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got the 14 wide moved after pushing the trees out of the way with the dozer. didn't really have any trouble with it till right at the end it started rooting the dirt and I couldn't pull it any more. so I looked at the location and it was right at where i wanted it so there it sits. got it jacked up off the dozer and put a couple of piers under the tongue and then built one under the frame on the west side close to the front. and there it sits.

took a short break and moved the stuff from the hitch end of the 12 wide and moving it over or behind the axles. got the bathroom full of books and the back room packed with a wide assortment. we did even moved the couch over but quit with the chairs still where they had been…

got a bite to eat and then started unleveling the 12 wide. got it down off the piers without incident other than a lot of broken blocks as the weight was unevenly applied to only one or 2 piers on a side as it was coming down. a few inches at a time with lots of jacking in between… finely got it to only a couple of piers in the front and hooked on the front of the dozer where the blade usually is with a trailer ball in one of the holes and lifted the tongue with the hydraulics. when i took the blade off cat pointed out that the frame it mounts on was broken. it started moving weird and loose 3 days ago while i was tearing the trees down so i know what i was doing that caused it. ah well just another repair i don't have time for right now. so used it broken. worked fine so…

used the blade frame to pick the front of the trailer up and tried to push it backwards. got it moved a few feet and then started digging into the soggy ground. put it on piers and boards and moved to another location and hooked on and pushed again. got another few feet and dug in even deeper. going uphill so not unexpected as much rain as we have had lately so more blocks and another attempt this time from the rear of the dozer. got it partially sideways and then got the tongue digging into the chert so quit for the day. twas raining a bit then so was a good time to call it. gonna try putting a piece of angle iron or pipe on the chert and setting the hitch i beam on it and pulling it sideways with bertha. got solid ground where the rear wheels will be so hope to get it at least up on top of the chert bed instead of being in the muck and mire. then can jack it up and hook to the hitch on bertha and pull it into position. or thats todays plan.

had cat on the lawnmower moving block. she did a hell of a job but I am afraid she over extended her self a bit. will see how little movement she makes tomorrow and know how she takes it…

With the block i was moving from underneath the 12 wide i handled a bit today too. hands are telling me to watch out tomorrow. guess i will take it easy unless the rain misses us. most of it went below us but looks like some more will hit tonight or in the morning some time. will see what we do see…

and after eating and getting this on electrons i am gonna take a bit of a rest… check for eyelid leaks and such like…

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By Dave, November 20, 2004 12:02 am

i certainly was that. over did it big time yesterday. but am feeling better tonight. course the way this crap works i may be down tomorrow or the next day too. ah well. the worst of it is over…

did get out and look at things today. as near as i can tell the dozer is dead for the time being. gonna have to do something about the final drive gear on the left side. left sitting in the seat that is. the options are another gear or weld this one. since i have the welder and lots of rods i am gonna weld away and see how it goes. figure I can weld short sections of rebar to each tooth point and fill in the sides with weld. grind down smooth and hope for the best. certainly better than what i have now…

but to move the trailers… got to looking at the situation today. need to either block the back of the truck up or add wheels at the hitch. so am gonna take one of the trailer axles and cut if off around 4 feet and weld the end back in the tube. then weld a receiver to the center of the top. bolt ball mount on to receiver and add tires. place in hitch on bertha and hope for the best. figure on making it about 4 inches off the ground when unloaded. will make steering a bit different but should make moving these things a bit easier. at least that is the plan right now. only got to move two of them and only a short way on the heaviest one. may just block the frame. would be easier for sure.

another thing is the rear tires on bertha suck. mud and them just don't work. get stuck too easy. so thinking about putting some angle iron attached to 2 pieces of chain around them. 3 to 5 pieces of angle just wider than the 2 tires. chain welded to the inside of the angles on the ends and maybe the middle and once around the tires connected. how i haven't figured out. only need to use these right now but if it works would rather have built them right. guess i will start with 2 chains or cables on each side and see how that works. or slings off. or trashes my tires. may try rebar instead. need to look and see it any old tire chains are in the barn. can always extend them if there are any there. or take a few pieces of chain and some nylon strapping and make some tie on chains for it. that should be doable with little investment. course it will ruin some chain but what the hell. another possibility is to use strips of tires instead of the chain. then cut holes in the ends and use the strapping to hold them on. that may be the best poor mans tire chain yet. will have to try it. may tear off quickly but only need them in a few places. don't know if the rubber will bite the dirt / mud enough to get me out but with them going across both tires and bridging the gap between them it should make a difference in the grip. guess i will cut strips of tread about 3 inches wide and long enough to go across both tires and come down the sidewalls almost to the rim. make maybe 5 of them for each side. tie them to the strapping at equal distances apart and just use a loop on one end and a straight end on the other. pull fairly tight on the inside and then get on it on the outside and pull tight. might just work. will see…

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By Dave, November 18, 2004 7:05 pm

well not totally done but closer than we've been so far. Got the last tree down that was in the way for the trailer to come in. ended up using shovel, maddock (sp?) and pry bar to cut the clay from around the roots and underneath the tree. Then pulled down with the tractor. didn't fall quite right but didn't hurt anything either so was ok. Cut it up into beam length of 8 to 10 feet and bill started dragging them down in the field. I pushed the first stump/root ball over toward the gully and was almost back when one of the tracks came off. about an hour and a half later we get it back on and tightened back up a bit. then start filling the holes up a bit. get it clear enough to get around the other tree and hook to it with the dozer blade and pick it up and after bill cuts it off to clear a tree I move it out and then he cuts it off the root ball. I unhook and push the root ball into the gully while he and neil hook up and move the trunk to the store pile. get started filling the holes to try and beat the rain. bill comes back and we get going me braking the clay loose and he moving it into the holes. going good and then he shuts the tractor off for some reason and then it won't start back up. battery had died. guess it has a cracked cell. load drops the voltage quickly. so get the battery out of bertha and go again. light ran out so finish with the headlight of the van and tractor. none on the dozer yet. got it done. mostly anyway. still high and low spots but much better than before.

hoping to move the trailers tomorrow if it doesn't rain. if it does i guess we'll wait. or not. gonna try to get the 14×66 first and semi block it up and then move the 12×60 beside it and move the stuff over. then move the 12×60 over here. or thats the plan before the enemy is met.

got the pchenterprises.com domain set up this morning. tis just a intro page for now but will become a full e-commerce store soon. i hope. still not done much with the database or mergemill but started reading the help files and it looks like it will do exactly what I need. just got to build the templates and away we go. or that's the plan. well populate the data bases too. after i build them.

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By Dave, November 18, 2004 1:42 am

got 3 of the 4 trees down today. one still up but tied off and dug around to about 4 feet deep. should get it down tomorrow morning. then to start cutting them up and pulling them out of the way. hope to get one if not both trailers pulled tomorrow too. tomorrow in later today. thursday november 18, 2004 to be close. if I do get them moved I will rejoice mightily. and start moving books and other things.

worked most of the bugs out of the <a href="http://www.jville.net/index.html">jville.net</a> site today. got the number finder put back in. <a href="http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/">PageSpinner</a> really helps out doing the coding on the pages.

Trying to wrap my head around some of filemaker's ways. going to try putting the sites into databases and using either scripting or a program to generate the pages from that. there is one I am looking at now called <a href="http://www.crossculture.com.hk/e-web-tools.htm">Mergemill</a>. it looks like it will do what i need with minimum fussing and cussing. Would rather an open source product but will see how it works and look around a bit more too.

think it is about time to crawl upstairs for the duration…

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By Dave, November 17, 2004 2:05 am

trying to find that easiest to use editor. been down this road so many times and end up coding by hand most of the time. been using <a href="http://tacosw.com/index.html">Taco HTML Edit</a> but would like a total site builder. Been looking at sites and the builders and guess I need to spend some $$ and get an editor that will do the quick build and publish thing if I am going to do the bookstore and other things too. so with that in mind here are some of the candidates:

<a href="http://www.dotsw.com/sitestudio/index.html">Site Studio</a>

I kind of like this one. The big problem is that you seem to be limited to their selection of templates and page layouts. The layouts isn't a problem as they include raw html but the templates aren't exactly what I want to be using. maybe a way to change them but I haven't seen it in the few minutes I have taken with it so far.

<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/">Dreamweaver MX 2004</a>

This is one hell of a program! A lot more than I need at present and I would just about have to get back into building sites to afford it. But… I am taking the time to try and learn it. Or at least something about it. I suspect that it will do the things I want to do but I am not sure I'll be willing to spend the time with it it needs to really shine. It's on sale for another 2 days at the company site at a hundred off regular price. Still 299 but with the savings in time and amount of work to build a site I am starting to think it's worth the price.

<a href="http://ragesw.com/webdesign.php">WebDesign</a>

This one I have not taken the time with that it deserves. I'll try to correct that within the next couple of days. Less than 30 bucks makes it attractive but…

But the winner is:

<a href="%3Ctable%20bgcolor=%22%23ffffff%22%20width=%22300%22%20border=%221%22%3E%0A%09%3Ctr%3E%0A%09%09%3Ctd%20width=%2250%25%22%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CCENTER%3E%3Ch2%3EBOX%20ENGRAVING%20%3CBR%3Eand%20MARKING%3C/h2%3E%0A%3CP%3EPrecision%20Laser%20Engraving%3C/P%3E%0A%09%3CB%3E(205)%20884-3165%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%091910%20Cook%20Springs%20Road%3CBR%3E%0A%09Pell%20City,%20Alabama%2035125%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%09email:%20%3Ca%20href=%22mailto:boxengrave@aol.com%22%3Eboxengrave@aol.com%3C/a%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CBR%3E%3C/B%3E%0A%09%09%3C/td%3E%0A%09%3C/tr%3E%0A%3C/table%3E%0A%3Ctable%20bgcolor=%22%23ffffff%22%20width=%22300%22%20border=%221%22%3E%0A%09%3Ctr%3E%0A%09%09%3Ctd%20width=%2250%25%22%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CCENTER%3E%3Ch2%3EBOX%20ENGRAVING%20%3CBR%3Eand%20MARKING%3C/h2%3E%0A%3CP%3EPrecision%20Laser%20Engraving%3C/P%3E%0A%09%3CB%3E(205)%20884-3165%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%091910%20Cook%20Springs%20Road%3CBR%3E%0A%09Pell%20City,%20Alabama%2035125%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%09email:%20%3Ca%20href=%22mailto:boxengrave@aol.com%22%3Eboxengrave@aol.com%3C/a%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CBR%3E%3C/B%3E%0A%09%09%3C/td%3E%0A%09%3C/tr%3E%0A%3C/table%3E%0Ahttp://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/">PageSpinner</a>

I just couldn't pay the price on dreamweaver. PageSpinner was 30 and worth every penny. I have hit a wall on a script but that is the os i think. Gonna have to look into it but was able to figure a workaround.

Was able to take the jville.net site apart and rebuild it in a couple of days. nothing changed but now to update it I only have a few files to modify and then republish. or thats the theory. Redid about 50 pages or so tonight in a couple of hours. The includes make it nice. now to figure out how to use apple script to automate some of the basics and interface with filemaker and I will be about there. Getting closer.

Got the basic fields setup in a database for the business directory today. now to figure out the other fields that it has to have before starting and having to backtrack… like that's gonna happen! been thinking on the book database and both brick/mortor store and the estore and think I can do it. will take a while but it looks like I can get there at some point. got the filemaker book yesterday! now to find time to study it. it had a full copy of the book on the disk too so got it loaded in the iBook for anytime reading.

tis late and I gotta get up and try to push a couple of trees over once daylight gets here so will close for now…

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By Dave, November 9, 2004 9:52 pm

getting closer to being winterized. Got the plastic on the back of the greenhouse today. also got the Ashley heater moved and block and brick moved inside and ready to start the wall with. finished loading the crap from the east of the qhut onto bertha. aired the tires on the hand trucks up and got the tomato tub inside after tying a rope onto the trucks and a pipe in the tub. sucker was heavy. cleared an area on the workbench at the barn and unloaded the wheelbarrow. aired its tire up and and then moved the rocks on the east side to piles either front or back of the qhut depending on where they were.

Got the dozer cranked and after a short trip through the woods pushed the mounds of dirt by the greenhouse east wall into submission. and into holes. then packed them. and cleared the east side of the qhut. still got the trees and brush at the rear but starting to chew on that too. took out a couple of smaller oaks and a bunch of roots belonging to the big north most sweet gum. hope to take it down tomorrow (wednesday).

Twas dark by the time I got to that point so decided to quit for the evening. still stuff in the greenhouse I could do but as sore as my arms are and bad as the hands are hurting quitting while ahead seems the thing to do…

Got a beginning on the database. cat found how to export a CSV file from HomeBase so I made an empty database file and went to import. At that point the new filemaker let me configure the database fields so using the fields shown on the screen i was able to duplicate the field names and get 1825 files into it in a matter of minutes. This new iBook is FAST. Or it really likes that extra gb of memory I added. or both.

Got to browsing and found a book on filemaker 7 that I ordered. looked at booksamillion the other day but the only ones they had were either not what i wanted or too much $$. This one was 32 with shipping and reviews say it is a well rounded book. 4 different authors and over a thousand pages so should have some usable stuff…

need to get signed up for amazon sales and developer. need to get into the api and see if I can figure out how to download the book info directly into filemaker from isbn #. which is how i ended up buying the book.

think i am gonna go check for eyelid leaks…

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