A holiday off, what should I do? Burn baby Burn.

There was a little rain on Saturday, and Sunday morning was very still. Time to get rid of the rest of the roof. There was just over 1/4 of the original roof left. Where ever there were good section of beam left, these were sliced off, then the cross boards knocked off. We’ll find something to do with them later. I found this same technique works good on the 2nd floor floor joists. For being 90 years old, the wood was in excellent shape.

The rain helped keep any surrounding grass from burning, but it also kept the roof from burning. It took over 20 minutes with the weed dragon torch to get 2 sections to a smolder. 2 hours later, we had a bonfire. The roof was gone, plus a lot of little boards that had flown off from everything. The haymow door was nearly split in half so it went. I few other sections went it too.

I managed to get a quick mow on important sections before having to switch out to the plow on the tractor. This helped condense the pile of waste.

With Farmer’s markets starting, and the Bell Tower Festival, and a good deal of rain the last week, I haven’t seen the farm since. With weather like this, I might have to hack my way back in with a jungle style machete. Few more pictures in the gallery.

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