Feel Like Neanderthal Man

[Anastasia]

We are in the process of slowly putting up a new shed for the horses.........as we are slowly running out of space. Putting up a 36ft wide x 60ft long.

The steel went up in November but what a job we have had finding a builder. Anyway finally the builder started this week..........he works on his own........so its down to us to do the labouring.........

All I can say is that I feel like my knuckles are dragging along the floor behind me.....

Sunday we moved 440 bricks into neat piles for him to start the walls on Monday. Last night it was another 95 blocks. This is after working fulltime, coming home and mucking out horses etc............tonight I started the horses at 4pm and finally got in for a shower at 8.30pm. Moved a further 120 blocks........... thought it was never going to end............

This all sounds straight forward except that it is being built on a slight hill, so when moving the blocks we have to go down a hill and back up again for the next one.

I have to say its great to see it finally go up but my goodness I dont think I have ever worked so hard........ the good news is that tomorrow night we dont have blocks to move. The bad news is that we have another artic load arriving on Friday!!

This seemed like a good idea at the time...........

..........the biggest laugh is that my hubby is busy working away from home daily, so not home until 9pm at nights....................great timing dont you think.........

 

[Tia]

I agree. These big shelters can turn out to being "god I wish we had never started!" We built a 72ft one and it seemed to take forever to put up. Funny thing is...now that it is up, we are planning to extend it!

 

[Anastasia]

Well I have to say the same. In fact I said......."I wish we had built this on a flat piece of ground"....ha ha ha. I think the bottom wall is going to be about 14ft high and that is just to make an average height of wall..........

Its funny you say that because we were hoping to put up a second one at the end of the year money dependant so that we can decant all the horses into just two sheds...........

It must be the along the same lines as people say that mothers soon forget the pain of childbirth.....................

. Well that is what I keep getting told......think that is just because I am put off having children because the pain barrier puts me off...................

 

[Tia]

LOL!! I know what you mean. We have another one of the same size to put up this year and the one we have will be extended to fit some more of them in. Thank goodness we also have a huge barn which two fields have access to otherwise it would be never-ending.

We can't build block or brick ones over here unless we dig deep foundations - because of the Freeze in the winter; so we went for the typical Ontario barn; a pole barn. HUGE poles sunk 8ft down into the ground.....actually we cut down some trees in our woods to make these poles LOL!!

 

[Anastasia]

My cousin lives in Ottowa, and we often get pictures of her log cabin during the winter.........looks very picturesque but brrrrrrrrrr bitterly cold. Mind you, your winters seem to be a "drier" snow to what we get over in the UK.

That is a great way of being eco friendly when building your own barns, using your own wood.........

We in fairness are trying to avoid wood as much as possible, as I am sure my horses used to be beavers in a past life.........