Trailer--Bound

It nearly fell onto the road while towing--the walls detached from the floor/frame and had to be bound with ratchet straps and bungee cords to get it home again.  New plan is to strip it and rebuild with the back wall made into a hinged and latched ramp/door for loading heavier

/larger/bulkier items.  All screwed together so I can easily disassemble it for transformation into a camper later.

My Latest Acquisition: "Galloway Leader" Treadle

Front View

Front View, Pivoting Drawer

I picked this one up in Preston, CT a couple of days ago, and just got around to photographing it to begin some research into it, so far to no avail!  I searched for Galloway Treadle, then looked closer at the name on the head and could make out "Leader" after the Galloway, so I looked for that. Nothing.  I found a good amount of info on a James Galloway Weir in the late 1800s who made some of the first inexpensive lock stitch machines in England, which lead me to Charles Raymond, who had a very similar machine and found  "Sterling, "New Home"" and  "Domestic" Treadle machines that could be twins to mine, but nothing with the same name. I left a phone message with S. Engle Sewing Machines in Johnson, VT in hopes that he may have a clue. We'll see.

Detail of Name

Right Head Front, Bobbin Filler

Treadle Left Front View

Treadle Left Front View

Unique
Drawer Pulls

Throat Plate Area

Contents of ATTACHMENTS Box

Mystery tool?

Another Mystery Tool

Could Be a Punch Needle Embroidery Tool

Extra Tools, Thread Cutter (right) and Mystery Tool (left)

Long Bobbins

Skil Bandsaw motor

It runs, just doesn't want to turn the wheels.

What is this weed?

This is a relative newcomer to my yard this year--I saw some last year, but didn't have time to ID or even pick.

The stems are very sturdy, not round, but more squarish in cross section.  Tiny yellow flowers.  It looks almost like a very distant, really heavy relative of Cleavers/Stickyweed, but isn't at all sticky, or clinging. Each stem is a single plant, though they may be connected underground, I didn't dig to fins out yet. I plucked one, and had to grab it with my fist and really pull!

Edited: I found this one--Ranunculus abortivus L.  with lots of common names:

Little leaf buttercup, Small-flower crowfoot, Small-flowered Buttercup, Early ywoodbuttercup , Kidney-leaf buttercup, and other variations of these names.

May 18 and onward--Demo Days

These are "Trailer crews"

 Trailer Screws are what holds 99.9% of this thing together.  They are almost all either stripped out, or rusted into the things they are attaching, so many are just going to fall to the Hammer! Demolition involves a lot of stress release through smashing and whacking with an eight pound hatchet thing I found.  The perfect tool!  Plus a flat prybar thingy and a good sturdy claw hammer.

Kitchen corner.

Lovely bathtub.

Main bedroom closet frame for metal louvered folding doors, doors all rusty.

Behind this split paneling is the electric box.

Got to love that linoleum!

Vent hole for stove hood, construction of the "wall cabinets"

More sticks and masonite

Wacking satisfaction.

These cabinets were made of sticks and masonite.  Yuck!  I guess they needed lightweight for a mobile home. The oh-so-attractive green and white wall stuff is more wallpaper, on top of the original not so bad soft green and white marbly marlite. It's all going! 

There was a countertop stovetop, this paneling is the whole wall between kitchen and closet.  I'll be replacing this. The black pipe is the drain vent, replacing that with a smaller one under the sink so there is room for the new gas range.

Countertop, sink and cabinets out.

A little mold--respirator time! This wraparound is made of marlite--which is masonite coated in a white plastic, then wallpapered with green leafy vinyl wallpaper.  The new one will be a fiberglass tub with built in wraparound. no seams.

Bedroom wall not so good. The window is broken, letting rain and snow in for who knows how long.

Kitchen almost done--just need to figure out how to remove the oven.

May 6, 2019--My new story--Home at Last!

After three months of homeless couch surfing both here in CT and down in Virginia, I finally have a home of my own!!

1970 Skyline mobile home--Abandoned for 8 yrs, it has good bones and lots of potential--read"huge amounts of work ahead!!" Which made it affordable.

Living room--ugly carpet, questionable jalousie windows

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Original 1970's Kitchen--All this has to go!

Right side of kitchen where the fridge goes.

down the hall leading
 to the main bedroom--check out the linoleum--it's everywhere!

 with the ugly 70s carpet revealed after removing the uglier 90s cheap carpet.

This first mask wasn't enough to deal with the carpet yuck--so I got a two-filter respirator before continuing on.

Acrylic Pouring Art

YouTube is a treasure trove of art information--including my newest love: Acrylic Pouring. Here are my first efforts with Dirty Pour Flip, and Dirty Pour Ribbon.  The "dirty" in the name means basically that the paints are poured into a main cup, so they are all relatively mixed together before flipping that cup onto the canvas, or pouring it out onto the canvas in a "ribbon".  Other things are involved, such as which ingredient you add to make "cells": the spots that occur when the ingredient reacts with the acrylic paints. There is also the tilting, swiping and dragging, and new things developed every day by all the fabulous artists out there experimenting with everything.  It's pretty cool!

Click on an image to see them larger

Farm Equipment Query

I have a couple of tractor accessories I'd like to know about--and possible sell if they are worth anything, since I don't have the tractor for them anymore, or any need for one.

First is the plow, which I think might be a Little Genius Single Bottom. It's been in the woods for at least 30 years, but still looks pretty good. One wheel (left side is metal, the other is a wheel and tire. I don't know exactly what it is, except that it has a International Harvester logo on one side of the part  with the number on it below

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 The full number on this part is P1618  \/

 
Parts move stiffly, but most look like with a little elbow grease and TLC they would work.

 Second is a disc harrow of unknown identity.  It's a little more worn, with some of the discs missing chunks of the metal to rust.

Last is something to do with hay mowing.  All have been in the woods for the same length of time. My dad used the harrow back in the 80's with an old Case tractor he restored to running, but when he passed in '96, the tractor was sold and the rest left out in the woods. My mom didn't want to deal with them, but now she'd like to sell them.