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9N'er

10-05-2001 22:56:55




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Been busting my "U No What" for the past several months working on the homeplace every free minute I've had. Part of this has been a shop addition and attached tractor shed. I had a big day yesterday when the roof trusses arrived and set them with two friends and a crane in 5 hours. Since late August this addition has been sitting with a 980 sq. foot skylight and a 250 square foot tractor shed without a roof too. Now it has a roof with the first course of 5/8 ply along the soffet edges!! What a great sense of accomplishment this has been putting my ideas on paper, and then finally seeing a building that I built standing with a roof line. For those who are interested, the tractor shed is a 6x6 and corner 6x8 posts with full width and length rough cut green, wet and heavy 6x12 hemlock beams. The corner bracing includes three 36" 45 degree angle bracing. I made those out of 4"x5" green, wet and heavy red beech and set those into the posts and overhead beams about 1" and then lagged them with 6" lag bolts countersunk at least 1.5 inches. The best part is chamfering the edges of the beech braces. All of this wood I had cut from the property and skidded, stacked, and hauled with the 9N and 850. THESE TRACTORS GET A LOT OF WORK DONE...all the while I sit on my restored 1940 9N smiling away. I had the pine and hemlock milled and cut by a local fella with a bandsaw mill. It looks AWESOME if I must say. I'll send and try to post pictures in a week or so after I install 26 square of asphalt shingles. I'm having log/boom truck place the bundles on the roof rather than hand carrying em' up a ladder. Well, just thought I would share this bit of excitement in our lives for those who are in to these kinds of things. For us this has been a small but big deal. 9N'er

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Mine's 22x22

10-06-2001 20:15:45




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
Good luck on the project!

Still haven't gotten the slab poured yet. Almost. Gotta get the fill thing right. Building it on a slope, so the stemwall was a pain, but I don't think it's going anywhere.

Hope to get it watertight before the rains come this winter (Nov/Dec?).

THen I can convert our existing garage into rooms for the kiddos.

but with a 3-4 hr. round trip commute every day and doing regular family things, it's been a slow process.

But it IS fun, though...right? Can I get an "amen?"

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amen brother!

10-07-2001 06:49:01




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 Re: Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to Mine's 22x22, 10-06-2001 20:15:45  
:) 9N'er



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Stuart K

10-06-2001 18:32:59




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
Congrats on the good work! I've been putting my 8 to work building my wifes poly house. Pulled out an old fence post with my 3 point and graded around the barn to keep the soil off the wood siding. The wife mucked out the stables ( haha well she wants the animals!)They were left in mess by the old owners. I just pushed the heap of old bedding around the low spots with my blade such fun! Getting cool here in central Ontario so I have to get cracking if I want it up before the white stuff is here to stay ( saw some already today yikes!!) Your right it's great to accomplish something with our "toys" rather than just wax a fender! StuK

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Dave 2n

10-06-2001 14:55:01




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
Congratulations! Enjoy and be proud of your work. I'll be anxious to see the pictures.



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Paul Haas - Pine Island MN

10-06-2001 06:43:18




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
third party image

Tractor sheds are great places - the older they get the better they get. I'll be looking forward to seeing the pictures. Maybe sometime down the road we'll see 9Ner in a picture like this - different tractors of course. (painting by Marg Lamendeau) I certainly sounds like you made it sturdy as the old ones.

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JeffCT - Amazing!...

10-06-2001 07:19:17




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 Re: Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to Paul Haas - Pine Island MN, 10-06-2001 06:43:18  
I thought that painting was a photograph until I saw it listed in her gallery!!!

Marg does fantastic work on canvas.



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dale b [ ontario canada ]

10-06-2001 05:11:39




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
isnt it great when a plan comes together!
iv had the plans for a little cabon in the bush for a few years now.of course most of the plans where made around the kitchen table drinking wobbly pop {beer} with my friends. well.. last week the lunber arrived and i got started prefabbing the cabon at the house. there is not hydro back there so i thought prefab would be the way to go. in a couple of weeks my brothers will come up and help me put the cabon up.
i have a zillion other projects to do on the house, so getting time to work on the cabon is hard to find, and even harder to justify to the better half.
we plan on having it built in a weekend. frame roof and insulation.
all these years of planning, with many trips back to the drawing board and at least 4 great minds burning the midnight oil is all for a..... .12x16 cabon.
boy am i glad im not building a barn!
dale b

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Ken N Tx

10-06-2001 03:36:13




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
Been working on a 22x28 barn since June. Will have a 14x11 shop when done. Putting the shingles on a 5/12 pitch.NEVER AGAIN would i do a 5/12 pitch!!! Feels great to sit inside and dream of what to do inside next....But my wallet is getting thin!!



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Weedwacker

10-05-2001 23:47:10




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
I know exactly how you feel. I built all steel horse barns with my brother in law. The best one was an 80' x 120' indoor areana, all open span. We built our own trusses out of 2x8 steel beams. We set the trusses by him in the crane lifting the truss, me on one end with a rope tied on one end of the truss and a ladder up the pole. The other end we had welded a 2x2 an about a foot long. he'd lift the truss and I had to work that 80 foot truss with the 2x2 onto the 4x4 at the other end. Talk about a job. But when we was done with that barn and look at it and was able to say the two of use did that ourselves. I know that sense of accomplishment feeling. That was many years ago but I still like talkin about it.

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9N'er

10-05-2001 23:00:12




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 Re: OT, but thought some of you may have done , or will do this... in reply to 9N'er, 10-05-2001 22:56:55  
ooops! tractor shed is 500 square feet (20x25)!! not 250 sq. ft.



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