A Bit More Progress On Woodworking Shop

How can over a month passed since I last posted?  I guess time goes by fast when you are having fun, huh?  I’ve been helping Darryl on his house several days a week and attempting to keep up with the other things needing to be done has kept my progress on my workshop at a pretty slow pace, but there is a bit more progress to report.

I installed a door to the storage loft, using weights in the wall to assist in opening and closing it.  I wanted a door to help keep dust from the shop from going up and getting on the stored items.


Here is a view of the door as you start up the stairs.








This view is from inside the loft looking at the door in the open position.  You can see the green rope that goes over a pulley and down into the wall of the first floor.  Old window weights are attached to the end of the rope.


Pictured here is a small closet that I built to hang winter clothing in the summer and summer clothing in the winter.





 
I built shelves along one wall and, as you can see, quite a number of items have already been placed on the shelves.



  
On the outside of the workshop I have put on some of the corner and window trim.  Unable to be seen here is the trim that is also around the double doors.  The other side has yet to be finished.




I have most of the outlets wired and the boxes up for the lights.  I still have to run wire from the main breaker box in the house to a small box in the shop.


You can keep up with the progress being made on Darryl’s house and some of the work I’ve been helping with by clicking here.

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The Siding Is On!

I’ve only worked on my workshop a couple of days in the last two weeks or so.  I’ve been helping Darryl on his house plus doing some of the other things that need done.  We have been hot, humid and mostly dry here in South-Central Kentucky.  Although there has been a brief shower every few days they have not amounted to much.  Our little garden up here on the ridge is just burned up.  Thankfully, we didn’t have a need to preserve a great lot this summer.  And, we have had quite a number of things to eat fresh from the garden.

Here are a few photos of the workshop taken since the last post.


This side finished.

The metal on the backside of the shop.


Weatherboard, that I had left after the other 3 sides, installed at the very top.  Now, I have yet to put on some trim and work on the interior, as time permits.  I’m sure that much of my time will be spent helping Darryl.  It you would like to see the progress that is being made on his house check out his blog, http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/

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A Bit More Siding Has Been Put On

I haven’t been able to work many days on my workshop in the last 2-3 weeks due to a number of other activities but I have managed to get a bit more of the siding put on.

Here are some more photos showing the progress that has been made.

Just a small amount more and the 3rd side will be done.  I have one small problem—I’m running out of weatherboard so the 4th side will have to be sided with metal roofing material.  It should work just fine.

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More Workshop Photos

There have been a number of interruptions the past two weeks but I have continued to make progress on my woodworking shop. Here are a few photos.


The purlins have been put on as well as the facia boards.


A start has been made putting the roofing metal on.


One side of building has metal roofing completely installed.


The other side of the building has most of the metal roofing on.


The roofing metal is all on, the ridge cap has been installed, and the windows have been put in. The windows are from an old mobile home that was being torn down.


The double doors have been hung and a start has been made on putting on the weatherboard siding.

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Further Progress On My Workshop

Although I spent some time helping Darryl, picking blackberries and doing other necessary activities I got quite a bit more accomplished on my woodworking shop this past week.  Here are a few photos.


The loft flooring is all down.  Toby is checking it out!


The two end stud walls were built and set up.


The two side stud walls have been built and erected.


Here is another view with all of the loft stud walls in place.


I got the rafters cut and put up Friday afternoon.  Hopefully, next week I can get the purlins and the roofing metal put on.  We’ll keep you updated.

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I Observed Something Unusual

 

 

 

I went over on the neighboring property this morning to pick wild blackberries (they are just beginning to ripen).  I was in the middle of a patch of blackberry plants when I heard something coming through the brush and weeds from the woods to my right.  I looked up to see a coyote come running into the grass of the pasture where I was.  It was headed across to the woods on the other side of the field, off to my left.  Immediately behind the coyote, about 30-40 feet came a deer.   The coyote ran on across the field, a distance of only a few hundred feet, with the deer right behind it.  The coyote went through the fence and on into the woods, the deer jumped over the fence, and it was obvious neither saw me standing to their side, maybe 40-50 feet away.  I was amazed to see a deer quite obviously chasing a coyote.

Some time later, as I had worked my way around the field picking berries, I was startled to have a small fawn jump up from a few feet in front of me.  It ran into the woods which was only a few feet from where it had been laying.  This spot was probably only 75-100 feet from where the coyote and deer had come out of the woods.  The picture became clear to me, the mother deer was chasing the coyote which was a danger to her baby. 

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Workshop Progress

Here is a photo essay of the work that has been done on my woodworking shop over the last two weeks.

The sills and the floor joists completed.

About one half of the flooring has been put down.

Here is the flooring totally installed.

The back stud wall has been built and raised into place.

One side and the front stud walls have been built and set into place.

The last stud wall in place, ceiling joists beginning to be set and the stairway to the loft area built.

  All of the ceiling joists are in place.

Salvaged rough sawn boards formerly used as purlins being put down for the loft floor.

This is a side view taken after all my tools were put away this evening.

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