Notices by Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar (yngmar@social.tchncs.de)

DPD still holding our exhaust hostage, so I did some gardening work instead.

Cleared away the bean supports and overgrown garden, piling the compost mountain even higher.

Finished processing the onions. They cured nicely, only a handful bad.

Since it looks like first night frost in a few days, I harvested all the pumpkins as well. Quite a haul. A few have been "sampled" by some rodents and went into the EatSoon basket. The rest is stored in the barn for now as I need to make space in the house first.

Hope the cat does her job protecting them.

Also gave the storm damaged apple tree a severe pruning. Should recover and be more able to withstand the next storm, but may not bear fruit next year. I picked up the good ones first.

#Pumpkin #Harvest #Garden #Homestead #GrowYourOwn #Onion

Bob did a good job keeping the birds out and deserves winter hibernation in the barn.

Maybe we can even find a new hat by spring. This one is falling apart.

Ivan (the fur coat) is still going strong though.

#Bob #HeadOnAStick #Homestead #Garden

Looks exactly the same as before, but after half a day of work it is aligned and levelled and bolted together.

Sighting over the bunks looks nice now instead of bumpy like an old concrete slab highway.

The sawmill head is ready to be lifted on. But first some more digging around the house.

#Sawmill #Homestead #Assembly #DIY

Log stops and clamps installed as well. The log stops also needed squaring but that was quick and easy.

I've also moved it over to one side of the concrete beams so the log stops can drop down in the space between instead of hitting the concrete. Glad I didn't bolt it down yet :)

#Sawmill #DIY #Homestead

Had a drizzly afternoon to finally get this thing out of the barn.

Apparently lifting the head onto the tracks is the critical part of the installation (and the manual insists on "at least two people"), but with the help of my rear forks and some careful manoeuvering it got shifted on fairly easily, on my own.

It rolls smoothly, which means the track may still be aligned.

Bunch of adjustments and tightening left to do.

#Sawmill #WoodlandMills #Homestead #DIY

A whole bunch of nuts and bolts tightened down, many checks, some adjustments and then filling various fluids.

Engine fired up well, needed some idle adjustment to stop the clutch from ringing, the blade guides were so far off they were sparking so that needed adjusting and then I cut a first test log.

A little piece of spam maple from the garden got turned into a beam and wow, this is fun! It cut that little log like butter.

The byproducts are firewood and sawdust (still need to hang a chicken food sack on the chute to capture that). No waste.

Before I cut some proper logs I need to think what I actually need :)

#DIY #Sawmill #WoodlandMills #Sawmilling #Homestead #Woodworking

"Firefox just got a redesign with round tabs, new themes, and Compact Mode"

Oh that's why my browser looks like some turd phone UI this morning. Why can't people just leave shit alone. It was fine. Now its dumber and uglier. And I have to waste time finding out how to fix it.

#Firefox #UI #Design

Renata lives in a tiny, ticking box of gears and only comes out to see the light every 2-3 years.

#Renata #Watch #Battery #DIY

When you do the foundation and it turns out you have enough rocks left to just do the whole building from them.

#StoneHouse #Building #Architecture #Alanta #Lithuania #Rock #Stone #RockHouse

Fiber cement panels. For when you want your house to look like the death star.

#FiberCement #Panel #Building #Renovation #DIY #House

This morning's job: Dig up some food.

Beetroots for preserving, new potatoes for lunch.

The first new potatoes are always super yummy.

#Garden #Homestead #Potato #Beetroot #Harvest

Pissing on plants is back in fashion:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/startup-recycling-urine-natural-fertiliser-vunanexus

#Piss #Urine #Fertilizer #Farming

@deshipu @piggo Hand-forged barn door hinges still sell for a pretty penny.

I'm keeping mine 😁

Plenty of hand-forged stuff around the farm here that wasn't top of the line, just everyday work items. All the metal fixings on the draft animal gear was hand forged. The wooden parts have rotted away, but the iron is fine.

The hinges are still on the barn doors, letting them swing. Bit of grease every now and then and they're good for the next century.

The occasional forged nail did not fare so well, they mostly rusted in the wood. Door latches are unpopular because modern ones are simply better.

Forged rings are quite handy for all kinds of things, I restored some and use them as fancy curtain pull weights in the house :)

The cabbage seedlings weren't very happy in their tray and since time is running out, I planted some of them.

Ran the tiller through one more time first because the bed has been sitting idle for three weeks and was getting weedy.

Got one row of seedlings in before a big rain front came through and watered them in for me. No hauling watering cans today :)

We'll see if they like it better out there. Go go cabbagelings!

#Cabbage #Gardening #Garden #Homestead

@bagder curl | bash

Me, yesterday, catching only a glimpse of the performance: "huh, they've got a Boy George lookalike for some reason".

Turns out that was the actual Boy George. For some reason.

Also just learnt he had a thing happen to his vocal cords that dropped his voice an octave so presumably he can't sing any of his old songs anymore. That must suck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhwoT8ah9R8

#Eurovision #ESC2026 #SanMarino

Next project: A thumb for the mini-excavator.

Because I've been kinda needing it for a while and now I do even more.

In case you don't know what it is, it's the same as yours - an opposable thumb for gripping things. Try lifting a pencil without using your thumb. Or a concrete beam or a log.

The cardboard mockup I made last year, but I wasn't really happy with it and with some more excavator experience under my belt I did think of several improvements, like making it adjustable.

Sifted through my scrap metal and found some suitable steel.

#DIY #MiniExcavator #ExcavatorThumb #SalvagePunk #Homestead #Metalworking

Shiny.

#ExcavatorThumb #Shiny

Found some old soviet sandpaper. It's comically bad. You use it for 1 second and all the sand just falls off and it just becomes paper.

I guess they didn't do much oh glorious sanding. 🤷

#Sandpaper

#Funcik says hi

#Dog #DogsOfMastodon #FediDogs