!!!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

BRK #396

Happy Monday! We're back to it. I wanted to bid a fond farewell to Liam, who's been a Boot with us for a couple months. Thanks so much once again for spending your time and energy here with us, man!

Finalizing the Bob Line project was the top of the list for us today. Here's the final (hopefully...?!?! ) position of the Bob Line. It was fun climbing all the way up there, I must admit.



Once the final position was sorted out for Bob, we clipped the stainless steel cable to be rid of the slack. Here's Liam with the portable angle grinder, taking care of business.



We also took a look at the Cob Hat over at the Love Shack. It sure is taking its time drying out...!



Finally: we wrapped up the day with a bit of tool care. I noticed this chainsaw and its teeth looked kind of funny to me. I think that someone sharpened it incorrectly, but does anyone recognize this as a specific type of chain? Instead of two sets of slanted teeth, there's one set of slanted teeth, then one set of pointed teeth (for lack of a better term). All the teeth that ought to be slanted are instead pointed that way. Is this just someone's sharpening mistake?



That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

Is that pattern repeated around the whole chain? What i can tell from the picture, looks like the middle, and maybe the right, cutters are partially broken off.

Coydon Wallham wrote:Is that pattern repeated around the whole chain? What i can tell from the picture, looks like the middle, and maybe the right, cutters are partially broken off.

Yep, all the teeth on that side. And the most interesting part? This chain was in the "new chains" bag, and wrapped with tape and labeled as "new" on top of that...!?!?!

This was the first one I dug out, and maybe it was April Fools' Day when someone put it in there...? I have no clue.

BRK #397

Happy Taco Tuesday to you...!

To start off the day, Dez and I visited the Lab to do some final shut-down for the water valves I'd installed at the back of the Abbey. We'll be installing a well casing on top of this after this coming cold season. For now however, we needed to close it up. Here's Dez, "down in the hole."



We had to fix a small leak before closing-down and burying everything. While removing several rocks from underneath the pipes, this little guy popped out. Sorry pal, it's moving day.



After a bit of work with the torch, I tightened things down again, and the leak was eliminated.



We shored up the area with some stones and a couple 2x4s as cross-braces, then covered the whole thing with the lid from a 55-gallon barrel. A few dozen shovel-fuls of earth later, things were buried and insulated against the coming cold season. We'll see you in April, I reckon.

In the afternoon, I headed up to the Lab once again, but this time with different equipment and tasks. We have a large number of sunchokes still to harvest and re-plant, so I took care of some of that this afternoon.



After Taco Tuesday dinner, I was wrangled into watching episode one of Andor. I heard that it's been the best Star Wars series to date, so I figure I ought to give it a try. We'll see how it goes.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

BRK #398

Another beautiful day in the neighbourhood.



Dez and I worked up at the Lab's pump house today. We cleared out some of the area around the pump house in preparation for doing some earthworks to prevent moisture infiltration. Two trees came down today. Here's Dez.



In the afternoon, I split all the logs Dez and I made in the first half of the day. Tried out the 10-second timer on my camera, and this shot came out okay.



This rack was empty when I started, so I feel pretty good about this task.



To wrap up the day, I planted some more sunchokes in out-of-the-way places, then started researching filtering water out of diesel (the Millennium Falcon is having problems).

Spreaking of the Millennium Falcon, Paul invited us to watch two more episodes of Andor this evening. Episode three is done, and things are heating up. Sometimes the slow burn has a juice that's worth the squeeze, and I think this series has the potential to live up to the hype. The only reason I agreed to watch it (as I never watch Disney or Star Wars or superhero stuff) is that independent critics - that is, beyond Paul, who is an unapologetic, rabid Star Wars fan - report that this is the best SW series yet, and that everything since has fallen short. I'm okay with making this exception.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!