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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
So no point in hanging around - may as well crack on :thumbup:
Once the livestock were sorted, I pulled out my cache of pipes and re-located them. I think that they are actually intended as large electrical ducts. They were given to me a few years ago by a friend who had to give up his farm and are too good to throw away, but I've only used short bits over the years :scratch:
Then I set too with the Hawthorn tree. Flipping awkward thing to fell - being a hugely over grown hedge shrub is has many limbs all emerging at just above ground level, with all their tops inter-tangled.
Got the first major limb down and the tops dragged away, so now in for breakfast and let the blood get back into my legs :bugeye:
I'll venture back out once the post man has been
awemawson:
So back to it after breakfast. Eventually got the lot down, but there was so much hanging over the pig sty's it was impossible to avoid dropping some on their tiled roofs, despite pulling the limbs with a ratchet strap whilst cutting. Never the less minimal damage done - a couple of tiles I think of which I have spares.
Taking the Alder down was a breeze by comparison as i had room to drop it over the tank. Lots of good logs to cut from those limbs and a lot of clearing up to do, but that will have to await until tomorrow as I'm knackered :bugeye:
Pete W.:
Andrew,
I'm glad for you that you got your Planning Consent. It looks from the photos as if you're 'making space while the sun shines', rather than hay!
I remember reading, years ago, an account in Ideal Home Magazine about a couple renovating a derelict Scottish castle (as you do!). Apparently the building was well infested with woodworm. The guy wrote that he obtained a lot of alder logs and distributed them around and throughout the building. He reckoned that alder is the wood boring beatle's timber of choice and so, over a period (and a few breeding cycles), the woodworm migrated from his structural timbers into the alder. When this process was complete, he simply burned the alder logs!
Bee:
If you haven't already planned for it it would make sense to prepare one section of the concrete floor over insulation so that one day if needed it can be partitioned off as a workshop without the base being a terrible heat sink.
awemawson:
Bee, nice suggestion but just across the yard from where this shed will be I have about 1000 sq foot dedicated workshop with 100 mm insulation under the slab and on the walls and ceiling and its heated by fan assisted radiators off it own boiler.
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