This morning had many things go down in the short amount of time that was available. As noted before, I was working on clearing the bathroom nook and had pulled the toilet but had the flange in place still. Well upon cutting the thing I did end up finding out that the thing screws into the holding tank. After removing the flange I turned to the tub.
The side wall for the tub had an access panel made of particle board that I had to remove to access the drain line. I used this access panel as a patch to cover the opening over the toilet drain. This went fast with four wood screws. Afterwards I removed the moldings around the tub then used the reciprocating saw to cut the drain pipe in order to pull the tub out in one piece without damaging the unit. The drain pipe can be removed from the flange and replaced accordingly when installed elsewhere. After removing the tub I removed the wood base that held the tub then cut through the wood screws that held the side wall in place, removing all of that stuff, leaving the open nook with an opening in the floor under where the tub went. I cut a piece of the remaining plywood from the old shed door and secured it with more wood screws. The last thing I did in the bathroom nook area was remove a small shelf that was mounted to the wall behind where the toilet went. As an added bonus I mounted said shelf on another spot in the trailer up near the ceiling over where I have some bulk containers so as to make a limited use of some vertical space. With the bathroom nook area set up the way I wanted I had to turn my attention to the chicken yard due to the fact that while I was working on the trailer I noticed all of the chickens just running free in the yard, following me around like nothing's wrong. I ended up discovering the fence post that held one of the gates had broken at the base, due to rotting in the moist ground. The gate was on the ground, allowing all the birds to escape. While they didn't go far, this still needed attention. The only real option I had was to do like I did with other wood fence posts that broke in the fence areas-pound a metal fence post in the ground and secure the broken wood fence post to said metal post. A quick dig in the scrap pile turned up a narrower width section of fence post about 5' in length. This would have to do. After pounding the post in the ground about 2' right at the broken base of the wood post I first drilled three large holes, one at the top, the middle and near the bottom, these holes being about 3/8" in diameter. The next thing was to drill three more narrower holes behind the three large holes. This is to allow me to drive wood screws through the post into the wood post without having to go all the way through the metal post on both sides. The first set of holes are access holes. With this, I was able to drive three 2" long wood screws through the metal post into the wood post, securing it and allowing me to get the fence back right again. Only other thing I had to do was remount the loop that holds the fence latch since the fence post technically moved in height just a little. With this, the chicken yard fence was restored and the chickens secured. The last thing that I did for the day was to clean up the loose bolts on the garage floor so I can sort them out at a different time in order to cull the scrap from the batch and organize the remaining hardware. I gathered two buckets of hardware, one a 2 gallon and the other a 1 gallon bucket. I gathered a few odds and ends destined for immediate scrap and an organizer container along with some other small containers with which to use to hold the hardware. The last thing I did in the garage is pull all of the 2 liter bottles full of water from the bottom level of the pallet shelf and staged them behind the Dodge for later disposal. This is also in order to allow me to dismantle the pallet shelf, with it being cleared of extra crap. Until the next time....
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