Vacation is over and it's time to get back to the barn. This weekend we hope to finish clearing out the ground floor. That shouldn't take more than half a day.
Next we'll remove the flooring from most of the loft area, leaving just enough planks to support ladders to reach the highest siding on the inside of the barn ends. We'll remove the nails from all reusable boards as we have so far, even the planks that we keep to support ladders to make removing them later easier and faster.
When the stalls are all apart, the old bins dismantled, and the loft floors taken down, if there's still time we'll start on the siding.
Siding should be removed starting from the middles of each wall since, especially important in old barns, siding provides some rigidity to the structure. Siding near the corners will come off last.
On Sunday we have an appointment to discuss where the barn should be located when it is moved to Raccoon Creek, so we'll have to leave the barn site on Sunday morning. By then we should be just a weekend away from starting to take down the metal roof panels and the purlins - the boards just under the roof sheets. This is the last step before the structure comes down.
If you'd like to help with the work this weekend or later, let us know. Even simple tasks like pulling nails would be a great help, freeing up others to climb the ladders.
Also, if you know someone who could loan a truck for a day or a weekend, we'd love to talk to them.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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