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No arguments from here, but there was a period that the EZ-Locks were real POS's. Last few years, not so much..

There was a time when the E-Z Lock disks would leave the party with any lateral pressure. Somebody must have rewrote the bonding specs. You laugh, but trailer thieves don't. Easier to carry one of these around in a coat pocket than a 4 1/2" angle grinder. less obvious and just as effective. I...

July 7-8, 2006 Getting closer to completion. The last picture was on the 8th, they were starting to clean up. They still had the apron to pour and more cleanup, but they were finished on 7/10. I've always been happy with their work, to my knowledge, they only did one more after this one, I...

Mac, I've had good luck using air pressure rather than vacuum. Piece of a shop rag with twine tied around the center, yard blower or even just an air hose and you have to make sure you've got control of the end or it'll all be waiting for you at the far end. I've always figured that the friction...

July 5, 2006 Work continues. Doors and windows arrive, including the three overheads. In 2026, I have openers on the two small ones and a call into Overhead Door for a quote on an opener for the 13 footer (spending my kid's inheritance). I'm going to compare cost versus having my SIL do it (he's...

July 5, 2006 Skin!! As I've said previously, Lynn and his son didn't let grass grow under their boots. One day off for the 4th and they were back on it. I figured he had to pay his (hydraulic) oil bill...

July 3, 2006 Big!!

June 29, 2006 Concrete - a floor! Woo Hoo! That truck inside my barn always amazes me, that's when I finally believed the motorhome would fit in it. The stubbed off PVC runners actually come up through the floor in the NE corner of the barn. In 20 years, I've only used one (for (shhh) power...

June 29, 2006 Shingles done Starting to feel like a real building. We could hold picnics under this shelter!!

June 27, 2006 Roofing started! I don't think the 14' sidewall looked that high until standing in front of the it after the roof decking was on and looking up at it. The last view is from the corner of my property.

June 22-23, 2006 View from the basement door. The truck is setting in the 30'x40' 14' high main part of the barn. Probably polluting the drainage ditch from 40' away. The last photo is a detail of the buried part of the back/side wall. Predictions of early failure by some still have not been...

June 20 2006 Framing done, first trusses being placed, pretty good workk for a crew of two! I built the shed in '79 with help from the next door neighbor (we used his Allis Chalmers CA with a 12' 4x4 lashed to the front end loader to place the site built (by yours truly) trusses. It wasn't in...

June 20, 2006 This was the day that an employee from the Drain Commission stopped by. I was there and could tell something was up. Next arrival was from our township who was immediately in deep conversation with the Drain guy. I finally interrupted and asked what was up. The DC guy said we were...

June 15, 2006 This shows the back side, the depth was roughly 24" into the bank. Treated T&G lumber, tarred with styrofoam over that on the exterior (my idea, probably dumb). Only water issues I've ever had were from plugged eaves-trough. In the upper left you can see the "friendship bridge"...

June 15, 2006 I just dug out the receipts from the building supply.. This was a "package" 30'x40'x14' with a 16'x40' lean-to on the north side, blended into the roofline of the main structure (See second post for view of roofline). This gave me an internal set of posts which I planned on using...

June 14, 2006 Enter the rest of his heavy equipment - a retired Consumer's Energy boom truck with hydraulic powered auger and a detachable boom. It was not licensed, leaked hydraulic fluid by the buckets and must have run him at least 300 bucks. Lynn got his money's worth out of everything (he...

June 13-14, 2006 What he did with nothing more than that Bobcat Toyota was amazing (he'd swapped engines in it IIRC, probably worked to death). The Cub is mine ('74 129, I've owned it since '85, still working almost daily)

June 13 ,2006 My Builder, Lynn, was a local guy and his son (Rob iirc). He was recommended by my building supply company. He was small time, one job at a time, minimum equipment, (as you'll see) and willing to meet my needs. I was still working, my late wife (Sandy) took a lot of the pics, she...

June 6,2006 Getting ready! The Barn fund looked good, my better half said "good", my retirement was looking good (about a year away). It was time! More to come.....

Turning the Wayback machine today on to 2006. I finally have found some photo management software that seems to meet my needs (Tonfotos). Thought I'd start sharing pics from the build of my barn in 2006.. May 20, 2006 - Gonna be some changes..