A masonry barn, lovely! Care to share its age with an enthusiast of old buildings?
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You guys have more patience than I do. Working with the old brittle wood and pulling all of those tacks for rib repair wore me out. I like replacing the ribs and a few planks. I gave my canoe away to a local Washoe man. My paddling days have come to an end.
Penn,
My rPod looks like all of the other small green ones out there. Go to facebook marketplace and just ask for rPods for sale.
My rPod looks like all of the other small green ones out there. Go to facebook marketplace and just ask for rPods for sale.
Thanks Steve. It's a mid-19th century Pennsylvania/German bank barn. Only the foundation is stone, the rest is mortise & tenon post & beam construction, and it's clad in 1x12 Spruce board & batten siding which I just renewed in 2020.
This view is of the upper level of the bank, and just happens to have a canoe in the picture!
Beautiful barn Pat.
Jim
Jim
@Patrick Corry, wonderful! Thanks for sharing
Thanks Steve and Jim. I love my barn! I grew up here when the area was dotted with active dairy farms. My first summer job as a kid was bicycling to work by 6:00 AM to milk cows at a neighboring farm about 3 miles away. I have always thought of barns as cathedrals of American agriculture. Loads of time bringing in hay and straw for storage, building hay bale forts in the hay mows. I had a wonderful childhood!
I have to admit i have barn envy.
Jim
Jim
Yeah, and that one's a doozy!
Wondering what the grid pattern in the top is for.
It’s a chess/checkers board in the making.
Jim
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Another winter project. Some time ago I found a Yellow Birch tree that a local mountain bike club had cut up to open a trail. There was a potentially nice crotch there so I wheeled my wheelbarrow about a 1/2 mile into the woods and collected it. I sliced the piece on my band saw and now 1 1/2 years later I'm starting to prep it to mill into canoe decks. I don't have a new canoe project in mind for it yet...., but it's fun to see the result of the effort so far. The last picture has alcohol on the wood to make the grain color up like it will once varnished. Looking pretty cool!
That’s beautiful Pat. I had an apple crotch but didn’t cut right away and it started to spalt, I’m not sure the boatbuilder friend I gave it to was excited as I was.
Jim
Jim
Got a busy winter ahead of me, mostly work related. After years of asking, I finally got a dedicated canoe building course for the high school kids. It's being offered as a math class, but the focus is canoe building. After talking with the fellas in the Outers club, we are going to make a 17 foot prospector type and a big 20 footer, to be used mostly on fall trips. There is a local Indigenous sawmill just outside of Beardmore that donated around 500 board feet of cedar, picked it up last week, finished thickness planing it on Friday.
Building two new strong backs, should be starting production at the end of January. Here's a pick of the solo we started last year, it will have to be finished as well. Couple of more fill coats, then the rest should go quickly.
We are also involved in a unique initiative to build Tiny homes for the local Indigenous reserves. My afternoons have two classes, with Indigenous kids learning how to build a house. I've got a construction fella who leads up the build, and the kids also receive a bunch of industry training. It's a pretty special thing, really enjoying it. We are trying to get all the trusses and roof up this week, but the weather is not great, a big snow storm is expected Thursday as well. Here's a shot of the kids raising a wall.
Thought I would throw in a couple of shots of my birthday cake just for fun, my son's wife is quite the baker, and she went overboard with the cake this year.
Also the cupcakes and portage signs were quite delicious.
No time to get up to no good anymore, gonna be a busy winter.
Building two new strong backs, should be starting production at the end of January. Here's a pick of the solo we started last year, it will have to be finished as well. Couple of more fill coats, then the rest should go quickly.
We are also involved in a unique initiative to build Tiny homes for the local Indigenous reserves. My afternoons have two classes, with Indigenous kids learning how to build a house. I've got a construction fella who leads up the build, and the kids also receive a bunch of industry training. It's a pretty special thing, really enjoying it. We are trying to get all the trusses and roof up this week, but the weather is not great, a big snow storm is expected Thursday as well. Here's a shot of the kids raising a wall.
Thought I would throw in a couple of shots of my birthday cake just for fun, my son's wife is quite the baker, and she went overboard with the cake this year.
Also the cupcakes and portage signs were quite delicious.
No time to get up to no good anymore, gonna be a busy winter.
I like the cake and yes you have a busy year in front of you for sure. Happy belated birthday!
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Sounds like a really great winter mem. Enjoy.
That’s some great stuff happening at your school, both those projects should be good learning experiences for the students. The tiny house could lead to some real life changing results, both for the students and recipients. Fighting the elements makes for a tough environment to learn in, I hope that you all are able to work thru it.
The birthday cake and treats look delicious, what talent.
The birthday cake and treats look delicious, what talent.
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