build a barn

And it has a barn of sorts on it, but that’s not good enough. I have a lot of ideas for what I want in it, and I don’t know how they will all fit in, so need to work all of that out.

I’d like:

• drive through for the horse trailer to park in.
• hay storage
• air conditioned section that will hold 2 14×14 stalls w/a removable wall and a tack room.
• a tool room
• room to park the equipment (lawn mower, rhino, spreader etc.)

That’s a tall order for one barn. I’d also like to do it for under $5,000. hahaha. OK, not really, but nice thought.

the finished product minus the doors which will go up in the spring. great family project. Came in handy this winter for the Llama

was going up

Skye and Bear as the drill team doing the roof spine

the barn has been framed

surveying the bents. Skye felt that this pic was the barn a great way telling me to get bent :)

zagris as my assistant asking for confirmation of which tool to grab

Here is a pic of the wooden pins we used

When I returned from my building course this summer I started constructing a barn using all reclaimed materials. I think the final cost of the barn was less than 400 dollars for our 14-20 1.5 story barn. THe frame was timber frame and utilized no nails in the structural components.

it took about 2 months

WOOHOO!!!!!!!! ok, this weekend I got the floor boards all cut and laid down – floor finished! top and bottom! All I have left to do is build the two doors (which isn’t happening til spring) the stairs need to be re positioned, and I need to build a stall wall:) other than that it is all finished:) i am so proud of us! Took a fair amount of time.. but we have a barn! Now to start planning the next one….