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Introduction

We started making a new shed for the horses were they can come and go as they wish. In Finnish it is called pihatto. That has ocupaid all our time the last 4 weeks. We had an old cowhouse concrete floor and we layed new steel concrete floor. I made the round and my wife delivered it with the weelbarrow. Totaly it took 6 hours without brakes. The new floor is 5.4×4.8m or 17.7×15.7ft and 5cm/2" thick. on last monday we got the tinroof installed or my wife got. It's not clever to put an 6'11" up on the roof if it's the same for the 5'3". I ofcourse helped her with getting upp those 3.05×0.9cm tin pieces, I fed her with screews and everything else nesessary.
 
#2 ·
The End. Finaly.

It's now 24.9. It all started on 26.8. (with renting a sement mixer. It took only 6 hours for us to get the slab done.) Since then allmost every day has been a workday. Maby 3 days has been lazy day with only 2-3hours of work. Still. I started to be quite fedup. Rest of the work is a piece of cake: digging a ditch for the rain water. I'll put a tube on the bottom and fill with gravel 008. The "door" from the old 'pihatto'. Pihatto is the house for the horses. They can come and go how they wish. The "door" is construkted of 12" wide silicone or some other material that stays soft even at the coldest day of the winter. Maby 10 of those stripes forms the "door" when they hang at the door way. The stripes are partly over each other so they actually form a wall. So I have to take of this soft "door-wall" an put it in the new place. Ofcourse some fuc*ing perfectionist(fp) (that is me) has put it up with handfull 5" nails. Oh yes. I allso have to take the waterbucket holders and replace them aswell to theyr new place in the new pihatto. That's an easy task since this fp has screwd (sorry if this is bad language..) the holders with 6×60mm screws.
So nothing mush to do anymore. I don't belive that but let's hope so.
I have a table Designed by Tapio Virkkala that waits to be renovated. It is a collector who owns it and I rather keep her happy because she has 2-3 other things she wish I would do. So I really am happy that this pihattostuff is in the end. Finaly.
 
#3 ·
Still a few things lacking

Finaly the horses moved in to their new house. It happend on last weekend. Late in the evening on late saturday evening. The only thing that has to be done are the windows. The frames are done. I had two without glasses. They were about 7" to wide but I fixed it by cutting them from the midle and then routing from each side from the midle 7" so I got a matching lapjoint. Yesterday I orded the glasses and before weekend I have suitable windows for the pihatto.
I have a problem with fixing the windows. My ts is offduty and my hand circular saw lost its teeth two weeks ago. I have been thinking of buying a new blade but I have been to lazy to do anything after we got the pihatto/barn ready. It is like a long hangover without the headhammering.
I should kick myself in the lower part of my back to get started.
 
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