I am having a new shed built to store a couple of my tractors and get the walk behind snowblower out of the garage. It is going to be 16'x12', but my wife has added a 16'x6' porch along the side of the Taj Mahal. She also wants a cupola with copper roofing to match our bay windows. She has already picked out the teak rockers for the porch. The shiplap is almost twice as much as the wood plank siding but I don't care for board and baton. I wasn't planning on having this done for at least a month but the winter has been so mild we decided to do it now. Looks like a great week for it with temps above freezing even most nights.
First step was to move my temporary garage and bundle up the stuff that was in it. The tent is now on the other side of the tree. It's a good thing I moved the basketball hoop with it. I chain the tent to the basketball base and sure enough, we got a violent wind storm that would have thrown that tent like a rag doll the first night. The wind even moved the basketball net a couple of feet across the yard.
Next was to lay down a base of stone dust. The builder believes this discourages varmints. I believe it gave me an hour of tractor time!
Since I was caught off guard I haven't had time to get hoses made to run my JB sr. on the x748 yet, and I didn't even have time to move it to my 318, so I my arms got a workout steering the 317 with buckets of stone dust.
It was the perfect day for this job. My front yard is still frozen so there was no damage driving the 317 over it.
Took a pretty good bite out of the pile of stone dust I got for this job and the driveway. I was amazed to find that just 4/10ths. of an inch of snow melted and refrozen into the stone dust formed a 3" thick frozen crust on the pile.
And that's where we are as of now. Construction begins tomorrow!
First step was to move my temporary garage and bundle up the stuff that was in it. The tent is now on the other side of the tree. It's a good thing I moved the basketball hoop with it. I chain the tent to the basketball base and sure enough, we got a violent wind storm that would have thrown that tent like a rag doll the first night. The wind even moved the basketball net a couple of feet across the yard.
Next was to lay down a base of stone dust. The builder believes this discourages varmints. I believe it gave me an hour of tractor time!
Since I was caught off guard I haven't had time to get hoses made to run my JB sr. on the x748 yet, and I didn't even have time to move it to my 318, so I my arms got a workout steering the 317 with buckets of stone dust.
It was the perfect day for this job. My front yard is still frozen so there was no damage driving the 317 over it.
Took a pretty good bite out of the pile of stone dust I got for this job and the driveway. I was amazed to find that just 4/10ths. of an inch of snow melted and refrozen into the stone dust formed a 3" thick frozen crust on the pile.
And that's where we are as of now. Construction begins tomorrow!
