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Old timers disease..
I wheeled the Tundra out of the drive at 0600 sharp today. Was standing on the Hill at 0820. CB rolled in at 0830.
Unloaded scaffolding and another piece of barn wood he found hiding in his stash pile. Scaffold is for a project in the “big room”. It’s 14’ to the ceiling.
I’m revising my estimate of the chestnut barn lumber. Conservative SWAG, the donating tree was probably 50-60 or 70 years old when harvested pre 1904. Very possible that it was a young tree during the American Civil War…
or earlier.
Anyway, worked about 4 hours. All the nailers are in. Carefully and cautiously avoiding any “sensitive” areas/nail plates.
Making the best of the limited board feet. The long wall is up (8’) and we finished the sections under the window.
In between the hand plane and a Japanese hand saw we were able to get a nice fit. Still very rustic in a kind of outdoor two hole-r kind of way…
I stuck around and finished mowing, cleaned up and pulled off the Hill at about 1300. I was a good forty miles down the highway when I realized my phone and Bluetooth speaker were sitting on the mantle.
Old timers syndrome took its toll today.
Sooo, all the pics from this AM will debut at a later date..TBD.
I wheeled the Tundra out of the drive at 0600 sharp today. Was standing on the Hill at 0820. CB rolled in at 0830.
Unloaded scaffolding and another piece of barn wood he found hiding in his stash pile. Scaffold is for a project in the “big room”. It’s 14’ to the ceiling.
I’m revising my estimate of the chestnut barn lumber. Conservative SWAG, the donating tree was probably 50-60 or 70 years old when harvested pre 1904. Very possible that it was a young tree during the American Civil War…
or earlier.Anyway, worked about 4 hours. All the nailers are in. Carefully and cautiously avoiding any “sensitive” areas/nail plates.
Making the best of the limited board feet. The long wall is up (8’) and we finished the sections under the window.
In between the hand plane and a Japanese hand saw we were able to get a nice fit. Still very rustic in a kind of outdoor two hole-r kind of way…
I stuck around and finished mowing, cleaned up and pulled off the Hill at about 1300. I was a good forty miles down the highway when I realized my phone and Bluetooth speaker were sitting on the mantle.
Old timers syndrome took its toll today.
Sooo, all the pics from this AM will debut at a later date..TBD.
