Here's where we got today with the barn de-contruction:
Billy Dighton is taking my barn apart just the way I'd hoped he would. I got my building permit about a week ago, having decided to take the barn down and rebuild with the good pieces. It is quite fun to expose the old structure, and to see how it was done 'then' - whenever that was. Barbara Rumsey thinks it was in the 20's or 30's that the barn was built, and it was built out of other older barn pieces. So it had no post and beam integrity, but there are wonderful pieces here and there, which we will reuse.
The shed is a bit of a mystery though. It is a double - walled structure on the far end of the barn, and has been a real problem to break apart. We're not sure what it was used for - a milking shed? a cooler place? a pig pen? Who knows? But it is a definite challenge to bring down. Tomorrow , the frame will come apart, and we'll save the good beams, posts and knees.
The interesting part of the second floor was that all the boards had simply been mortised into each other, and laid down on the beam/joists. No nails were used, so we saved those boards to use as siding or finish somewhere. They are great.
More action tomorrow!
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