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…
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