started solar kiln

[mike p]

I layered cca into the post oak 6x6’s so the oak wood not be in ground contact
You can see the color difference the oak is the gray
 
 
 

[mike p]

im trying different post option on this end
setting bolt in to concrete then will attach short 6"x6" tubeing to bolt then set post oak in to top of tubing ancor with lag screws . by raseing post 2" up from bottem the oak will never touch concrette

[Kirk Allen]

Looks like that will work out well!

I hope to start the footers for my shop next week and do the whole pour by the end of September

[Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner"]

That is an excellent idea, Mike.  You might also consider attatching a piece of 90 pound felt to the bottom of each post, just for protection.

[mike p]

thanks frank i had not concidered that

[mike p]

Well it seems that my solar kiln project has required many other projects
Because of sloping ground I felt I needed footings to hold the fill.
My boy the carpenter said if your going to put footings under part of the slab you need them under all the way around cause the end that would have no footing will heave & the other end wont so I dug footing all the way around .

Decided to pour footings with my tractor mounted concrete mixer I got at a farm sale. Well it needed some welding to patch rust holes in drum & a new top link cly to dump it. Got one at surplus center.
 So started mixing concrete. Poured about ½ of the footings in one stall & ran out of bank run gravel.

pic this week end

[mike p]

well I could hire more gravel delivered but not me I can haul it myself so put a battery in the old grain truck (F750 with twin cly dump) out back & started getting it ready for inspection  .

Found no brakes.  New project tear down rear drums. It has 6”x15” shoes with 2 wheel clys per side. So I called local parts not available, called Springfield brake $260. A side for cly. Called Inland big truck parts in KC, MO. $ 80. A side but took 2 weeks to get here & they didn’t send all the parts ordered. Called back reordered so a another week weighting called to see what happened  “o these must be your parts under my desk been wondering were they went, another 4 days got the adjuster & spring kits but hub seals. Called again he says o we don’t have those.
So back to Oriley’s & he cant cross the old seals # this truck has a 19000 lb rear axle there book says its supposed to be 15000 lb axle so we search every year ford truck in book looking for one that has a 19000 lb axle or one that used 6x15 shoes . Well in 1981 the book shows the 19000lb possible 2 different seals so I bought all 4, 2 of one possible & 2 of the other possible $149.00 well one of them fit but I had to cut the wear ring off for it to work.
Now my truck is ready for inspection but my INS man wants commercial INS $900. For 6 months on it because he knows I own a saw mill. The last time I INS it as a grain truck at $12. A month. I have owned sawmill since 1994 & have never hauled a log with this truck as it’s too tall to load.
Mean while my solar kiln sits weighting patiently for the new projects to catch up.
Do you ever wonder how those guys can build a hole house in 7 days
Hell iam only ½ done with footings 3 months later & still arguing with INS guy, probably going to get new INS guy over this

[Kirk Allen]

I know the feeling.  I STILL dont have my foundation poured for my shop.   

Went to Dads last week to replace all his breaks.  Even with the parts in hand the idiots at the parts store couldnt get it right.    I opened the box to make sure the pads were right and they were not, yet he insisted they were because his little computer told him so.   

I guess the guy needs to learn how to type in the right numbers because EVERY part he looked up and grabbed for us was wrong.  I have NEVER spent so much time in a parts store waiting for them to get the right parts off the shelf. 

What is this world coming to? 

[HaroldCR]

 3 words.  Truck Part City  Google it. I get stuff shipped down here from them.

[mike p]

Got the first 2 bays ready for concrete used up all my odds & ends of foam insulation in the floor

got the retaining wall ready for the 3 bay

my finished post anchor