2011 at the Hammond Barn

[RHClarke]

Bob was first off the mark on Saturday morning. He took his wife's SUV to the local tire shop to get the tires rebalanced. I arrived shortly after he took off and got to work on a project from home - rebuilding my B&D WorkMate table top.

Grant was taking care of business. Later that morning, Bob arrived at the barn and stored some wheels that were taking up space inside the barn. Other items were removed with a view to giving us some room to move over the winter. This will be an ongoing process, but should result in some more elbow room. On the way to lunch we stopped in to pick up some steel from a local distributor. Bob is going to make a set of metal wheel ramps to replace the rotting wooden ramps as the old ramps cause too much excitement when used.

After lunch, I assembled parts for my "Sunshine" roof hatch repair. We take advantage of a local machine shop to do custom work that we are too clumsy to do. In this case, I had our friend rebuild one of my hatch roller arms. A new step rivet and a brass roller bar were machined and then attached to the arm. The quality of work was outstanding.

Later I found the two sections to my '45 HUP partition wall. Both are welded steel frames onto which plywood panels are mounted. The plywood is usually held on by flat pan head slotted 1/4 inch/20 screws that attach to "T" nuts. The "T" nuts were used to keep the profile of the wall somewhat smooth as it was covered with a green liner. After the quick tour of the partition, I put the lower portion in the back of the HUP.

Later, Bob fired up the tractor. We towed another tractor to its winter storage location and then hitched up his roto-tiller attachment. Bob gave his garden the once over and then worked the tiller over the rough part of the road to the barn.

After that fun, we detached the roto-tiller and hooked up the wood splitter. On the way to the wood pile, we loaded the bucket with M37 parts. The parts were off-loaded to my 3/4 ton SMP trailer and then were tarped for the winter.

Bob split wood for the remainder of the afternoon, and I headed back to Ottawa early to finish up my domestic "to do" list.

Photos:

1 - Vestiges of our last snow day
2 - Roto-tiller ready
3 - Hatch cover roller arms - the first arm has the new ball and rivet
4 - Replacement roller arm bushings and support
5 - HUP lower partition wall test fit