You know...

... when you have been mini Doug - That is Doug's joke (having DESTROYED something with the mini digger). Which reminded me if one if my dads favorite jokes. 'What do you call a man wi a spade in his head?' - 'Doug' 'What do you call a man without a spade in his head?' - Douglas. Cue hysterical laughter. He could have heard it 5 times a day and still laughed I think. His favorite was 'What is brown and sticky?' - 'A stick'!

Anyway... we have an ugly lean to roof against the barn which has looked very shonky and in danger of imminent collapse since we moved in (we didn't store the car there for that reason). Under the weight of recent snow it fairly gently gave up the ghost, fortunately not crushing the mini digger that we did keep under there. We were planning on moving the tractor out of the garage and under here too so we need to do something about it before we can get on with the house. Aaarrgh.

It isn't super clear in the pictures, but the far end in the 1st picture and the right hand end in the 2nd has dropped down. There is a massive steel girder which has dropped down from being balanced on the bank to sitting on the ground. The other end has remained balanced on a post.

 Doug used the mini digger to pull the post out. We were a bit worried about the metal supports crashing down and roofing firing off, or something smashing through the barn wall. But it was fine.

Shortly all the metal sheets will be removed and the beams brought down to the ground. Not sure what we will do with them then as they must weigh a lot.

Eventually we will build a wooden garage/shed here but as we want to stabilise the bank behind, remove a tree and resculpt the entrance to the area we don't want to do it until the house is at least more on the way to being done. So in the mean time we plan on getting a temporary canvas garage to keep the mini digger and tractor dry.