Barn jobs

Our works is not always defined by new construction. We service several farm accounts, which, in this area, is necessary if you want to remain busy all of the time. This first picture reveals my brother Tom waiting for the last piece steel to conclude the upper portion of the barn roof. We nail 2x4's into the rafters to serve as a nailer to screw the metal roofing to.

The second picture show us in the process of replacing a crumbling foundation. We have to go inside and do some bracing and hope that the

building stands when the old foundation is ripped out. A new foundation will be poured (if the wind doesn't blow the thing over before hand!) and hopefully this old barn will last for a long time. We have done several of these projects and we have never lost one, but sometimes you feel like holding your breath until it finally sitting on the new foundation.

We have to feed our brother Josh every now and them and we sure hope his arms don't give out! I enjoy working on these old building, even though it is hard work and the old dust bothers my allergies. I think sometimes of those commuting into Chicago or working with the noise of the factory while I am working in the solitude of the country. The road next the barn getting the new roof is traveled maybe 15 times over the course of the day. The only sounds we hear, besides my singing from time to time, are the sheep and the goats lined up at the fence calling out to us, hoping we might be kind and feed them!