Filling up the canning shelves

Katherine has been busy loading up the new canning shelves here in the city place.   She has organized the canned goods by year.   2013 on the old shelves and 2014 on the new shelves.

The 2013 goods, above.

The 2014 goods are on the new shelves. 

Things I learned when building my woodshed (TLBW?)

Here are some observations to take note of if building another such structure:

1. Use square posts, if possible.
2. If using non-square posts, try to make sure they are at least straight as possible.
3. When checking the layout of the posts, check their tops AND bottoms!  The bottoms my be square but the tops may be out!  Of course, this isn't as much a problem if you have straight posts (see #2)!
   
   BTW: I DID align/check-for-perpendicular the posts used in the woodshed, but the posts where not straight and therefore, after I cut the tops off my posts to obtain the roof slope I wanted, the new "tops" where no longer directly above the posts bottoms! 
4. Put the "girts" on the upper and lower roof portions before placing rafters.  I simply placed the rafters between the upper and lower roof posts first and then "filled in".  This caused the rafters to be non-parallel which eventually led to the roof being very hard to put on straight!

Woodshed is now "fully operational "!

Woodshed

It was cold going,  but I got the third side to the woodshed up!   Now I am thinking of fully enclosing it,  lol!  But,  enclosing it doesn't need to happen before I can use it for wood! 

It looks pretty good in my opinion - especially considering the quick and dirty construction!  The only things I bought were the roofing and the fasteners.  The wood was either fresh milled or reclaimed from inside the old barn.

I am strongly tempted to close the front left bay and put some kind of door on the right side.   Or maybe a door on each side?  In either case, I need to mill more boards!

I am also thinking of putting down some drainage tile in the ditch in front of the shed and covering the tile with blue-stone to at lease the level of lower floor joists.  That way I don't have to worry about snakes and things under the shed biting me when I enter or leave the shed!

 

I didn't quite get all of the wood moved from the shop, but another day should have that done.  I had to leave the farm earlier than I wanted because of an impending snowstorm.  I hope there isn't too much snow left next weekend that I can't get the remaining wood moved!

Not much left to go - but that stuff is hard to get to!  You can kinda see the effects of the collapse on the left there...

Leaves me some good room for shelving and maybe a chop saw station?

Lots of cleaning yet to do, but this is a huge start!

 Auger PTO parts

I damaged my auger a couple weekends ago by not paying attention to what I was doing while using the front forks to move some old rotted wood out of the way of my trail between the garage and the barn.  Lots of hill is in that trail and the auger bottomed out and did not do so well against the frozen ground.  

You can see that the universal joint is broken here and that the yoke is bent out of shape.

There is a square female portion of the PTO drive to the auger under that dirt.

The pieces of the universal are attached to the shaft. 

I went to tractor supply company (TSC) and I think I found the parts I need.  They are close matches anyway.  I should check to make sure that the square shaft fits into the auger drive before I do anything with the universal repair.  The universal repair requires a arbor press which I need to take up to the farm next time.

Another "all woodshed" weekend

Woodshed progress

I am getting as tired working on this thing as anyone who is reading this is tired of reading this, I bet!

Well, here are some pictures of this past weekends progress:

2 of 3 walls are now up!

I even have the corner "trimmed"

The back wall from the outside. also showing the roof extensions

A better view of the roof extensions.  Added about a foot to the overhang.  I am thinking of building a soffit for extra support and stiffening.

Another view of the inside corner.

Its near done now.  I need to put some roof extensions on the top, but they wont be as hard as the lower extensions (I hope).  The top roof extensions overlap the top of the sheet metal that is already there.  The bottom extensions went underneath the existing sheet metal.

I am considering putting doors on this thing now.  Maybe not right away though.  I need to get the firewood moved and need to get moving on the tree training and trimming (before Spring gets rolling!)

Bad weather weekend.

Canning Shelf complete?

I stayed at the city house this weekend because weather reports indicated that I may not be able to get in and out of the farm house safely. I am pretty sure I could have,  in retrospect.  Oh well.

This gave me a chance to paint the canning shelves here.   Painting does take a lot of time. 

Safe and sound in its corner.  I still need to add and position the actual shelves.

Slightly different angle.

More shelves in the process of being painted.

I didn't have enough paint to finish painting the last shelf that I had (I had 5 shelves - but I can add more to the unit).   I will go get some paint later.  I am somewhat concerned that the plywood shelves may not be strong enough not to bend under load.  I don't want a shelving collapse with all of my canned goods destroyed!  I may reinforce the plywood by screwing on some angle-iron channel along the sides of each shelf.