Little Job? No Bigger Job

[I Luv Herfrds]

Don't you just hate it when a little job that would have taken just an hour turns into a bigger job that takes quite a few hours. :?

Hubby is out swathing grass, so I grabbed our son and headed for the upper corral. There are a couple of wood planks needing to be replaced.
we grabbed 2 planks out of the shed, nails and hammers.
We discovered that there were a couple more bad planks, so he went back to the shed to get them. I started knocking the bad one's down and found out that the railroad tie was rotten at the bottom.
We dug it out. Put a new one in it's place. Now the fun part, wrong size planks. we use 6"x2"x16' what we have are 8"x2"x16'. Hubby uses those for different repairs. We put one up in the feed bunk anyway.

Ol' eagle eyed son suddenly started spotting other bad planks, so now we are up to at least 8 planks needing to be replaced. Told him to just wait til we pull the bulls and tear out the entire north fencing on the corral. :lol:
Not a happy kid right now. we can't do it right now because the yearling heifers and their bull are coming in one side of the corral to drink and steers the other for water.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

If your really anxious to get fixing i have some you could get warmed up on.

 

[I Luv Herfrds]

What's worse right now BMR is the plank we used was marked for reflooring the loading chute. Gotta replace that.
Going into town today to pick up more plank. We need over 20 plank's to repair both the upper corral and the feed bunk at the lower corral and to leave a couple left over for other repairs.
Hubby is not happy, but I'm going to pick up a new gate today for the northern part of the corral we are going to replace.
Oh, I forgot to tell him we are also going to pick up some oil field pipe to cement in the ground to hold up the new corral panels.
Must admit both the son and I really stepped in it now. :lol:

 

[I Luv Herfrds]

Well I got pretty lucky today. I didn't electrocute myself.
Still working on getting the corral repaired. Had a couple of boards that needed to be trimmed. So I ran some extension cords from the corral to the shop nearby. I found an extension cord right inside the door so I plugged into it and went to cutting my boards. I could smell something burning and thought I had a dull blade.
Nope.

I found the extension cord that my FIL had adapted from a 110 outlet to a 220 outlet.
I fried the skil saw, but luckily not myself.
Found this out after the fact when the hubby told me what I had plugged into. He went to town and bought a new skil saw.

 

[Northern Rancher]

That's why I avoid work at all costs it can be really dangerous-strategic loafing is how I roll.