You know it's not easy putting these posts into place in the barn. It sounds easy enough to dig a hole, form and pour some cement, let it cure and put the post in place. Most of that's straight forward, except digging the hole. What was found was a whole lot of rocks that needed to be removed. What probably could have taken an hour to get the cement in place, took two or more hours to accomplish because of all the rocks.
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| Little guy to the resuce |
An old saying goes, "Don't send a boy to do a man's job." Well this is one time the 'boy' wins. Remember the back hoe unit pictured in Day 40 as it was departing. The problem here is that, that tractor is way too large to get into the barn to load out the many stones dug out of the ground when digging the post holes or for that matter to level the ground in the barn. Now hang with me, if the back hoe would be the papa bear, a skid steer would be the mama bear and this mini Ditch Witch skid steer would be the baby bear. It is small, but can get in and get around and haul the stones.
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| Shed to be removed |
A tack room or a room that can store items and not be exposed to the animals in the farm has been discussed. If that's done wood will be needed for that. A few days ago I showed Roger a shed that needs to be torn down. It's part of a set of buildings in our family that are beyond repair and will be removed and the land put back into agricultural use. I suggested to Roger that if he wanted the lumber for his use, he could have it. He suggested that some of the lumber be used in building the tack room.
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| Looking inside the shed |
Well, hopefully the tack room will look a little better than this inside shot of the shed shows.
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