I have just recently acquired a German built barn in northern indiana. The owner told me it was built shortly after the civil war.
It is 45 by 65 feet long. With a slate roof. It appears to be constructed of poplar with some oak braces. The basic shap is a rectangular box with "flying braces" holding two 65 feet long handhewn six by six beams.
Their are four bents spaced fifteen feet 9 inches apart. The sill plates and all long beams are hand hewn. The third support post settled a bit causing a fracture in the long roof beam the top part of the beam has sprung freeing the mortise. The other one is cracked there in the same place.
I intend to disasemble the barn and rebuild it as a house in Kentucky. I am an experienced wood worker but I have never disasembeled so massive a structure. Are their any references or support available? How do I put a salvage value on it?
Greg Stephens