Category: Construction

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.

Alright!

So we’ve framed out the rafters across one side.  Now we need to deal with what we’re going to cover them with.

Our original thought was wood paneling, you know the wainscot looking board, but the unfinished stuff is outrageous right now.  The dimensions are also screwed up.  Still per sq foot it’s probably the best bet.

I did find some nice unfinished flooring at lumber liquidators that would be awesome. (Yeah flooring on the walls) but in this old house it would rock!

I’m going to look into some tongue and groove boards, 12″x some really long length and see if it is in any way shape economical.  I doubt it but it would far easier to put up than something that runs vertically.

Heck anything that runs horizontally will be far easier to put up.

We still need to box in the sky-lights too, but that’s a “We’ll figure it out when we get there” kind of thing.

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The Deposit has been made.

Let the barn building commence.

Let’s see, things that are going to put a drain on the ol hip pocket:

Barn: (check)
Fence: (still waiting on final damages)
Stalls: (I don’t even want to know)
Barn will need electric: (We have a couple options here, none are cheep)
Barn will need water: (Drilling a well, boo-yeah, that will come later)
Build a Tack Room and Feed Storage: (ooh, my head hurts)
Gravel for driveway: (anyone have spare rocks they don’t need?)

Motorcycles are way cheaper than horses, that’s all I gotta say.

🙂

OK, *most* motorcycles are cheaper than horses, and OK they don’t love you back

It’s basically too dark to work in the attic when I get home from work. Well yeah, OK, I *could* put a bunch of lights up there, but hey I’ve been working all day and I’m lazy.

Yesterday I did take a couple of Photos to mark our progress. What you have here is an 1800’s era roof with beams that have sagged at some point in time. Then they slapped some other wood along side of them to help those beams cope. Who knows when. So what we’re doing is placing a 2×4 from the finished part at the top and the wall that’s already exisiting and going to finish the angled ceiling. We’ve set the two end 2×4’s and stretched a couple strings. For the most part we’re good but we’ll have to shave a few of the beams or added on 2×6’s that they added at one time or another. We’ve run a few 2×4’s and that framing nailer is killer.

We’ll attatch what ever it is we’re going to cover this wall with (it aint going to be drywall) to these 2×4’s. Nope, I have no idea yet how I’m going to box around the sky lights. I’ll cross the bridge when I get to it.

If you have any words of advice, thoughts, tips, words of encouragement, etc.  Please feel free to leave comments.