Thanks to TOCO

The other cold one arrived Friday week ago (my how time flies) and was so enthusiastic to get on with some projects that we were out in the garage doing a couple of Jobs on the Suzuki that same evening....

As ever there were 100 jobs to chose from and if we were going to get anything acheived we had to narrow it done to a couple of projects. The 2 we chose were to continue work on the David Brown and to get underway with building new doors for the middle barn (One openings never had doors and the others, flimsy as they were had been blown to bits by the wind).

Saturday morning and half the afternoon dissapeared, as it has a tendancy to do, without any real construction being completed. We did however manage to get to the shops on time to buy the neccesary materials. The Landy proving it's worth as ever as it was loaded up with over 150Ms of planks.



For periods of the weekend we had another couple of pairs of helping hands. I am also grateful for the help from the neighbours sons, especially handy with heavy jobs like trial fitting and painting...





TOCO was very keen and by the end of Sunday we had 4 doors painted on one side. On monday we took another trip in the Landy to fetch replacment door posts, the old ones were rotten, and TOCO got on with drilling holes for hinges whilst I started grindnig the valves in on the David Browns' head.



One week on, and I am ashamed to say the doors are not yet hanging. There has been progress though, the new door posts are completly drilled, chisseled and painted, just got to screw them in place now. The inward folding doors are painted on both sides just needing one more coat and they're ready to go up.

It's not the first time I've been in debt to a member of the family for fixing/building barn/garage doors. The blogs forth post back in july 2005 reported our father repairing the middle garage door, which I am pleased to report is still just as solid over 2 years on. I'm also confident for the longevity of TOCO's doors.