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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 22:01:52 GMT -4
These are not the beans you are looking for. Move along.
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Post by dan on Dec 10, 2012 6:18:22 GMT -4
Beans, from our garden this year, for our garden next year. we had an Overabundance of beans, canned something like 60 pints or something, so instead of pulling them out and letting them die, we let them go grow their second crop, andafter first front, pulled them up, and hung them. Come spring, we can just break the pods open, and take the beans and replant them, and have another crop, and then some.
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Post by 53m38 on Dec 12, 2012 13:52:18 GMT -4
Cool
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Post by Creepy on Dec 12, 2012 16:27:55 GMT -4
I like the effect of translucent the back wall. nice.
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 5:59:41 GMT -4
gonna bring this back from the dead.. We had some setbacks in the progress of getting the barn finished. every time a side cleared out enough to prep for concrete, a project ended up getting shoved in and torn apart. Anyways, we finally made some progress last winter. I had a trailer load of Class A delivered from work just before Christmas, and we started hauling it in to level up the floor., Then I borrowed as Jumping Jack from work, and compacted it, then followed up with 2" of foam around the perimeter, and 1" foam over the inside. Then Dad decided he needed to make some more space to get the rest of the barn cleaned out so we couple get the other half cleared out and leveled up.
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 7:11:51 GMT -4
Soo.. since there was nowhere else to start putting up a building because of the insane amount of snow in the yard, we put it up in the only place that wasn't snowed in at the time. We got a roof on it later in the winter, after Dad built the trusses, then boarded it in and covered it up with some tar paper. once summer came along, we got back on track a little. Dad borrowed his brother-in-law's backhoe, and I dug him a perimeter footing, while learning how to run backhoe controls. I am pretty well versed with SAE controls, but never spent any time trying to get used to ISO. Then we frames up some footing forms, and got it ready for concrete. We dropped some steel mesh in for good measure, after laying plastic in place. Dad then ordered up the concrete, and had it poured. We obviously didn't have the forms braced well enough, because as the concrete was being poured, the walls started bulging out. there was no pushing them back, so they got braced some more and held from pushing out any more. With the footing and floor finished, it was time to move the building. we thought about rolling it on pipes, but instead, (insert redneck ingenuity). Borrowed another one of his brothers-in-law's single axle, I picked it up before dawn one morning, blocked it up on the body, and drove it to its new location. Since then, it has been shingled, and board and battened, along with sliding barn doors. now it holds piles and boxes of junk and a couple of benches and anything else that was in the way.
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 7:24:28 GMT -4
So now that the barn was finally de-cluttered on one side again, Dad hired a guy to come in and lay the mesh, pex pipe, and do the floor pour. While he waited for that to start, he took some of the old insulation I took out of my house while rebuilding it, and started stuffing the walls. Pex and wire all laid down makeshift pressure test manifold and the floor just after floating. We think there was an issue of sorts with the concrete, because it was poured and floated by 11:00 AM, the stove and electric heater were both going all day, keeping the barn at 25° all day and through the night, but the concrete guy wasn't able to get on it with the power trowel until 7:30 in the evening, and was trowling until 5:30 in the morning. It turned out good though eventually. Next came more work on the walls. I had some leftover 1" foil-covered foam from when I re-sheathed my house, so I gave it to Dad. we started strapping the walls, and between the strap, put the foam, for a little extra warmth. Then put on a row of cement board for a bit of fire-retardency. That's where things are at now. The plan is to rebuild the wall with the double doors and make a new 9' wide opening, move the window, and then we will start the re-wiring. Dad is thinking about putting in a separate service for it, since it only has a 60A panel run off of the house right now.
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Post by jmurphy on Feb 1, 2016 18:46:04 GMT -4
Looks like great progress! I love the ingenuity of using that truck to move the building.
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Post by jmurphy on Feb 1, 2016 18:47:34 GMT -4
Two obvious spots with no foam or pipes in the floor... future place for a 2 post lift?
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 18:57:42 GMT -4
Can niether confirm nor deny that one john.... But yes..
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