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Out With the Old in With the New
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After a bit of measuring we realized the old fence had to go. It was recycled fence anyway. I saved it when we built the metal building, reset the posts, cut the fence into 8ft panels, and screwed it back to the posts in the location here. Bon Temps had a screw gun (don't know what was on his mind in this picture) and I had one and we attacked the old fence. After stacking all the fence panels in one spot I demonstrated how well the Grapple worked on the Frontend Loader grabbing all the panels at once and removing them from our work area.
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Kinda "now you see it now you don't". Bon Temps is holding up the last post.
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Y'all get a load of Bon Temps Cajun measuring device, this is classic Cajun Engineering at it's finest. Aluminum pipe comes in 20ft lengths, not long enough for use laying out the location of the inside line for the outside posts. He stuck a broken piece of wood in the end so we could put our measurement on it. Got to say it worked great. If you look closely at the picture you will see the 258-1/2in line and the center of the post line written with a Sharpie on the piece of wood extension.
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This is where we left it yesterday. I didn't have a warm & fuzzy feeling about it but could not put my finger on what was wrong. Well this morning I realized the Auger bit was too small for the posts. We had issues with the remaining cement from the old posts deflecting the Bit but is was more than that. After Bon Temps left I came back to figure out a plan to go forward.
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So I pulled 3 of the post with very tight holes and using the post hole diggers opening the hole up a bit. Afterwards I aligned the bases before screwing the fence runners to each post holding them side to side. Bon Temps offered to return but the work was painfully slow today making sure to get everything right. Also I spent the early morning baking fresh Persimmon Bread so I got a late start.
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I figured out the perfect balance to hang the trusses off the Grapple on my tractor. Since the old memory is not as good as it once was I took a picture of exactly where the straps go on the trusses. One strap is 1ft longer than the other to allow for the pitch of the truss.
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The Superstructure is Finished!
I think I'm going fishing today as my hands won't cooperate with me on anything else. The Superstructure is finished. I have to measure for the roofing metal, going to install 26ga Galvalume so it should last the rest of my life.
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The first Truss is almost a inch out from the rest, close enough isn't going to apply to just Horseshoe's & Hand Grenades this time I'm letting it ride here too.
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Very Close to Installing the Tin
I tell you this, the 2x6's didn't look near as twisted as they were when I was screwing them in place. Over 600 screws to lock the 2x6's in place. I had to use large welding clamps to bury the 2x6 in the bottom of the Truss brackets. Also had to use a 18in Crescent wrench to twist some of the 2x6's. All the blocking I did to the overhang had that same Crescent wrench in play. I used 4in deck screws to install the blocking offsetting the blocks so 8 4in deck screws is in each block.
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The raw wood that is showing still needs 2 coats of paint and the last 3 boards over the fence needs one more coat to finish up. After that will be installing the tin. I'm putting heavy coats of high gloss paint on the wood to reduce the problems with Carpenter Bees.
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Member P-nut & I Installed the Metal Roof
Well me pushing everything has got my body revolting, sore but alive. Anyway P-nut came and helped run the Tin. Although the outside 2x6's ran out P-nut kept the metal running Straight and True.
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I had some trim in the same color leftover from 30 years ago that I used to flash to the existing roof and clean up most of the daylight you can see at the end. These pictures were taken before the trim was installed. I went out when it was storming earlier, no leaks. This is as far as I'm taking it for now.
