What's your hoe doing?

[T-town]

A hole 15' deep?? wow, I went down 2 to 4 and hit shelf! I guess thats to be expected on a ridge......
Anyway.... glad to see your hand has improved enough to work,,, and the weather has allowed that pad to grow.... next year a shop??

 

[colson04]

I couldn't imagine digging a hole and not being able to go as deep as I want to. I know there are rocky areas, but it's not that way where I'm from.

 

[Willie B]

I get different soils. At home I might remove 50 cubic yards of boulders to get an 8' deep hole. I could dig to China, never find bedrock. Not many wells near, but two properties behind me aren't in the "Fire District" I am very jealous of them. I pay $1200.00 a year for water, then 4 $48.00 payments for water. If I drilled my own well, I'd be exempt from 4 X $48. water rent. They each have 150 feet of steel casing to get down to ledge.

At the "land" three miles away by road, I might dig three feet to ledge. or 10 feet to ledge. No risk of digging very deep, though there are a few deposits of sand 20 feet deep.

 

[aighead]

My hoe spent yesterday picking up more of the mulberry tree to slice up.

I've gotta say whomever came up with the fork attachment is a crazy genius. Man they are handy.

The wife had an idea to improve our very small attempt at a raised bed garden. This year was our first go and we just used some totes and some big flower pots. We found we enjoyed growing stuff so we are going bigger. Her idea is to stack logs along the fence, as seen below, to build boxes with, then line them and fill them with dirt. It should work well and looks pretty neat, this is about a third or so complete.

 

[aighead]

I now have two, count them two, fuel tanks that I got for free. The FIL paid me a small, probably 150 gallon tank for helping him move some i-beams for a bridge he's building. It's in very good shape but I need to build a skid for it and probably put it in the barn until I fill it. He brought it out on Saturday and the hoe moved it. Man, it's nice to hop in and fire up with no issues.

The other tank is an out of shape much bigger tank, that I'm not sure what I'll do with.

 

[NH575E]

The other tank is an out of shape much bigger tank, that I'm not sure what I'll do with.

Check the local scrap metal places to see if they will take it.

 

[HarleyHappy]

How big?
I made a shed out a real big one, it worked great, till I sold the place.

 

[colson04]

Check the local scrap metal places to see if they will take it.

I scrapped a corroded fuel oil tank once. I had to cut a large opening into it, and burn the inside to ensure there was no fuel residue left in the tank. Then they took it.

 

[aighead]

I may end up using it on Mr. Discopants, if the scale is right. I'll figure out something good for it. I could chop it in half for a pretty good fire pit...

Safe to assume no one stores a diesel tank in their barn? Mine will find a home in there until I fill it but I assume it's best to build a little shed for it? I'd like to leave it bolted to a skid so I can move it to the driveway to be filled. I doubt a tanker will head into my back yard.

Harley- it isn't that big... Maybe 250-300 gallons.

 

[colson04]

I may end up using it on Mr. Discopants, if the scale is right. I'll figure out something good for it. I could chop it in half for a pretty good fire pit...

Safe to assume no one stores a diesel tank in their barn? Mine will find a home in there until I fill it but I assume it's best to build a little shed for it? I'd like to leave it bolted to a skid so I can move it to the driveway to be filled. I doubt a tanker will head into my back yard.

Harley- it isn't that big... Maybe 250-300 gallons.

I store my 100 gallon slip tank in the barn. Diesel fuel has a very high flash point, it's not like a 100 gallons of gasoline that could go up like a bomb with a wayward spark. If it was gasoline, I would keep it outside, or in a simple 3 sided shed away from my house and barn.

 

[Willie B]

My bulldozer lives in an oil tank.

Diesel is a stable fuel. You have to do special things to make it burn. I routinely cut 275 gallon oil tanks with an acetylene torch. Liquid fuel won't burn, this is true of even gasoline. Diesel isn't very volatile, the cloud of vapor above the liquid isn't dense enough to ignite except when it is heated.

The risk with either gasoline or diesel is leakage from a rusty tank. On the ground, diesel is highly igniteable.

I once was in front of the garage door cutting a 275 gallon tank in half. It had 15 gallons of dirty diesel fuel in it. I had cut much of the way around it, when my son wanted to open the door. I had it on forks with the backhoe. Moving it, a bit sloshed on the gravel driveway. First spark hit the ground it burst into flame.

 

[NH575E]

Safe to assume no one stores a diesel tank in their barn?

 

[aighead]

Well, great! The tank is in really nice shape and it'd be cool to keep it that way inside and under cover.

I knew diesel wasn't nearly as volatile as gas but have only seen it stored outside, but granted, often next to gas tanks.

 

[T-town]

A very happy Thanksgiving Holiday to all....
This will be the 1st in our 'new' digs.
Speaking of 'digs'...... due to the dry warm fall I took the opportunity get some landscaping work done.

The front terrace wall needed a 'finish' top coat..

I still need to complete the 'bottom' end... but won't need to use the front area to access it.

Had to dive into Aighead's boulder stash ( sorry ) for a couple of well placed rocks to block the view of minisplit hoses, and for the hardscape.
1st.... at the start,

moving a big one...

...and a spot for that one

 

[T-town]

The final job will be to finish spreading some top soil and get some grass growing in the spring.

 

[aighead]

You've used my rocks well, T-town, I'll forgive it this time. You've made great progress and the landscaping looks really nice. Uh, that's a big rock!

 

[Swetz]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

looks Great T-town!! That ole hoe is a real keeper!

No worries aighead, I have more rocks than ever, and I am willing to share.

 

[JD310D1994]

I bought my 310d from a custom home builder. The picture is the as is condition that I purchased it in, hoe wouldn’t go forward, front tire off the bead, won’t drive forward, park brake not operational, broken lower rear glass panel. The machine has right at 8000 hours, engine runs well. This weekend I started to change fluids and filters other than the reverser which I plan to pull and rebuild. Reading other post I think the belville spring has broken if everything else checks out. The reason it was parked was the hoe suddenly wouldn’t go in reverse. A mobile heavy equipment shop was called out and they diagnosed it with a defective FNR valve. It was replaced and two days later the hoe wouldn’t travel forward.

 

[Oxbow]

I bought my 310d from a custom home builder. The picture is the as is condition that I purchased it in, hoe wouldn’t go forward, front tire off the bead, won’t drive forward, park brake not operational, broken lower rear glass panel. The machine has right at 8000 hours, engine runs well. This weekend I started to change fluids and filters other than the reverser which I plan to pull and rebuild. Reading other post I think the belville spring has broken if everything else checks out. The reason it was parked was the hoe suddenly wouldn’t go in reverse. A mobile heavy equipment shop was called out and they diagnosed it with a defective FNR valve. It was replaced and two days later the hoe wouldn’t travel forward. View attachment 326678

Welcome to the forum neighbor! Good luck with the hoe.

 

[aighead]

Oh yeah, my fuel tank's new home! Now I just need to find several hundred dollars to fill it!



I suspect I'll get a real test of my block heater this weekend. We are supposed to get a big, for us, snow Sunday, calling for 8 or so inches, so I imagine I'll be out keeping the driveway and neighborhood cleared up a bit. It's been raining for a few days and the yard is soggy but I think we've got several days below freezing, so maybe it'll firm up when I need to pull it out.