We went from the “high” of Natalie and Craig’s Songwriter Round to 3 days of sorting, lifting and hauling old lumbar from a property that is being sold next week. Craig can not walk away from good lumber. We hauled out 3 pick up trucks and one 16 foot trailer of wood and steel. This haul is not only the lumber, but 3 steel huge lumber racks, steel saw horses. It was a great upper body work out.
It was very dusty work and after the first day we said we should have worn masks which we failed to do on both subsequent days. Not sure if this truck is more Ma and Pa Kettle or Jed and Granny.
Now we need to assemble the lumber racks behind the shop. The spot for the racks was occupied by an old RV that we have decided not to restore. So after spending 2 days loading lumber, we(he) spent Sunday figuring out how to move the RV. He tried Katie the tractor to tow her but she was not quite enough. Fortunately the truck was up to the task.
Here is the RV that was moved from the spot that is not being prepared for the 3 side to side lumbar racks with wood posts and steel horizontal bars to be reconstructed on top of this gravel. Once constructed Craig has a plan for how to make a cover for the racks to keep the wood dry. There is a large lumber rack inside the shop as well. Hopefully the goal is NOT to fill this storage capacity but to use the space to organize what we have so that we can easily find what we may need. We have a lot of lumber down under the trees where they do not get a lot of rain and perhaps we can move the good stuff up to this rack.
Hopefully we will have the opportunity to make use of all of the lumber that we have.
Tamara Unleashed 