Is that Santa?

Looking good. Can't wait till I can get a building up for a shop. Still making knives in my basement shop. Do you have whitetail deer or just blacktail where you live? Aren't many states that have blacktail. Happy building to you. :D
Scott
 
Scott, All I ever see are chairs. :D The two times I've gone bow hunting I've never gotten close enough to tell the color of there tails but believe the deer out here are mule deer and they have black tails. For some reason I've always been more interested in there antlers.

Ivan, Between you and IG I never know what is being said.........
 
Ray,

I hardly recognize the place! I've been wonderin' how things are going. Looks like that's going to be quite a shop when it gets done.

I told you when you got started, that if you needed any help to let me know. :grumpy: Of course my day job kinda' limits my availability. I'm going to have to do something about that some day. ;) The offer still stands though!

Have a great day!

- Mike
 
Mike, I may take you up on the offer. Now that the shop is enclosed and we are getting these cold frosty mornings when things start to warm up it gets wetter inside than if the roof just leaked when it rained. I thought this would be a problem but I was hoping a fan would solve the problem but it didn't make any difference. I'm going to do some calling around this morning and find out if just insulating the underside of the roof will solve the problem.

On top of that I had seperated the calves from there mothers yesterday. Alot of good that did. All but one found away to get back to there mothers. I'm real close to calling the moble slaughter man...... Normally once they are seperated I have them hauled to auction. The fellow that has done my hauling for the last 10 years or so passed away and The Dalles no longer has there auction. Woodburn is the only one left and I've heard you don't do as well there as far as the money goes.
 
Raymond Richard said:
Scott, All I ever see are chairs. :D The two times I've gone bow hunting I've never gotten close enough to tell the color of there tails but believe the deer out here are mule deer and they have black tails. For some reason I've always been more interested in there antlers.
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Seems like all I've seen lately are the tails :D I was just curious because the blacktail deer are pretty much only on the west coast. Mule deer are good to have around :D
Scott
 
Ray, just say the word and I'm there. Unless of course I'm at work. :( Seriously, I'd be happy to do whatever I can to help!

- Mike
 
Hi Ray
So its raining in your pole barn now? :D Thats the trouble with sheet metal buildings, does it in every single one I've ever been in. We built our own horse barn, adding on every couple years. The last addition was too big for us to do ourselves so we hired a company to put the shell up. Required a crane to lift the trusses (54 ft, roof is 14ft high at the sqaure). Anyway, they layed some special reinforced plastic over the perlins before they put the sheet metal down for the roof. That cuts down on the dripping alot.
The only sure fire way I have seen to stop it though is the spray on insulation. Anything else leaves you with moisture collecting between the steel and the insulation and eventually your barn is wringing wet all the time. At least from my experience, maybe someone out there has seen a better solution.
 
Mike and Matt, Think I'll just bare with the moisture problem for now. Talked to the outfit that supplied the steel siding and they told me I needed to remove the steel roofing and put down the moisture bearier/insulation and then the steel roofing. Luckly we don't have many days when the roof will frost up so I'll just tarp what needs to be covered for now. I'll wait till I need to replace the roof and then do it right. When this barn cover was built orriginally it was wide open and they just went with the steel. This is a case of live and learn I guess.....
 
He's not entirely correct, there is a way to stop it without taking the roof off. If you want the plastic laid in the traditional way, you would have to take the steel off, but even then you get some dripping its just not as bad. There is a type of insulation you can buy where you nail netting on the underside of the stringers and then spray this stuff directly on the bottom of the roof. It looks sort of like a mix of cardboard and glue, and seems to stop the dripping from what I've seen. It also serves to dampen the noise alot when your getting rain/hail etc. I don't know what it cost though. For my barn the dripping isn't enough of an issue, just keeps the dust down in the arena :D , but if you find yourself having trouble with it and your work or equipment you might look into it.

I kind of wonder what would happen if you nailed the moisture barrier loosely across the bottom of the stringers. Whether it would just get frost on it or if the moisture would run across it and just drip at the edges of the roof :confused: Course if its too loose, you end up with birds trying to nest between it and the roof :grumpy:
 
Matt, The fellow did mention about the spray on insulartion but also said sometime it works and other times it doesn't plus its expensive but didn't say how much. Right now I just need to get things set up and back to making knives. I did alittle forging last night and I sure am rusty. Part of it is the frustration about the moisture problem but once things warm up a few degrees that should stop. Thanks for your input!
 
Hey no problem, I just wanted to make sure you knew what was available. I have no idea how much it costs, just knew that it seemed to work for some of my friends.For the most part I don't think you get enough moisture to hurt anything, its just a nuisance.
As for being rusty at forging, thats me everyday. Least you'll get it back ;)
 
Ray in his welding outfit.
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IG, I've never liked to over dress. Now if you had a power hammer the sandles just wouldn't work. Now that I look back at this trip the sandles were the only foot gear I had with me.

Noticed you were asking if others had tried the anchor chain. Have you done anything with it?
 
Raymond Richard said:
IG, I've never liked to over dress. Now if you had a power hammer the sandles just wouldn't work. Now that I look back at this trip the sandles were the only foot gear I had with me.

Noticed you were asking if others had tried the anchor chain. Have you done anything with it?
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Just billets :o :o How about you?????
 
This shop has pretty much taken up most my time since I got the chain. Other than the fittings I've made before its just been sitting. Once the press is here you bet I'll be spending more time working with it. I did try a couple times with the chain I already had but the drifting just splits it. Believe the only way to do that is to forge weld it with a bit.
 
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