Posted by ppeery on March 1st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
…which dried out the wretched mud–quite quickly….after hitting 70 mph and knocking over ladders, blowing away tool boxes and clothing, and even some scaffolding right off the tasting room floor…at which point we decided we would work on the main level only…=-O Mercifully I had asked one of trhe crews this morning to clamp all [...]
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Posted by ppeery on March 1st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
Today we got the tasting room floor system in along with some framing progress on the cupolas, siding the upper veranda and then some internal framing when a bunch of the crew came indoors when it started to rain….a few of us stayed outside and got wet and cold but there was a winsome sense [...]
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Posted by ppeery on March 1st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
Today we focused on getting the buttresses up in the tasting room, roofing the north porch, siding the veranda, and beginning to side the cupolas in preparation for the insulators who we hope will be there next week for the main venue. A significant resource in these endeavors have been the machines–simple and complex, that [...]
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Posted by ppeery on March 1st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
The day started out with a quarter inch of ice on everything that was not hot or moving fast–and all I could think of walking to my ice caked car at six am was how glad I was that I had just hired a young man named William to clean up the site and to [...]
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Posted by ppeery on March 1st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today we divided up into three crews: the roof system on the north porch, setting posts and sisters on the tasting room (notice the double post–a first–for the clear span massive girder over the bar area) and a smaller crew of two new guys, Brian and Mike, who worked on the first set of stairs [...]
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