Given all the hoopla of the date, I just couldn't resist including it in todays title. Now the work will seem slow, although it will continue at about the same speed. The results just aren't as obvious. There are no big walls to file in or piers to see poured. It'll be push up one timber here and move another there. All very important and necessary, but unless you are there to see it happen you don't always 'see' it happen.
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| New section of north wall |
We saw this wall from the outside in Day 43. We said that the wood was butted together and would dry, shrink and leave long slits. You can see that even though the boards were nailed as tight together as possible, there still is a little space between some boards you can't see that from the outside.
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| Boards ready to leave |
We have shown material coming in. Well turn about seems to be fair play. The old boards on the left of the trailer are the boards that had been piled on the main level of the barn. They were used to fill in spots for missing boards. Most of the boards are leaving because only a few were needed.
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| Holding it together |
Sometimes chains are used to make sure some parts will not move while parts are. But the real reason for this photo is the post on the left side on the red jack. What's interesting about it, is it is a cross arm from Pigeon Telephone Company when open steel wire was the method of connecting customers together instead of the fiber optics and copper that are used now. The pegs pointing toward you out of the post would have insulators put on them and then the steel wire would be lashed to the insulator. That photo is one for old time telephone people that may be reading this blog.
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