22 September 2018
Mike, Pikey, and Zach here most of the day
roofing away. They finished putting panels on the east side and half of the
north side. Chree and I continued
stuffing Delores with all of our worldly goods plus a few tons of food.
20 September 2018
Visited with Mike Many while walking Shlomo this
morning. Mike recommended raising the
cupola base a few inches in order to accommodate the metal roof ribs and hip
caps. Back at the barn, careful
measurements showed that the cupola, as built, wouldn’t have fit right even
without the ribs and hip caps interfering.
Who designed that thing? So added
2″ to the cupola’s foundation on the top of the barn roof, which should (note I
said “should”) solve the problem. Will
have to cut off and remove the eight ¼″ x 7″ tie-down bolts and replace them
with ¼″ x 9½″ threaded rods. Loaded a
bunch more “stuff” into Delores, including $107 worth of petrol.
17 September 2018
Charles Goodrich came by mid-morning and took
away all of the Goose Creek tools and staging.
Very sad! I really had grown fond
of the chop saw… and the 20 foot aluminum plank, though heavy, was very popular
with the roofers. Only things left are
the wall jacks. Jeff Many (Mike Many’s
cousin) and Ryan Tarbell (Jeff’s son) from Green Mountain Door arrived late
morning and spent many hours installing the barn’s 16 foot wide by 8 foot high
overhead door, operated by a Liftmaster® ½ horsepower door opener. Jeff
even programmed one of the Tacoma’s HomeLink® transmitter buttons to
operate the new door… and gave me a key fob for the Kabota that does the same
thing. So high tech! Gave the Kubota a bath, amongst other
preparatory tasks for our upcoming annual logging trip to Calais, as Chree only
likes to operate a clean log skidder.
16 September 2018
Mike Many and crew here in the morning and
finished putting the metal roof pans on the south-facing roof, then got a
little more than half of the east-facing roof done before being diverted to
other pursuits. Alex, Katy, and Devin
headed back south at 11 after another most enjoyable visit.
15 September 2018
Katy, Alex, & Devin arrived in time for
breakfast to commence a short fun-filled weekend visit: swimming, canoeing,
kayaking, Frisbee golf, croquet, shooting, barbequing, the obligatory heart’s
game, and a very interesting tour of the Omya marble quarry in Middlebury. Mike
Many, Mike Many, Jr (Pikey), and Zach Saxe (who lives at the north end of Fern
Lake) got here about 9 with the first pieces of metal roof edge trim. Unfortunately, things went a bit downhill
from there, as Mike and crew struggled until nearly 1 o’clock to get Mike’s
forklift started, said forklift needed to hoist the coils of metal roofing
material onto the de-coiler stand so that they could fabricate the roof pans. The guys returned about 2 and started putting
roof pans into place, getting the east half of the south-facing roof done by Labatt
Blue time.
14 September 2018
Finished putting in the overhead door facing
trim and applied a coat of paint, mostly to the Koma®. Built a small workbench at the back of the
barn. Lake temperature still a
refreshing 76°.
13 September 2018
Ripped the 1x8 Koma® that was
delivered last week to a 6¼″ width, that being the theoretical width of the
overhead door facing. Why “theoretical”
you ask? ‘Cause the actual facing width measurements
varied between 6⅛″ and 6⁹/₁₆″. Using
many quick clamps, was able to install the horizontal, very floppy, 16′ top
trim piece by myself. Also put in the
right-hand vertical trim piece.
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