Outstanding as usual, looks like your having way to much fun. :naughty:
Keep the pictures coming, love the ride along
Mike

I was going to comment about the electric pole being used as his anchor post but probably shouldnt get that started.

Jeeze, Bill. Now you tell me! :haha::hmmm: Coincidentally, the telephone poles (amazing that they're still called that when nobody really has telephone lines anymore it seems:smile:) are placed almost exactly on the property stake.

With rain moving in, not a good day to pound the remainder of the fence posts in. So what's someone like myself do when it rains? Watch a few movies? Play Candy Crush? Write fake scathing reviews for things I've never used on Google?:hmmm: Nah, although that fake review thing does sound fun! :biggthumpup: Nope... you move inside the barn and frame out the wife's tack room! The first shots show the sprayed insulation installed on the wall where the room goes. I had both of my entire shops done (walls and ceiling) and just the ceiling and the tack room wall done in the barn. To the left of that room will be horse trailer storage, and located across the main aisle from that will be tractor storage. The whole interior will be trimmed with tongue and groove clear pine stained cedar color with any exposed metal poles wrapped in cedar. Think Budweiser's Clydesdales hangout!! Well.... in my mind that's what it's going to look like. Realistically, I'm just going to put in a few beer taps. Man, speaking of that, go out and try Bud's new beer aged in Jack Daniel's whiskey barrels. OH...EMMM...GEE..... it's freaking good (and I don't like Budweiser):biggthumpup: Anywho, where was I?:hmmm:

These are the outer walls and the ends are 14ft high. Pretty scary pushing that wall up there by myself, but where there's a will there's an idiot refusing to ask for help! :grin: I got this all done yesterday and today I'll finish by adding the divider wall and vaulted ceiling. A vaulted ceiling you say, huh? Why, yes! I mean, why not? The ceiling will be 8" wide tongue and groove clear pine trimmed with a large center cedar beam and two beams spanned across. I'm going for the "Tack Room of the Year" award from Tack Room Monthly digest! :rolleyes2::bs:

More to come next week when I finish the fence posts and start installing the crossrails... all 1600 of them...:crazy:

Cheers:beers:

Dave

If I only had your energy.....

I would drive myself crazy............

Having fun, building and living the Dream!

You go Jersey Boy!

Dan

Thanks men! Yes, lots going on here. Before I left on this trip I did finish out the tack room. You'll notice the vaulted ceiling in there and it's sort of a structure insidea structure. Either outer side of the tack room is a solid wall floor to ceiling. The back wall will be a stable, and the front wall is the backside of the trailer storage area. Both will be insulated where it meets the room's outline and then sheeted with plywood. The back where the stall will be will also has 2x6 boards for added protection against that errant horse kick. So next week the plumber and electrician are coming out so I can move this along and then finish out the interior.

Yes, there is a missing rafter up there, which is intended so I can roll out insulation on the roof once that half gets the ceiling installed. I can get access to the front though the open wall. The whole exterior of the tack room, tractor and trailer storage areas, as well as the ceiling will be tongue and groove pine with cedar trim. I should have that done by Tuesday! :tongue::grin::no:

Stay tuned.... more to come on the next episode of "This F%#%ing pain in the a%# piece of crap House":biggthumpup:

Cheers
Dave

If your bottom plate isn't a green plate(doesn't appear to be) I would recommend squirting some bug juice under there to keep carpenter ants and termites at bay.

Yes, good point! I'll be doing that for sure. The whole thing will be sealed around the walls, floor to ceiling, to prevent anything from flying in and making a nest as well. The exterior wall of the barn adjacent to the interior wall of the tack room will be sealed too.

Home tonight and I'll be turning my attention back to the fence installing the rails. It's going to start having that "ranch" feel! Hot wire on the inside to keep horsies in....hot wire on the outside to keep neighbors out!:ooo:

Cheers:beers:
Dave

Here's the beginning stages of 1600 2x6x8s going in to give the Flying M Ranch that ranchyness feel that all ranches need! :wink: To make quick work of the spacing on the boards, I used two pieces of 2x4s cut to 11-3/4". That'll leave about 1.5" from the top. This will all be painted black in the summer once the wood is all nice and dry.

Of course, as soon as I started this, the septic guys show up, the electrician and plumber show up, and then a few trips to the supply houses were in order. But, I was able to manage to get two rows of fencing done on the one pasture. Today it'll start raining later, so I'll be inside working on the barn and tack room again. I've got the shower, tankless water heater, split A/C-Heat system, terlit, and sink ready to go in once I get all the lines run.

More to come next week!!:biggthumpup:

Cheers:beers:
Dave

Be careful with that pistola. Ring shank nails hurt. I'm a professional, do not try this at home.

The first two pics are my finger. I let the professional handle the nail removal.

The last 3 pics are my business partner's hand. We were framing my house when he shot his hand. I pulled that nail out with some pliers and told him to suffer in silence.

You will notice both nails are in our right hands and we are right handed. Be extra caeful when you use that pistola with your off hand.

Reminds me of the time I partially amputated the end of my finger after removing the last bolt that held the clockspring on a power window regulator. It slammed shut on all my fingers, which luckily slowed it down to where it then just tried to slowly trim off the last one and stopped at the bone.

The comical part was getting my son to come outside and apply direct pressure to the spraying, bloody wound. He had just passed his high school emergency medic test in gym class that afternoon! It was something right out of a Three Stooges episode when we could not figure out how to get into the car to drive to the emergency room while he was still attached to me in his effort to stop the bleeding. He didn't have a driver's license so I had to drive. Which meant he had to slide across the driver's seat and into the passenger seat while holding my left index finger with his right hand.

I can still hear the Benny Hill theme song in my head.


(At least you didn't just pull the nail back out. That is the worst thing to do with a foreign object penetration wound).

I think you should make a small horseshoe out of that nail and attach it over the entrance to the new barn for good luck.

I am good with most visuals, but I made the mistake of looking at this just before lunch.
My Stomach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Riddle me this Batman? What was the time span between the first "finger-nail" and the second?

Did you impale yourself and then say..."Hell, this is Texas. We gotta finish the back forty" and then continued on until you managed to impale your buddy and then decided to call it day out of courtesy for your wingman?

Or did your buddy get nailed first and you told him to "man up" until you zapped yourself and then yelled "EJECT, EJECT, EJECT" ???

"Enquiring minds want to know"

Hey! Hey! Hey! This is a PG Rated website....no queezy bloody stomach turning images :)

Dan

Steve's hand was a couple years ago framing my house.
My finger was in July on a spec house. That was a brand new glove I was wearing. The nail pinned my fingers together. My finger still hurts.

10-4. I won't post any.
You should see what a Skil saw does when you run it down your inner thigh through your knee though. Gnarly!
Steve and I were on Atlanta Engine 16 when we went on that call.


Here is a close call I had on a mitre saw.

Holy-Shamoly!!:eek2::eek2:

Yes... extreme carefulness with these here power tools, especially when the bigger tool operates the smaller tools!:hmmm::laugh:

Fencing just about done and horse stalls are under construction! Pics later this weekend!

Cheers:beers:

Dave

Oh, now I see, It wasn't Dave's (A12Pilot) fingers, it was SouthernfriedCJ's fingers.

Sorry about the mixup.

Either way, y'all should get a daily tetanus shot with all these nails going wild.

If it had been A12Pilot I was going to nominate his new handle to be "NailgunnerJoe"

I've had countless PMs asking about the layout of the land. So much so that Director and Owner, Steve S sent me an email, since my PM box was jammed....JAMMED I TELLS YA!!:hmmm:...asking me to update this thread so he can put Yenko.net back on the server. :rolleyes2:

So I took pen to paper, got out the Architectural Land Diagram I submitted to the country for building approval, and figured I'd post it to answer all the questions one may have. One meaning, that one guy that sent me a message:laugh:. Now, look through all the intricate numbers and dimensions and such, and one can clearly see how much fence has been put up. The perimeter is done as is pasture #3 (upper left corner with the word "Fence" in it) and the remaining interior fencing won't be done until the arena goes in late next month and the driveway gets concrete from between the two shops back to the barn. We'll finish the front half of the driveway once the house is done. :laugh:

I'm happy to report no injuries except a sprained shoulder, pulled hamstring, left deltoid tear, a fractured pinky toe, and bruised forehead from a ricocheted board after I threw it in rage, which then made me even more mad, so I threw it again, which resulted in the sprained shoulder, and a torn deltoid since I threw it too hard and after it hit my head crashed into my pinky toe and then I tripped over it resulting in my pulled hamstring:rolleyes2:

More to come this weekend as I continue the frame out inside the barn!

Cheers:beers:

Dave

More Mistletoe..

Yes, I've filed a tax exemption for the Flying M Ranch to grow mistletoe. After all, what did you think the M meant in Flyin' M??:hmmm::rolleyes:

The interior of the barn is about 83% done on the frame out! :biggthumpup: I had to use scaffolding lent to me by the electrician, which is always a fun and exciting thing to climb. If the wobbly legs don't instill confidence in your climb to 20ft, the loose crossbars and warped platforms surely will! :thumbsdown: And of course with the end in sight, I've decided to increase that workload and add a large cedar wrapped center beam that the ceiling fans will mount to down the center aisle. I still need to frame that out, and apparently, I'm now adding a hay loft above the mini-horse stalls too.:ooo:

On deck are the jail bars and doors for the stalls, hay loft joists, and a whole host of other things piled up in the corner to do. So, when will this done? The plan is to have this done in February and then it's onto the shops! :burnout:

More to come with such instructional lessons as "Two by Fours: The real measurement" and "Measure twice, cut thrice".:scholar:

Cheers:beers:
Dave

... and of course, build it and they will come, and that's what happened:thumbsdown:.

Here's the latest edition to the Flying M Ranch. This cat has an interesting story, and we've gone through four names until finally settling on Sox.

See, this cat came up from Whitney, TX in the engine bay of a 2010 Ram 1500 snuggling up to a 5.7 Hemi. So, with that and him being Orange, we were set on calling him Hemi. Then after we heard the story of how he got here, we were thinking Whitney. But it's a boy, so no Snowflake crazy non- gender bias crappy confusing name gonna be had on a Texas ranch cat!:thumbsdown:

We were then thinking Grady... since our septic guy is named Grady. Then we realized that Kelly's arch enemy and nemesis is Grady, so that wouldn't work either:no::eek::tongue::tongue::tongue: So with two large tube Sox on his hind legs....Sox it is!!:biggthumpup:

Best part? The "M" on the forehead means good mouser, apparently, in the cat world. Could also mean Mopar.....:burnout::headbang:

Cheers:beers:

Dave

If you cut those stairs I am double double impressed.

Oh, it's really nothing to be impressed about. It's a simple mathematical equation, really. You first have to figure your total rise and total run. Then decide the rise of your first and third steps, and here's some trivia: Since my total number of stairs is odd, you have to use the measurement on an odd step, not an even one. More on that later. Now, when divided by the hypotenuse triangulated by the seventh's step's width, that gives you the total run you need between stringers minus the ledger's thickness offset by the footer's length. Adding into that, make sure to recess the top landing to make up for the thickness of the planking of the decking material to be used. See? Pretty elementary, really. :scholar::dunno::rolleyes2:

As evidence of the handiwork, pencil lines (and two black marker lines located on the 4th and 9th steps, added together, makes 13... an odd number to match my odd number of steps:biggthumpup:) are clearly visible on the outer edge of the stringers closest to the camera. The extra 2x4 bracing adds more mounting surface for supports I still need to add later on. Under the stairs will be a feed storage room with shelving, a chandelier, and possibly a wine chiller.

Cheers:beers:
Dave

Dave, Looking great! Hi Sox!! :)

He’s fooling us all. He has a team of elf’s that show up in the middle of the night who do all the work! Ha!!
Well done!

Dave, you are an amazing guy. You are very talented in so many ways. Who would have thought that I would enjoy watching a barn being built almost as much as watching a Mustang being restored?

I think that's what these are for.

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=152578

Thanks for the compliments guys! I appreciate them, and glad you enjoy following along. Yes, I strive to make every thread I start entertaining, enlightening, ejumacating, and inspirational.....ing:hmmm:

Although flattering, I know there are MANY here that can do all of this and more. We're a talented group here on this forum. I'm just the one who is stoopid enough to post it!:shocked:

I'm off tomorrow, so I'm planning on having the loft framework done and if the rain holds off, install the stair steps and floor.

Cheers:beers:
Dave

Yea, he cheated and used these.


https://cloudfront.zoro.com/product/...-3uxtfo5oy.JPG

I wondered how much help Dave has also!!
It is impressive that he is good at so many jobs. Maybe I will be lucky to be on one of his flights someday.
Do you fly the same places all the time or does it vary?
Bill

Yea, great question Bill, inquiring minds want to know Dave, how many of those aerioplanes do you fly


Mikey

Dave
All kidding aside your doing some great work :biggthumpup:
And I like your Kitty :Can-I-Have-It:

Mike

Thanks, Mike! Appreciate it my man! :biggthumpup: It's pretty darn fun.... and frustrating... but isn't that exactly like the car hobby? :hmmm:

Bill, I fly all over, but lately I've been staying between the hubs for us: Miami, Chicago, JFK, etc. I did all that international junk a while ago and prefer to stay domestic now. Mainly..... so my body knows when to eat and then when to poops!:grin: And I'm on the 767 and 757 (fly them both). 757 is an old muscle car: good looking lines, vastly overpowered engines, and it breaks all the time! :rolleyes2::biggthumpup:

It's loft building time!

Cheers:beers:
Dave

757 is a bad ass looking machine, back when I was still working someone in the corporate world was flying one, hell of a Biz Jet, that would be like in Charley's world...:grin:

Alrighty then, stairs and hay loft are up! :biggthumpup: I ran out of daylight before I could get the railings up, but at least the platform is done. I'm going to install an electric winch on the right side of the loft mounted to the ceiling which will allow Kelly to lift the hay up there. No trekking up a staircase with multiple 40lb hay bails!

Time for some electricity so I can finish up the tack room and start the final trimming out of the interior. :grin: More to come with such memorable moments as, "Is the black wire the hot one?" and "Ground wires: Are they really needed? ":hmmm::hmmm:

Cheers:beers:
Dave

"Hay, Hay" Looking Good :)

Dan

Ok, a new year, and time to stop being so lazy! :biggthumpup: Moving forward, the electric is in, so now I needed to focus on getting the drywall up in the tack room so all the outlets and final plumbing could be finished. Of course, in addition to that, I trimmed out the underneath of the stairs with a closet and shelf for feed storage, got the jail bars up in the mini-stalls and full sized stalls along with the stall gates, and apparently, was informed that a gangway across the groom area with another loft over the other two mini stalls is in order for shavings storage.:smile: Of course, one cannot be expected to carry square bales and cubes of shavings up all these flights of stairs! So I'm incorporating a trap door that will fold back creating a 2.5ft x 4.5ft opening in the gangway where those items can be winched up and placed on a cart for easy moving. :biggthumpup: I found a few old tyme barn hay-lift trolleys that I'm going to see about using somehow:laugh:

So, up next on the lesson menu is: Hay loft - Part Deux. Stall Kick Boards - Pee and hoof resistant. Tack Room Ceiling - Cedar beam and a vault? Why not? And everyone's favorite: Drywall mud - They make it look so easy!

Lastly, what's one to do with a new hay loft? Why, happy hour, of course! More to come....

Cheers:beers:

Dave