Transition to Reconstruction

After a couple long days working in the barn this weekend, I’m nearing the transition point from disassembly to reconstruction. I removed the remaining interior stall walls, and also a couple non-supporting posts to make room for maneuvering the big glulam beams into place. Boy was that fun moving the beams from outside where they…

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Barn Conversion – Disassembly

In my previous post about the firewood “lean-to”, I mentioned our project to convert several stalls in the barn to a garage for the old truck. It took a while to make the final commitment to do the project, but we’re off and going. I told Inga when I started to disassemble the interior stalls,…

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Starter Improvise Repair

I was having problems with the starter not maintaining engagement with the flywheel. It seemed to be especially bad when the engine was warm. My dad said it’s probably the Bendix spring, so I ordered a new one on my favorite auto parts site, RockAuto.com. When I took the starter apart, I discovered there where…

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Adding a “lean to” for firewood

We’re planning to convert several of the stalls in the barn to a new garage for the old farm truck. One of the first sub-projects in my project plan was to build this lean-to for the firewood, which has been stored in one of those stalls. Over the MLK holiday weekend I built this lean-to…

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Hive Painting New Years 2016

Hive painting is a pain in the butt, especially when it’s below freezing. Modern Molly pine hive was my BFF over New Year’s 2016 weekend. Since the barn was no more than 30-degrees, I had to haul everything into the garage and wait for my little space heater to heat up the garage to a…

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