J called me on Thursday night and said that M had gotten a big dumpster and was getting all of the scrap steel out of there, so if I wanted any more I'd better get up there and get it.
So yesterday I hitched up the little flatbed trailer and ran up there.
I had in mind a big piece of steel plate and a cage that fits in the back of a pickup that Uncle Tony had left there.
Mike showed up not long after I arrived and he got the tractor and we loaded the big sheet; it is about 4 feet longet than the trailer and thick and very heavy, app 4' X 12'. We took apart the pen and loaded it and also a few more smaller sheets of plate steel. I also scored lots of the 2 x 2" tubing that I have been building a welding table out of.
On the way back through Eureka I stopped at the boiler works and got the rectangular tubing that I had ordered to finish the feeder.

Today I started work on the feeder. I cut the piece of tubing and welded it to the frame. Now I need to build a set of legs and set the whole thing on it.

Last night we went to the Casino. They give you 50.00 to play with during your birthday month so I needed to get that out of the way before the end of the month.
We managed to spend a few hours there, ans come out ahead. That's both times there we managed to come out winners.
There was a goofy country band in the bar, and lots of people there. Just a few minutes from here, it's fun going somewhere completely different so close to home.