House and Habitat build thread:

catscratch · Sep 8, 2017

OkieKubota said:
We are 22 days dry right now...10 day shows none in forecast...
Concrete looks good! I should be looking at some around February...still in savings mode with my brushhogging money.

Lol, Farmlogs show's that we are 22 day from our last rain too. Probably the same front that moved through. We don't have any chances in the near future either, but next week is a traditional week for us to get a storm. I have seed ready for fall plots, would like to have a decent chance of rain.

Feb will show up pretty soon. Keep the build posted!

OkieKubota · Sep 8, 2017

catscratch said:
Lol, Farmlogs show's that we are 22 day from our last rain too. Probably the same front that moved through. We don't have any chances in the near future either, but next week is a traditional week for us to get a storm. I have seed ready for fall plots, would like to have a decent chance of rain.

Feb will show up pretty soon. Keep the build posted!

I am about to give up on September plotting...hopefully my mid August plot lives...

Looks like you are going to stick build since I see no poles?

catscratch · Sep 8, 2017

OkieKubota said:
I am about to give up on September plotting...hopefully my mid August plot lives...

Looks like you are going to stick build since I see no poles?

Steel. The uprights are I-beams and bolt on with a flange (good observation by the way). The anchors are sunk into the holes. This alleviates chances of rot down the road, gives me a clearspan ceiling, and has good wind load/updraft engineering. It didn't hurt that his prices were cheaper than many local wood post builders. Really the windload and clearspan were the deciding factors for me.

OkieKubota · Sep 8, 2017

catscratch said:
Steel. The uprights are I-beams and bolt on with a flange (good observation by the way). The anchors are sunk into the holes. This alleviates chances of rot down the road, gives me a clearspan ceiling, and has good wind load/updraft engineering. It didn't hurt that his prices were cheaper than many local wood post builders. Really the windload and clearspan were the deciding factors for me.

That's great...I got to thinking about it after I posted and saw those anchors in the concrete. I am looking at a 14" tall 30x50 with concrete entry and roof and 3 12' doors on the front and one bay having a slider door on the back so I can drive completely through and open it for cross breeze. Full insulation...structure and concrete around $20k without OH doors and wiring. It's a pole barn and I have had the guy build me one before that worked out good...he does the pour and everything other than OH doors...

catscratch · Sep 8, 2017

That's a great deal Okie (with the insulation, cement, and entry)!

Booner21 · Sep 9, 2017

OkieKubota said:
That's great...I got to thinking about it after I posted and saw those anchors in the concrete. I am looking at a 14" tall 30x50 with concrete entry and roof and 3 12' doors on the front and one bay having a slider door on the back so I can drive completely through and open it for cross breeze. Full insulation...structure and concrete around $20k without OH doors and wiring. It's a pole barn and I have had the guy build me one before that worked out good...he does the pour and everything other than OH doors...

Unbelievable the price difference I just put up a 40x64x14 stick built and was close to 45k and that was several k cheaper than anybody else around. Only insulation on the ceiling but does have a footing and finished metal ceiling.

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Elkaddict · Sep 10, 2017

That barn would be 60k here in NY with insulation

dgallow · Oct 23, 2017

catscratch said:
Lots going on with the house build and a little with habitat. It's been hot and dry so my sunflower and millet plots haven't done much, but the deer are hammering them anyway. I won't have much thatch for fall throw-n-mow though.

Shipped 300 sterile heffers this week. They averaged 220lbs of gain (on grass) over the last 100 days. 2.2lbs per day is good gains with no feed combined with hot weather. Plus they were gentle and super easy to work with!

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Good gains on heifers for early April through mid-July. Selling at that time you missed the big price slide on heifers in Aug....there is still a $100 discount on hiefers.

Send me a text or email about the sterile heifer process....I'm curious!

catscratch · Oct 23, 2017

dgallow said:
Good gains on heifers for early April through mid-July. Selling at that time you missed the big price slide on heifers in Aug....there is still a $100 discount on hiefers.

Send me a text or email about the sterile heifer process....I'm curious!

I don't know the process. I asked several times and all I got was that they hired a guy who did it. I'm curious too!

catscratch · Nov 28, 2017

Been a great fall! Got the shop finished (except for a few things I want to do to the interior).

I wanted clearspan so that the kids could play ball inside when the weather wasn't nice. So far it's a hit.

This will be a small tool room. It's bigger than it looks and with some proper hangers and shelves will store a lot of stuff. Above it will be a loft that cantilevers out to the center of the shop. 12'x12' storage space for odd stuff like spare wood, metal, decoys, etc... This will go a long ways in keeping the floor space clean.

catscratch · Nov 28, 2017

Pumpkins did good. We ended up with 5 that (by measurement) ranged between 140lbs and 190lbs. It was good to get the kids in on it. They had to identify bugs when they attacked and figure out what to use to rid them. They dealt with fertilizer. They took measurements and calculated wts. Overall lots of good. Plus they grew some cool stuff.

We've been dumping them in our foodplots. They guys up north say deer love to eat them, but ours haven't been touched. They just set there and rot (a lot like turnips, our deer won't eat them).