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Depending what type of barn we're talking about. It it was an older pine barn I'd either dry them for three months or put them right up. On a finished pine sided barn with insulation and fininshed on the inside I'd let it dry for at least three months or you might end up with mold. That's...

Actually Dinner was done and had to cut my response short. Squeezing glue in it is only a patch, I assumed he should cut down the crack and make two boards or three boards out of it. Then he shouldn't have a problem running it through a jointer. I know it can be done because I do it all the...

My Glue of Choice is titebond 3. You probably should run it through a jointer.

If it's leaking bad enough to get through shingles tar paper and plywood, That's pretty bad. I'm assuming it's leaking in multiple areas. Really a tarp wont last a year. Seems like you have get some old shingles and Start replacing. You might get by with some sort of brush on tar. It...

If your gonna do this yourself. You really should support the cut joists, till you get all the framing and hangers in place.

I have a 6inch that I used a dremel and made a slot for a screw driver. The 10 inch cinncinatti is easy to hold the other wheel and turn.

I've seen it melt like that from idiots who put their grills right up against the siding. I'd still have the gas checked out. I have a friend who had a rental in Elmira, Ny. He had a gas leak that blew a wall out of the house. He was lucky the tenant was in the shower.

Where is the generator in relationship to the photo?

Wow. That's gotta be caused by heat. I'd be calling the gas company to check their meter. You could have a leak under ground. I had customer that had spots in his yard that looked like dead grass. It turned out that he had a leak. Somehow the sun ignited it.

That looks like cell collapse. It was probably dried wrong. I've seen that before but not in conventially dried lumber. Usually see it in stuff coming out of small kilns.

They do make 4 foot wide insulation. For that matter, they make 8 foot wide insulation.

I'd be wondering how old the roofs are if they are leaking. The screws have came along way from the time of nails and rubber gaskets.

I have seen people take samples in a mason jar and add water and shake it for a while and the different type of sediment will settle out at different levels. Might help you see what you are dealing with.

The pictures aren't super clear. The soil looks like clay. Clay will act like a cup and hold the water. Water will usually end up in a hole if you leave it there long enough. You might need to dig a little farther down and see if the soil changes. You really should do a perk test. I've...

One of my first jobs when I started building pole barns was to clean up a building that the snow load had sheared the nails off and the building slid down the pole and crushed a heard of milk Cows. That's the only reason I'm bringing it up. After that job all the builing we built got extra...