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[patrick_g]

Pat:

If you waited for me you'd be in trouble.

What I wan't to know is if you ever got the lumber cut for your?

Kevin

We got some of it cut, hornswaggled out of some of it, and have more to cut.

It was a two barn deal, one for a friend (his first) and then mine. Mine is part of a close-in-an-open-sided-shed project where I close in a shed and then use the barn to handle the storage the shed had supposed to be used for.

I have less than a thousand board feet of oak and hickory left stickered in my barn from the earlier logging spree. As the weather cools it is more conducive to logging (I wilt easily.) My friend and logging partner is also helping one of his brothers build a house AND needs to build one for himself so as usual, life is what happens while you are making other plans.

I have a lead on getting some used utility poles so maybe that will help jumpstart a pole barn.

Pat

 

[khd]

Well, winter is upon us again. It is also officially one year since I started construction. I had the foundation done the week of Thanksgiving last year. I have been working on it bit by bit but again, travel for work doesn't leave much time to get things done. I do have it closed in for winter as the siding is all on. Will be hanging a tarp over the door for winter just to keep snow out as the tractor has been officially moved in. I hope to get the doors built in the garage over the cold months.

Attached are the latest pics. Today I got the two side windows framed and set. The first two show the exterior with windows and the last two show indise with windows.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

Regards,
Kevin

 

[bjcsc]

I really like the look and the craftsmanship of that building. Down here, though, the bugs would eat that building in 2 years...termite shield or not...

 

[Egon]

An excellent job.

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks great. Anybody can build a barn, but you've created a work of art!!! Truly one in a million.

Thanks for sharing,
Eddie

 

[Defective]

Dang!

Gotta get me a new tractor so I can have an excuse to build one of those...

 

[khd]

I really like the look and the craftsmanship of that building. Down here, though, the bugs would eat that building in 2 years...termite shield or not...

Thanks. We have 'em here to but carpenter ants are more prevalent. BIL has his own pest control business and I already have him keeping an eye out for all pests.

Kevin

 

[khd]

An excellent job.

Thanks Egon

 

[khd]

Looks great. Anybody can build a barn, but you've created a work of art!!! Truly one in a million.

Thanks for sharing,
Eddie

Thanks Eddie, what I really created is something that is taking forever to get done.

 

[bjcsc]

Thanks. We have 'em here to but carpenter ants are more prevalent. BIL has his own pest control business and I already have him keeping an eye out for all pests.

Kevin

Yeah, I'm sure you'll be fine. Our winters don't kill much and the humidity lends itself to bad wood bug troubles. Fantastic building you've got...