TCJatko
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I have a 140 year old bank barn... It's a maintenance nightmare. New barn doors on the north side and the south side doors need paint. The construction is unbelievable... no nails, just hickory pegs and huge oak timbers. Largest barn I ever saw is located on NAS Whidbey Island... used for DRMO, the vertical post are about 4 X 4 FEET of fir. Huge barn that was on the original farm and was once the largest barn on the west coast.
mark
Interesting about the huge wood buildings on the west coast. In Tillamook, Oregon there were two derigiible hangars built sometime in the thirties. As I recall, they were reputed to be the largest free-span wooden structures in the world. Sadly, one of them burned several years ago. That must have been quite the conflagration.