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The trusses were dropped off today and Charlie and the boys finished off the perlings up to the top board.

They did a little tweaking to put things back square.

They will be back in the morning with a crane provided it doesn’t rain too much tonight. If it does we’ll be raising the trusses by hand and I’ll get to help out.

I let them borrow the Paslode framing nailer tonight and things moved along rather quickly with two framing nailers.

I should be a manufacturers rep for Paslode. That thing sure is sweet! Now all they need to do now is make a gun for fence staples and we’d be set! I can’t believe one doesn’t exist.

Whew, it was a very productive day. I am spent and sun burnt. I am a true red-neck now.

My man from Tractor Supply showed up bright and early, but he didn’t beat Charlie’s Crew, although they hadn’t really started. After the storms last night the ground was nice and soft and the fog was so thick you couldn’t see 20 feet in front of your face.

We unloaded the poles and fence, and I waited for Charlie. I don’t think I have enough poles. In fact I know I’m 10 short but, this doesn’t look like enough.

The fellahs got busy by 8:30am, squared everything up and were digging holes with Bakers BobCat. Charlie originally told me he was going to rent a dingo but hey a free loaner BobCat is always better than anything you have to pay for.

It didn’t take but a couple hours to get things looking serious.

The Bobcat started acting up, it started acting like it was starving for fuel even though the gauge read full. Apparently there’s a fuel hose thing that goes to the bottom of the tank which goes bad or drops in the tank. We kept having to top it off.

Once Charlie got his holes dug I decided it was time to learn how to use a BobCat and dig some holes for the fence.

We knocked out about 30 posts plus another 10 or so holes today. Only another 60 or so? more to go?

Michael was a huge help with the fence, in the afternoon Claudine chipped in a hand and in the late afternoon Maggie did too. We started to get a system down and it was moving rather quickly. I think we set 7 posts in the last hour or so.

It’s coming together very, very well. We’re putting up standard no-climb wire horse fence with a top ‘sight’ board. So the horse will be able to see the fence. It’s going to look really good when we’re finished.

I’ve created a new Gallery for ‘Barn’ Photos Here so we can keep track of the progress. It’s not going to happen over night but it will happen fast.

By the end of the day Charlie and crew were *almost* ready for trusses:

They could have been but they cut out early on account of this being Easter weekend and all.  With some luck we’ll have trusses ready on Wednesday or Friday.  We won’t get back to the fencing until the weekend after next though unless we find time during the week.

Well, the spot is marked:

Halsey-Meyers had dropped off the first load of goodies (though it was after this photo was taken).

Tonight I purchased 50, 4″ 8 foot treated posts, and 15, 5″ treated posts, as well as 400 feet of no-climb horse fence. With luck I’ll get to use the “Dingo post-hole digger” tomorrow after the guys are done setting the posts for the barn to set a few fence posts.

At a minimum I hope to set the corner posts to get things started. The posts came from Tractor Supply, I was surprised that they actually stocked them in quantity. At the store near me there is a gentleman named “Tim” that that works there who is going to deliver them tomorrow morning. $40 bucks, was reasonable to me. I’m not sure how many I could get on the landscape trailer but I’m sure it would take at least two trips.