The Atlantic and Southern Build Thread Continued, Part 2

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That orange grove looks great!  Good trick to plan the tree bases in the pattern!


dave

Dave,

Thank you, very much appreciated. I got lucky on the idea of using the plastic bases for planting the trees.

Tom

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Curt,

Very much appreciate the compliment. Have you been talking to my mother again?


She used to tell me that when I couldn't keep the crayon inside the lines.

Tom

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Over the past several days I also installed a fence around the grove area and farm land.

I started by using the tooth picks without cutting them to length. I poured some Hunterline A&I Medium Brown stain in a small jar. Fifty toothpicks were put in the bottle for 20 minutes.





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I labeled the jar so I would know what was in it. If not, in a few days I would have no clue.

After twenty minutes I removed the toothpicks, er, I mean fence posts. I let them dry on a paper towel for an hour.



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I pushed the fence posts into the foam and used a small level to make sure they were all level. The posts are 4 HO scale feet in height and spaced 8 scale feet apart.

They kind of look like the start of Trump's wall.





Once the fence posts holes was dug, I used my little hammer to pound them into the ground/foam. The little hammer is the only tool I have left out of my "Handy Andy" tool set from 1950.



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I'm getting there.



Fence posts are now in place.



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I used tan thread for the barbed wire.



Fence barbed wire finished. I stained the thread with Hunterline Rust.




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I decided to run a fence line down the front of the orange grove. I used 22 fence posts and only added them to the edge of the current grove. I'll continue the fence once the rest of the orange trees are installed.




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Fence posts are installed and barbed wire is added and stained.



In all the groves I've been in, both legally and illegally, I've never seen the fence line void of weeds. Time to add weeds to this fence line.



Diet Pepsi time folks.

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Here are a few extra pictures of the orange grove just north of Baker's Curve.

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[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful job Tom.

[MAP]

Looking great Tom. 

[RWL]

Tom,


You have been making progress!


I take off for a month or better traveling the peninsula and it takes me a dozen or more pages to catch up to the present. I am glad to read that you are devoid of all follow up problems from your procedures and that you are once again hell bent on the layout. It is also good to read that you will not be receiving bus loads of observers, only SUV loads, as long as there are not convoys of SUVs you should be in good shape. I could vision the unimaginable, a bus load showing up (30 or, so bodies) and the wet floor of the layout that you would endure after the 1st group was finished and 2nd group of observers came in from the pool. Scary isn't it? Maybe you should set out complimentary towels.

Your progress considering some of the setbacks you have encountered is very impressive. Your step by step has been and continues to be beneficial to all that follow. The grove reflects the time frame of the layout, well manicured rows of pruned trees, limited debris under the trees and a property line. You mentioned the reduction of groves due to development and such, don't forget the state government imposing restrictions known as Citrus Kanker. That was the excuse they used to eliminate personal trees on ones property. The state can't make money if you have your own tree! Your depiction is well before the 80s and it reflects it.

One criticism, there is always one with me. Even though there was strict attention to detail in the layouts era I do believe there would be an accumulation of pruned branches and possibly tree trunks deposited along the fence line to the left of the grove. The grove illustrates the picking season, so maybe there would be something on the fence line and maybe not. It might be the possibility for a mini-scene of workers collecting the prunings along the fence. Remember the "grove trucks" no cab, no fenders, maybe a hood, and the seat and steering wheel were out in the open? That would be unique, now that would be a build for Dan.

Anyway, glad to read your health is good as well as the health of the layout. It is looking very nice, your observers will be very impressed.

Bob

[RWL]

Tom,


There is something strange about posting from here. Once again a second post.


You have been making progress!


I take off for a month or better traveling the peninsula and it takes me a dozen or more pages to catch up to the present. I am glad to read that you are devoid of all follow up problems from your procedures and that you are once again [/size]hell bent on the layout. It is also good to read that you will not be receiving bus loads of observers, only SUV loads, as long as there are not convoys of SUVs you should be in good shape. I could vision the unimaginable, a bus load showing up (30 or, so bodies) and the wet floor of the layout that you would endure after the 1st group was finished and 2nd group of observers came in from the pool. Scary isn't it? Maybe you should set out complimentary towels.

[/size]Your progress considering some of the setbacks you have encountered is very impressive. Your step by step has been and continues to be beneficial to all that follow. The grove reflects the time frame of the layout, well manicured rows of pruned trees, limited debris under the trees and a property line. You mentioned the reduction of groves due to development and such, don't forget the state government imposing restrictions known as Citrus Kanker. That was the excuse they used to eliminate personal trees on ones property. The state can't make money if you have your own tree! Your depiction is well before the 80s and it reflects it.

[/size]One criticism, there is always one with me. Even though there was strict attention to detail in the layouts era I do believe there would be an accumulation of pruned branches and possibly tree trunks deposited along the fence line to the left of the grove. The grove illustrates the picking season, so maybe there would be something on the fence line and maybe not. It might be the possibility for a mini-scene of workers collecting the prunings along the fence. Remember the "grove trucks" no cab, no fenders, maybe a hood, and the seat and steering wheel were out in the open? That would be unique, now that would be a build for Dan.

[/size]Anyway, glad to read your health is good as well as the health of the layout. It is looking very nice, your observers will be very impressed.

Bob