Chicken incubator - homemade

The story began last year when by mistake i saw one video on youtube with one homemade incubator and it was interesting and i started to watch more videos regarding this subject.
After a day or two on youtube i began reading about incubators and the conditions needed to incubate eggs. While i was watching those videos i was paying attention to what kind of materials were  used and at the design of the incubators.
I realized that i had almost all the parts already at home so... in one day i've started working at my homemade version.

Now i have some tomatoes

Tomatoes are planted

After I almost managed to complete construction for the big green house, still must make them the door, I managed to plant tomatoes. In fact I have planted tomatoes two days ago but I was very busy at work and I could not post anything on the blog ....

All it needs it's a door....

Big green house

My seedlings are getting bigger and i'll have to move them soon so even though yesterday was sunday i've started my day with a big cup of coffee and i was thinking at the big green house watching the frame from my patio.
While i was finishing my coffee ideas came to my mind regarding the last steps of the build. So prepared with some ideas i've prepared the tools that i used to finish the build and start working.

Almost complete - big green house update

I know that i haven't posted anything on my blog for a while ...but i have been really busy at work and working at my big green house.
Last weekend we had Easter celebration and i haven't did anything ... that was a wierd period for me because usually i do something around the house or in my garden. I'm not used to doing nothing...

Germination - step by step

I had used the term germination in my previous posts but i did not explain how i did it.
So today i'm making a small tutorial  about germination and how you can do it yourself.

 To make this process you will need:
- paper towels
- a glass with water
- a ziplock bag

Big green house update

Big green house update:
Although it was Saturday i did a lot of things including:  homemade tool (full article on my blog), I went shopping with my wife and daughter , and I worked at the big green house .....
To begin working on the big green house I had to cut planks from a big piece of wood to achieve this I used the table saw.

 After i had the planks i began working on the actual frame of the big green house.

First tool

A while back James Neal posted a tool good for gardening and i I thought it was easy to do so this is my approach to make that tool:

I've started this task with a paper template and that template i transfer it to a sheet metal that i had laying around...
Next i've prepare the tools that i'll use to make my own gardening tool:
- angle grinder
- hammers
- welding machine
- different disks for the angle grinder.
- safety glasses.

Radishes out - more room for tomatoes

So yesterday i've spend some time in my garden and prepared the space used by radishes in the small green house for new tomatoes seedlings.
After the radishes have spend the monthly period inside the green house they reached this level

We had some radishes that were good for eating but some plants did not grow as good as the others... I think the reason for that was the space was not enough they were to close one to other.

Garden (re)arrangement

Garden (re)arrangement

From my last post i've changed my mind about some decision for this year:
When  i've made the small green house i wasn't going to use the one from last year ... the plan was to test with this one and see what happens but: i've worked almost one day to brake down the old green house and make some changes on the design and rebuild it.

The interesting thing for me was that i've learned something about the green house while i was dismantle it - the structure wasn't stiff enough and some planks was bent due the forces involved. So the first thing that i've done when i start rebuilding the green house was to add more pylons. The next thing that was to trim the pylons to have a good propensity for the roof. Next step was to connect the
side pylons to the middle ones and this give the structure a good stiffnes.

Samsung HD103SJ repair

Yesterday, 30.04.2013, before my program ends i ran into a problem one Samsung HD103SJ (1 TB HDD) was not working...

So i took that HDD and connected to my computer but nothing happend i couldn't see it in device manager... i've checked the cables to be connected properly and they ware connected ok.
I've rebooted the computer and entered in bios to see if the motherboard is seeing that HDD - no luck there also.