[AT] OT Barn floor question

[Larry D. Goss]

LOL.  Every once in a while the gremlins get to us and strange things
happen.  What's really fun is to send "camera ready" material to people
so it can be printed and sent out in a publication and have things like
that happen to it.  Been there, done that.  I now translate files back
and forth a couple of times in different formats on my own computer to
make sure all the bugs are shaken out before I hit the send button.

Thanks for the information.

I'm a little giddy right now.  I just negotiated for a deal on two Power
King tractors WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS, and I'm feeling a bit happy.

Larry

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Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:07 PM
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Subject: RE: [AT] OT Barn floor question


>
>Hi Larry:
>
>         Those are called "puncheon" floors... The old high school wood

> shop here had those. They seemed to work very well. The shop in the
new 
> high school where I went my senior year just had concrete. I took down
a 
> chicken house on an uncles place that had one. Well, actually a
tornado 
> took it down, I just cleaned up the mess for them. The one in the
school 
> shop was almost perfect and I always assumed that there was a concrete

> floor under it. A lot of the old ones were treated with creosote or
oil. 
> I seem to recall puncheon also referring to some kind of use of animal
grease ?
>
>
>         I remember the floors in the wood shop at BSU in the early 
> 1960's. Somebody had a "stupid attack"... They were maple hardwood
floors 
> with a thick finish and waxed so much that you could hardly stand up
on 
> them. I remember trying to plane boards by hand and not being able to 
> keep my feet under me while pushing hard enough to plane the wood.
>
>
>"farmer"



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         Sorry guys. I have no idea what happened to that message... I
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copy and pasted the text of the definition and it apparently went nuts
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"farmer"

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net 

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