To answer some of your questions: Finished up early for a meeting this afternoon. We also took the rental lift back.
We are located in SE Ohio at the very small town of Fulda, old German ancestry, my roots. The siding is poplar that we harvested 2 years ago on the farm, then treated with used 29wt motor oil, still pretty clean stuff. The door is made from sassafras that grew on my farm 3 miles away. We did run it thru a planer and edger to make it 3/4" thick.
As mentioned, the powder post beetles were very hard on this one too, that is why we had to replace those posts and one sill beam along the front end. We used treated lumber, as a result all posts and the beam were assembled in place starting on the inside pieces and adding to them, thereby preserving the mortise and tenion joints of the bracing and also where the posts set. Bottom of all the posts have a metal pin holding them onto the concrete piers.
So this will make the east end of the barn in fair shape now, and next spring we hope to start on the west end, replacing that sill from end to end, some of the post we think and just get it leveled up as it has settled along the lower side from where we stopped, with the new siding. Meantime between now and winter we hope to get in the woods and harvest a few more poplar trees and some red oaks for flooring. I will hire in someone to saw them for us.
That west end siding is in terrible shape, we are planning to use steel on that end because it takes a beating from the wind and rain, then add in the afternoon sun.
So thanks for the comments and I'm gonna get a days rest before we go back to haying on Thursday.
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