The south wall has some outside support as we saw in Day 48. Even though it has three cement piers to help hold the cut stone wall in place, it still needs some support and lift to put the second floor in a better position. What you note in this photo is additional lift spots as the crew tries to pull parts of the wall into a position similar to what and where it was when the barn was built. You can see by the red jack on top of one of the piers that the pier is used here as a jack position.
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| South wall |
Inside the barn you see the braces against the timber. This is to hold the timber in place while cables that you can't see are tied to the sill and pulled back into a better position. Just a little above center of the photo you can see what looks like it might be a steel rod hanging down at an angle. That is the handle of the come-a-long on a cable pulling the wall back into place or at least closer into place.
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| Beamed being braced |
The jacks on the outsde lift the wall enough so that the cable system can pull the wall back. If you look closely you'll see a space between the cross timber and the sill timber. There is a little room to move the outside wall in.
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| Dead bolt to wall |
Notice the saw tooth lap of the two timbers that are the sill. This is looking down at the sill from the second floor. I've been following this gap for some days now. If all works as planned, the jacks lifting from the ouside will help ease the wall in as the cables pull on the inside against the bracing in the photo above. When done in the spring this gap will for the most part be gone, we hope. The stone wall will be built up to hold the sill in place. Then the last two floor boards will be nailed into place covering up this spot and help to hold it all together.
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| Connection point |
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