[AT] Non-Tractor Tractor Weekend

Tue Jun 9 20:39:34 PDT 2020

Actually, Cecil is clairvoyant.

I also have a roofing project underway. I have a good friend who is a contractor. In the twilight years of his career he spends more time flipping houses then doing work for other people. But he likes to sneak a paying job in from time to time. So he just today finished re-roofing a shed for me.

A picture of the new roof is below.  It should be noted that I bought the materials at an employee auction years ago while I was at Lowe’s , anticipating the day this would need to be re-roofed.

This shed is from the early 1930s. It was built from salvaged materials from a nearby church that rebuilt.   Because of the origin of the materials, the building is known in the area as the “ Gospel House”.  It has two stories. The second story housed all the family’s canned goods. The bottom was where they canned their vegetables. It included that lean-to you see  in the foreground which was a stall for a horse, and then re-purposed as a tractor shed. My Ford now sits there.  I added another lean-to on the other side. The baler sits under that.

We now use the bottom part as a retail store for our farm goods for farm visitors and Ag tourists. The top floor is where I air dry my more valuable lumber.

Spencer

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> On Jun 9, 2020, at 10:35 PM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
> 
> My apologies to you both...  I am either going to have to learn to read again or learn to remember..  All I remember is old dog new tricks.....
> Cecil
> 
>> On 6/9/2020 5:57 PM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
>>  Cecil,
>> 
>> Please don’t start calling me Spencer, my wife already has a too many names for me. I don’t need another.  😜
>> 
>> Carl
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Sent: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:44:16 -0400 (EDT)
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Non-Tractor Tractor Weekend
>> 
>> Plain old galvanized corrugates sheets are getting hard to find.
>> Usually any lumber yard will have some in about an 8 or 10 ft length.
>> The big box stores are the worst about having anything you need...  Try
>> a smaller lumber yard.   That said, check Craigslist or Facebook
>> marketplace.   A lot of the rolling machines for corrugated are getting
>> worn and they don't pay a lot of attention to standardization of the
>> corrugations.   Like Spencer said earlier, you can put a sheet of flat
>> under the old and slid the new under that..
>> Cecil
>> 
>>> On 6/9/2020 2:25 PM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
>>> With everybody staying home, there’s a lot of projects being started, or completion of the ones started in the last four years. I myself am going to be redoing our two level deck, 22’ x 26’, 18’ x 22’, and a 16’ gazebo.
>>> 
>>> As far as the steel roofing, if you’re concerned about the number and depth of ridges not matching up, you may want to consider sliding a flat sheet lengthwise under the existing sheeting, and then slide the new sheeting under that. You should be able to get flat sheets from anybody who bends metal. In fact you may ask them if they know of a source for the corrugated sheeting.
>>> 
>>> Carl
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: STEVE ALLEN <steveallen855 at centurytel.net>
>>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> Sent: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
>>> Subject: [AT] Non-Tractor Tractor Weekend
>>> 
>>> A short story followed by a question, Gents.
>>> 
>>> We did absolutely nothing on or to any of the three tractors this weekend or yesterday (although we did a lot of mowing and chainsawing on Saturday).  The rest of the time was spent shopping for materials and building the lean-to addition to the tractor shed for the '51 A.
>>> 
>>> When Dad bought this place back in '84, there was a steel-sheathed, wood-framed building on it that came form Morgan buildings (and we have always called it the Morgan Building). It's about 12' x 20' or 24', and has double front doors.  The previous owner used it for storage and a lawn-mower shed; we have always used it as a shop while trying to store too #@&% much stuff in it, too.  Using landscaping timbers and fence pickets, we built a lean-to lumber shed behind it.  I "paved" the lumber shed floor with 3' x 3' steel shelving pieces salvaged from a place my brother used to work.
>>> 
>>> After Dad died and I took over the place, I used more salvaged materials to build the main tractor shed.  It is just big enough to house two JD 2-cylinder tractors right-side to right-side and a steel workbench, and it is attached to the lumber shed, which forms a sort of north wall/before-the-fact lean-to for it.
>>> 
>>> Now, with three tractors, I needed another stall, so we have lifted the lower edge of the west roof, added 2" x 6" rafters (16') and a new west wall12' out from the existing wall.  The plan is to move the siding on the existing wall onto the new wall, which is about the same length.  This lean-to addition will hold the '51 A.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, we had to buy more new material for this addition because my stocks of salvaged material is mostly depleted.  One of the things we need to buy is 12' lengths of plain, old-fashioned, galvanized, corrugated roofing sheets.  I need six to slide their ends up under the ends of the existing sheets to complete the roof on this addition.  Trouble is, I can't find six!  I managed to find 2 at the local Lowe's, but they don't match the old profile.  None of the other outfits locally have *any*.  Lowe's tells me thy have 50 more sheets coming in June 5th, but my calendar says that was 4 days ago, and they cannot even tell me where they are on when they might arrive.
>>> 
>>> So my question is this:  is corrugated sheet iron the next toilet paper?  Is there a national shortage?   Is galvanized steel susceptible to CoViD-19?  I *can* use a different profile, if I have to, but I have trouble imagining the problem.  (as an aside, the guys and Meeks tell me that treated lumber is also in short supply, at least hereabouts.)
>>> 
>>> You'd think there'd be stacks chest high of this stuff all over, or I did, anyway.  Used to be.
>>> 
>>> The "original" Steve Allen
>>> Who is constantly, painfully reminded that today ain't yesterday.
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