Tractor guilt (pic)

Kestrel in CT · Oct 19, 2011

I knew it.. I knew it ! When a friend helped me build this shed
last spring, I was talked out of a 3rd bay for firewood. Now that I
filled these 2 (about 10 cords) and have more damaged oaks to
cut and stack with no room left, I'm torn.

Looks like my only tractor may be evicted and spend a cold New
England winter under a cheap tarp, again.

Will the 'ole girl forgive me?? Wife says no to the Case in living room...and the barn is full of chickens, dust, and junk.

Spook · Oct 19, 2011

(quoted from post at 17:59:37 10/19/11) I knew it.. I knew it ! When a friend helped me build this shed
last spring, I was talked out of a 3rd bay for firewood. Now that I
filled these 2 (about 10 cords) and have more damaged oaks to
cut and stack with no room left, I'm torn.

Looks like my only tractor may be evicted and spend a cold New
England winter under a cheap tarp, again.

Will the 'ole girl forgive me?? Wife says no to the Case in living room...and the barn is full of chickens, dust, and junk.

Real problem.... Clean out the barn? Leave the wood outside - it will keep for a year.

Paul from MI · Oct 19, 2011

Can't build barns too big. It's a physical impossibility.

KIP in MX · Oct 19, 2011

Stack the oak outside with the tarp, keep that nice looking Case in the shed, or house!

showcrop · Oct 19, 2011

Stack the wood outside for one winter. How many grapple loads do you see tarped?

ShadetreeRet · Oct 19, 2011

Stack the wood and cover with plastic and then the tarp. I hauled some from a fellows house a few years ago that had been covered that way for five years, Still in good shape except for some worm dust.

wolfman · Oct 19, 2011

Nice shed. Put the extra wood in a long rick and a two-foot wide cover on the top will be fine.

bobs old iron · Oct 19, 2011

don't feel to guilty about it, just make sure you get a cut [lol] of the profits for being a good neighbor,,,or build a divider to share tractor with wood....that way he get 2/3 stalls...

Kestrel in CT · Oct 19, 2011

Hey, that's too much work !

It'd be easier storing the wife outside under a tarp and bring the
Case in the house with me.

Mark - IN. · Oct 19, 2011

A few years ago I had a chance to pickup a VAC for cheap but didn't need it. Was in good shape but not nearly as nice as yours. Yours is very clean and sharp from what I can see.

Now let me break the new to you. Over the top of your tractor I see a horse shoe, a good oman. If you park that tractor anywhere that horse shoe is not, well, I hate the thought of the outcome of that. Cold New England winters and that tractor is parked in an open shed, not an enclosed barn? Is only one thing in this world that could allow that. That horse shoe. Tractor stays where it is, racks of firewood go under a tarp for the winter. Do not temp fate by going against that horse shoe. Its like buttered bread. Once it has been buttered, can't take the butter back off. Trying will only cause bad things to happen.

Nice looking shed. By the way, what is that over the middle stall? Not a horse shoe.

Mark

old · Oct 19, 2011

Simple put in more insulation in the house so you only use 5 cords and have 5 left for next year LOL

TomR Ont · Oct 19, 2011

Kestrel in CT,

SIMPLE
Just add 10' on BOTH ends, and everyone is happy even the one who makes the rules.

Kestrel in CT · Oct 19, 2011

I hear ya. That's part of the guilt trip.

The horse shoe was found half buried in a dirt road while we (Case and I) were hauling fieldstone to build that low wall in the photo.

That's a frog sitting atop the shed. Maybe the frog's presence will somehow cancel out the horse shoe's good luck ? Yeah, that's it. Got to move the tractor indoors before doom strikes...

Kestrel in CT · Oct 19, 2011

Thanks but I ain't moving those stones again !

casenut1 · Oct 19, 2011

guy i worked for always said "build the barn twice as big as you think you need and it will still be too small".

Tony in Mass. · Oct 19, 2011

After the barn burnt down with everything in it, the insurance man said "you will soon find that plastic tarps don't burn down, colapse from snowloads, attract lightning or tax assessors". He was right on all counts. I like the camo ones and bungie cords with the black ball on one end.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 20, 2011

A little creativity goes a long way. Stack your wood outside against the shed and cover the top with that tarp. Guy in town here uses these things (pic), fills with wood and stacks them like walls, has some temp roofs (angleiron and tin) that he fastens to themand parks vehicles/machines in them, pasture shelters, etc. Wood is stored neat and stuff is dry. When the wood is used up, he takes off the roof and swaps full for empty.

smallercrawler · Oct 20, 2011

Sounds like big trouble brewing in CT tonight!

chevytaHOE5674 · Oct 20, 2011

Id just stack the wood outside and put the "good stuff" (IE tractor and other equipment) under cover. All of my wood sits outside and it burns just fine.

JDB · Oct 20, 2011

And thats when the fight started LOL

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