Baymule’s Farm

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Has started a thread thank goodness. Because I'm hoping someone could answer my question, doubtful but I'm keeping my fingers 🤞

@baymule . Sorry to ask in here but you are so clever.
 

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Peggy called this morning and said Bennett had 3 pigs in the trap and did I want them? Yes I did!

They were young pigs. One was so small we just left him in there, maybe others will go in. I’ve slaughtered domestic hogs and long time ago, feral hogs.

Bennett built a figure 6 trap with 5 sheep and goat panels. Where the 6 loop goes back on itself, it is a flap against the “tail” of the 6. Hogs can push it open to go in, but it slaps shut. He trails some corn up to the flap and in the trap.

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The pig on the left was too small. He left it in the trap. The pig on the right was smaller that the other one we slaughtered.

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We hung them from my tractor bucket and got to skinning. Gutted, quartered and put on ice.

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The meat on the 200 pound hog yesterday was a dark red. The meat on these two is a dark pink. Ought to be some good meat! Got them soaking in salt water, couple days, then I’ll process. I’ll take all I can get!
 

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I put on my list, BUILD DOOR FOR PORTABLE BUILDING. In January, in a cold rain, almost dark, I was tired and just finished chores and the door fell off. I found a tarp to hang over the open doorway and put it up. I’ve been hating that darn tarp several times a day ever since. FINALLY I built a door—out of scraps of course. I got some 2x4’s from the shed that the hurricane blew apart. The floor to that part of the shed was pallets with scraps of plywood that came from my son’s house over 2 years ago. I recently pulled up the plywood and pallets, a little bit towards taking the rest of the shed apart.

So I made the door frame last week. I ripped 2x4’s and made the frame. The 2x4’s that the previous door was hung on were rotted. The old door was rotted. The screws just came loose.


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The floor plate was rotted on the end.

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I cut a small piece and screwed to the floor plate, to give the new piece I spliced in, something to screw it to.

I cut a length out of the 2x4 the door was hung on and put a new (used) piece under it and a 2x4 on the backside to hold the 2 pieces together.

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I even used a speed square making the door frame, so it’s sorta square. I hung the frame first, because if I made the complete door, it would be too heavy for me to work with.

I needed another set of hands to hold the frame up so I could screw in the hinges!

What Baymule does because she is not an octopus.


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My propping up on the ladder and bits of wood worked. I got the frame hung.

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Then I measured and cut scraps of plywood that has definitely seen better days. I lapped the pieces over one another.

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Door is finished. I took down that annoying tarp. I even found a metal handle and put that on the door. I have a very sophisticated closure and locking mechanism.


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Great job on your door! Now you can thank yourself several times a day, instead of being frustrated. 😊

With your sophisticated locking mechanism, I’m thinking you should run a safety string up through a little hole in the door so just in case something knocks that board down while you are inside, you will be able to pull it back up and get out. Like Sage Hill on BYH has on her chicken coop. Wouldn’t want you to accidentally get locked inside. 😉
 

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The door looks sturdy and functional. I like Finnie's suggestion. I would be the one that could find myself trapped in! Only suggestion. A wider step! But that is clumsy me thinking I could miss that little old cinder block with my hands full. Or just plain have it topple when I am on it.
 

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Great job on your door! Now you can thank yourself several times a day, instead of being frustrated. 😊

With your sophisticated locking mechanism, I’m thinking you should run a safety string up through a little hole in the door so just in case something knocks that board down while you are inside, you will be able to pull it back up and get out. Like Sage Hill on BYH has on her chicken coop. Wouldn’t want you to accidentally get locked inside. 😉
I have a Handy Dandy Stick that props neatly in the hinged part of the door to keep it open. I do like to take advantage of the latest technology!
 

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Haven’t fallen off the step yet. When I get proper barns built and set the shipping containers up where I want them, this portable building will go away. It was brought from Lindale to my son’s house, then here. It’s not going to be permanent. It just has to hold together long enough until I get better stuff built. LOL
 

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I have a Handy Dandy Stick that props neatly in the hinged part of the door to keep it open. I do like to take advantage of the latest technology!
That sounds like our two step in posts that we use to prop open both sides of the double doors on our shed where our lawnmower lives!
 
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