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71340Duster said:
I might have got this figured out today but my wife needed some help with her project, a headboard arch. We drove to Seattle a couple of weekends ago, bought it off Craigslist or FB, now there's a plywood backer (oak veneer), 2x4's, 2x6's etc. Table saw and jigsaw was all it took, just cuts today, assembly on another weekend : )
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Nice. I’m getting ready to finish, by finish I mean do almost entirely, my wife’s homemade bed she came up with. Just some oak 2x6s and 4x4s ran thru a router for looks. No headboard currently, trying to talk her into something similar to the one my late uncle made for 4-H. Oak 1x12s glued together with a shape of a barn cut out and a piece of copper sheet with nail holes in the outlines of farm animals.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
Do the casters have any leveling ability? I’ve seen some that have adjusters built in but always wondered how well those worked
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No, they just insert into the columns with a large pin. I haven't even got to the point of dropping the lift onto them, been adding fluid/adjusting cables at this point. The instructions for the casters weren't included, YouTube shows a guy putting them together wrong (I think) because he has to position the wheel in a certain direction to have it pick the lift up. I think he has the caster plate on the wrong side of the channel/plate so I went to the other side, will see how that works.

As far as leveling, I may put in a steel plate on the shop door ends of the lift, 1/8" or 1/4", whatever levels it out. I wish I had a longer level, like an 8 foot, but the 3 footer I have shows the problem.
 
Checked the hops today, growing very well. As are the rest of my garden plants so far.
I did an experiment this year with raised row gardens. It’s basically a row of manure over the tilled soil, then covered with straw, then top soil, I chose loads of potting soil from the local green house because I could get 3 tons for 25 bucks, then planted and then cover around the plants with a thick layer of straw. Top straw layer acts as both a weed suppression device and slows water loss due to evaporation. The manure/straw sub layer composts and acts as a constant fertilizer to the plants. Plants were planted using the companion gardening theory. Basically, you ignore normal plant spacing and you alternate plant types, putting a plant that uses different nutrients than the plant next to it does.

I then tilled a section right next to the rows and planted a normal garden, planted the same day. So far, the raised row is out growing the traditional garden. Same day planted, plants from the same containers.

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dukeboy_318 said:
Checked the hops today, growing very well. As are the rest of my garden plants so far.
I did an experiment this year with raised row gardens. It’s basically a row of manure over the tilled soil, then covered with straw, then top soil, I chose loads of potting soil from the local green house because I could get 3 tons for 25 bucks, then planted and then cover around the plants with a thick layer of straw. Top straw layer acts as both a weed suppression device and slows water loss due to evaporation. The manure/straw sub layer composts and acts as a constant fertilizer to the plants. Plants were planted using the companion gardening theory. Basically, you ignore normal plant spacing and you alternate plant types, putting a plant that uses different nutrients than the plant next to it does.

I then tilled a section right next to the rows and planted a normal garden, planted the same day. So far, the raised row is out growing the traditional garden. Same day planted, plants from the same containers.

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Don't the hops take a pretty serious overhead trellis system? Are you brewing with them?
 
71340Duster said:
Don't the hops take a pretty serious overhead trellis system? Are you brewing with them?
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Yeah, @zkx14 suggested string, which I set the poles for today, probably string them tomorrow evening.

I don’t honestly know what I’ll do with them. I may try home brewing. Don’t really know. This is my second attempt trying to grow them, first was a total flop. Not a single sprouted.

where these are planted will actually help be a privacy type thing, although not really the intent, just happened to be the only unused space. If they take off and do well, I may string them along my East property line some 600 feet over the next few years. I’ve got thick Osage orange trees and briars on the other three sides that have been there for decades before my time. Would totally shield me from passer bys.
 
71340Duster said:
Good Evening All! Well, things went a bit sideways today for me but it's alright. I too had a mice/rat poop problem, they got into my wood chips hungry little critters! So...the smoked chicken is off, instead, brined with onion, garlic, pepper, kosher salt, lemon, honey and brown sugar, then split down the middle, a rub put on it and onto the grill. Bigger problem for me was the lift. The 3 degree floor slope my builder put in (my fault, didn't know he would do that in a non plumbed shop) is giving me a little trouble with safety lock engagement/synchronization. Level shows me the problem, don't want to do permanent shims and bolt her down as I bought the caster kit so will crank on the cables some more! It's low towards the shop door and those latches are making way before the other end.

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Posts need to be shimmed before adjusting cables. Use the wheels to pick up posts. If you dont want hoist to roll then block the wheels with a strip of plywood.
I have rubber pads under each post,conveyor belting.

You will find cables will need adjusting occasionally, more often after first installing. its a good habit to let hoist rest on locks, as hydraulic cylinder will seep a small amount. Less weight on cylinder, less seepage.
its a single acting cylinder,and a small amount of oil will accumulate in the vented end.
After 6 years i got a tiny amount of oil coming out of the vent. I use a suction gun to remove it.
This is daily use too. Pretty much 7 days/week.
 
Morning!
Had a gentle rain overnight, a little soaking.
Lots of work today, hope to get it all done.
 
We've had a nice rain off and on for the last couple days. Rain again today, then it moves out with sunshine for a few days. That time of year.
 
Seems like all the gas powered stuff around here is screwed. Go to start the hedge trimmer, the priming bulb just shattered, weed Wacker the fuel line is disintegrated. Have to love ethanol even with stabil in it. Of course when pulling on the string on the push mower hit my arm good on the tractor when the pull cord broke, but at least that started But the fishing is good in the pond!
 
halifaxhops said:
Seems like all the gas powered stuff around here is screwed. Go to start the hedge trimmer, the priming bulb just shattered, weed Wacker the fuel line is disintegrated. Have to love ethanol even with stabil in it. Of course when pulling on the string on the push mower hit my arm good on the tractor when the pull cord broke, but at least that started But the fishing is good in the pond!
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Yeah. There’s a station here selling Rec-90, it’s expensive but 0 ethanol. I use it in the mowers and other small engines
 
Only one place downtown that has it just have to remember to throw a can in the car next time. Seems like whatever hoses Ryobi uses sucks with it. I like their gas tools usually super easy to start. Ordered two new carb kits for them both, cheap insurance. $20 each for new carb, plug, hoses, filters. Why not right?
 
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