openings, but added a loop into the cable just incase I need to move that gentleman. I don't know what sort of space requirements the roll up door will have so I can move that switch if needed to clear later on.

[Flyin6]

Then I went after to panel, hooking up things to breakers

[Flyin6]

Its darned pretty in the late afternoon. Nice afternoon for working. It got to 49F at quitting time. I used the truck's buttock warmer on the relaxing drive home.

[JR]

When do the rollups come?

[Bigdave_185]

That’s some great progress, can’t wait to see the grass growing in around the rocks in a few years


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[Flyin6]

That’s some great progress, can’t wait to see the grass growing in around the rocks in a few years


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Me too!

[Flyin6]

When do the rollups come?

Haven't found anyone to sell them to me yet...still looking

[Flyin6]

Driving in this morning I saw these ladies. There were two more sitting in a tree, overlooking, so a total of twelve

[Flyin6]

Little pond is filling. Loads of deer and other critter tracks. The salt block is a recent addition

[TexasRedNeck]

Man those big crows are everywhere…JR…..;-)


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[Flyin6]

Muddy today. 4WD only in places. View up toward the shed/future cabin.

[Flyin6]

Man those big crows are everywhere…JR…..;-)


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Crows, eh? My eyesight is failing me...

[Flyin6]

Pond is filling

[Flyin6]

And grass is growing

[Flyin6]

And none of this washed away after three days of rain

[Flyin6]

Now between 800-900 gallons in each tank

May not look like it, but that's about 30" ish of water

[Flyin6]

Finished installation of the water pump and lines today!

[Flyin6]

And got two outside spigots installed.

Now, these are not winterized units, so I will not be keeping water against them. I'll just fire up the pump and open or close valves if I need to wash something. Otherwise I'll leave the spigots open as well as the drain valve so that no water remains trapped anywhere it may freeze.

[Flyin6]

After that, I spent the balance of the day pulling wire and making connections

The switches are for sawmill, overhead lights, porch lights

[Flyin6]

in the main bay, one down, five to go!

[Flyin6]

It was a muddy mess today, but it continues to improve

[JR]

Dang, that's lots of crows and fair game anytime!!

What is your neighbor doing, putting a freeway in?

[DDS]

Next up, the new 3/4HP jet type shallow well water pump was installed

It is wired in hooked to a 30 amp double pole breaker. I may pull that back to a 20 amp...thinking

I wired it up 220VAC. It had an option for either 110 or 220

I ran out of crimp-type PEX rings, so I'll have to get some more and finish the install a bit later on

Does this pump have an internal expansion tank? If not, that pressure switch will be kicking on & off every 2 seconds.

[Flyin6]

Next up, the new 3/4HP jet type shallow well water pump was installed

It is wired in hooked to a 30 amp double pole breaker. I may pull that back to a 20 amp...thinking

I wired it up 220VAC. It had an option for either 110 or 220

I ran out of crimp-type PEX rings, so I'll have to get some more and finish the install a bit later on

Does this pump have an internal expansion tank? If not, that pressure switch will be kicking on & off every 2 seconds.

Good catch!
I'll add an expansion tank next time I work down there

[Flyin6]

May not look like much, but I now have all the overhead lighting in, wired, switches installed from breaker to plug. That was a lot of work!

[stlaser]

How do you like them?

[Flyin6]

Currently pulling wire for the east and west walls outlet boxes

[Flyin6]

How do you like them?

No power to the barn yet.
Power company hasn't dropped the new poles, nor run any wire yet.

[Flyin6]

I had to wait three days after the big rain for the ground to dry enough to finish moving that hap-hazard stack of logs near the barn.
That is now cleaned up

[Flyin6]

This machine is magnificent and makes moving dirt a non event

[Flyin6]

Difficult to see, but I cut that berm down a bit, and tapered all the drop-offs, so that everything is now accessible with my mower (When I get grass)

[Flyin6]

I did some smoothing around the trees and trimmed them up.

then, removed the concrete forms and broke up the overflow

Next up is to bring in some big rocks to stack around the water tanks and other things I do not want to get bumped.

[JR]

Busy man.

[Bigdave_185]

Are ya gonna do any inner sheeting or finish the interior walls of some sort?


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[Flyin6]

Are ya gonna do any inner sheeting or finish the interior walls of some sort?


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Probably not for a long time

Everything else has a higher priority
I have to be a good steward of the money I have to build the new cabin
I can get everything I need done with the structure as + dried in, gravel ramp, gravel in high traffic areas.

[Flyin6]

Spread around some contractor mix grass seed. The rye should get going in a week or so, and the Kentucky #31 should take over by spring time

[Flyin6]

As suggested by DDS, I installed a surge tank.

I picked a 20 gallon unit as a shot in the dark. The concept is to get a tank that will allow your pump to run for 1 minute. The recommendations are all based on 1. The output in GPM of the pump, and 2. The total number of faucets, spigots, and water leaks. Based on the flow of the pump I would need a 52 gallon surge tank, but I really only have one faucet that will ever be running. This is not a house with the wife taking a 200 gallon hot water shower, while the kid is filling up the tub, the dishwasher is running, and I am pressure washing something the person showering told me to wash.

Nope, just me washing what I want to wash, nothing else. So I am thinking the 20 Gallon tank will suffice. I may be wrong, in which case I am going to be wrong for a long time, since this one is purchased and installed, the next size up is nearly twice the cost!

[Flyin6]

I flipped the box and built up the connection while it was standing on its head.

Then I hooked it into one of the 3/4" lines that connects directly to the manifold on the pump output side

[Flyin6]

Next I got after the East wall outlets, finishing all of them in due time.

[Flyin6]

Then I climbed the ladder into the upper troposphere and ran another 12-2 wire across a roof truss and back down to the west wall. I pulled all the wires, and installed all those outlets as well.

[Flyin6]

I then made the connection to the west faucet and called it a day...a  l o n g and tiring day

[JR]

 

[Flyin6]

Now that it is getting cooler, I am for sure thinking about doors for the barn.

I called an Amish guy who only does garage doors to price them out, but in the mean time, I decided I wanted a big sliding door in the front where the saw mill sits currently.

It was going to be a hassle building way up high and I'd either have to spring for some scaffolding or add the mezzanine, or skip all that and put a door on it.

I elected to go for the latter, and that set me off on another hunt. I have never before built any barn doors, hinged, sliding or otherwise and I know there are a bunch of techniques involved, so Off I went researching and studying just how to do that.

I finally just drove over to the local roofing/siding metal supplier and purchased his system.

It uses some 2X6 or 2X4 but uses end pieces made of extruded and coated aluminum. It has a base piece also of aluminum. Each door gets two HD hangers with a trolley system of wheels that fit into a formed steel tube with a slot in the bottom to allow the trucks, once inserted, to run freely fore and aft. That tube comes with an attachment system that is rated to 1200 lbs per attachment.

The whole thing sort of fits together as one engineered unit that I am guessing, if pretty strong. The down side is the price. I purchased the materials for two 9' 6" X 12' doors and walked out just under $1,340

I'll still need to purchase two 6X6 posts and a few bags of quickcrete. 6X6 posts are not cheap, so I expect another couple hundred to get to the finish line, so I should come in something a little bit over $1,500

Now compare that to a 18X11 garage door, and, well, I am probably a grand or more out in front.

That, and I will get the experience of building my first barn doors.


I am so stinkin' close to starting on the cabin!!!!!

I decided to build a 6' knee wall to separate the saw mill "Chamber" from the rest of the shop. The knee wall will contain the sawdust being blown out of the mill and provide a backstop for a long work bench. That knee wall will also get a bunch of outlets, which is project number three yet to complete.

At the moment I am still eyeing two garage doors, professionally installed to complete the barn.

Once I get these doors, the knee-wall, and the last run of outlets, I will begin the cabin build. That will start with moving everything out, likely several days of hard work.

[Flyin6]

Just spent a cold weekend down there. Pre-Ranger came in late Friday night after the Football game. I missed the game to arrive down there in the afternoon to monitor the farm. Saturday was the first day of gun season for deer.

That PreRanger played a good year in Varsity Football. His team took the division championship. He played as a starting Line Backer all season and with injuries, also played as a running back with a few good runs and a touchdown!

Next week starts playoffs with the march up to the state championships. We made it to the quarter finals last year, but this year, unfortunately we face the #1 ranked team in the state...Ya...!

Anyway, Congrats Bear Cats on a spectacular season!!!

He is on the left of pic-1

[Flyin6]

So, he went deeres huntin' while I went after putting something in those big ammonia holes in either end of ma buldin'

It had just rained and even with 4WD it was a big challenge just to get in there.

Oh, funny story first. The pre-Ranger was driving down and when he got in the wilderness country, a 4-point buck ran out of the woods and straight into the side of his truck as he was pulling up to a stop sign! Now, I ask you, who does that happen to? Anyone? Ever??

And another one
He got Buck Fever really bad.
He is all sleepy and misses the early AM departure for the tree stand. I am up however making coffee when I look down toward that new pond. THe same 10-point buck he is after is lapping on the salt block we put there a couple weeks ago! The deer licks for a little bit then walks off.
Pre Ranger goes hunting for hours...comes back...nada
He takes a mid day nap.
I roll back into the camper for some coffee, I had been outside working in the cold for hours
I look down at the pond and that buck is standing there
So I wake up sleeping beauty.
He grabs the 30-06, runs outside (30's) in his stocking feet, no jacket while I wait inside.
At that exact moment Infantry dude, the older Pre-Ranger calls me from Ft. Benning. He gets like 30 min a week now on the phone, so I tell him his brother is about to shoot the big guy on the farm. I wait, I hear the 30-06 go off. I watch the deer just stand there looking back at the camper. Then he just walks off and I see that kid of mine running down the hill after him.
Hmmm
Nate tells me he has to go so I go out after the deer hunter.
He yells at me, "GET THE .45, GET THE .45"
I yell back, "Shoot him with the rifle, you don't need to get into a gun fight with that buck."
So he comes back up the hill.
He is shaking and can't talk. He can barely breath right.
But I think I know what is going on. He is shaking and moving clumsily. Ya, Buck-Fever got another one.
Calmly, I ask, OK what happened?
"Dad, I don't know but I could not hold the gun still, it was shaking all over and so was I! I think I missed"
"Ya think?" the warrant officer responds.
I walked the area, zero sign of blood. No panicked deer running and digging in, only one walking off toward his next adventure.
Couple things about this. The deer was standing within 5 feet of the target used to check the zero of that same 30-06 last week, and the deer hunter fired from the same spot that he shot a 1" group six days earlier...Ya...
Well, I talk him down. Try to do the dad thing. He decides to go out in a couple hours and sit in one of the tree stands we own. He does and does nothing except to warm the surrounding cold wind.
Meanwhile, I get back to barn door construction.
Nearing nightfall, I close down ops, pick up my M4 which I keep close by for coyotes.
I walk up to the shed to close the doors and walk inside. I looked out the front window and there's that 10-point buck walking by the gate at the front of my property. I watched him for awhile when a pretty 8-point buck comes right up the hill and when he steps onto my driveway he sees me. He is 100 meters away. He is dead broadside to me. I have my M4 in my hand.
I raise the weapon to my shoulder to look at him through my ACOG. I see him and place the little red chevron right on his heart and just watch him for a few seconds. He is looking right at me.
I had .55 grain FMJ's in the mag, and that's a 150-160 deer...No way. That and this is my son's weekend, not mine.
I lowered the weapon and move to stand right in the doorway. That buck just stands there looking at me. I waved my hand at him to my right, and no kidding he lowered his head, kind of like a nod, turned and walked away slowly in the direction he was going.
The deer hunter was staking out a piece of woods that had zero illum and except for two square miles in Antarctica, was devoid of all forms of life.
Now, I told that deer hunter to just get a chair and sit in or near the shed, and he'd have a deer before breakfast. But he insisted he had the thing all figured out...
Kids
Kinda like privates

[Flyin6]

OK, back to barn door building

I backed up to the building, and cranked up the bed to allow me to almost drag everything out instead of hauling it bit by heavy bit

Then used the Kub to haul the sticks over to the shed to cut them to length

[Flyin6]

I started by cutting the aluminum sides to length and rough squaring them up on four saw horses

[Flyin6]

The system is really cool. You simply fit rout 2X4's into the side extrusions, measure, then fasten them permanently into place. I used #8 1.5" flat head screws to hold everything together