Well, it's done. After two months of hard labor, the barn is down, the salvageable wood has been sorted, stripped, stacked, loaded and transported, and all that's left is scrap.
We managed to find and scrap quite a bit of old metal, but kept all the tin off the roof to use later. If we change our minds, it can always be scrapped, too...but old, partially rusty tin in good condition is hard to find, and lends so much character to a rustic piece...which we're looking to do.
A very odd side line....these black mushrooms seemed to have popped up everywhere! I thought they were beautiful...in a creepy sort of way, so I snapped a few shots as I went.
What lumber we couldn't salvage for reuse, we stacked up in a huge pile to be burned by the owners at a later date. Since burning in Johnson County in the middle of summer requires a burn permit, they graciously agreed to handle that bit theirselves.
That just left us to do the final clean-up. So after much tidying of trash piles, and running the magnet over (and over....and over) the grass and driveway to pick up any loose nails and screws, we declared this project "done".
Quite a burn pile left, I must say....but barns this old and rotted wind up with a lot of unusable scrap left over. It's the nature of the game....if the wood was all good, there'd be no reason to tear down the barn!
Nothing left to do but pack up the tools, the hubby, and the mutt, and drive off into the sunset, congratulating ourselves on a job well done.
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