Too nice for goats, put firewood in it! Im curious what you coated the posts with before you poured the concrete?
In case anybody's interested, here's a few pics our homemade ridge cap. We get two pieces out of a regular sheet of roofing material. We've used it on three buildings now, it works great, looks fine, and is less than half the cost of "real" ridge cap.
Simple and effective. Nicely done. Yeah they really can whack ya for the roofing accessories. Even with asphalt shingles.
These are my wife's pets....so, ain't nothing too good for these goats! It's my secret recipe.....off road diesel and used motor oil..... No clue if it'll do any good...... some guys on another forum talked me into putting something on em, and that's what I had available. I didn't treat them before I poured the concrete, so it's kinda too late... maybe...
For sure...when I ordered the metal for our house I figured it would be right around a grand based on the per foot cost of the steel.... after we gt all the trim and stuff, it was over 2k
Gotta keep the Mrs. happy...or at least keep trying! Ive heard of using linseed oil mixed with used motor oil. Never have tried it. Cedar heartwood lasts for decades in the ground. Years back my father replaced a cedar light post that was maybe 40 years old and barely any decay on the heartwood. I think you'll be okay.
Yeah that's what I figured... as long as it's mostly heartwood it's probably just dandy. We're working on a 100 year old barn with cedar posts... most are still solid. But, dumping a bit of oil on em probably ain't going to hurt anything.... except I'm sure the goats will chew on the posts now!
Thanks Jeff. I couldn't do it without my sons! Tom is good on the roof.....me, not so much....I like the dirt pretty well...lol
Just read through your thread. I love build threads and seeing the logs turn into lumber and then into the barn is pretty neat. Our cedar out here doesn't have that very pink heartwood.
That's a good recipe. We put up a fence in the swamp for the hogs back in '77-'78. Used old road grader blades for post and we took diesel, used oil and black jack roof asphalt, mixed it together in half a drum, then we coated the roll of barbed wire and the bottom half of the page wire, fence is still standing.
I was asking myself the same question? Ive seen it done over solid roof decking ie plywood, osb etc, but never over strapping?
Sorry guys, I missed your replies. It's to keep the metal from dripping from condensation..... works 99% of the time.....every once in a while it'll drip a bit early in the morning, but very seldom... Without some kind of vapor barrier metal roofing sweats and drips bad.
Those have to be the straightest logs ive ever seen. All to be milled? Any special type of timber size or whatever you feel like when its on the mill?
The end results.... I'm estimating 6 semi loads total in sawlogs plus probably 6 cords of firewood logs.....
