Laaaaaaand HO!!

[A12pilot]

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

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!

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
Dave

[m22mike]

Yea, he cheated and used these.

[Billohio]

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

[m22mike]

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


Mikey

[m22mike]

Dave
All kidding aside your doing some great work
And I like your Kitty

Mike

[A12pilot]

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

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! 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!

It's loft building time!

Cheers
Dave

[m22mike]

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...

[A12pilot]

Alrighty then, stairs and hay loft are up! 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. More to come with such memorable moments as, "Is the black wire the hot one?" and "Ground wires: Are they really needed? "

Cheers
Dave

[Postsedan]

"Hay, Hay" Looking Good

Dan

[A12pilot]

Ok, a new year, and time to stop being so lazy! 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. 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. I found a few old tyme barn hay-lift trolleys that I'm going to see about using somehow

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

Dave