For the first twenty five years of my farming career I never used new lumber for fixing buildings. The only thing I bought in a lumber yard was nails and a saw blade or two. I tore down corn cribs and houses for the lumber. In retrospect, I don't know why I tore down those houses because it was so much labor for so little good lumber. I cleaned the nails at the end of every day and had the lumber ready to stack in a small lumber yard of my own in the machine shed. I carried the lumber from the machine shed to wherever I needed it on my shoulder. Many, many tons of it. Firing up the loader tractor to haul it used fuel I didn't want to waste. Almost every building on the farm has been repaired with used lumber, carried there on my shoulder. I never threw away steel. It could be used later to make something. I made round bale feeders out of used well pipe, cutting it with a hack saw in the early days because I couldn't afford a band saw. It saved a lot of money but I'm not sure I would want to go back to those days. Right now I wouldn't mind tackling a building to tear down but I don't think the body would stand up to it anymore. (groan) Jim
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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