SHIT JOBS

The last few days have required taking care of some non-carpentry work in preparation for later work. We ( me and Bruce, my fellow carpenter) painted the foundations with tar sealant and we managed to stay fairly clean.

The next job was to demolish the brick wall one brick at a time and then clean them up from the site. We chiseled out the brick, picked them up and placed them in a wheel barrow, rolled them across the concrete floor and dumped them into the bucket of the Bob Cat. For some reason they call a bob cat a "skid steer" here. I only broke one of the three windows (they are due to be demolished anyway).

We transported and stacked the timber on site but later decided to store it in the barn. This required a mixture of using a fork lift and manual labor. We brought the fork lift as close to the barn as possible and then lifted the timbers by hand into the barn. There were six 10"x10"x18' columns, one 8"x16"x20' beam, two 8"x 12" beams and seven 8"x10" beams and some assorted others. We were bushed by the end of that routine.

Tomorrow we will back fill the outside of the foundation at the front of the building. This will require dumping a foot of dirt into the hole at a time and compacting it with a "jumping jack" in between each layer. Wade's Brother Dusty , Wally the excavator and Dusty's brother in law and I previously back filled the interior of the foundation by dumping in soil and using a wheel barrow and shovels to place the soil inside of the foundation.

When we finish this Bruce and I can get back to some carpentry work.