Wall Is Coming Down

Taking down the wall stone by stone

The supports are in place and now part of the wall will be knocked down.  Because of the large crack and bulge on the south wall much of the wall had to be removed.

The walls at the top part of the barn are about one foot thick. The middle portion of the walls are a foot and a half and at the bottom two feet thick.

WOW!

Stabilization Of The Barn

Entire barn is wrapped in cables

The cables were used to straighten and pull together the barn.

Cable around the entire structure helped to stabilize it especially while the south wall was taken down and rebuilt.

Wooden bracing on the outside helped to stabilize the barn and the scaffolding went up.

The foot of one of the outside braces.

The old and the new window frames.

The bright colored mortar is the results of tuck pointing. The old loose mortar was removed and replaced with new mortar, on the inside and outside of the building.

 Setting up equipment

The process of unloading and setting up equipment begins

Oh! No they are setting up camp, tent and all. Actually the tent is for the big and I do mean big bags of mortar mix.











A semi-truck parked on the edge of the road and down the driveway came this little machine carrying bags of mortar mix. This may not look like much of a machine but it is carrying 3000 lbs of mortar mix per bag!!

This is only a few of the bags of mortar mix. The total amount delivered was about 50,000 lbs of dry mortar mix and almost all of it was used. I wonder if they are going to use any stones in this project? Guess we'll wait and see.