Buildings

The new barn roof.  Altha and I slid 16 foot steel sheets up the lower roof and screwed them down right over the old cedar shakes.  After completing the other side, (which includes an attached well house), we took individual 14 foot sheets and cut across the ridges at 7 feet with a circular saw.  Then we bent them over onto themselves, and then laid them back flat on the ground creating a crease midway on each sheet.  We easily slid these sheets up the lower roof and then right over the peak allowing them to 'flop' down on the other side at the crease.  This made a nice ridge cap and except for my uneven screw lines, (beer had a lot to do with that), it looks like a real professional job.

 

The house was built in 1937 for the farmer who had just married.  The story was that a relative had received $750 in a government payment and used that money to build the house to get the young couple started.  I only wish they knew about level, plumb and square, it would have made my life a lot easier!

George likes to watch us watch him on the bird feeder.

Two more buildings: the 'goose palace' in the foreground is an old two hole outhouse from the Lutheran church in town...no they didn't miss it! The other building is the 'peacock palace' and old garage that our neighbors, the Bata's gave us.  

      

Dusty, the horse, needed a sheltered area near his paddock, so Altha and I built this lean to on one of the two garages.  Spurred on by our barn roof success, we covered both garage roofs with steel sheets...it looks so nice!

Here you can see the 'peacock palace' with a copula from an old barn. I was going to put it on top of our barn, but decided that I didn't need to climb up there again!  The building behind it is an old wooden granary that we use for storage.

I got the metal granary, (soon to be moved to another location), at a farm auction.  I bought three of them for $20 total and gave two of them to a neighbor who agreed to deliver this one to the farm as payment...sweet deal!