New Barn Project - Spring 2007 (updates scroll to bottom)

This spring we have been really busy here at the farm. Our biggest project has been building a barn on the hill up above the garage/cabin. Jane and I began cutting down the trees that had to go, even before the snow was gone. We had some nice brush piles which we burned after getting the fire permits from the forest fire warden. Then about the 1st of may, the equipment arrived and the ground work began. We found a bit of water under our site, so extra drainage, stone and piping had to be installed. While we had the equipment here, we had them put in a base for a greenhouse that we will build attached to the garage.
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We hired Lyndonville contractor Ken Grant, (Ken's Karpentry 802-748-9475) to build our Gambrel Barn. He started on Monday this past week and even though we had several very rainy days where they couldn't work, he and his crew had the building almost entirely framed by Friday.  Hover over thumbnail below for description - click thumbnail for larger view.
 

NEWS BREAK.......Barn goes through major remodel before it is a year old....
In order to accommodate our Alpaca herd, we have had to enlarge our original structure this fall, so Ken was back for a couple more weeks and the results are the last four photos in the series above....also I have included a couple photos of our 6 foot high fence as viewed from the top Alpaca pasture.
 

 

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