Recent content by Backwodsurvivor

This morning my wife's uncle came up and helped me brick up a window that was under grade and letting in water. We also reinforced a broken beam in the cow barn. I've got a lot of grading to do to prevent further water intrusion. As soon as I find some kind of Earth mover and a source for some...

This morning dad came up and we patched the roof on the pole shed, cleaned the gutters, put a surround on the porch and removed the old analog TV antenna. The wife also helped me get another LED dusk to dawn light in.

Lights! 4ft LED strip lights 8 for 60 bucks on Amazon. I love these things. Good lighting makes working in here so much better.

We got about 3 acres. They split off the 17 acres of farmland that had been attached. We got about a third an acre of corn field and all the buildings. I'm pretty sure I went by pretty close to your place a week or 2 ago we were on 94 all the way from Oregon/Washington to Wisconsin.

I'm about a hundred miles from Green Bay. I grew up an hour south of here and I'd never heard of that being an issue. What causes that? Just filling with ice or? The gutter in question is about 6 inches from the ground so it'd be an easy repair.

Probably chickens ducks geese and maybe rabbits for now. I plan on using the calving barn for them though. This is the only space that really fits a truck well. Eventually I might move into the pole shed but it needs work before it'll be dry. I'll add more pictures soon.

Here are some more pictures of what I'm working with. I'm open to suggestions on how to repair the chunk missing by there door. I think I can just brick up the conveyor hole. As for the water ingress I think I need to put a gutter on the back wall and route the water away from that wall more...

This is the space I'm going to use as my first shop. It used to be a turd shed. They would park the manure spreader under the conveyor belt and fill it up. I removed the conveyor and washed most of the poo out. The space leaks pretty bad the whole back wall has dirt behind it for the. I've also...

Finally have a place to call home. My wife and I just bought a hundred year old farm for our first home and it is now my job to get it clean and working. I've got 4 out buildings and more questions than I can list. I've already changed almost all the bulbs for LED and Dad is coming by to help...

Like the barn you mention it has a cow parlor underneath what I believe was used as a hayloft (the space I would now like to use as a shop.) Can your pour a concrete second floor? It sounds like that would become cost prohibitive pretty quick.

I am still very interested in this idea. Put in an offer today on a home with a beautiful bank barn that I would love to use as a shop. I would much rather have 2 posts than 4. What are the thoughts on a pair of steel plates under each post? Full 4x8 sheets should spread the load pretty...

225' "someone" in MP accidentally started it without oil...

Very cool! I'd guess you were an MK? I've been stuck at the yard in Baltimore since January just about to finish the 2nd rebuild on the #2 MDE this year...

I'm interested in what comes of this. I'm also currently house shopping and I've been asking myself that exact question. I'm sure its possible but I'm not sure the best/ most appropriate way to do it.

Sounds like a solid deal if its in decent shape. Generators that size use a lot of propane. They're great if you're piped into the city otherwise it's going to **** a tank down pretty quick. I'd expect 2-3 gal/hr.