I'm a builder and normally kind of roll my eyes at some of the "questionable" projects folks post photos of. It looks like you know what in the heck you are doing, very nice work and nice project !
Another summer and more progress, although not as much as I'd hoped. Ain't that always the case? I had hoped that Chris and company would come up one weekend and help put up shingles but they decided not to hunt my land this year. The DNR found a case of chronic wasting disease in my area and put new regulations on what you can do with deer shot in my area. the guys opted not to deal with them. I wound up putting up 52 bundles of shingles myself. Some of the synthetic tar paper needed to be replaced to. I also put on 15 gallons of white primer.
Finished for winter. Didn't have wind and weather for a coat of oops paint after I finished the roof.
Note the base for a cupola. Gonna have one for ventilation and topped with a weather vane.
The weather forecast looked bad for this weekend so I drained the well, put the camper in the barn for the winter, and went home yesterday. This is what I woke up to.
Not as bad as ND but I am glad I'm where I can snuggle up to the wood stove. Now I have to block up and split 5 cords of oak.
Not bad for a one eyed fat man, eh? (ref True Grit)
Well done, Nimrod! And thank you again for the lovely tomatoes. I have been enjoying them since returning from Texas!
Time for us to dig in and get the pre-winter chores completed. Sadly, during a break today from splitting and stacking firewood, I managed to wound myself and take myself (temporarily) out of commission. My poor Cabin Fever had to complete today's chores alone. Phooey.
I hope your progress means you won't have to get back up on that roof anytime soon. Lordy. What a feat for a one-man crew! Well done!
WIHH, Glad you got back in time to enjoy some of the tomatoes before they spoiled. CF said he doesn't like tomatoes. Did he just step off the Mayflower? Back in those days tomatoes were thought to be piousness. Only witches and warlocks could eat one without dying. What does that make you and me?
I am going to get back up on the roof to build the cupola. I hope to do that from inside the cupola though.
WIHH, Glad you got back in time to enjoy some of the tomatoes before they spoiled. CF said he doesn't like tomatoes. Did he just step off the Mayflower? Back in those days tomatoes were thought to be piousness. Only witches and warlocks could eat one without dying. What does that make you and me?
I am going to get back up on the roof to build the cupola. I hope to do that from inside the cupola though.
No lift. I carried them up the ladder 10 at a time. When I roofed my house years ago there was a flat spot so I had the shingles delivered to that spot via a conveyer. This time no flat spot and up on the roof delivery not an option.
That's OK. It got me in shape for the blocking, splitting, and stacking firewood I"v been doing since. Five full cords so far.
I didn't get as much done this summer as I would have liked. On the outside I put the first coat of paint on using oops paint and covered the base for the cupola with shingles. Inside I finished screwed down floor on the second story (was in a hurry when building so nailed it). Wired lights on first and second floor. Decided not to move over there 'till next summer because Covid shut down the community center and I was planning on showering there in the winter. No point in busting my but to get moved this summer.
This summer I put on more paint, finished the trim around the doors, put in a window that I scored at the Reuse Center, cleared a small room in the corner that has the window in it, installed a window AC, mounted the first of 2 Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs, built the cupola, and topped it with a copper eagle weather vane. I wish I could have afforded a bigger weather vane but you do what you can. I will finish painting another Hex Sign over the winter and put it on the other side of the second floor door.
Got too much work at home before the snow flies, 6 cords of oak blocked up but needs to be split and put in the woodshed and some work on the Bronco..
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