Author: Greg Brown

New shoes for the ol’ gal

The only real appearance thing we’ve done to the truck is replace the wheels and tires. The tires that came with the truck still had nearly 100% of the tread remaining, but they where very old and the sidewalls were checked, making them questionable. We don’t really plan on driving the truck far or fast,…

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Step 2: BeeCam – Headless RPI

Summary You can get started with the RPI HDMI-connected to a TV, but you’ll ultimately need to access it remotely, once you move it near the hives. For full graphical desktop access, you can use the Virtual Network Computing (VNC) package, or for simpler tasks you can just use SSH for a remote command line….

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Barn Conversion Complete

I’m very delinquent in getting this posted, as I completed the barn conversion over a year ago. Now that I’m no longer working, I guess I have no excuse for getting so far behind… After all the interior walls were removed, I poured concrete footings for the posts required to support the new glulam beams….

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Transition to Reconstruction

After a couple long days working in the barn this weekend, I’m nearing the transition point from disassembly to reconstruction. I removed the remaining interior stall walls, and also a couple non-supporting posts to make room for maneuvering the big glulam beams into place. Boy was that fun moving the beams from outside where they…

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Barn Conversion – Disassembly

In my previous post about the firewood “lean-to”, I mentioned our project to convert several stalls in the barn to a garage for the old truck. It took a while to make the final commitment to do the project, but we’re off and going. I told Inga when I started to disassemble the interior stalls,…

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Starter Improvise Repair

I was having problems with the starter not maintaining engagement with the flywheel. It seemed to be especially bad when the engine was warm. My dad said it’s probably the Bendix spring, so I ordered a new one on my favorite auto parts site, RockAuto.com. When I took the starter apart, I discovered there where…

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