Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

[Lineman North Florida]

Mr. Lineman, that's a trim, good looking storage area. What size is that?

And kindly, what dimension are your purlins?

Are you rated (or code inspected) for any hurricane force winds?

This barn is 60' long x 40' wide, the purlins are 2 x 6's and the bays are 12' wide between the 8 x 8 post with a 14' eave height. This is an ag barn so no permit required but this one is engineered to 130 MPH wind codes, supposedly, my other barn is almost just like this one with the exception that it has a 4/12 roof pitch instead of a 3/12 , I built it in 2006 and it has withstood several hurricanes so far, knock on wood.

 

[BackRoad]

Thank you Sir!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Been doing some mulching jobs, forestry mowing some interior roads that had grown up and were impassable on a customer's property and a long limerock driveway job. Hope everyone is having a good week. God bless. Charlie.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

We today was my day for a job I do once a year every year in the fall, annual fish pond cleanup. I bush hogged the field last week and used the skid steer and forestry mower to cleanup around the pond this morning , only casualty was a big cotton mouth moccasin, also had a curious one horned buck that looks like he is beginning to go into rut judging from his swollen neck.

 

[EddieWalker]

Reminds me that I need to do my last mowing around my fishing pond. Hopefully I'll get a few snakes too!!!!

 

[workinonit]

I really don't like killing snakes that aren't too close to the house. They sure do keep the rat population down.

 

[EddieWalker]

I have chickens. When chickens go to sleep at night, the mice take over and eat all the chicken food that they want. The snakes show up to eat the mice and then they tell their friends, and more snakes show up. Eventually you end up with a year like we had with over 40 snakes killed by myself, my wife and my mom, combined!!!! Fortunately, that's when the cats showed up. Just one pregnant calico that somebody dumped. She had her babies and started hunting. Then her babies started hunting. Then a boy cat showed up, and she got pregnant again, and some of her babies had babies. By the time we had 20 cats, the mice were gone the snakes went somewhere else to hunt mice. This year we only killed two snakes, which has become our yearly average.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I really don't like killing snakes that aren't too close to the house. They sure do keep the rat population down.

This particular old big cottonmouth stretched out and acted like he owned the place and a snake that doesn't show any fear has got to go, so I brung the wrath down on him.

 

[Molalla1]

I have chickens. When chickens go to sleep at night, the mice take over and eat all the chicken food that they want. The snakes show up to eat the mice and then they tell their friends, and more snakes show up. Eventually you end up with a year like we had with over 40 snakes killed by myself, my wife and my mom, combined!!!! Fortunately, that's when the cats showed up. Just one pregnant calico that somebody dumped. She had her babies and started hunting. Then her babies started hunting. Then a boy cat showed up, and she got pregnant again, and some of her babies had babies. By the time we had 20 cats, the mice were gone the snakes went somewhere else to hunt mice. This year we only killed two snakes, which has become our yearly average.

I consider my barn/shop cats a must Eddie, they are killing machines and for the most part, they keep it clean.