Progress
Earlier in the week, I managed to get some done on the horse shelter after work. Here’s a pic of the framework (where I left off last time).
Anchoring the structure was an interesting job. The back side of the frame (the low end) has a horizontal runner in contact with the ground. I put three pieces of rebar through this - three feet long each and sunk all the way in. The front of the structure was a little different. It’s hard to see in the picture, but I took a couple of five foot long T-posts and sunk them down by each of the outside legs on the front side. I put them down about 3.5 feet into the ground. Then I took some high-tensile electric wire (handy stuff! almost as good as duct tape), and wrapped it over the upper support and then wrapped it around the T-post. Then I pounded the T-post in another few inches to take up all the slack on the wire. Should keep it firmly in place.
By the end of the work day I had the roof on, and the foreman (er…foreCAT) stopped by to inspect my work.
It must’ve been ok. There were no complaints. Yesterday (Saturday 1/13) I got the back wall put on. Lots of fun working in the ice and cold, but it’s now a pretty fair wind break and will keep the rain and snow off. I still have to put the end walls on. I’m going to need to buy another couple of pieces of steel siding to do that, but it shouldn’t cost too much (oh, please don’t let it cost too much!).
Allena said,
January 14, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
I wanted to add that Moon (the black horse whom belongs to Beau) stood in the new house a lot even though there wasn’t any roof or ceiling. Once Beau covered it Candy came in. After a day of setting things straight, she let Moon come in too. He gets some funny ideas about personal space so she has to keep him in line.
Beau did a really good job, and it was a lot of work, but much less than building from scratch. The idea that he took apart the old one and reconstructed it in less than two days is impressive I think. Life is good when you do something right.