My first job completed (barn demo)

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Some more pics of the piles and what is left to clean up

 

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Once everything was burnt and the hay piled the next step was to start burying the barn floor and foundation. The first thing was to dig a trench where the heifer pen in the barn was. The water made that a bit of a challenge but I managed to get the water in one end and dig the hole from the dry end onwards.

pic 1: first part of the trench dug and the first piece of the foundation broken and buried
pic 2: After digging the rest of the trench
pic 3: sitting in the muddy mess
pic 4: peeling off the floor
pic 5: filling the trench

 

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Cement burying continues!

A video for your viewing pleasure. Sorry it is dark, but as usual, it was overcast.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxGFqc1qKg

pic 1: bucket a cement
pic 2: After the sale of the houses, we will still own a portion of the land the barn sat on. That part of the trench I made sure to fill and pack properly with cement as we will be making a gravel yard for filling grain trucks on.
Pic 3: Made it pretty far in the first day of cement removal
Pic 4:The rest of the trench was a mixture of hay and cement
Pic 5: More cementy goodness

 

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Only worked the morning the following day as we started cutting wheat at the home farm in the afternoon.

pic 1: kept ripping up the cement
pic 2: whoops, might have pried a bit too hard, I guess those pins that hold the teeth on aren't as strong as I thought.
pic 3: fortunately I didn't lose the tooth. They are expensive. But, after this minor set back I now have 5 spare pins and a spare tooth ready for the next time.
pic 4: the afternoon I was using one of our other large case machines, a 2388 combine.
pic 5: also started baling up the straw

 

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Cement burying continues into the next day.

Pic 1: The soil profile in this area is like nothing I've seen first hand before. No stones, light soils with seemingly random layers of blue clay. That blue clay isn't the most amusing thing to dig either.
Pic 2: A few holes later pretty well all the cement was below ground.
Pic 3: I had a few minutes to kill waiting on some help so I took out a few trees that were too close to my machine shed for my liking.

 

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I have never seen a retaining pin break before.Did you find the broken pin or just assume that it broke?Hensley and possibly others used to guarantee their teeth against breakage,if they break they will replace them.I have done a lot of prying over the years but never broke a pin.As you probably know,don't ever run the machine with a bare shank as they are not hardened and will wear quickly and then the teeth won't stay on.Even if you have to put a worn tooth on it temporarily be sure that the shank never gets exposed to the soil.I have used the bucket very carefully to find a lost tooth and felt guilty about it after but when a tooth is missing the machine is down until it has been replaced.Ron G

 

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Nice work there Bud:drinkup

Just found your post, don't look in this thread very often But i'm glad I did.
Looks like you've got everything under control... I see your using a fire pit like I do, seems to work better and just piling it up on the ground. Plus all the ashes and nails are in the hole!

Now i've got to do some updating on my work pictures

 

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I have never seen a retaining pin break before.Did you find the broken pin or just assume that it broke?Hensley and possibly others used to guarantee their teeth against breakage,if they break they will replace them.I have done a lot of prying over the years but never broke a pin.As you probably know,don't ever run the machine with a bare shank as they are not hardened and will wear quickly and then the teeth won't stay on.Even if you have to put a worn tooth on it temporarily be sure that the shank never gets exposed to the soil.I have used the bucket very carefully to find a lost tooth and felt guilty about it after but when a tooth is missing the machine is down until it has been replaced.Ron G

Hey thanks for the comment. I didn't know that the shank was not hardened, but I did know not to use the bucket without a tooth. I stopped instantly and went to find a replacement pin. D/S attachments is only about 10 minute drive from that job site, so I was up and running again in under a half hour. Now have in stock 2 extra teeth and 5 new retaining pins and locking collars. Thanks for the tip though, I really appreciate it.

Warren

 

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Nice work there Bud:drinkup

Just found your post, don't look in this thread very often But i'm glad I did.
Looks like you've got everything under control... I see your using a fire pit like I do, seems to work better and just piling it up on the ground. Plus all the ashes and nails are in the hole!

Now i've got to do some updating on my work pictures

Well Chris, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the fire pit. I've never seen a barn come down like this. In my home county, you have to knock it down and pile it on the cement. I made so much more work for my self tracking bucket by bucket to the fire pit from the barn dropping wooden shingles or smaller pieces attached to big beams by rusty nails. Another big problem I had with the fire pit was getting enough air in. The fire code in that county says there must be a soil berm around the majority of the pit. I ended up taking that away in several places to get enough air in so the fire would stop smoking. I do like the fact that the ashes steel and what not was in a hole at the end, but if it were on the cement that would be buried anyway the same end result would be made, and in much less of the time.

Warren

 

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OK, lets get this shin dig started up again. What I've been wait for has finally uploaded, so time to finish this thread.

If you haven't seen it already, watch the video of the silo coming down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK_GcynCKm8

 

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Cleanup time!

pic 1: fueling up
pic 2: started by separating the steel from the cement
pic 3: crumpled up the roof and set it aside.
pic 4: set aside the tripod and pipes too
pic 5: started loading

 

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pic 1: loading the blocks
pic 2: T7060 and dump trailer hauled them down the road 2km to another farm where we need fill for a bridge
pic 3: dumping the little grain trailer. Still looking for a few old ADT's to make into heavy duty dump trailers. 3 would be perfect. We have all the big tractors to pull them anyway.
pic 4: had to wait for a Casco train one trip
pic 5: after about 15 loads it was all cleaned up

 

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The dump site and a dramatic photo of the last load leaving empty.

 

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Final day cleanup.

Loading up a bucket that was left behind, burying the last few pieces of cement.

Then time to move on.

 

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MOVING DAY!!!

Pic 1: A D3k dozer the contractor brought to level things up. Same company as what owns the truck. 2 brothers we have used for years.
Pic 2 and 3: more of the D3k
pic 4: Loaded up

Took the cx210 to D/S to get a hydraulic pin catcher put on...weeeee I can't wait for that gem! Also saw the root rake they made for us while there.

 

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Came back the next day to see the progress and was blown away by the transformation. Really makes me want a dozer!

 

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Last few. Sorry no video of the dozer, didn't have time.

 

[Deere9670]

Nice pics, never even knew about this thread! I caught you in a few of those pics digging over those finals though!!! Keep em coming.

 

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EXCELLENT JOB !
but cement is added to gravel or sand with water to make CONCRETE and what really rises my ire is to see such high quality firewood go to waste what you burned would heat my house for a year or two only messin