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5 year old buck +
I’ve got 10 different old barns on two different farms five on each farm. We removed some black locust a couple months ago from next to one of them and that opened up the wind to the roof and now I’ve lost about 15% of the old tin roof panels on that barn already. Sunday my PTO solenoid had the wires torn out of it so that shut me down spraying brush. I called the boys over to that farm and we removed all the tin from one side of that barn. I ordered new 26 gauge steel this morning my supplier called me back at 3:00 this afternoon and said order is done already. I jumped in the truck and headed to Joplin after work and picked up the new roof this evening. Me and the boys moved lumber stacks around in my garage at the house with the forklift until I could get at some 1 1/4”x6” material I bought a while ago in preparation for some roofing fun on the old barns to be used as purlins. There is likely enough of that purlin material for three of the barns. I also had some large cottonwood logs milled into 1.5x3.5 material as additional purlins if needed and some of the newer built barns used commercial 2x4 purlins so we can use those to replace any bad ones we come across. Should be an interesting fall/winter project replacing a couple barn roofs and fetching up several others.