Winter projects

[Pseudonym]

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A masonry barn, lovely! Care to share its age with an enthusiast of old buildings?

 

[ppine]

You guys have more patience than I do. Working with the old brittle wood and pulling all of those tacks for rib repair wore me out. I like replacing the ribs and a few planks. I gave my canoe away to a local Washoe man. My paddling days have come to an end.

 

[ppine]

Penn,
My rPod looks like all of the other small green ones out there. Go to facebook marketplace and just ask for rPods for sale.

 

[Patrick Corry]

A masonry barn, lovely! Care to share its age with an enthusiast of old buildings?

Thanks Steve. It's a mid-19th century Pennsylvania/German bank barn. Only the foundation is stone, the rest is mortise & tenon post & beam construction, and it's clad in 1x12 Spruce board & batten siding which I just renewed in 2020.


This view is of the upper level of the bank, and just happens to have a canoe in the picture!

 

[Boatman53]

Beautiful barn Pat.
Jim

 

[Pseudonym]

@Patrick Corry, wonderful! Thanks for sharing

 

[Patrick Corry]

Beautiful barn Pat.

Thanks Steve and Jim. I love my barn! I grew up here when the area was dotted with active dairy farms. My first summer job as a kid was bicycling to work by 6:00 AM to milk cows at a neighboring farm about 3 miles away. I have always thought of barns as cathedrals of American agriculture. Loads of time bringing in hay and straw for storage, building hay bale forts in the hay mows. I had a wonderful childhood!

 

[Boatman53]

I have to admit i have barn envy.
Jim

 

[Steve in Idaho]

cathedrals of American agriculture

Yeah, and that one's a doozy!