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Preliminary site prep viewed from the north. Stakes outline future center section of barn.
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Preliminary site prep viewed from the northeast. Stakes outline footprint of all three sections of the barn.
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Preliminary site prep viewed from the north. Stakes outline footprint of all three sections of the barn.
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Viewed from the north. Holes have been dug for all corner posts for the three sections. The eastmost 2 and westmost 2 postholes (for the side section outer walls) are nominally 1.5 feet deep and the rest (middle section walls) are nominally 2 feet deep; all are 16 inches in diameter.
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Detail of how posts were to be positioned, and how holes were dug relative to the desired siting of the posts. All strings were leveled prior to setting of any posts, and string levels were re-checked as individual posts were set. The bottom of each posthole was leveled by tamping and the exact depth was adjusted so that the distance from the leveled strings to the bottom of the whole was the same for all of the posts.
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Viewed from the northwest. The four corner posts for the center section of the barn have been set in concrete, leveled, and braced. These posts are ten-foot long six-by-sixes, set nominally two feet deep.
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Detail of a leveled post and one of the handier pieces of inexpensive gear: a post level.
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Viewed from the northeast. The four corner posts for the outer walls of the side sections of the barn have been set in concrete, leveled, and braced. These posts are eight-foot long six-by-sixes, set nominally 1.5 feet deep.
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Viewed from the north. The four corner posts for the outer walls of the side sections of the barn have been set in concrete, leveled, and braced. These posts are eight-foot long six-by-sixes, set nominally 1.5 feet deep.
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Viewed from the east. Temporary supports (two-by-fours) have been run along the tops of the four corner posts of the center section, and the holes have been sited, dug and fine-tuned for depth for the remaining posts for the center section. The ten-foot-long six-by-six posts have been pre-positioned preparatory to being set in concrete.
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Hell yeah.
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Viewed from the northeast. The remaining posts for the center section have been set in concrete, leveled and secured to the temporary supports. These are ten-foot-long six-by-six posts.
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