Working on 1800's barn

[WHX?? 49,533]

What's the logs in pile pic earmarked fort? Sawing? 

[AlexR 804]

14 minutes ago, WHX?? said:

What's the logs in pile pic earmarked fort? Sawing? 

Yes those are the walnut logs and I am planning on getting them milled. 

[AlexR 804]

Got a new tool for working on the barn.

Naturally I have the red tools because that is the right color to have.

Edited January 10 by AlexR

[rjg854 11,594]

1 hour ago, AlexR said:

Got a new tool for working on the barn.

Naturally I have the red tools because that is the right color to have.

Besides the fact it one of the best on the market 😁 

[Handy Don 12,720]

3 hours ago, AlexR said:

Naturally I have the red tools because that is the right color to have.

I have the 12v version and it serves me well. 

In my experience, battery saws are more sensitive to dull blades and blades that match the work (framing, finish, etc.)

[AlexR 804]

11 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

I have the 12v version and it serves me well. 

In my experience, battery saws are more sensitive to dull blades and blades that match the work (framing, finish, etc.)

 

Definitely, I am a fan of diablo blades I have one on my miter, table saw, and a corded circular saw I have, used them to build the kitchen cabinets, even bought a $130 diablo router bit for the shaker door stiles. 

I will use this Milwaukee blade on it hopefully until I am done with the barn, might need replaced after that. 

 

It drives me nuts when people use saws all the time, have have no idea what blades do what. Maybe the most they know is less teeth for rougher work, and more teeth for finer work. 

No clue of ripping blades, cross cut blades, combination blades, thin kerf, dado blades, flat grind, alternative top bevel, and then you have the more speciality laminate blades. 

[Handy Don 12,720]

15 hours ago, AlexR said:

Definitely, I am a fan of diablo blades

Totally agreed. One came on my used Delta table saw (the PO was upgrading to a SawStop so he couldn’t keep the blade) and I was gobsmacked at the smoothness of the cut. It’s been quite durable too. Became a convert. 

[AlexR 804]

Between cold spells and snow got some work done on the barn again. Probably doesn't look like I got as much done but it was some dirty work.

Got all the hay out of the barn into a 3 sided building the horse stays in anyway. Well actually all the horses haha got one 4 legged kind and then the 2 running Wheelhorse's 

Then finished getting everything else out of the barn other then the stack of 2x10's and then the clean up began I got on a dust suit like what drywall sanders use and a filtered mask.

Swept what I could, then after that I took the backpack blower to it. 

 

I will probably have to clean up again after I take this top layer of wood off. The top layer is probably the only one I am keeping any wood, the rest will get taken to the burn pile. 

 

 

 

 

 

Then this area I will be putting the stairs down to the bottom of the barn.

I have a old barn door track that was laying in the barn, and I have 2 doors that can I can use. 

I neglected to take a photo of the doors but I can do a chalkboard insert in them. 

Other then the chalkboard, the only thing I need is the barn door hanger/rollers and the guides for the bottom. 

 

And then here is a photo of that track system I was talking about for the block and tackle pulleys

 

 

I gotta say during this stage, I sure would rather be working on the Wheelhorse's haha

Edited Saturday at 10:12 PM by AlexR

[Beap52 937]

19 hours ago, AlexR said:

And then here is a photo of that track system I was talking about for the block and tackle pulleys

 

 

Sixty years ago, my two brothers and I spent many an hour swinging on a rope hanging down from the track.   We'd stack bales of in our barn and swing when it was too cold, snowy to play outside.  Hay bales made fine tunnels as well.  

[rjg854 11,594]

I remember those types of days as well. Also jumping out of the hay loft in pile of loose hay. It was fun to be a kid in a barn.

[AlexR 804]

6 hours ago, Beap52 said:

Sixty years ago, my two brothers and I spent many an hour swinging on a rope hanging down from the track.   We'd stack bales of in our barn and swing when it was too cold, snowy to play outside.  Hay bales made fine tunnels as well.  

I don't think I will ever have that much hay in the barn to do that, but I can imagine that would be super fun as a kid to get to play in that much hay.

[953 nut 56,249]

13 hours ago, AlexR said:

I don't think I will ever have that much hay in the barn to do that, but I can imagine that would be super fun as a kid to get to play in that much hay.

After having worked all summer to fill the haymow we finally were able to play in it.                    

[Handy Don 12,720]

2 hours ago, 953 nut said:

After having worked all summer to fill the haymow we finally were able to play in it.                    

I wonder if the cows were thinking “Do you see those kids playing in our food?"