Category: Construction

Wood Chipper and Leaf Shredder

Yesterday, Praew and I drove to the other side of Bangkok to check out a business that sells wood chippers (among other things). The place was quite interesting. It looked like a 3 storey tall family owned warehouse of equipment. The lift (elevator) was large, industrial, steel, very slow, had that old fashioned kind of…


Surveying plans for a DIY excavator

I’ve done a fair amount of looking around at what is out there for CAD plans for a DIY excavator. I’m quite interested in the CADDiggers from CADPlans. Of course, I started out downloading a set of free CAD plans for a backhoe, just to see what they are like. But the free plans look…


New Project: Land Development

It has actually been a little more than a year since we bought a 4 rai piece of land just outside Bangkok, Thailand. (4 rai = about 1.6 acres) But since I just started this blog, I’m picking up this project in the middle. How to begin? Let me describe the scenario… Praew and I…


New Project: DIY Excavator

So we bought some land (a bit less than two acres) and we’ve begun developing it. Now, if you’ve ever picked up a shovel and tried to dig into firm soil, you know that it is hard and slow work. That’s where an excavator comes in.  Hydraulic pistons, a large steel bucket, and an engine…