Getting cold for outside construction

Bruce from Can. · Dec 1, 2015

But we should be all closed in by the end of the week. Going to pour a knee wall today. Ceiling is all sheeted, coming along. Bruce

Adirondack case guy · Dec 1, 2015

Looks good Bruce. Hope you arn't getting this nasty freezing rain that we are getting here. The damp wind from the north east is raw today.
Loren

Bruce from Can. · Dec 1, 2015

Yes we are having some freezing drizzle, winter is trying to sneak up on us . Getting a bit nastier every week.

Bob Bancroft · Dec 1, 2015

I don't remember what you're going to use it for. Why the ceiling? Trying to hold some heat in for animals?

Billy NY · Dec 1, 2015

Progress, and although its getting to that time of year when this work can be miserable, getting closed in now is a great milestone !

Russ from MN · Dec 1, 2015

Keep that concrete from freezing for a few days! I don't know where you are in CA but it can get cold there, but we are having unseasonably warm weather in N MN. My first winter doing carpenter work was in International Falls and I remember driving nails when it was -30F! We all wore chopper mitts and by spring the one that you held the nail with was all full of holes! We built a waste treatment clarifier 200 feet in diameter and 20 feet deep, all poured concrete. Build forms, shelter them, pour them, and then start over.

Bruce from Can. · Dec 1, 2015

Will be more dairy cow stable . Should be able to tie another 32 cows. Taking applications now for relive milkers ,Ha ha .

tomstractorsandtoys · Dec 1, 2015

So you add 32 more cows then you need more land then a bigger tractor and more machinery then more cows to pay for tractor and more land and then....LOL.Looks nice, we almost built a new tie stall barn a few years ago but remodeled the old one instead. Maybe if we would have built a new barn we would still be milking but I guess 20 years was enough.As busy as I seem now I do not know how I had time for cows before(maybe I just sleep to much now).Tom

JayinNY · Dec 1, 2015

And this past Friday we hit 62* here, and I was splitting firewood in a t-shirt! Lol

Bob Bancroft · Dec 1, 2015

Well he's got new tractors. And he's travelling a long way to get some hay, so maybe this is not the start, but the completion.

Bob Bancroft · Dec 1, 2015

As much as I like, and my tender stomach counts on dairy products, I'm afraid if it comes down to me doing the milking, I'll have to come up with an alternative!

hd6gtom · Dec 1, 2015

just curious--How far apart are your roof trusses? I put mine on 9 foot centers and wish they were 8'apart

IA Roy · Dec 1, 2015

What are you using for sheeting material? Looks good. I would probably have run the long distance of the sheets across the nailers, but either direction will probably work.

Tech 7 · Dec 1, 2015

Wow Bruce, someone adding to a TIE STALL barn. Thought I had seen the last of that!

Bruce from Can. · Dec 1, 2015

Guess I must be stuck in the past , probably why I am interested in old tractors too.

jlewis457 · Dec 1, 2015

if you are dead set on outside construction I am much further south you can come down to southern Ohio and work all winter on projects

Bret4207 · Dec 2, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:59:51 12/01/15) just curious--How far apart are your roof trusses? I put mine on 9 foot centers and wish they were 8'apart

If you got engineered trusses for your snow/wind load and specified them at 9' you should be okay. If you just got whatever trusses were available and set them at a random spacing you may well have major problems. If snow load is an issue, sometimes you can erect more trusses between the existing units. I've helped do that, not a lot of fun.

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