Family has arrived to visit for a week. This affords a great opportunity for the guys to spend some quality time with each other and some power tools.
First up was strengthening and re-siding the cover to the barn entry on the "Girls" side. This consisted of digging half way to China to remove a shaft of concrete in order to remove a rotten post which was attached, replacing old wood, strengthening the structure and re-sheathing with steel siding. A solid afternoon's work.
The second job was a bit more involved, as an identical structure needed to be built from scratch on the "Boys" side of the barn. The project involved much thinking and planning.
At time we had all available bodies on the project, holding ladders, lumber and nailing.
Lessons learned: don't assume an old barn is square, and don't assume the ground you are standing on is level.
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