Timber Framers Guild Forums General General Forum Questions Pictures of a barn coming down

I hope this works - below is link to several pictures of our barn coming down over the past week or so.

This will be rebuilt (well 4 bays will be rebuilt, shrunk back to the original - as best we can guess - width)

http://s1078.photobucket.com/user/Lise_Perreault_Johnson/profile/

I was looking for 2' marks and noticed a daisy wheel on tie beam WX. Did you notice such marks on other members?

http://s1078.photobucket.com/user/Lise_P...?sort=3&o=3

These marks will aid in determining where the old building and new building conject.

I did see some two foot marks with half circles scribe.

I"m very new at this, but the half circle marks seemed to be marriage marks for the bracing. There were some with one line next to another line with half a circle, whole circle, one and a half and two full circles.

I assumed they were marriage marks - but they are a lot neater than the major joint marriage. The circles are shallow "U" shapes, like they were scraped out and not just slashed into the wood. There is plenty of slashing for marking the mortice and tenon marks. These do seem much neater.

I added a picture of one of these marks in the photo bucket link above.

That was the only daisy wheel we have found. There were some circles on some of the wall boards. Nothing fancy - a single circle with a couple arcs interesting it.

Hi Jim, I now see the marriage marks on the braces. There is also clear reference lines at about the two foot location on rafters and posts,some with half circles and some with none, clean lines scribed across the timber used in lay out to locate the position of the timber on the scribe floor.

It is a cool frame, for sure. How much was it widened? 5'?

Hi JimJ.

I have seen this style of framing in New Hampshire near the Epsom traffic circle. I am curious where your barn was originally standing and if there is any evidence of it originally being a side entry barn rather than the current gable entry type. Are there many other barns like this that you know of? Thanks for sharing the great photos.

Thanks;
Jim D.

Where does / did the Epsom frame stand Jim? I'm curious if maybe I've stepped into it also.

The barn was in Weare NH. Right now it is in my yard. Will post more pictures of it coming up soon.

We been busy cleaning the worood that will be re-used.