Duck
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Probably bitch at younger people on the internet
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mndriver
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You do that now....
Electric Chicken
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Literally me when I go out to the bars.
ironpony
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At least he doesn't cry and sulk like some twirps...
Duck
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I put lights in the loft of the old barn today.
See that hole in the end wall? That's how I got that 13 foot step ladder up in there.
The other wall.
Most of that junk has been up there getting shit on by birds for at least 17 years because it was there when we bought the place. I need a dumpster.
Halloween 1989 really kicked someone's asses.
See that hole in the end wall? That's how I got that 13 foot step ladder up in there.
The other wall.
Most of that junk has been up there getting shit on by birds for at least 17 years because it was there when we bought the place. I need a dumpster.
Halloween 1989 really kicked someone's asses.
Electric Chicken
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That barn is hella more hella than I realized.
Electric Chicken
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Do you have specific plans for it the reason you're fixing it up?
Duck
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Just trying to close up all the gaping holes in it before winter.
The only reason I'm rebuilding a 13 foot section of the wall is because it was rotted out so bad I couldn't frame out the new window. It was rotted because the window was never fixed.
I replaced 9 windows. The lean-to seems like a different place now that it's not a wind tunnel.
Also I want to keep birds out.
Want some guano?
Electric Chicken
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Plenty of guano here already. How big is your largest door opening? I'm assuming you have a man door and still an equipment/livestock door.
If I had that place, I'd be trying to jigger it into a shop.
Duck
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There are lots of doors but I've got all except one of them screwed shut
The biggest is a sliding door about ten feet wide.
They used to keep cows in there at some point prior to Halloween 1989. That piece of plywood with all that shit written on it is nailed up over the hay loft doors. I figure they used the trolley hoist thingy to lift hay up there using this big claw thing, then they'd throw the hay down through trap doors in the floor. Just my guess.
Duck
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I don't know how to translate this into English.
Electric Chicken
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Sounds about right. An ex gf had horses and they used a conveyor to get it up to the loft and gravity to simply drop it in each stall.
Duck
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There's a beam sticking 4 or 5 feet out the peak of the roof at the north end. The beam supports the end of the rail and this trolley thing with pulleys on it could roll outside and they'd lower this big claw thing that looks like the things in those arcade games where you try to grab a teddy bear. I don't have a picture of it
But I can't tell where any trap doors in the floor were because large areas of the floor have been replaced with plywood, and even the areas that still have the original 1x12 planks are covered up with plywood.
In the corn crib, the trap doors are all still there and operational except one of my friends fell through one of them in 2003. He fell from the 3rd floor down to the 2nd, a fall of about ten feet, but wasn't hurt. One of the trap doors simply wasn't set in place correctly.
It's why manhole covers in the streets are round. It's impossible for them to fall through the hole no matter what you do.
Duck
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This came up in the image search results for "American heartland barn paint".
It looks awesome, even weathered and faded like that.
Maybe in a year or two I'll have that north wall all fixed up, I can paint a flag on it.
Only problem is is my siding is hung vertically so I'm not sure how that will look. Maybe I can orient the flag that way.
It looks awesome, even weathered and faded like that.
Maybe in a year or two I'll have that north wall all fixed up, I can paint a flag on it.
Only problem is is my siding is hung vertically so I'm not sure how that will look. Maybe I can orient the flag that way.
Electric Chicken
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Middle fingers are usually oriented vertically. Maybe go with that theme.
But yah that barn looks awesome. Probably because it's weathered not in spite of it.
Duck
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I put ONE COAT of red oil base over the primer. The primer was dry everywhere.
That was 20 hours ago. Yesterday around 6 pm.
I just got red all over my hands moving them from the saw horses in the shop to the sides of Blueford. It's that crap on the edges. It never dries.
I'm switching to latex paint for the 2nd coat.
That was 20 hours ago. Yesterday around 6 pm.
I just got red all over my hands moving them from the saw horses in the shop to the sides of Blueford. It's that crap on the edges. It never dries.
I'm switching to latex paint for the 2nd coat.
Duck
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22 hours and the shit still isn't dry. Everywhere I touch the red, it fucks it up.
I think I'll waur like 3 days, then sand all the fuckups and put a 2nd and final coat of latex paint on it.
There are 13 planks there. The first one at the corner is new wood. Then the next 5 are old wood, one coat of oil base, no primer. Center one under the window is also old wood but it's got two coats of oil base. Then the rest are new wood, two coats of oil base primer and one coat of oil/red.
I gotta make some kind of molding now, to cover the gaps between the boards.
Probably split 1x6's with the table saw. The widest gap is 1-5/8".
I think I'll waur like 3 days, then sand all the fuckups and put a 2nd and final coat of latex paint on it.
There are 13 planks there. The first one at the corner is new wood. Then the next 5 are old wood, one coat of oil base, no primer. Center one under the window is also old wood but it's got two coats of oil base. Then the rest are new wood, two coats of oil base primer and one coat of oil/red.
I gotta make some kind of molding now, to cover the gaps between the boards.
Probably split 1x6's with the table saw. The widest gap is 1-5/8".
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