Monday, May 13, 2013

Day 61: The new roof continues

Building or in this case rebuilding does, as oft mentioned here, have to fit in between the rain drops. Friday was a rain out. It's kind of hard to work in the rain, but on a roof with a 34 degree pitch it's absolutely dangerous. So today the work continued as the sun shone. Here you see the purlins almost all in place on the south side. But what of more interest to me is how you can tell the difference between the wood nailed down on Thursday and what was done today. Notice the west quarter or so, the purlins are a few shades darker than the rest. All of this lumber was off the same load. That is the effect of rain and sun over just three days.

Two toned roof
Now a look at how much the barn is being moved back into place. The gap between the stone wall and wood sill will evidentially be filled with mortar. But for now the gap shows how the barn has been moved.

"Hole" in the wall

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