Stuff I've built in the yard

Both done now just waiting on a scissor lift so I can get these bad boys put up!
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No more climbing to cut the exhaust fan off and on.

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Have you thought about adding a switch parallel to the thermostat in case your need to vent/purge the shop?
 
Have you thought about adding a switch parallel to the thermostat in case your need to vent/purge the shop?
I have thought about it but with the thermostat I can turn it on and off accordingly, and works for what I want it to do.

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Got everything put in on the drain finally. I played around with some time lapse videos while doing it and posted them to my youtube channel.
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From the videos, you dug all that hand?
That is an amazing amount of shovel work!

If your catch drains don't collect enough of the water from the down spouts, one option would be something like we did for the barn.

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The down spouts are four plastic chains that make a rain chain.
At the bottom of the chains are bolted to a rectangular piece of plastic.
Rocks are used to hold the plastic piece down.
The catch barrel is a 1/2 plastic mini barrel from Home Depot
A hole drilled into the bottom and a drain pipe connected to it.

The above was a compromise, as my original ideal, shown below, was vetoed.

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From the videos, you dug all that hand?
That is an amazing amount of shovel work!

If your catch drains don't collect enough of the water from the down spouts, one option would be something to do something like we did for the barn.

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The down spouts are four plastic chains that make a rain chain.
At the bottom of the chains are bolted to a rectangular piece of plastic.
Rocks are used to hold the plastic piece down.
The catch barrel is a 1/2 plastic mini barrel from Home Depot
A hole drilled into the bottom and a drain pipe connected to it.

The above was a compromise, as my original ideal, shown below, was vetoed.

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Yea man I know my way around a shovel from my days on the railroad construction gang. We hand dug all the time but only advantage I had there was more ppl helping lol.

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To save your back, if you have a buddy with a tractor and a box blade, it is possible to take one or two tines off the box blade and then attach the removed tines to a remaining tine.

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The modified box blade make a mini plow.
It really helps to break up hard soil.

A shovel will still need to be used some to clear out the trench, but does save a bunch of time and effort

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