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Aug. 16, 2017-day eight. My goal today is to clean the trenches on both sides of the center aisle to past the first bay and to de-nail some boards. Here is one with about 50 small old nails.
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I have about another 45 min. on this and then I will de-nail a board and spend the rest of the day mowing.
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3 boards finished
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Aug. 15, 2017
I hand cut all the ragweed and goldenrod back to some of the main barn beams to expose them
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I cut most of the Sumac trees back to give the beams below to dry out
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This has to be closed up by October 1st before the snow. Once we start getting the drifting snow the entire barn will be covered up to about 3' or drifts more and no access to the annex barn.
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I got as much cut as possible but it was so hot I had to quit.
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front of old barn to give access to beams
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Day 6-Aug, 14, 2017
I worked 3.5 hours this morning and denailed and moved all the plywood I ripped off to the South West wall.
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I de-nailed and stacked all the wide specialty pieces over the gate and swept up all the dirt and nails
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I have 2 more bays to clear. This boards are 16-20' long and very heavy for me. All of this has to be sorted through and until the stands for the lumber are finished then this will be a long slog.
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The 4x6" x 16 ' beams hopefully will be picked up by the buyer this week.
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I still have lots of dirt and pieces to dispose of, and will spend some time today hand cutting access to the larger beams where the old barn was
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I still cannot get over how beautiful the upstairs is, and I hope it can be salvaged. Some of the roof truss' are just skinned logs from trees, and everything is pinned and notched.
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day 5-Sunday 13th Aug-I had a tough time removing the lag screws from the base of the 4x4s. I finally got them all finished.
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some of the bases broke off inside the long timbers and I was able to get them out.
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I backed the truck up to take the poles and bases and tools and saw horses.
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I unloaded them into the barn to set up a place to work
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Here is what it looked like this am.
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I put the long 4x4s here until I got things moved around
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I moved all the lumber from the second bay and put the blocks in there.
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I put the long poles in the first bay west, and added 2-2x4s to hold the trailer ramps temporarily.
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Here they are all set until I am able to clear more, clean more and make the stands to hold the lumber
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This area has the only safe ladder to the upstairs so I have to keep about 5' clear.
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I've cleaned up everything, and took 5 bags of trash out to the road for pick up in the morning.
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day 4-Aug. 11, 2017
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Today I'm going to hand cut weeds and stalks so I can clear out the plywood and extra wood from the front and side of the barn, then I'll mow it down
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I need to remove the boards from this window and the nails
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I've mowed the area and will tackle the right side of the center portion tomorrow
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ready to remove extra boards, nails and wood
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same with the front window
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