These "before" pictures were taken by photographer Gary Hamburgh. Doesn't he have some beautiful shots of the barn and the clouds!I don't think you can see it but much of the area around the barn was on a slope. Nothing was level or smooth.
In front of the barn is a runoff ditch that rarely has water in it. The first thing we did was bring in a bulldozer (CD Thacker Excavating) to create some level areas. They laid culvert in one section of the ditch and covered it up so we could create another large smooth area.to the south of the barn.
This area had lots of weeds and behind the barn were piles of rolled up fencing wire, fence posts and more "stuff" that accumulates in a barnyard. Before the excavators came in we sorted through all of the stuff and stored what could be used at some point, and took the rest to the dump.
Even with all that work, when Thackers started moving soil around he found remains of machinery. Bear in mind the Winn's have historically kept a clean farm. They aren't ones to keep piles of stuff around. It was interesting what we found under the surface.
4 comments:
Beautiful. That's all I can say!
I LOVE the picture with the fluffly white clouds! I just made it my computer desktop background.
Thanks for including me on this journey. I'm so glad to see the beautiful barn put to good use.
It's always fun to see the different photo perspectives of the barn. Every one is a new and fresh view. I agree with Alicia, the white fluffy clouds are beautiful!
Wow, that photo of the barn with the fluffy white clouds is just amazing. I'm so happy you started this blog so we can all keep up on your progress. It is so exciting to think that the barn is going to be used again!
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