Half A Roof Is Better Than None?

As things get closer to being finished the slower they seem to go. We've been ready for three weeks for the roof to go on. The person who is going to do it just hasn't gotten to it until today.

We've been cleaning up around the site and on other places on the property. It has rained quite a bit for the last couple of weeks so it has been difficult to get to some areas which we would like to work on.

Last week we took a day and burned our brush pile. It took awhile since the pile was huge and the wood was wet. We were there for 12 hours and finally left with the fire still burning some. We went back the next day and pushed things together some more and the fire burned some more. Made a big difference to the field. For awhile you couldn't really see across it the pile was so large. I'm sure we'll start right back in with building another pile.

The other thing we started work on was a floor in the barn. We need to be able to have the sawmill level and stable so we figure we would but a wood floor in part of it. We are putting 6 x 6's down on the stone every two feet and then nailing 2 x whatevers on top. It feels pretty stable and hopefully will make it easier to mill than it has been.

Yesterday I moved the mill onto the floor. We don't really have all that much floor as of yet but I figure we are running out of time before the snow comes. I'd like to get the area around the shed cleaned up and I can't do that with the mill in the way.

I disassembled the mill and then picked it up with the forks on the tractor. Went pretty well though like all things it took about three times longer than I thought it would. Fortunately I didn't have to adjust it much after moving it as the floor is pretty level. I figured we'd let it settle for awhile and see if it needs more adjusting. I figure we'll lag bolt it to the floor to hold it in position. Should be interesting to see what happens to the whole setup when we drop a 2000 lb. log on it.

As mentioned at the beginning they started roofing today. Got the back half on and hopefully they will be back tomorrow to finish up. We went over to check on things this afternoon and they were already gone at 2 pm so I would think a full day would allow them to finish.

It sure will be nice if we can keep the mill out of the weather.

Apparently they weren't happy with the feel of the building as they applied braces back to front. We picked up some steel for cross braces on the gable ends today and have started painting them. Hopefully we'll have them up before the end of the weekend if the weather permits.