What are you making or fixing this spring?

[Joel_BC]

Got a spring project or a few? This is one of mine.

I’ve just about completed putting a new roof on this little garden shed. I’m using cedar shingles — a local product. I took this pic at the end of a work session. The job will be finished tomorrow, I expect.

Anyhow, started this thread to find out what others here are doing.

 

[milkmansdaughter]

Just finishing our new chicken coop/garden shed: adding perches, shoring up the hardware cloth, starting DL...
I put the first hens in last night. I'll probably put them all in tonight.

 

[sumi]

That looks good you two! I'm still busy with my mad shed restoration project (Joel: Restoring/rescuing a 100+ year old shed. Am I nuts?)

 

[Joel_BC]

That looks good you two! I'm still busy with my mad shed restoration project (Joel: Restoring/rescuing a 100+ year old shed. Am I nuts?)

Yes, I'd been tuning-in to that thread now and again. A real worthy project. Just wanted to wheedle some spring project stories from others here too. I know this is a very active membership.

 

[Beekissed]

Got a spring project or a few? This is one of mine.

I’ve just about completed putting a new roof on this little garden shed. I’m using cedar shingles — a local product. I took this pic at the end of a work session. The job will be finished tomorrow, I expect.

Anyhow, started this thread to find out what others here are doing.

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LOVE the looks of those on the large building next to your new shed...those are cedar siding shingles also, right? Your place is, as usual, very beautiful, Joel.

Got a few small projects that need doing...restoring/rebuilding an old Amish made glider, building a small replica of the same from a wooden youth bed for the girls, painting and restoring a small bedside stand/set of drawers for the girls.

Will also help my oldest son build a pallet playhouse and a pergola in his back yard. He wants to incorporate some natural elements by using logs with some branches intact for his support posts for that.

 

[Joel_BC]

Yeah, Bee - those are cedar shingles on the little barn too. And I know you've always got fine & useful projects going. (Thanks for the complement about our place.)

This is the first serious use I've given to my reclaimed pressure tank, one of my 2017 projects...

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[Wannabefree]

I'm making a mess. On par for the year so far lol

 

[CrealCritter]

I'm making a mess. On par for the year so far lol

Me too always making a mess! Spring/Summer/Winter/Fall - i don't need a special time of the year... I'm a equal opportunity mess maker.

 

[CrealCritter]

Got a spring project or a few? This is one of mine.

I’ve just about completed putting a new roof on this little garden shed. I’m using cedar shingles — a local product. I took this pic at the end of a work session. The job will be finished tomorrow, I expect.

Anyhow, started this thread to find out what others here are doing.

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Cedar Shakes.- Awesome! Did you split them of log cookies by yourself also?

 

[Joel_BC]

Cedar Shakes.- Awesome! Did you split them of log cookies by yourself also?

No, shingles. There used to be a small commercial sawmill operation about a 40-minute drive from my place — and they split shakes using a machine that was a sort of variation on a power hammer.

But while they were in business, I leaned toward saving money and split my own shakes using a fro & mallet. What you're calling "log cookies" we call "shake blocks" over here.

But then at a certain point I tried re-roofing a small building with commercially made sawn shingles, and I like the result better, due to the smoothness & more uniform taper of the shingles.