New Barn Construction
April 2nd 2009 was a red letter day. That morning I went to pick up the building permit to start construction on our new barn for apple storage. This project has been under consideration for the past 20 to 30 years and finally, we are starting. We wanted to share the barn-raising progress with our Terhune Orchards customers, so here is a photo album of the progress of the barn. If you are interested, you can read my recent Terhune Orchards Newsletter article about our reasons for this great new addition to our farm!
For the YourTube time-elapsed video, follow this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMLDj62--mg
 Drawing of the new barn by our architect, Jerry Ford - Ford3Architects |
 The finished product! |
 Digging the foundation |
 Setting the pre-cast foundation forms |
 Another view of the pre-cast forms |
 Pouring concrete |
 Deep in the concrete! |
 Dig we must! |
 Preparing the barn floor |
 Some of the drainage pipes |
 More floor preparation |
 Concrete shooter for floor pour |
 Lots of trucks for the floor pour |
 A parade of concrete trucks! |
 The floor pour begins |
 And the floor pour continues! |
 The floor is now finished! |
 And work begins on the above-ground structure! |
 Material for the walls arrives ... |
 And the first section is raised! |
 Some help for the heavy lifting |
 Up it begins to go |
 And on up it goes ... |
 Almost to the top... |
 And there it is! |
 In its proper place! |
 And within a day, voila! |
 Another perspective (and some sunny skies)! |
 A view of the new barn from the peach orchard |
 Another view from the peaches! |
 Close up view of the mortise and tenon work |
 Pegs to be pounded! |
 Another view of the mortise & tenon work |
 Almost makes you want to play too! |
| Another view of the joining |
 A picture of the "kid's barn" for the barn raising! |
 Adding the outer layer |
 And more work on the outer layer |
 Timber framing begins |
 More of the framing work |
 Timber framing on barn raising day |
 Up among the rafters (barnraising day!) |
 Another view of the framing |
 Grandpa Gary helping with the kid's barn |
 Pounding the pegs for the kid's barn |
 A view from the interior |
 And now it begins to look like a building! |
 Another view of the experior walls |