Yes, late winter of '09, we lost a good 1/3+ of an 80'x125' barn. It was the better end of this older barn, as one end had some issues, that unfortunately, and after the person, (my father) calling the shots wast told repeatedly by me, this was on the horizon. It was insured and we did make it whole again. Funny how the worse end stayed up and the other side went down. Winter of '10-'11, that same end was starting to make some noise, so it and most of the roof was cleared and I did fear eminent collapse as I was under it shoring up a sagging area. The 50'-0" common trusses were reinforced and repaired, it held, but they must clear it if too much loads up, hard to say how many cycles of that it would tolerate. It has since been repaired, but heavy wet snow accumulations, must be cleared. Myself and 2 others rebuilt the collapsed section and given the time of year and what we had to work with, it was without a doubt some of the most miserable work to perform. I will never do any framing like that in the winter again. One of the other 2 on the job saw it fit to step on my toes a bit over me working my part time job which started at 5:30-6:00am, not being able to be there til 9am, and that did not work out well for him one day after he ran his mouth, it could have been the same for me if I had not come to my senses. Long days make for short fuses. He was not a bad sort, but for some reason he felt it necessary to jump on my case. He still works for us in retirement actually or did before a triple bypass, trustworthy too, just that rotten work we were doing, just brings the best out in everyone LOL ! I think that was the most recent and memorable kind of work I can honestly say I hated with a passion, mostly due to the cold temps, snow held off that year, just all the extra layers of clothing, working up high, moisture laden frozen lumber, getting one perlin in place was a job in itself given the conditions and how this old barn was. I was thoroughly annoyed with that guy. I had to take a few days off with a back problem, as I could not walk, had been to the doctor, X-rays, pain and anti-inflammatory meds etc. When I came, back they had taken over the job, and I should have taken it right back, that one ignorant jerk (at the time-see above) caused a lot of extra work, as I had told them to level up the skirts before setting trusses, take some shots with an instrument, do something, string line, just get it close if anything, I mean the barn had issues, don't have to be perfect, but not 1"-2" off like it was. Well I let the slack out too much by doing that and I knew better. Many of the perlins needed to be pried up and shimmed up before the tin went on. I think my closing statement on that job was "never again". I have no tolerance for ignorance on a job site, no patience for it at all actually, so barring getting into it with my dad and this guy over this aging barn (given how this co-worker was at the time)I just let it go. Doing so, just extended our misery up on that framing, and it cost him in labor. I particularly, do not work like that, so it crossed a grain, as that money was needed elsewhere. All of it because of the darned snow LOL !!!!! I saw a lot of older barns and recall a newer dairy barn that collapsed winter of '10-'11 in this area. Heavy snow accumulations will weed out any weak structures at some point.
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