Today we take another look inside the barn as more jacks have been put in place. The jacks are literally becoming a 'forest' of trees. These jacks are very important as the weight of the barn is moved off at least part of its base so a new wall can be built to set the second story on.
If you look carefully you'll seee both cribbing and bracing. Cribbing are all the boards that go every which way that are stablizing and holding the barn together as the work of fixing it up goes on. It is as much for the safety of the workers as it is for the 'safety' of the barn. Cribbing will be removed as the barn is put back in place. If you look to the right of the opening you'll see what looks like a white post that kind of hop scotches up the wall. There's a bottom up right. Then to the right is another post that goes up a ways. And then there is another piece just to the left of that one. That is bracing and will stay. When I asked the obvious question, I got the answer, "Because the bracing is permenant it needs to be pegged into place and you can't do that if it's nice and neat and straight." It's just a different definition of neatness.
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