[AT] new duties

[Spencer Yost]

You're right Gil - inquiring minds want to know!

Spencer Yost

> On Jul 13, 2017, at 4:46 PM, vschwartz1 at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> 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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