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Barn Raising: Day Two
Posted Jun 19 2016 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
Rested (hardly) and refreshed (barely). Ready for raising, day two. Sam takes over at Henry’s controls. Above, I peg together one of the stop-splayed scarf joints on a top plate. A pair of ash wedges are driven in opposing directions at the center of the …
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Barn Raising: Day One
Posted Jun 18 2016 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
June 18th. Raising day! Meghann and Sam arrived the day before and set up camp on the lawn. The rest of the crew arrived on Saturday morning. The weather was perfect. It was time to begin putting this barn up. Our rented telehandler had arrived the …
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Barn Raising: Preparing for the big day(s) ahead
Posted Jun 16 2016 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
I was nervous. Very nervous. Over the course of the five years it had taken to get to this day, the actual raising of the barn had loomed as a big unknown. Cutting the joinery, while certainly a critical part of the project, was something …
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Making A Brace Or Two (48 of them, actually)
Posted Apr 26 2015 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
April finally brought temperatures above freezing. It was time to get back on track with the barn project. The work that we’d originally thought we’d complete during the winter months never materialized due to months of record-breaking cold, so we’re playing catch-up as the warmth …
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Barn: Part 8
Posted Dec 7 2014 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn with 1 Comment
We knew we were close. After a balmy autumn, the air began to change as we pressed ahead with the remaining few days of work required to close up the barn floor for the winter. The daily weather pattern included rapid and continuous oscillations between …
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