Duck Pond Redneckery

[ironpony]

I was pulling off the siding and a mouse kept poking its head out of the wall down by the ground. It would come out, look around and then go back in.

I said "why don't you come over here so I can stomp you flat ya little bastard" and almost immediately after I said it, the little bastard ran right between my feet and stopped!

I lifted my right foot up to actually go ahead and stomp it and it ran back into the barn at the speed of sound.

It's in there laughing at me now.

Solve all yer problems... flick a BIC.

 

[Duck]

Solve all yer problems... flick a BIC.

There are people who will come disassemble old barns and give you lots of money for the planks and timbers.

Been thinking about doing that, and using the money to replace it with a pole barn.

 

[GAnthony]

There are people who will come disassemble old barns and give you lots of money for the planks and timbers.

Been thinking about doing that, and using the money to replace it with a pole barn.

considering how rotted your's is, and not really much need for rotted wood, you'd be paying them.

they want near perfect barn wood.

you got something the termites are ashamed of touching.

 

[Duck]

considering how rotted your's is, and not really much need for rotted wood, you'd be paying them.

they want near perfect barn wood.

you got something the termites are ashamed of touching.

It's only rotted like that at the bottom of the west wall.

And the entire south wall.

And the north wall.


But the rest is good.

 

[ironpony]

Flick the BIC!

 

[krelithous]

flic the bic and collect on the ins. move it to naziforina and sell it to some idiot for 9 million

 

[krelithous]

considering how rotted your's is, and not really much need for rotted wood, you'd be paying them.

they want near perfect barn wood.

you got something the termites are ashamed of touching.

i have to admit it looks better than some of the shitholes around beverly hills that i sold for millions

 

[Duck]

flic the bic and collect on the ins. move it to naziforina and sell it to some idiot for 9 million

Ain't no insurance.

 

[Duck]

This is fucked up...

OK...

This unpainted section of siding is bare wood, just construction grade 1x12 pine and 1x3 trim. I did this in the middle of the winter almost ten years ago after a microburst blew off the old shit.

Ten years, never painted, totally untreated.





I replaced this fascia only three years ago and used pressure treated 1x6's.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Wait your barn is like 15 feet from your house. I thought you had this expansive farmette thing.

 

[Duck]

Wait your barn is like 15 feet from your house. I thought you had this expansive farmette thing.

That's just a shed that close to the house.

The wooden barn is about 100 feet from the house.

 

[Electric Chicken]

That's just a shed that close to the house.

The wooden barn is about 100 feet from the house.

Do you have an in town property like I do?

 

[Duck]

Do you have an in town property like I do?

No. I'm allergic to neighbors. I'm three miles from civilization.

 

[Electric Chicken]

No. I'm allergic to neighbors. I'm three miles from civilization.

I'm trying to reconcile having buildings that close together on purpose.

I'm only where I'm at because it's logistically convenient.

 

[Duck]

Effin' $40 for a single 14 ft treated 4x4.

 

[Tramm01]

Effin' $40 for a single 14 ft treated 4x4.

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I really like the pole barn idea

 

[Duck]

@Electric Chicken I don't wanna hear no whining about your shoulder hurting, at least for a few days.

I just made a horizontal cut in between the rotted and the new 4x4 stringers to cut the ship-lap interior planking.. It was actually easier to cut it than pull the nails out. The dense, hardwood siding would break if I tried wedging between the 4x4 and the siding. So I'd have had to dig into the wood to expose the nail head to get a claw under it.





With this saw:



Gonna frame out a window, tomorrow, maybe two.

F*ING 1x12 planks are $16.39 for a ten footer. Cheap ol pine too.

 

[Electric Chicken]

@Electric Chicken I don't wanna hear no whining about your shoulder hurting, at least for a few days.

I just made a horizontal cut in between the rotted and the new 4x4 stringers to cut the ship-lap interior planking.. It was actually easier to cut it than pull the nails out. The dense, hardwood siding would break if I tried wedging between the 4x4 and the siding. So I'd have had to dig into the wood to expose the nail head to get a claw under it.

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With this saw:

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Gonna frame out a window, tomorrow, maybe two.

F*ING 1x12 planks are $16.39 for a ten footer. Cheap ol pine too.

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I only did like 2 hours worth of labor stretched over 8 hours. And I won't do much else the rest of the week. It's not so bad at that pace.

But yeah it's sore. Fortunately whiskey is a thing.

 

[ironpony]

I only did like 2 hours worth of labor stretched over 8 hours. And I won't do much else the rest of the week. It's not so bad at that pace.

But yeah it's sore. Fortunately whiskey is a thing.

Embrace the suck dude...

 

[Electric Chicken]

Embrace the suck dude...

I ain't hugging you, man.