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samn40

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We did some building over the holidays. My oldest lad (Sam aged 15)has been doing the cement mixing and carrying blocks to me
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The stable and tackroom for my Dottir's pony is taking shape
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We have had some stormy nights and are fighting with wet blocks and rain washing the mortar out of the joints, this section has been repointed twice!
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We try to cover the fresh building every evening but the polythene just keeps blowing off!
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We spent a bit of time tacking DPC to the tops of the roof joists but the high winds have ripped some of it off!
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John (aged 11) cannot lift the 6 inch blocks but he does the tidying up of any mortar that drops on the floor, and also picks up my trowel or hammer if I drop them! But, boys being boys.....sometimes there is a bit of larking about!
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Don't be too hard on my building! we are fighting with wet blocks, short days, wet nights and high winds...seems like this always happens when I go to build, but then if it wasn't so wet I wouldn't be building! Instead I would be driving my nice warm tractor....working in the fields.
Sam
 
Looks good to me Sam, despite the weather!

Reminds me of the first time I built a block wall.
It was in what we call a "Michigan cellar".
Basement with dirt floor and walls under a house, so I
had some moisture issues to deal with too.

I knew nothing about building block walls except that
the blocks were held together with mortar.
So I proceeded to build a free standing block wall with
nothing but my eyeballs to tell me if it were straight. LOL
If it had turned out half as straight and true as yours look,
this story wouldn't bring such a grin to my face!

I'm glad it was in a cellar so no one could really see it!
On the bright side, it stood for about 25 years until the
house had to be torn down, so I guess it turned out Ok.
 
Looks like you are doing a fine job putting up
the blocks. Going to be a nice building when you get done.
 
samn40,

That looks like a wonderful building to me. You obviously have much more endurance than I do. I wouldn't even think about trying to build a cement block building that big. And how did you get the iron work up overhead?

Tom in TN
 
let us know how the blocks work out for a stall, I'd think if a horse leaned on it it would go over...block without weight on it is pretty unstable....keep us updated..
 
I take it you mean the roof runners? Don....We simply screw on the corrugated steel sheets....galvanised and painted on both sides. This is just a storage shed, my grey workshop building has non drip box profile tin.....which is plastic coated.
Sam
 
We keep cattle in pens built with 6 inch blocks. and the walls are maybe 20 foot long and the cattle don't knock them down! They are even hard to knock down with a backhoe!
Sam
 
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