UP ON THE ROOF.......Day 7

You are supposed to take your vicodin, drink a beer THEN climb up on the roof

Atleast thats the way the construction boys did it back east.

What are your plans for the old barn?

The building sits over the well so the downstairs half is the pump house with that spot next to it where I park the John Deere and the entire upstairs was my kids bedroom when he was still living here (and is one of the BC members)

Now the upstairs is just where I have a couple things stored up there and ALL the rest is another place for Joyce to stash stuff.

The roof would not make it through another winter and that room upsatirs is sheetrocked and carpet and all her stuff so it would not be good if I let the rain and snow get in there and destroy the building.

The peak of that roof is 25ft and I can't actually climb on the roof to tear all the old cedar off so I have to reach from the ladder all the way to the peak to pull them up and pull the nails.

I have bruises all over my arms from doing it so far and I have lots more work.

I hope we don't get rain for another week or more.

You could turn that into a Colts memorbilia mancave, hell I could supply you some of the double signature items I have.

cravnravn wrote:You could turn that into a Colts memorbilia mancave, hell I could supply you some of the double signature items I have.

Ahem... helllloooo...

cravnravn wrote:You could turn that into a Colts memorbilia mancave, hell I could supply you some of the double signature items I have.

That is what the room upstairs in the house is for and I still am working on that on rainy days.....sooooooo........


Oh and Blue I knew you would be thinking of that song when I used that line

Nice old 45


Getting close to noon and I'm trying to get outta bed and back to work on that project so I can maybe even put the tar paper up there on that side today.

Isnt it fun standing on one single wrung on a ladder? When we had to treat the logs thats what I would have to do, no way in hell I would step off the ladder onto the roof.

I should have sent Drew out to you, he would run around on our roof with no problems, and it was a 12, 12 pitch.

Yeah I'm not sure what the slope is but it is close to 12 since when I lay my rubber handle hammer on the plywood it likes to slide off.

The only time I will be climbing up there is to screw down the last piece at the peak and that piece of felt.

Today was day #4 and I got the power running out there,put down the 46ft of felt and then screwed down the 7 pieces of metal roofing so the north side is pretty much done.......just need a 1X4 X 16ft piece that goes under the bottom edge and hen a few more screws on the lower edge.

But NOW I have to do the front side of the roof where the sun beats on it all day

I have the UV-30 sun block but forgot about doing that and once I start I hate to do more than stop for something cold to drink (I am having my beer right now almost 9:00)

Glad I am half way though.

The front is a bit higher and a tree in the way and I will have to haul all the shakes around behind to the pile too so it will be another 4 hard ass days.........but when it's finished I will get to look at it every day until the end of time.........and in the middle of this I will have to mow the damn lawn

But thanks again for that 45 of Up On the Roof on that cool 45 Norm......I play it at the end of the day

(pics later tonight)

End of day 4 at about 7:30 I finished screwing down the metal roof (she tried to make me stop after just 2 pieces) and since that night it has been sun-rain-thunder and lighting almost non-stop

I was just outside in the dark watching the different types of lightning.

So that is one way to get the day off......still climbed the ladder and tossed an old cedar shake cap to cover one spot where I could see rain maybe sneaking in.......hope this stops and gives me a good 5 days straight so I can do the south side of this roof in the sky.



Todays weather



Good thing I put my work bench back in the garage when the rain started yesterday

Only one thing missing in that pic of the pond...


ME with my fishing rod

Hell of a job there Magic, looks like the backside of the barn is in the woods?

I prefer that

Im telling you, take a vicodin, pop a beer, you'll be on that roof like you were the Fiddler..You'll have those shakes down and the new plywood up in no time.

Sounds to me like you need one of two things...

1) The young'un to climb the ladder and do the balancing act while you "coach" him from the lawn chair under the tree in the shade

or

2) A round-trip ticket from/to Chicago for a certain Bear fan to take over this job

Yeah, you notice how Mr Bear has avoided this thread..hmmmmm, lurker

Well Magic, with a piece of land like you have, a little pain to maintain it is worth it.



But I still prefer my dark dingy apartment over your lush spread

mighty_colts wrote:But I still prefer my dark dingy apartment over your lush spread

Mighty... you growing mushrooms in that root cellar of an apartment?