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Spencer's Pole Barn Project
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Re: Spencer\'s Pole Barn Project
<font color="blue"> It feels like this project is taking for ever to get done </font>
Considering my pole barn is still in the wish stage, I'd say you're making tremendous progress Spence. It's a lot of fun watching along too. Keep it up /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
<font color="blue"> It feels like this project is taking for ever to get done </font>
Considering my pole barn is still in the wish stage, I'd say you're making tremendous progress Spence. It's a lot of fun watching along too. Keep it up /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Re: Spencer\'s Pole Barn Project
Looking really good, Spencer.
Looking at the size of that barn, I am sure glad I got it right when I called that little roof my tractors are under a shed! No comparison!
You are just going to love it this year when the first snow comes and you are totally under roof!
Any plans to give your tractor its just reward and let it come out of that little lean to and under the main roof? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Looking really good, Spencer.
Looking at the size of that barn, I am sure glad I got it right when I called that little roof my tractors are under a shed! No comparison!
You are just going to love it this year when the first snow comes and you are totally under roof!
Any plans to give your tractor its just reward and let it come out of that little lean to and under the main roof? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Re: Spencer\'s Pole Barn Project
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Any plans to give your tractor its just reward and let it come out of that little lean to and under the main roof? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif )</font>
Henro, I built the lean-to just for the tractor, so no, it will not be parked under the main roof for any length of time. I like to let my tractor warm up for quite a while before I use it. If I had it parked in the main barn with everything else I would be tempted to always start it up and immediately drive it outside so the fumes didn't accumulate inside. The lean-to will have no door on it so the tractor can run and run and I don't have to worry about fumes. Also I don't have to worry about hitting a door with the ROPS.
I am rewarding the tractor for all its hard work in helping me build the pole barn. Here is a picture of where that tractor got parked last winter. I think it will be quite happy in the lean-to compared to this. Oh man that looks cold /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Any plans to give your tractor its just reward and let it come out of that little lean to and under the main roof? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif )</font>
Henro, I built the lean-to just for the tractor, so no, it will not be parked under the main roof for any length of time. I like to let my tractor warm up for quite a while before I use it. If I had it parked in the main barn with everything else I would be tempted to always start it up and immediately drive it outside so the fumes didn't accumulate inside. The lean-to will have no door on it so the tractor can run and run and I don't have to worry about fumes. Also I don't have to worry about hitting a door with the ROPS.
I am rewarding the tractor for all its hard work in helping me build the pole barn. Here is a picture of where that tractor got parked last winter. I think it will be quite happy in the lean-to compared to this. Oh man that looks cold /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
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EddieWalker
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Re: Spencer\'s Pole Barn Project
That picture of your tractor parked in the snow is just painful!
That picture of your tractor parked in the snow is just painful!
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Re: Spencer\'s Pole Barn Project
As I look at your photo of the completed valley, it is an elegant solution to the problem of making a valley when the main roof is made up of trusses. I'd never seen that before, you done good. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
As I look at your photo of the completed valley, it is an elegant solution to the problem of making a valley when the main roof is made up of trusses. I'd never seen that before, you done good. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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Re: Spencer\'s Pole Barn Project
<font color="blue"> Back in April when I bought the 1/2" plywood for the other half of the roof it cost me $8.65 a sheet from Menards. This weekend I paid $12.52 a sheet from Lowe's. </font>
Last week I had a similar experience. I needed some of the cheaper plywood [cdx] and when I went to Home Depot the first thing I noticed was how flat and good looking the plywood was.
The second thing I noticed was that it was marked at $12 plus per sheet.
I was putting those three sheets on a cart, when another customer comes up and askes me about the plywood...says they say at the register that the price is almost $15 per sheet, is this what he thinks it is. Yes, it is...$15 can't be the right price for CDX I tell him.
After grabbing one other thing I needed, I am pushing the cart back up the isle and the price is gone from above the stack of plywood. The price comes up at $15 [appx] per sheet. I say it was marked at $12, which was still expensive, and they should sell it for what it was marked at...otherwise they can put it back. I guess this is the HD policy and they charged me the marked price...pretty nice stuff, but for what I needed it that day the lower quality, cheaper stuff would have been fine.
Wonder if anticipation of hurricane damage drove the price up?
<font color="blue"> Back in April when I bought the 1/2" plywood for the other half of the roof it cost me $8.65 a sheet from Menards. This weekend I paid $12.52 a sheet from Lowe's. </font>
Last week I had a similar experience. I needed some of the cheaper plywood [cdx] and when I went to Home Depot the first thing I noticed was how flat and good looking the plywood was.
The second thing I noticed was that it was marked at $12 plus per sheet.
I was putting those three sheets on a cart, when another customer comes up and askes me about the plywood...says they say at the register that the price is almost $15 per sheet, is this what he thinks it is. Yes, it is...$15 can't be the right price for CDX I tell him.
After grabbing one other thing I needed, I am pushing the cart back up the isle and the price is gone from above the stack of plywood. The price comes up at $15 [appx] per sheet. I say it was marked at $12, which was still expensive, and they should sell it for what it was marked at...otherwise they can put it back. I guess this is the HD policy and they charged me the marked price...pretty nice stuff, but for what I needed it that day the lower quality, cheaper stuff would have been fine.
Wonder if anticipation of hurricane damage drove the price up?
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Re: Spencer\'s Pole Barn Project
re: Henro
"Wonder if anticipation of hurricane damage drove the price up? "
An article appeared in the state wide newspaper a few weeks ago that said that the US Government had placed orders for over 1 million sheets of plywood to use in Iraq. This is causing a shortage which naturally causes the price to go up.
Once again the USA consumer takes it where the sun don't shine.
re: Henro
"Wonder if anticipation of hurricane damage drove the price up? "
An article appeared in the state wide newspaper a few weeks ago that said that the US Government had placed orders for over 1 million sheets of plywood to use in Iraq. This is causing a shortage which naturally causes the price to go up.
Once again the USA consumer takes it where the sun don't shine.