Difficult extraction.

This is the wheel bearing for a steel wheel that has an old, cut-off shaft stuck in it.

At first it wouldn't budge at all, so I threw it on the sauna oven embers for a couple hours and then let it cool for a day.

Now it moved, with some serious pounding before it finally came out. One of the rare cases where a bearing press might've been useful.

Now I can hopefully fix up the tree hauling contraption I quickly threw together last autumn to move the two douglas spruces out of the front yard without cutting them up. Back then I just used two pipes as sleeves, but they didn't fit too well and the wheel wobbled a lot 😆

#DIY #Homestead #Improvisation #Extraction #Steel #Wheel #Bearing #Hammering #SalvagePunk

Farming the dream

#gardening #homestead #solarpunk

Out of dirt error.

I know where to get some, but now it's raining and mud sucks, so I'm organizing the sewing box instead.

#Homestead #Digging #Levelling #Dirt

Treasures from the scrapmetal sorting.

Some kind of spring-loaded trailer hook?

Two welded steel contraptions, they look like drawbars for something.

A heavy, low brazier stand and an incomplete potato digger (hey, I was going to make one of those!).

And the waste paper basket from room 410.

#Treasure #Homestead #Cleanup #ScrapMetal

cafe con leche del oveja, cafe' para del rey en el manos del jibaro

mi gusta puerto rico, la isla de basura es mi hogar.

#puertoRico #coffee #cafe #homestead #sheep

You remember Bob of course, our head on a stick.

But have you met Ivan? Ivan is a fur coat that someone put a rusty old iron pipe inside of and propped it against the back of the sauna, for no discernable reason. He's been there since before we bought the place. From the road it looks like a drunk guy leaning against the building.

Meanwhile a spruce has grown there (which I need to move) and it was time to get rid of Ivan. So Bob and Ivan got united.

The new hybrid says his named is Scarebob Ivansson but we'll probably just keep calling him Bob.

He resumed his summer job of guarding the big garden, basking in the setting sun and showing off his new style.

#Bob #HeadOnAStick #Scarecrow #Gardening #Homestead

The sheep are shorn and out of the barn! Thus begins milking outdoors in the rain season. Surprise bonus lamb and mom did well on their own last night and have rejoined the flock.

The Conjunctivitis Boys are getting at least one more day in isolation just to be sure they're well and truly over being contagious.

Yesterday's milk was today's yogurt. Today's milk was today's dinner cheese. This time of year is pretty good.

#homestead

Opened up this animal shed for the first time, after digging away the soil (and metal bits) that was blocking the door.

Not much inside, luckily.

I'm slowly demolishing it as its in poor shape and I want another firewood store in its place.

Slow work as the thing was double walled with straw packed between as insulation. And a mummified pine marten.

Looks like the roof is also insulated. Good thing about straw: Much easier to recycle than slag wool! 😁

#GoatShed #Homestead #Cleanup #Demolition #Straw