The Barns Come Home

Early Saturday morning Ashley, his dad and two of their employees moved the second barn to our land. Here is the barn, ready to go, sitting in the misty field. What an amazing picture!

Ashley drove his truck ahead of the truck hauling the barn. Even though they were out before most folks had had their breakfast, they wanted to be as careful as possible on the 5 mile drive to our land. Some drivers heeded his flashing lights; others sped by but quickly slowed down when they realized they were about to run into a barn!

And here the barn sits on temporary blocks on our land.

If you recall from my previous post, one of the other barns had already been hauled to our land on Friday. When I got to the land Saturday morning with the boys, Ashley and his dad were waiting on me to help decide where to place it.

 

Here is the barn, waiting patiently on the trailer.

 It was pretty rickety...needed a lot of bracing for the journey.

Backed into place.

Bobcat and CAT skidsteers in place to pick the barn up. 

Lowered to the ground...deciding what to do about the foundation.

One wall buckled when the barn was set back down.

After a little more work, they were able to fix the wall. But I didn't get a picture! I'll take one later. Both barns look perfect on our land--almost like they've always been there.

Check out the the video I made of the barn being moved! It's a little jumpy because I used my regular camera AND I was holding our very wiggly 7 month-old!

The other two structures were not able to be moved via trailer. We'll have to decide how we want to use them now that they've been dismantled.