My septic system was about 50 YO and the 1000 gallon tank was pumped at 30 years and again about a month ago after some backups occurred.
With the help of my neighbor and his new backhoe. My son and his dump truck. We installed 1/2 of a new drain field.
The original concrete drain pipes had decayed so badly that they could be broken by hand and the distribution box had collapsed.
I helped as much as I could but I sure wish I was as spry as JO. Toto day I am sure feeling my 73 years!
Good job, Mike.
Haha! You go ahead make fun of me. I deserve it 
Just remember the number of pics I upload has nothing to do with the amount of work done
Good job MikeG.
Poo management is most important.
Our cold, cold raining these last two commerative Normady D-Day days we been having . . . I figure you got this done just ahead of our weather flip-change??
Or just far enough north of the jet stream edge whip?
I do know I am back to using winter amounts of heating wood in the house to keep my (now three) shmbo’s happy, warmed.
Regards
Hey Mike; I’m 82 and I keep trying to sing a country song that said something like, " I can only do once a night what I use to do all night long.". TomC
I am only 71 but after fighting with these flat tires I feel much older 
And you are doing that tire in 80+ deg high humidity weather.
My work was in 60 deg and showers.
I bet you miss your sons help on that project
If you want to find out what was on the property before, and it’s possibly uses; check with a local land surveyor or the county/state forestry department. There should be aerial photographs from “update mapping” projects. Typically a few decades apart. The older ones are typically stored somewhere and can be retrieved/copied. Not online usually, but superseded photography is usually findable.
Thought you all might get a kick out of my shingle elevator.
I built one of those also. It sure helped make the job easier. Mine lifts a good bit faster. But doesn’t make me any faster getting them nailed down. Lol.
Well this is a first for me. I finished planting my garden today then started harvesting on the same day.
Until last year I owned a Diamond type 56 (1956 design) rotor lift crushing plant. 6-71 Detroit diesel engine driving a 10"x36" opening jaw crusher and a 20"x30" roll crusher. It had a 2 1/2 deck screen which allowed excess sand to be removed from the discharge material. It used a reciprocating plate under the feed hopper with a pivoting door for regulating material flow through the plant. It was not consistent as large rocks would push the door open or block material flow. Having watched a number of plants run over the years I would suggest using a hopper over the conveyor belt and use a variable speed drive on the conveyor to regulate the material feed rate into the crusher. Hydraulic drives have become very popular for this application.
Stara kamena, I love it!
Not a slick as Andy’s shingle lifter, but I used an electric winch to move a 700 pound boiler from my SUV down into my basement this morning.
Very nicely done. I have a couple of old stoves about that weight my grandfather never bothered to take back out of the basement I have wondered how I would get out. You have me thinking now. My space is tight because of the fact that we now have a ramp for elderly people that crosses infornt of the bulkhead but I could definitely do something like that.
Dan, well at least if you are taking them out, they neither have to stay in one piece, nor have to be put back together and work afterwards. 
Well that would be true for one of them. But one I think is still a good wood stove that I might put back in service in the other house here.
Its the litle things in life that make it fun. This is allso a life spice
Been waked up from this guy for the last few days. Here he is waking up wife and the cat (wife under the blanket )
How did this happen? We have dozzens of rabbits foraging around the property. And its summer, our doors are mostly open. So while this rabbits siblings all fear humans, this guy for some reason came living in with us. He goes to sleep under the bed in the evening, and wakes us up at 7 in the morning eats any bits of food that kids might fell on the ground, even pees in one corner like a cat. Nowdays he rarely gets out at all. Just sunbaths on the porch.
I find this extremely interesting. It brings thods of how early wolfs were domesticated. Obviously we are not gonna eat this rabbit and l am preety sure we (or something else) will eat all his siblings, so he (althugh l think its a she) will have a chance to spread its kind genes.
Her you go Mike, nothing to do with woodgas. But this is what I like most, even in wintertime. Normally I wouldnot share this video but a friend of one of my sons made the video. It impresses me and off course the subject.
Our stock machines do a little less then 80 km/h, the standard green black fourstroke standup 96 km/h and black the nr 14 is in the basis the same as ours but slightly changed hull and a 1100 cc 3 cyl instead of 800 cc 2 cyl 2 stroke. Doing over 106 km/h!!! Normally my muscles dont hurt after a days playing, now almost could not get out of bed. But glad I was allowed to try.
