72 YEAR OLD COUPLE BUILD A BARN

[Ken]

Good to hear the surgery may not be needed.
The rails will be stacked and continue to dry and in about a month we will check again.
Tell Lin hello also.
ken

 

[Bob77064]

Beautiful work!

 

[Haoleguy]

LinandDave - Barn looks terrific ! Keep up the good work. Congrats on your 52 yr anniversary ! ......Gary

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the update and new pictures. It's a beautiful building and a lot of fun to see your progress. Congratulations on your 52nd anniversary!!! My parents are your age and just celebrated their 52nd in July. There was a time when I thought 70 was old, but seeing how my parents can still work outdoors all day long and get more done then guys a half their age, I think it's more of a mindset then anything else. They get up a little slow, but once they get going, there isn't any stop in them!!!

Eddie

 

[linanddave]

More update pictures from the project.
This brings us up to mid November, 2012.

Battens on south wall done.

Gutter brackets and four inch downspout.

Hole cut and edge rolled with ball peen.

Real nice four inch oulet box.

Installing six inch gutter.

South side done.

Weather here in Nov. has been good, as is today, so need to get off this computer and out to the barn.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thank you for posting the pics. I'm only 52 and I can't move at all in 27 degree weather. Might have something to do with all the bones I broke riding motorcycles in my youth....

Keep posting updates and congrats to your anniversary. Hope you get all you want done soon as winter is knocking on the door.

 

[linanddave]

First off we want to thank all of you that have been following this thread and for all the nice replys.
They mean a lot to us.
Also to take this time to wish every one happy holidays.
The weather up until Sunday had been great and we had been able to make some progress.
Sunday we got a strong storm with high wind and hail. Rain was actually going sideways and into
the back of the barn. No real damage done, just a mess to clean up.
Now the high today was 38 and going down to mid twenties tonight.

Couple more update pictures from the project.

North side gutter with temporary downspout to enable us to build the wall behind it.

Treated sill plates to start the framing.

Man door framed.

This gets us up to the end of Nov. 2012.

 

[Jim in ICT]

Beautiful work. Nice to be able to enjoy the work together. My wife and I can't hang a picture in the house without a hole in the sheetrock resembling the head of a hammer!

 

[ATP]

That is beautiful....:drink:

 

[OrangeAgain]

WOW! I'm blown away with your skills, ingenuity and energy.

Glad you've joined TBN. I love barns and especially Monitor style.

Perhaps this winter you can write a book about your barn project and sell it on the Web. The book could be part inspirational and part DIY.

Where did you get the plans?

 

[linanddave]

WOW! I'm blown away with your skills, ingenuity and energy.

Glad you've joined TBN. I love barns and especially Monitor style.

Perhaps this winter you can write a book about your barn project and sell it on the Web. The book could be part inspirational and part DIY.

Where did you get the plans?

I did the design and the plans myself. If you can't make it work on paper, STOP. Spent the first winter making sure that it would work on paper and that we could build and use Derrick to be able to do each step required. There was no way that I could have done the high frame work by myself without the help of Derrick. Lin does as much as she can, but is limited to how much she can lift, and does not do high ladders or roofs.

About the book idea. I started it last winter, have a little over 100 pages and 300 pictures done so far. Right now it is in PDF form. Would like to be able to set it up so it will be downloadable as an e-book. Finish product at around 250 to 300 pages with 800 or so pictures. It will cover the whole story including details of how it was done and cost and options that were considered. Wonder what kind of demand there is for a book like that and how we should price it. Thinking $9.99 would be a good base price, but $4.99 would probably sell better. Any ideas on this?
Thanks

 

[jonathco]

That's a great looking barn!

 

[300UGUY]

That's a great looking barn!

Good job on the barn.

 

[etcallhome]

Lin and Dave very nice job.... Wife and I drew our floor plans for our house we built 40 yrs ago this coming summer. Same house and same wife.

Congra

 

[linanddave]

Just a couple of pics for the reason of no progress lately.
Some of you may have heard of this storm, The Christmas Day Storm of 2012.
It started on Christmas day and went thru the night. We got at least eight inches on top of an eighth inch of ice. Some of Arkansas got as much as fourteen inches and thousands were out of power. Power outages ran as long, for a lot of folks, as much as ten days. This was very unusual for Arkansas. We were very lucky and only had power snicks, a couple of times. Very cold here since then also. The snow on the barn north side roof has not completely left as of today.(1-5-13)

Made for some very pretty pictures.

We come from New England, so this is no big deal for us, but here in these small towns that rarely see any snow depth, it is a problem. They don't have any snow plows. We just stay at home and hope it melts.

It did kind of seem nice to see it again on Christmas.
Sure wish it hadn't caused so much trouble.

 

[BWSSR]

Christmas card picture