Mudfarmer
Gold Member
- Joined
- Dec 31, 2009
- Messages
- 382
- Location
- Western Washington
- Tractor
- JD 3005, Kubota B2710, Kubota B2650 (sold the ford 1700 and kubota B7100)
So, since Mike is going to be occupying the garage for his auto restoration avocation, we needed a building to house the tractor and yard tools. These five pictures indicate the progress Mike, Akiko and Jim made over five days. The first photo was actually taken on the start of the second day reflecting our concrete work of day one. The other four pictures demonstrate daily progress up to Saturday afternoon. All the wood is salvaged from the old buildings previously torn down. Even some of the old nails are being reused.
The long beams being raised in the third picture are old growth Douglas fir probably over 100 years old. They show at least 100 narrow growth rings in cross-section but not the center of the tree from which they were cut! Judging by the tenon joints that were on them, they were already completing their second use when we salvaged them from the demolished house. Thus this barn includes third generation salvage.
Of course it is no yet finished. We will be sheeting the roof with salvaged siding from the old garage and then roofing it to match the house and new garage. We will side it with western red cedar boards that Akiko and Jim (Mudfarmer) had milled from timber on our tree farm in 1981. The neighbor across the street has donated his old cedar fence to the project for the bats [on the board and bat siding]. (Akiko spent half the day pulling nails on the old fencing today.) Mike is contributing the wood burner to be installed after the cement floor and roof are done. Dimensions are 18 feet 2 inches by 11 feet resulting in 199 square feet plus change, just short of the >200 square feet that requires a building permit.
Our thanks to Mike for his excellent carpentry. Jim gets [a little] credit through photo three (note the inspired use of a tractor). Mike gets [a lot of] credit for the rafters and trusses put in place on days four and five.
It was christened "The Barn."
The long beams being raised in the third picture are old growth Douglas fir probably over 100 years old. They show at least 100 narrow growth rings in cross-section but not the center of the tree from which they were cut! Judging by the tenon joints that were on them, they were already completing their second use when we salvaged them from the demolished house. Thus this barn includes third generation salvage.
Of course it is no yet finished. We will be sheeting the roof with salvaged siding from the old garage and then roofing it to match the house and new garage. We will side it with western red cedar boards that Akiko and Jim (Mudfarmer) had milled from timber on our tree farm in 1981. The neighbor across the street has donated his old cedar fence to the project for the bats [on the board and bat siding]. (Akiko spent half the day pulling nails on the old fencing today.) Mike is contributing the wood burner to be installed after the cement floor and roof are done. Dimensions are 18 feet 2 inches by 11 feet resulting in 199 square feet plus change, just short of the >200 square feet that requires a building permit.
Our thanks to Mike for his excellent carpentry. Jim gets [a little] credit through photo three (note the inspired use of a tractor). Mike gets [a lot of] credit for the rafters and trusses put in place on days four and five.
It was christened "The Barn."
