Well I looked at the frame again and there were no notches on the top side of the horizontal beams...only the bottoms.
In other sad news,
The salvage company that was going to dismantle the frame so that it could be relocated and re-raised had already stripped off the roof and the siding. An addition had been added years ago that held an interior loft that still had decking on it. A storm came in this weekend and knocked the frame down. It must have been pretty strong because some of the rafters and purlin got tossed 40ft from the barn and damaged a small polebarn garage. The barn frame wouldn't have touched the garage if it had just tipped over.
The frame is pretty busted up... a lot of snapped off tenons, snapped purlins, top-plates, etc. Hopefully we can find someone who cold use the hand-hewn beams to restore other buildings. All the material is for sale. Let me know if anyone is interested. The barn is located near Watertown WI (South/central WI)
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