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May 6, 2007, Saturday May 5 pictures and captions by Greg Hayden. Below: Trustee and Construction Superintendant Patrick Myers making a wall appear. Working mostly alone, others helped Pat raise the wall halves into place. We poured this six inch thick reinforced concrete slab July 12, 2005, pictures below. August 19, 2006 we received the delivery of a nice new, to us, Machine Shop lathe the Blue Lump behind Patrick.

Above and below a few Vigilante Volunteers took it upon themselves to clean up our Ashbeck Shop building. Above left: Mike Churchill's back. Above right: Larry Thompson. Below Larry Thompson and Gary Clare.

Above left, later, Patrick has finished framing and placing the wall. Several loads had been hauled in one of our Goats. Recyclable's in the proper containers, junk in our dumpster. Left to right: Richard Green, Patrick Myers - red sweat band. Gary Clare, khaki shirt and jeans. Larry Thompson speaking with Bob Morley, mostly hidden behind Dave Denny's golf cart. You can see the top of Bob's John Deere green cap and his khaki shirt. That is Dave Denny's broad back facing the camera. Above right: Dave Denny speaking with our Steam Team's Scott Higgins. Larry and Gary back in the shadows. Richard Green and Mike Churchill.

January 5, 2006. This building has had many uses over the years. When I joined in 1999 it was our Steam Tractor Barn.

The four July 12, 2005 pictures below show a six inch steel reinforced concrete slab being poured in 1/3 of the building. The plan then was a larger machine shop. We have two? three? small-ish machine shops now. Not counting our Blacksmiths Shop. What we have done is build one? two? Hay Ride Wagons on this large level slab. You can see a white Hay Ride Wagon in this stall in the top picture. I believe the last Hay Ride Wagon built is green? There is now a stack of lumber there to build another Hay Ride Wagon. The rest of the building is now a place to shelter prosaic Museum Maintenance vehicles, fork lift trucks, and "Goats", used mostly to haul full plastic garbage bags from trash cans to our dumpster, especially during shows and other events. David Denny took the picture above and these four pictures below.

This is what our "Goats" look like. That is Museum Volunteer Richard Green behind the wheel. Richard is our current garbage Goat operator. Greg Hayden took this picture during our American Civil War Re-enactment, July 9, 2005. You never would have guessed during Civil War, correct?