Grain Bin Removal

It has become increasingly obvious to us that we need remove the grain bins upstairs in the barn to make it all one big open room.   Preston and Daniel have been working on it for a few months now, when they have time.  It is hard, tedious work.  We are accumulating quite a stack of nice lumber, which we are saving for some still to be determined project.   My contribution to this project to to take pictures documenting, not really the destruction, but how it was constructed.  It is bittersweet, to be sure, to be dismantling this bit of history. 

 

First remove the hay chute,"stairs" and the top layer of the decking.

 

94 years if dirt, chaff, and oil

Back breaking work

Taking out the nails, stacking up the lumber

 Now the second layer ... 1x6 shiplap

 

...and under that 2x12s, some of which are 24 feet long

Under neath all that is the grain bin structure,
for those of you who always wondered what it looks like:

 

Which feeds into these, downstairs

 

More to come ......