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That looks sharp! I could use a carpenter around the house for a month or so if ya got nothin doin?

 

Got all parked at the barn for the weekend.
I live on Main Street in our little town. There is a haunted house 2 doors over. So I'm hearing nothing but screams and giggles from all the kids. It's cool..............until about 9 pm.

 

So what's the difference in chopping corn and just harvesting it? When you harvest it doesn't just the cob come off of the stalk?

 

Nothing and everything, chopping is "harvesting". Chopping is cutting and chopping up the whole plant and insealing it to ferment. Then what a combine does is snap the ear and shell the corn kernels off, it needs to be a lot dryer to be shelled. There's also picking corn which the ear is left whole and stored in a crib

 

That looks great!! We were going to put a door like that on the 1/2 bath, but it would have taken too much space in the hallway.
The timber framers started the post and beam work this afternoon. It will hopefully be installed next week. Since we're using white oak, I'm struggling with a color for my "T" brackets. The timber guys said stain it clear. I'm not sure black iron will look as good as another lighter color. I'm thinking something like a rusty brown color.

 

When we harvest corn with the combine we take it 22% and under. In a full floor air grain bin you can keep corn up to 23% but you have to keep a very lose eye on it at all times or it will heat up and get moldy.

We don't have a dryer so we have to let it get dry as much as possible by letting it sit in the field and naturally dry itself down but then your at the mercy of the weather and can go to crap in a hurry. The last few years we've had to take corn at 20%+ but this year it's coming off 16 to 18% so we're happy.

 

Very interesting stuff. To someone like me I just see farmers out in the fields harvesting corn and I just think it goes to the grainery waiting for transport and that's it. I'd never give a thought to moisture content or the different ways of harvesting it.

 

I need to buy one.

My one power cable was pretty green.

I'm not sure I'm a fan of how these wires run...

One power wire goes to the firewall for the fuse block
One goes to the starter.

The ground goes to a stud on the side of the engine block then another wire from that stud to the starter.

Then there's 2 wires ground and power from starter to batteries.

I'm no genius but I would rather my power and ground go directly to the batteries and then separate wires from the batteries to the starter, or am I not thinking this through?

 

Thank you! The guy that built my breezeway and garage likes to build barn doors. He puts some neat touches them.

Thank you! I think a rusty brown color would look neat also.

 

I can't let my wife see this. We watch a lot of those fixer upper shows and she loves this type of door. She see's this she'll be wanting me to hang one for sure.