February 19-23/2018

This week the weather has been giving us a taste of spring.  The first few sunny days had us in t shirts.  A lot got accomplished.

Apart from the usual tending to the animals.  We have been hard at work in the shop working on a combination of cabinets and miter saw station.  With 28 drawers and two cabinets, it will be a phenomenal place to store most of the equipment in the shop.

This started out as 12 sheets of plywood and is now starting to take shape as a miter station with lots of storage.

The woodstove is raging keeping the greenhouse in a happy range for seed starts.

The plants outside are starting to stretch after winter's rest.

Dirt and Pallet Forks

This week we got our first set of pallet forks for the big Massey Ferguson 270 Tractor.  This tractor was top of the line in 1987.  Somewhere along its life, a previous owner had attached hydraulics,  bucket and a set of claws to grab brush.  A hay spear came also with the tractor when we purchased it for the farm.  We have gotten by on straps for more than enough projects, but earlier this week the pallet forks came in.  Unfortunately, Bush Hog no longer makes attachments anymore, fortunately the local tractor place knew of a company that would have no problem building one to factory specs in a hurry.

Three weeks later the pallet forks arrived and today was the first day they got put to the test in offloading 1800lbs worth of potting mix from the back of a1/2 ton truck.  The truck was certainly squatting, but made it home safely; the pallet forks hand no problem with it either.

I don't know how we got buy this far without pallet forks.  We get so many freight shipments to the farm, I'm elated to have this piece of equipment.