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Ok, more questions? You said washer / dryer & fridge? I assume you have a well & septic & electricity on property or are those all needed improvements?
Other thought is maybe it was used for tobacco? Corn isn't that popular in the tuk where as tobacco always has been. My BIL runs 400 head of cattle over near Louisville & a couple of his barns were solely for drying tobacco......
Quote from: Flyin6 on February 04, 2016, 06:51:25 PMI just might line the inside of the shed with the barn wood. Sure make for a cool look! One of the local Mennonite families I buy fresh eggs from did something similar to that. Took the wood from an old school that was being torn down, the father cleaned it up, and put it inside their house. It looks pretty good.
I just might line the inside of the shed with the barn wood. Sure make for a cool look!
Was talkin' to miss Kathy last night about that...paneling the inside of this new shed with that wood. She replied "You're not using that pretty wood in that crappy shed you're building!"So now I'm building a crappy shed!I might do it just for spite ;-)))
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are. Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!
Quote from: Flyin6 on February 05, 2016, 08:38:29 AMWas talkin' to miss Kathy last night about that...paneling the inside of this new shed with that wood. She replied "You're not using that pretty wood in that crappy shed you're building!"So now I'm building a crappy shed!I might do it just for spite ;-)))If you sand it down lightly and put some varnish or clear stain on it to bring out the wood grain, I THINK she'll like it. But then again, I don't know the 6 element, so I can't make a comment.
If those logs are hardwood you should have no problem selling them if they are free of nails. They should have a very tight grain.& as far as the wife unit, pick your battles wisely. Not using the wood may help in an effort to build other structures down the road where you can use the wood as a leverage point.
Bobby, That would be a fail!
Or a bunker house! I doubt a 7.62 would get through any of those logs!
OK, latest topic for discussion is the foundation.Now the obvious solution to all that is to just add in piers and bolt the building to those piers. Mike is looking at that possibility at the moment, although he cautions he would be looking at around 30 piers sunk 36" in terra firma and concreted in place. But that would then comprise a forever structure but, it would raise the cost of the building $1500 to $2000. Now I am at budget...so what can I do here. I don't really have the money to do the foundation, however a concreted-in pier foundation is screaming to me as the right way to go...
Already covered this chief, 3pt post hole auger & concrete. DIY
The big point here that everyone missed is this is not my job! I hired the building out. One cannot simply come into the middle of someone else's project and "Throw up some piers." :oSecond point: No matter how you spin it, it's one to two thousand dollars that I don't have right now! :(
Yea I know how to do it myself. But buying an auger or renting one, then boring all those holes, which would have to be set exactly to what the BUILDER needs, then all those 6X6 posts, then a couple tons of sack-crete, and what do you have? $1,000-$2000 and a bunch of work to achieve a foundation which may or may not meet the builders requirements! ::)
He's stubborn to the core (darn Pilutz). Maybe we're just not used to him talking about budgets and what not. Seriously tho, I've used the heck out my auger, from planting trees, to building fences, to drilling an oil well. You just can't beat it's usefullness.disclaimer...I may have exaggerated on building the fences.
I feel the urge to throw my two cents in to the DOT collection plate. Don, rather than acquiring and using an auger to create the holes for the recommended pylons, I think it will be more fun, and educational for the pre-rangers, to use cratering charges. If you calculate the charges correctly, and tamp them properly, you will get perfectly suitable holes with much less effort and time invested. ;) It will also be a good learning step in the crawl-walk-run methodology to introduce calculating and designating demolitions training for the boys. By the end of the day they will be able to confidently blow a nice crater across your driveway to slow the bad guys attempting to overrun your perimeter. Or, maybe lay an abatisse across the road. Or blow a bridge, or any of a number of good ways to impede your enemies and channelize them into your kill sac! 8)Or just blow some stuff up for fun!
When working with HH6 elements. It's best to just do what you want and ask forgiveness or avoid the subject altogether...or offset it with, Honey, look what I bought for you..."
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
oh great! we have occifers talking about explosives! where is the combat engineer when you need him.........MMMMMAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT