[AT] new duties

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Hey Grant; How did that starter motor deal come out on your D8? I had been wondering because I knew that you wanted to use the tractor after your flood issues. Maybe you already said but somehow I missed it. 
Gil 
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From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com> 
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:22:32 PM 
Subject: Re: [AT] new duties 

Oh, I forgot to mention how useful placing sills and extra plate boards 
can be too. I have used odd angle nailing and plates of wood and metal 
to solve structural issues that seem insoluble in barns and sheds. After 
all, they are not mansions.... 
Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer 

On 7/12/2017 4:08 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote: 
> I am desperately trying to save an about 38' x 60' timber frame barn down 
> the road that sits on ground we used to rent in the 1950's but own that 
> part of it now. I have been unable to do much with it until now mostly due 
> to health issues etc. I think I can have it in "safe and holding condition" 
> in a couple of weeks if it will stop the damn storming... Son Scott is 
> going to help on it. 
> Yesterday, July 11, 2017, we went to town (we sit just outside of the line 
> and it is getting closer) for lunch and the sky fell open and leaked a lot 
> of water, wind and uncontrollable electricity... When we got home the first 
> thing I wanted to check was if that barn was still intact and remarkably it 
> was. 
> We did lose another building (and a pair of tractor fenders ) though. We 
> had a huge old maple tree about 20' east of the house that blew down. 
> Luckily it blew to the south- east away from the house. It is going to make 
> a lot of firewood. It did however fall on a building that we had used as a 
> farm shop when we moved here in 1951. It was a fairly new chicken house 
> then about 18' x 18'. The tools were inside and the big bench but most work 
> was done outside and it only had a walk door. It was the only decent 
> building other then the 3 barns and they were in full use for livestock. It 
> was also the only building with a good concrete floor. My father had moved 
> a small chicken house building with us along with a 10' x 20' cottage from 
> a pay lake / private park at the old farm. That cottage became known as the 
> seed house. It has since been built onto on both sides and is now about 20' 
> x 34'. I do sometimes refer to it as "the little barn". My father never 
> really finished the little chicken house much so the chickens were mostly 
> "free range" but we didn't know they were back then, we thought that they 
> "just ran around loose"... :-) We didn't know what free range was. 
> That old shop building is toast... We had taken over the timber frame 
> former dairy barn / 1,500 bu. corn crib / 300 bu. oats bin / 12' wide 
> driveway area as the farm shop many years ago. The old shop had become odd 
> stuff storage. 
> The tree also fell across the back of my little Ferguson TO-20 and mashed 
> both rear fenders down hard against the rear tires. I will have to remove 
> the fenders to move the tractor. So far I don't see any other damage to it. 
> The fenders will go to a loft to await later repair, maybe this winter. In 
> the meantime I have a pair of Ford 8N fenders I won't be needing before 
> maybe next spring and I will stick those on the Ferguson. I just hope it 
> doesn't give it a rash or something. 
> At the barn lot (has anyone ever used the term "shed lot"?) down the road 
> to the west I have an open faced 28' x 64' "tool shed" or "implement shed". 
> If I close it in with walls and doors can I call it a "barn". :-) 
> If I call the tool shed and the seed house "barns" I can claim 5 barns 
> here. All 5 of them were built smaller but tall and they all have been 
> built onto to make them bigger. The open faced tool shed had an 18' x 18' 
> "shop room" added to the back. The "at risk" barn down there was maybe 
> originally (1800's) 30' x 30' but added to at least 3 times. The one that 
> is now shop was added to at least twice and the east barn where our 6 
> horses live was added to at least once. It is really interesting to me to 
> study them all closely and try to figure out the stories they contain if 
> you just look for them. 
> 
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