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Last wall done, all trimmed up. Doors should be here in a week or so.

I was wondering if he meant the E-Crane elevated mock-up deal in Galion? It IS on the east side of a State highway.....or rather was...been gone for a while now.

Let there be light. Windows are working as hoped. This should be much less attractive to bats now. I like bats, but if you have ever been invaded by a Nurse Colony of bats you will understand. Horribly destructive to a building and its contents. While I was up there this morning I...

The constant wind yesterday made for a good day to finish off rebuilding the center rear haymow. Several big beams I had scavenged over the years finally got used, and the white oak sliding doors off the east side were repurposed as the new haymow floor. I am thrilled at how this turned out...

Two more walls sided yesterday. Some of the wall pictured above have full 35' length siding, but most of it is broken up by openings. This wall is mostly full length, non-cut siding. Had to pick a calm day to hang those. Today has been pretty windy all day, so probably more trimming...

I am struggling to get decent images of the interior side of the east wall framework, with the big LVL and corner support repair. The lighting is all wrong all of the time, lol. These are still not good, but are the best I have managed so far. That is a 20" LVL trimmed down just a tad to...

Thanks for commenting guys, its nice to see all the old barn interest.

The beige is a two-toned '67 with an adjustable front beam and Porsche style wheels and ****** caps. The buggy frame I found sitting on top of a semi trailer at a local junkyard, it was partially built but never finished, has a Ghia disc brake beam on it and IRS rear clip but nothing else. I...

Here are some more detail pIcture of framing out the south doors and the north door. I hope it helps show why that one with the floating non-load bearing beam was so challenging. Other south door. And the north door frame. This one sets the floor height for this lower back part of the...

We gave been doing a lot of work on the inside structure at the same time as the outside. Its hard to photograph, but a 20' extension boom on the skidsteer was used to relocate the front center haymow beams upwards 4' to make headroom for the 14' overhead door. They appear left-center in the...

Progress is good. To my eye, the barn looks shorter now. Must be an illusion from those windows breaking up the verticle expanse. Another storm rolled thru just after I took these. It didn't amount to much, but sure looked ominous.

Siding is starting to go up! The side wall metal panels are tedius to cut as the siding is being notched at the top to fit closely around the roof rafters, under the eaves. Lots of measuring and nipping. This was at noon today.

I spent some quality barn time relocating the stone from the front ramp area (and the sides, and the threshhold, and...) to the southeast corner area where the grade needs raised 8" or more. Its a start anyways. Yesterday there was a windstorm that blew through the area like a banshee. A...

Work moved around to the front. Many years ago we put new doors on the old rusty sliding tracks. They work fairly well except for the occasional walnut shell that the squirrels stuffed in front of the rollers. Walnut shells act like wheel chocks in that instance, but a ladder and a few...

Thanks! Its been a long time coming. Stabilizing work done 20+ years ago, finally getting to the next stage.

Yesterday was very rewarding. The most challenging openings are handled, and one can almost see how its going to look when done. Still plenty to be done, but its sure nice having the most difficult all nailed down. This 36" man-door took much longer than anticipated. Old barn - nothing...

I sure could. I may, after the dust settles.

Are you positive this crazy giant crane grapple thing was in the Bucyrus area? I am born and raised here, and that sure doesn't ring any bells. Granted, I am only 54 years old, but it sounds like you saw this fairly recently. Perhaps it was in the Marion part of Route 4? Though I don't know...

Man door and several overhead door frames happened today. This opening that had the temp post now has an LVL carrying the load to the corner frame beam. Bye-bye post. I never have understood why this opening was in the foundation. My Dutch Shepard loved to use it while cruising for...

Weather has not been cooperative until just the last few weeks. February has turned into June, told my guys to help the people who lost roofs first and get to my barn whenever things calmed down. So this week Old Barn Things happened. Old sliding doors off on the ground level, and some...