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granitestateofmind said:
Yes....but that'll make three for you, Dubz...right? I need to find a second place, so I can move out of my first place. Property here is too damned expensive.
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No, 2. I may be selling the cabin before too long. I already have someone that's interested in it.
 
Psyop said:
I'm thinking we cut the legs off and put the trailer under it. 12 foot should be movable. It will go great by the pond.
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Since you have a creek running through the property, look for signs of flooding (grass/sticks/trash) hung on fence lines or up in trees so that you have a feel for how high the water can get on the place during a toad choker. Chickens can't swim. Especially while in a chicken coop. :D

We had someone down here put a dozen bee hives in a pasture "near a creek". 11 ended up down river. The they complained that no one told them that the water could get that high. All they had to do was look at the "signs" in the trees and along the fences.
 
Congrats on 18. Skip the smokes though. They kill. I wish I skipped cigs myself... They suck.
 
So I was given a mystery pepper plant in a very small pot in September.

Put it in a 5 gallon bucket and kept it under grow lights for a month or so... Then the bucket was in the way... So I ended up just planting the entire bucket in the ground to get it out the way...

Forgot about it a while... Just went and looked at it and I got baby peppers on it...

But it's In the 60s at night now... Doubt it's going to produce much good this late in the year... But it's cool to see the baby peppers On it anyways lol
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Since you have a creek running through the property, look for signs of flooding (grass/sticks/trash) hung on fence lines or up in trees so that you have a feel for how high the water can get on the place during a toad choker. Chickens can't swim. Especially while in a chicken coop. :D

We had someone down here put a dozen bee hives in a pasture "near a creek". 11 ended up down river. The they complained that no one told them that the water could get that high. All they had to do was look at the "signs" in the trees and along the fences.
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You seem obsessed with choking toads... Should we be concerned? :D

Edit: Don't know if you're on FaceBook, but Chris Moore (the new Texas Beekeepers Assn president) got home from the conference a couple weeks ago to find a couple of his locations partially under water. He was worried about a few singles, but otherwise he thought they'd recover.
 
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The chicken coop vik was talking about is 8x12 with a covered porch. I'm considering moving it and using it as a cabin by the pond. On high ground lol. Not sure what it would cost to move 40 miles but it's a nice building.
 
Psyop said:
I'm thinking we cut the legs off and put the trailer under it. 12 foot should be movable. It will go great by the pond.
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I like this plan -- but isn't it a 12x12 counting the covered front porch on it?
that might require a "wide load" permit from the county.
if your trailer can't handle it, mine can. :)
 
Psyop said:
The chicken coop vik was talking about is 8x12 with a covered porch. I'm considering moving it and using it as a cabin by the pond. On high ground lol. Not sure what it would cost to move 40 miles but it's a nice building.
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In moving a building, distance is only a small part of the cost, unless you're talking cross-country. Most of the cost comes from the effort of pick-up and delivery. Difficulty of access at each end factors in.

My dad and I had a 16 x 32 building moved 55 miles. The access was an easy back up at the pick-up point and a little gnarly at the drop point. They charged us $800, but it was worth it for a $8000 building.

It doesn't cost anything for an estimate, so get one and compare the fee to cost of materials and time in building a new one.

IF you have or have access to a large flatbed trailer, you MIGHT, with help of a bunch of friends with hydraulic jacks, be able to move it yourself.
 
I helped a buddy move an 8x12 wooden shed once -- he rented an 8k reach fork and that's what we used to pick it up, carry it out of his back yard, and put it on the trailer.
when we got to the destination we used my little 35hp tractor to pick it up long enough to pull the trailer out from underneath.
 
1066vik said:
I helped a buddy move an 8x12 wooden shed once -- he rented an 8k reach fork and that's what we used to pick it up, carry it out of his back yard, and put it on the trailer.
when we got to the destination we used my little 35hp tractor to pick it up long enough to pull the trailer out from underneath.
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35 HP is not sooo little. at least at the price points i was looking at.

8k reach fork. that i'll have to lookup.

helped a buddy move a big shed around his property once. we got each side up, put some 6x6 under each side; can't remember if we used a 12x2 or something as a front skid, and then used a combination of winch and truck to pull it a few hundreds of feet. leaves marks :D

there's a guy on youtube that moved a BARN with the pivot method. that was cool.
 
A guy at work said he once helped move a small church from one lot to the lot across the street. Twelve farm jacks on opposite sides (six on each), backed a flatbed trailer underneath, lowered it, drove across the street, then did the reverse. He said it was easy peasy!
 
Hmm, I'm liking the experiments Kabar is doing with the China produced skeleton knives. Can't wait for the BK&T one...
 
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