Started working on adding on to my little post and beam tractor barn. Originally built it with no experience, drawing plans "on a napkin" 27 years ago as a goat barn, for storing hay, grain, room for a milking stand, plus built a feeding trough on one wall. Later converted it to use for horses, then most recently as a place to store garden tools and park my tractor. Never thought it would last this long. It is all board and batten from green pine cut at a nearly mill. To pull my tractor in, I took the right side wall boards off.
It has a shed style roof, and I plan to do a mirror image addition on the front. I'll take the front boards off, cut and reuse most of them on the new lower wall. I'll reuse the old right side boards on the new addition left side.
I used red cedar posts cut from my woods and now one has rotted through at ground level. So cut another 12 footer and placed adjacent yesterday. I was surprised how dry the ground already is while digging the hole. Also had to take down some adjacent gates and fencing. The carpenter bees were using one of the old cedar fence posts, and were not happy when I started hammering to remove fencing nails. I figured I'd give the few nails left until this morning when the bees are too cold to come out.
