Author Archives: Ed Stembridge
Post Frame Shop – Truss Set to First Steel
When we last left our story, the post holes had just been filled with concrete and were setting up. After a couple days of rain stopped work, I spent a couple more hours excavating the site to get it more level within the building line. My brother-in-law and his wife joined us for a couple weeks and we started by… Read more »
Post-frame Shop – Setting Posts
Want to lose 7 pounds in four days? Set posts! After checking and re-checking my batter board string dimensions and watching a few YooToob videos, I tackled the first post this past Tuesday afternoon.
Post-frame Shop – Design & Site Prep
When we downsized to our 3BR house on one acre in Mid-southern Tennessee, we quickly filled the two-car detached garage to the point we could barely walk through. Cars, tractors and implements, trailers and other yard equipment have had to live out in the weather, waiting until I could build a post-frame shop (pole barn).
A Model of Christian Charity
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the… Read more »
Injustice
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” ~Frederick Douglas
If I Were the Devil…
“If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of its real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d… Read more »