Posted by ppeery on January 31st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates, Project Updates
Today marks the end of our tenth week on site at Bundoran Farm –and we are all thrilled with where are on the job as time has flown since our mid-November start. One of the crews got into a good rhythm and got all the staging area girders set and bolted and began running the [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 31st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today was very much a mixed day–starting out with an early morning phone call that Thom had hit black ice on his way here from NC in this aftermath of the storm morning and was bruised and banged up in the hospital with my truck totaled after rolling it over down an embankment. I thank [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 31st, 2011 in General
We had an exceptional day–coming off the frustrations of yesterday–with three crews running who were all amazingly productive. It was especially gratifying to see the siding going on so professionally with superb pre-painted material–even though it breaks my heart to see the framing covered up…:’( …Ben doing a superb job of running a brand new [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 31st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
Today was a potpourri of several disparate tasks and a bit of a hard day for the crew….Thom’s children were quite sick and he had to leave work to tend to his family in NC–and Kevin was at a funeral for a deceased relative–so we were down a few men and perhaps a bit down [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 26th, 2011 in General
Bundoran Farm’s sister preservation development community, Homestead Preserve, just launched their new website. Developed in conjunction with Blueion, a website design and interactive marketing firm based in Charleston, SC, the Homestead Preserve’s new website provides a wealth of information on one of the last extensive pristine areas of the southern Appalachian landscape, bordering both The [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 24th, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today can only be described as a marathon which began at dawn with me taking pictures of the rising sun on the rafters for (hopefully) the last time–and finished up in the dark with all the roofing panels on–through one of the most passionately tenacious days I have ever seen a crew pursue…. It was [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 24th, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
Well–we finally got our day in the sun–more metaphorically than actual–although it was a beautiful day. The crew was a well oiled machine….driving thousands of screws today, whom Bruce and I kept supplied without quarter–that’s Bruce waving int he upper window on top of the RSC lifts–which have been a godsend and without which we [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 24th, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
I had high hopes that we would get to roofing right after lunch–but due to a variety of further frustrations and the slow pace of working safely on the (initially icy) roof we still had some rake boards left to do after lunch–as well as plenty of setup work for the roofing panels….getting good driver [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 24th, 2011 in Education and Inspiration, General, Geobarns Updates, Nature/Environment
Today was a bit of a strange and frustrating day…in that we worked on a large number of disparate phases and were not able to finish any of them. the eaves are almost done but because we had plumbing inspections, etc–some of the foundation is not backfilled so we were unable to get our machine [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 24th, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today was a little slower than we all would have liked–but we got into the groove as the day went on….I rented a platform lift since putting on the fascia, v-groove backing and vent blocking is such a major and exacting chore–hundreds of blocks, inaccessible location 21′ up in the air, and tight tolerances over [...]
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