A Nice Farmstead
Mar 14, 2022 18:40:19 #
This one is in southern Grant County, Indiana. The download is sharper.
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bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
Like checking out the construction methods used on old barns. As a boy my dad’s job was to make the wooden pegs used on the mortise and tenon joints on post and beam construction. Interesting thing is the mortises and tenons were all cut on the ground and then assembled with the frame in the air. Those old Germans craftsmen had an excellent handle on geometry.
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jpgto wrote:
A beauty it is! Huge too!
Thanks, Jeff. That small attachment on the front has milk house written all over it. I am pretty sure this was a dairy barn.
Mar 14, 2022 23:50:58 #
bikinkawboy wrote:
Like checking out the construction methods used on old barns. As a boy my dad’s job was to make the wooden pegs used on the mortise and tenon joints on post and beam construction. Interesting thing is the mortises and tenons were all cut on the ground and then assembled with the frame in the air. Those old Germans craftsmen had an excellent handle on geometry.
You are correct. Working with my dad doing carpentry work during the summers while in school we worked on a couple of the old fellows. Many of those peg holes were a bit offset, and the pegs were driven in green or water-soaked, giving them a slight crook and making them nearly impossible to remove. They had to be cut.
Mar 14, 2022 23:51:54 #
kpmac wrote:
Beautiful. And this one isn't falling down, John.
No, it isn’t, Ken. It appears to be well-taken care of.
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jaymatt wrote:
This one is in southern Grant County, Indiana. The download is sharper.
Mar 15, 2022 07:56:29 #
jaymatt wrote:
This one is in southern Grant County, Indiana. The download is sharper.
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