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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #600 on: July 27, 2021, 06:05:14 PM »
Can you explain what the fish are for? I guess I thought you wanted to sell them and raise them for resale?  Food, looks, pets?


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The grass carp are pond janitors. They will clean up any pond. Various herbivores, they will eat all the algae type vegetation and even clip away weeds that get too close to the water. Like water born cows, they never stop eating. Native to the Mekong river of Vietnam, they have been bread not to be able to breed, or esle they will take over a waterway.
The rest of the color is just a quality of life thing. Starting to pretty up the place here and there. Place to relax after a hard day of thinking about what I will be doing someday in the future.
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #601 on: July 27, 2021, 09:34:51 PM »
Don, you are looking like a certain Redneck’s lawn mower there teetering on the edge of that pond…
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #602 on: July 27, 2021, 09:50:39 PM »
Can you explain what the fish are for? I guess I thought you wanted to sell them and raise them for resale?  Food, looks, pets?


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The grass carp are pond janitors. They will clean up any pond. Various herbivores, they will eat all the algae type vegetation and even clip away weeds that get too close to the water. Like water born cows, they never stop eating. Native to the Mekong river of Vietnam, they have been bread not to be able to breed, or esle they will take over a waterway.
The rest of the color is just a quality of life thing. Starting to pretty up the place here and there. Place to relax after a hard day of thinking about what I will be doing someday in the future.

Don, we had them in our pond. Ours would eat like 20x their weight as they grew, once full grown they didn’t eat much at all. When they die they are a pain to get out of the pond and 5-6’ long of heavy stinking fish. I used to put them in the compost bin and cover it with straw to knock down the aroma
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #603 on: July 27, 2021, 09:57:41 PM »
Can you explain what the fish are for? I guess I thought you wanted to sell them and raise them for resale?  Food, looks, pets?


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The grass carp are pond janitors. They will clean up any pond. Various herbivores, they will eat all the algae type vegetation and even clip away weeds that get too close to the water. Like water born cows, they never stop eating. Native to the Mekong river of Vietnam, they have been bread not to be able to breed, or esle they will take over a waterway.
The rest of the color is just a quality of life thing. Starting to pretty up the place here and there. Place to relax after a hard day of thinking about what I will be doing someday in the future.

Don, we had them in our pond. Ours would eat like 20x their weight as they grew, once full grown they didn’t eat much at all. When they die they are a pain to get out of the pond and 5-6’ long of heavy stinking fish. I used to put them in the compost bin and cover it with straw to knock down the aroma
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #604 on: July 27, 2021, 10:47:06 PM »
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.

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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #605 on: July 28, 2021, 09:36:28 AM »
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.
Question: If a Blue Herron falls over in the forest, does it make a sound?

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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #606 on: July 28, 2021, 10:32:56 AM »
Simply they clean your pond and such? 
Interesting enough.

You should take some progress photos as you go each week. Should be interesting to see them.


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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #607 on: July 28, 2021, 12:27:49 PM »
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.
Question: If a Blue Herron falls over in the forest, does it make a sound?

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So I can answer the tree in the Forrest question.
We had a 30 plus footer fall with both me and mama fall in our yard.
Neither of us heard it.
I suspect the same would apply to a bird… :lipsrsealed:
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« Reply #608 on: July 28, 2021, 12:37:12 PM »
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.
in the PNW someone might see and care. in the Tuck... what Heron.
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #609 on: July 28, 2021, 02:17:49 PM »
Simply they clean your pond and such? 
Interesting enough.

You should take some progress photos as you go each week. Should be interesting to see them.


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I will.
I'll be interested as well to see how they affect the pond
Two ponds across from my street, one with :clean, one without: mucky until they put grass carp in there, then clean water.
And like S said, when they die, you get this gigantic fish body floating around stinking the place up. But only takes a few to keep a pond cleaned out
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #610 on: July 28, 2021, 02:19:37 PM »
Simply they clean your pond and such? 
Interesting enough.

You should take some progress photos as you go each week. Should be interesting to see them.


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I will.
I'll be interested as well to see how they affect the pond
Two ponds across from my street, one with :clean, one without: mucky until they put grass carp in there, then clean water.
And like S said, when they die, you get this gigantic fish body floating around stinking the place up. But only takes a few to keep a pond cleaned out
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.
in the PNW someone might see and care. in the Tuck... How do you season that?
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #611 on: July 28, 2021, 02:38:29 PM »
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.
in the PNW someone might see and care. in the Tuck... what Heron.
Funny looking turkey…..oh well, drop it in the fryer.


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« Reply #612 on: July 28, 2021, 03:48:10 PM »
About the time the carp start getting things in control the herons will move in and well no more fish.. and the darn things are protected.
in the PNW someone might see and care. in the Tuck... what Heron.
Funny looking turkey…..oh well, drop it in the fryer.


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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #613 on: July 28, 2021, 06:25:50 PM »
You guys….

We all know it would be tossed in the gumbo pot…


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« Reply #614 on: July 28, 2021, 07:30:40 PM »
Don, are you worried about the pond freezing solid? 
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #615 on: July 28, 2021, 08:25:24 PM »
Don, are you worried about the pond freezing solid? 
Nope
It's Kintuckee
We get cold days, some down into the 30's!
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« Reply #616 on: July 29, 2021, 09:02:55 PM »
Don, are you worried about the pond freezing solid? 
Nope
It's Kintuckee
We get cold days, some down into the 30's!
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I do remember being down there a couple years ago for Christmas. It was well below zero and I couldn't buy fuel anywhere because all the pumps were jelled up.  It I doubt even that cold spell could freeze that pond solid in a few days.

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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #617 on: July 30, 2021, 08:00:32 AM »
In the snowmageddon we had in texas in February this year my pond froze over.  Freakiest thing ever.
And this was before it was finished freezing and the temps dropped to 2 degrees


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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #618 on: July 30, 2021, 09:05:39 AM »
Good thing you didn’t have to mow the lawn, never know where that zero turn would have ended up


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« Reply #619 on: July 30, 2021, 12:13:52 PM »
Good thing you didn’t have to mow the lawn, never know where that zero turn would have ended up


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« Reply #620 on: July 30, 2021, 06:37:32 PM »
I could see TRN doing brodies on the ice with the mower, just because,,,,,,,,,
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« Reply #621 on: July 30, 2021, 09:07:50 PM »
Good thing you didn’t have to mow the lawn, never know where that zero turn would have ended up


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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #622 on: July 31, 2021, 08:59:36 AM »
Ah, I was reading all the friendly banter, then I realized this was my hide site thread...

Seem to have lost control of it again!
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #623 on: August 07, 2021, 09:40:30 AM »
Somehow all the pics erased during the download!
Darn!
So Welder Dan da man got the cylinder boom mount welded on. What a professional looking job. He recreated the factory mount along with a machine shop and welded it up to the boom right along the original weld tracks. He repaired several other cracks we found in the boom/stick. I think it is in better condition now than it was when I brought it home.

Yesterday I was rehanging steel hydraulic lines and got almost all of that done.

I changed the engine oil and filter, all 6+ gallons of it. I changed the fuel filter, drained the water separator, and replaced the two foot long hydraulic oil filter. I topped the system up to it's full 67 gallons of AW-46 and pulled all the belly pans. That's not fun BTW.

I still need one weird 1/4" pipe to #4 JIC fitting for the grease line on the replacement cylinder, and without grease, I have not run the machine yet, but its coming.

Along with that I built up half of the rock wall beside the barn and did some more earth moving. More today...
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« Reply #624 on: August 07, 2021, 10:40:01 AM »
Don’t forget the fish pond photo! 


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« Reply #625 on: August 07, 2021, 10:50:04 AM »
I was wondering about the EX?

Bet you ran over the camera, again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

You have control????
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« Reply #626 on: August 08, 2021, 06:04:25 PM »
Don’t forget the fish pond photo! 


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About that
No fish!
Saw a Blue Heron walking about and I didn't have my gun handy, which I use to target practice, which has been known to make them go away or catch a nasty cold that sometimes leads to death.
I was looking at the pond and didn't see a single fish! They may be hiding but I'll bet they were dinner
And on the big pond, I found one of the grass carp floating. Had a hole in him. So either it had one of those "alien" things from the movies inside, or it got shot, or skewered by a long beaked blue bird with long legs.
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« Reply #627 on: August 08, 2021, 06:08:12 PM »
I was wondering about the EX?

Bet you ran over the camera, again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

You have control????
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But, the grease fittings are some kung-foo fittings. I mean, not 1/8 or 1/4 pipe...Nope those don't fit. There is some other kinds of fittings which I will need to source tomorrow.
Did I mention I cracked open a steel line holding back 5000psi pressure? You can't imagine the plume that makes. I took a total shower from head to dripping toe of AW-46
Get those grease fittings on and I'll be up and running.
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #628 on: August 08, 2021, 06:11:24 PM »
But something else happened on the way toward getting anything done
I somehow broke the very large coupler fitting that the implements hook up to on the front of the brand new Kubota SVL-97. And yes, once again, second time in two days, I took a hydraulic fluid shower. It was spraying everywhere. Good news is most of it got on me so no ground poisoning took place, and my car seat in the Chevy is re-moisturized so it sits really slippery now...!!!
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #629 on: August 08, 2021, 06:22:39 PM »
Oh, I almost forgot to mention...
That brand new Kioti RX7320 tractor...You know the one with 4 hours on the hobbs...That one???
It's dead
Completely dead
No not the battery, you see I hooked up my lithium 2000A jumper and it showed a dead fault in the system. I called the shop, trying to see if they had any idea what is causing it to not even show a single dash light, and they said it must be the two 60 amp slow-blow fuses beside the intercooler. So I pulled them...Well, actually, I tried to pull them. What I did do was to pull them and their mounts apart. Yup, broke that operation, so now they are coming with a roll-back and a winch and for a measly $230 in transport fees, I get to do without yet another piece of brand new equipment for who knows how long.
This summer has been unbelievable. Nothing I have tried to operate didn't break or fall apart except for that new Blue Diamond cutter. That seems to be OK, but the Kioti is down, hard. The Kubota is down hard needing some fitting fixture that is not available.
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This gets better
I have tried to get the local trucking company to haul in gravel to me for the past month. There is a product here coming out of the Limestone mines and quarries, called "Waste"
It is everything from football sized down to powder, and mostly the latter. It is free! Yup, free. All you pay is the trucking fee of $200 a load.
This morning they call me with three triple axles lined up to make several trips for me each today. Could have ended up with 250 tons of it on the property, but I had to tell them "No" because I don't have anything larger than a shovel to spread it around
Am I making a mistake trying to build a home down at the farm???
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #630 on: August 08, 2021, 06:52:26 PM »
No mistake, just a bad week. Have some sweet tea (with additive) and relax.

On the kioti, being NEW. Why would you have to pay for a thing even transport. Sure you dropped good coin on it.

I have taken a shower or 2, not fun. lucky lately.
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #631 on: August 09, 2021, 10:14:51 AM »
No mistake, just a bad week. Have some sweet tea (with additive) and relax.

On the kioti, being NEW. Why would you have to pay for a thing even transport. Sure you dropped good coin on it.

I have taken a shower or 2, not fun. lucky lately.
Ya, bad couple of weeks. This morning the people picking up the tractor called me...They lost my gate key
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #632 on: August 09, 2021, 12:04:47 PM »
Don, If I recall correctly they do make a metric grease fitting so you may look at that

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« Reply #633 on: August 09, 2021, 02:49:34 PM »
Don, If I recall correctly they do make a metric grease fitting so you may look at that

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But in several different pitch threads!
I already screwed the first 1/4 pipe in there so I'll just chase that with a 1/4 pipe tap and keep that SAE. I picked up a 1/4 pipe and #4 JIC this morning...Will screw that in there tomorrow

Oh, and the Kubota store had the same replacement fitting and warrantied my old one so that. too, will get reinstalled in the morrow.
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« Reply #634 on: August 12, 2021, 10:23:21 PM »
Its been several days of work, and I do have something to show for it all finally

First off, this new cutter, the severe duty Blue Diamond is just killing it...Literally!

Take a look at the pic of the blade. That thing has chopped down at least 30 Cedar and some hardwood trees up to 8-9" in diameter and processed the whole thing into splinters. I have accidentally cut rocks to pieces many times, and I managed to bush-hog half of my property. And look at the wear on that blade. It's almost nothing.
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« Reply #635 on: August 12, 2021, 10:28:23 PM »
So, once again, the goal this year is to get all the dirt work done before the rainy season sets in. To that end, I have been cutting back banks to make for easy mowing. I have been filling holes and ditches everywhere. I have now built a complete stone retaining wall, and I have moved all the spoils from the excavator digging last year. I used them to build up a new road around the pond which sits 1-2' higher than it used to. That will eliminate having to drive through mud puddles from here on.

Here is a view of that new road construction, now about 60% complete.
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« Reply #636 on: August 12, 2021, 10:29:34 PM »
Which really opened up the pond.
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« Reply #637 on: August 12, 2021, 10:31:20 PM »
You can see just how many rocks I will have to move when I get back digging. This will take some time!

Almost everywhere you now see cat-tails will soon be dug out
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« Reply #638 on: August 12, 2021, 10:33:10 PM »
So back to the stone wall. I got most of the north end of the new long wall stacked and backfilled. I know, not a real masterpiece, but it is free and using materials found on the job site
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« Reply #639 on: August 12, 2021, 10:35:11 PM »
Prior to setting up the south side of the wall, I had to cut the back back from vertical to this incline. I expect this to soften some, and grow over with grass which will be easier to mow. I should be in grass before it turns cold (Fingers crossed)
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« Reply #640 on: August 12, 2021, 10:36:23 PM »
With that, the stacking continued
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« Reply #641 on: August 12, 2021, 10:37:43 PM »
And finally, I got it done!!!
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #642 on: August 12, 2021, 10:39:03 PM »
And got the first backfill completed. Clay beneath and top soil on top. I'll add more in after a couple of rains.
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« Reply #643 on: August 12, 2021, 10:40:37 PM »
And.........Finally.....I got a French door!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #644 on: August 12, 2021, 10:43:33 PM »
Stone wall looks nice  :likebutton:
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #645 on: August 12, 2021, 10:44:13 PM »
Really hot this week, with today's heat index hovering above 100F most of the day

The dogs frequented the pond today. Then they'd roll around in the dust...Strange!

The SVL-97 looks dirty because of the bath of hydraulic oil it took, then it got coated with dust.

I suppose it may be completely ruined!

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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #646 on: August 12, 2021, 11:07:54 PM »
Looks good, dogs like it too.

I guess the 97 is the only thing running right now?
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #647 on: August 13, 2021, 12:46:38 AM »
Great progress!

Now, can you delete the post of the indestructible brush cutter? If Blue Diamond realizes they made something Don proof the price of those cutters will double!
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #648 on: August 13, 2021, 07:49:19 AM »
That Kubota is a darn good machine. Everyone loves ours. We did have trouble with it running right. Changed fuel filters a few times and so far so good. I talked to the dealer and he said a few others had the same problem. Figures must have been contaminants in the fuel system from the factory. Shouldn't have to change fuel filters multiple times in the first 20-30 hours.
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Re: Hide Site/Bug Out Location Construction, Part 6
« Reply #649 on: August 13, 2021, 08:33:28 AM »
Looks great

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