First project of the day is the assembly of a 33ft vertical antenna to be used witha tuner on 10-12-15-17-20 meters. It went to gether more or less like I had planned althought the middle section of EMT already had a slight bow in it. The bottom section is a short section of fence pipe which just slips over the 1 inch EMT bottom section. The bottom section then slips down into a chunk of 1-1/4 sched 40 PVC pipe, which for now I have mounted in a 3 ft TV antenna tripod. Looks good, now to cut and make some radials out of some old Cat 5.
Then it was off to town to get a treated 4x4 post to be used for mounting the satelite dishes on Tuesday. Also picked up an 80 lb bag of concrete mix.
Back home I lowered the post hole digger down into the previously dug hole that the rain from Saturday filled to the brim. It had gone down some, but not much. The water that is doesn't soak into clay dirt very fast. The hole is around 43-44 inches deep and didn't want to distrub the sides anymore than I had. Dropped in post and then started just pouring the concrete mix into the water around hole. Remember the hole was full of water. Surprisingly it took the whole bag of mix and a little extra I had on hand already. Went back and checked it a few hours later and it seems as solid as can be. Yes, I used my 4 ft level to make sure it was darned close to straight up and down.
After lunch I opened the main chicken gate to let them out to roam the whole yard around the house. They went around twice and then back into their pen. After having observed them in their coop for quite a while now, I am convinced that I either need to build another bigger coop or remodel this one so it is twice as wide, i.e. 8 ft insted of 4 ft. They just donw;t seem to have enough room.
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