Day 47: Final posts getting in place

New support posts

If you go back to Day 30, Day 28 and a few other days, we see so many posts in the barn they were referred to as a 'forest' of trees. As the crew was fixing, arranging and adjusting the barn, these temporary posts were moved here and there as necessary. Here we see some the permenant posts in place. If you could see the bottoms of the posts, you would see they are in place because they are standig on cement and covered with tar to help extend their life. Once the grade is set the posts will have tar on them up high enough to give protection from the cement when it is poured.

East section of  barn

The east section is seen here after it was raised to its new height. The floor logs were lifted and new 8x10 timbers were laid on top of the existing timber 'raising the roof' accordingly. In a recent blog we mentioned that the flooring in the center section would be lifted and be used to do at least part of the east section. Then new lumber would finish the east and do the center. Well the 'at least part' is a lot less than we thought it would be. The center floor boards although they were sturdy enough in place, when pulled apart the individual boards were not in as good a shape as we thought. There will be a need to increase the order on the number of 2x8x16 boards for the floor.