Siding

The barn siding is all rough cut red and white pine, plus a little spruce and cedar mixed in.  Here is our very first wall, on August 12.

Here is Jim Vogt of Stumpy's Wood Works cutting up a log for us.  We took immediate delivery of the wood after it was cut and managed to get most of it on the barn within a couple weeks.  We specified random width boards, which worked out really well.  I never ripped a single board.  To match a horizontal length, you just go through the lumber pile until you find the right combination of widths to fill in the area.  This also makes very efficient use of the logs.

Mom and Maria nailed up most of the siding, they made a great team.  It's nice having Phd's to do this kind of precision work.

The barn sashes slide directly on the framing girts, held in place by the siding and small furing strips.

Here is my nephew Henry pounding a batten into place.  We held the siding up with one nail per girt, directly in the middle of the boards.  The battens then got one nail per girt, with the nail passing between the two boards.  This scheme should allow the boards to shrink without cracking as they dry out.

Gus like to use two hands.

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