Log Cabin Barn Cleanup and Walkthrough
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- In this video Allison and I clean up around the outside of the Log Cabin Barn, and then take you on a tour through the inside. We had only been inside through the front door, so it was the first time for use to see the joining of the beams that make it an actual log cabin.
We don't know much about this cabin/barn, so any information you have would be greatly appreciated.
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Oh gosh, I would be fixing the foundations, and restoring that barn. What a super audition to your property!!😊
Fixing the concrete blocks is on our list for sure! Thanks!
Jack up the sagging posts, replace the footings to them and then put new boards to weather proof the building. It will make a useful storage facility for equipment. Old buildings like this deserve to be preserved. Once all the wood work is completed, apply a rich deep red oil to help preserve the wood.
Thanks for the tips! Now that we are fencing in around the log cabin barn, we are going to have to fix that foundation. Your method sounds like the right way to do it! Thanks!
Barn from the 1840’s to 1860’s…possibly used for tobacco drying and corn storage..Open slat for air circulation …
Also the other areas for mules to be housed and fed…
Marks on beams are from a "adze" used to square off timber by hand. Many times, the main house and attached barn were constructed so as to conserve resources when the land was first settled. If you have the means, it would be wonderful to preserve it as it is part of the history.
Thank you for that info! Never heard of an adze before!
It's so awesome to watch you guys in your journey to restoring that beautiful barn can't wait to see the next episode
Thank you! We appreciate it! 💗 Allison
As for suggestions on your barn/ old cabin, I would first off level out the post and beam supports to make sure your building is level, on solid suport, anchored for wind, and remove any hazzards of anything that could fall and hurt someone. Than I think it is a matter of replacing where necessary boards that have rotted on the outside, and making the inside and outside weather proof. It actually looks like you could do all those things for a very small price. Oh, I would suggest going to a local private sawmill, and use rough cut lumber which will look better on an old building such as you have, and that way get similar dimention lumber to match what you have in place now. Since the main structure of the additions at least on one end is supported mainly by what is called Post and Beam that is what holds up the roof and primary part of the building. Look forward to see the results of your project.
Very good suggestions! Thank you very much!
Even better, although maybe not in budget, get your own sawmill and produce rough-cut lumber from your property to complete the needed updates.
@@AdamHathaway An Woodland Mills HM series ( Hm 122, Hm 126, and HM 130Max) bandsaw mill. can be bought new from $2700 to $7000 depending upon size of tree you want to mill. Any one even the smallest one the HM122 would be ideal to make new lumber from your own trees to redo this log cabin and barn attachments.
There was a time when weathered barn wood was in demand for interior decoration .Perhaps you can look into that.
Good idea. Thank you!
Looks as though you have a lot of Honey Locust trees, which are very strong, dense and very hard wood. Looks like that is what was used for the old barn. I have seen people use old barn wood to make furniture and use on walls. Absolutely beautiful.
I've been trying to figure out what kind of wood the old barn is made out of! Thanks! We do have quite a few locusts! Thanks for watching!
Allison I’m with you. I ❤ that barn, especially after the tour!! So darn much character in it 🤩
IF you decide to tear it down, be ever so careful. Old barn wood is sought after by many people. I hope you don’t sell it 😔. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Great minds think alike! 😁 Thank you for your comment! 💗 Allison
Hand hewn logs I would have it all rebuilt!
@ 4:30 & 5:40 I would use Those Rooms For " Cultivating Various Species of Mushrooms " !
There are Choice Edibles And Medicinal Types / Both are usually Good for Food And They Can Bring Considerable
Income !
[ There Are Hundreds sources for Information, Spores { i.e. seeds. if you will } Growth medium and Supplies ] !
Thank you for the info!
it's gorgeous! I can't decide if I wouldn't want all new wooden floors from the wood, or the actual project of saving the barn and restructuring using al the wood!
Right? We can't decide either!! Thanks for watching! 💗 Allison
Great video as always. Wonderful old barn worth restoring! Keep up the great work
Thank you!
I think I would call Barnwood Builders...they are so knowledgeable about barns & log cabins.
Great idea!
Looks like most of the beams are hand hewn Timbers and the corners are dove tailed. Could be poplar or white oaks. You’ve got enough materials to build a really nice log home.
Great info, thank you!
So much history on your property.
Indeed, and we are loving learning more and more about it!
I d take apart the barn keep the old wood and rebuild it kinda like it was. Since it's not safe take down and save that wood for decorating a wall ect. It's worth some money to someone, you can sell the barn wood OR put it for sale to come and get it off your land. Rustic look some people love. Interesting vid 😊❤
Great ideas, thank you!
Contact barn wood builders, they save old barns like yours. They are locàted in WV
I'll check them out, thanks!
May had been the first house. If you go down to the original log cabin leave the roof extension for a cover just take off the exterior walls.
Great idea leaving the roof extension. That would definitely make it easier!
The two by four room in the barn may of been used like a root cellar
That would make a lot of sense! Very interesting. Thank you!
My guess is, the "barn" was originally a house. Research at the County Recorders Office might reveal this.
Good idea! Thanks!
I would rent a metal detector and walk the grounds, especially around the buildings. You may find old coins that have a date stamped on them.
We should definitely do that!
4:40 Looks like an cellar probly for potatos, but could be Cannabis growing room aswell due to the metall sheets on the walls to keep the heat and light reflecting, alot of ventilation holes around it, needs good airflow if you going to grow Cannabis.
I would date the barn to late 1700/early 1800's, they usually used Pine or Fir for logg barns/cabins.
They usually seperated the seeds from the Chafs in those barns, big wooden clubs they smashed the wheat/barley and oats etc and then swept the floor and cleaned it thru different sized sieves.
Some water gutters would be nice on that barn to keep the water away from the walls, that's usually the reason why they go away, we hadd an similar style barn here in finland dated to around 1800's that rotted away due to water splashing on the walls/logs, it also hadd a big oven for baking bread and heating the big barn on winter, they cleaned and stored grain in it aswell and dried tobacco some years aswell. The Old "Ria" like we call them here, was built close to the fields so it was easier when the harvest season came. You know it's an old "Ria" when it has a longer continue roof on one of the sides, normally it's upsidedown V shaped roof, but on an old Ria, one side continue farther away.
Thank you so much for all the information and suggestions! Very much appreciated!
Get in touch with Barnwood Builders. They have been working with old log homes and barns for over 20 years.
Good idea they know alot
I'll check them out! Thanks for the suggestion!
Disassemble the barn in order. Rebuild it into cabin and rent it out through the year.
Cheers from the great state of Arkansas!!
Agree, a rustic AirBNB.
That would be neat! I like the idea!
Restore it, wonderful piece of farming history for your area😊
Thanks! I think that's the plan as of now. We may want to hire someone to move the cabin too, maybe near the back pond. Someday......
Cool video. I think you should use the log barn material to build a whole new log cabin.
We love this idea! Thanks for your comment! 💗 Allison
Nice. From looking at the material used in the building, from the nails early 1900. some of the wood looks like 1920 or newer, but some, like in the log cabin and the framing for the barn, early to mid-1800. First, the cabin was built. Does it look like there could have been a second floor? At that time, farmers would keep their livestock inside during the winter. Until they could build a barn. Then came the barn. The new room looks like a grow-op room. The wood on the outside looks like it came from a second building. The roof is new, 1950 or newer.
That is excellent information. Thank you!!!
Save the main beams (all the larger wood) for a future build project. A new shed with proven old style craftsmanship. 👍
Good idea!
used maybe for Tabaco. and the 2x4 room looks like a sauna room.
It definitely could have been that! Thanks!
If you can afford it, you should disassemble it. Pour a foundation and floor, then rebuild it.
I would like to do that someday for sure. Maybe by the back pond. Thank you!
That 2x4 room? I'm guessing that was the start of a grow room. Maybe it was never finished or used? With power right there, it wouldn't have taken much to run lights in it.
You may be right!
The ‘boulders’ yous keep mentioning are actually foundation stones cut for that building. 0:03 Our farm property has a rock quarry in the woods out back used to supply foundations etc for the house, barn, chicken coop and spring house.
Oh wow, good to know! Thank you for that info!
I was going to suggest Mark from Barnwood builders, but someone had the same idea... you might get a metal detector and see what you can find...
Good idea on the metal detector
Very cool. Next time you go pay taxes, talk to some of the older people in there and see if there’s an old timer that knows some history of that property. You can also research the deed history.
Great idea, thank you!
Very interesting building !
Great video !
Thank you for sharing 👏😀❤️
You're welcome. Thank you for watching!
See any name carving? Initials? Those could be good clues for its history. Definitely save it if possible. Great show piece for future generations.
Haven't seen any yet but we'll keep looking. Good idea!
Save all beams and lumber....valuable
Absolutely! Whenever we decide what we are going to do, we will definitely save everything we can.
If the barn isn’t to far away how about for the goats and make a milking parlour to give you milk, butter and cheese from them. ❤️🇬🇧🙏
Yes!! We love this idea!! Thank you so much! 💗 Allison
Woodworkers dream . Boards can be saved.
Absolutely!
Looks like a log cabin turned barn
You're exactly right! The barn has been preserving the cabin inside for many many years it seems!
My first thought is call Mark from "The Barn Builders!"
Good idea!
The cabin was probably the starrter home then turned into barn. That cabin could become a great home.
Very possible!
Dismantle and rebuild using same wood a new barn ;)
I like this idea as well! Thanks for the comment! 💗 Allison
That framed in room with ventilation looks like it could’ve been used to grow Cannabis 🤪💨
Possibly! 😁
Definitely
Those aren’t boulders but corners stones that are cut. I think the interior (not the grow op room) is an original log cabin house.
Jonny Jett would love to fix up that old barn
I should definitely reach out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Great video, I would keep it
Thank you and thanks for your input!
Please don't tear it down. The cut marks in the timbers are from what's called a hand adz. Looks something like a hoe, but meant for trueing timbers. Tobacco barns also used was farm animal shelters. If I were you I'd borrow a metal detector and search the dirt floors.🖒
I really don't want to tear it down. If we do, I'd love to keep the cabin part. The cabin part seems pretty solid but the barn part is pretty rough/unsafe. Great idea about a metal detector! Thanks!
That new room may have been built for square bale storage
That's very possible. I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense! Thanks!
Yep, barn wood builders. And they make videos also.
Thanks for the tip!
Don’t know about your area but around here (SE MO) they back then used cypress (our area was a swamp).
Thanks for the info!
I would try and take it down carefully saving the beams and planks putting them in a dry well covered barn and placing the bolders with them and maybe thinking of recreating it somewhere else on the property or use them in a new ( old ) dwelling just a suggestion. Larry
Good suggestions! The beams would make good mantels!
That was someone's grow room, in that log barn.
It may have been! 😁
I would knock it down and use the same logs to build a nice cabin
That sounds nice! Thanks for the suggestion!
I've restored an old log barn. I suspect this was originally built as a house, and maybe repurposed after a more suitable house was built.
Thank you!
I’m echoing what several others say, take it back down to the original log cabin and maybe see about retiring that to a nice “useable” place.
Yeah, i think the log cabin is in better shape than the barn addition!
You guys should demolished it, but safe the wood for fencing pols 😊
Good idea! Thanks!
New room addition: grain storage room?
That's very possible!
Maybe a weed grow in that room ?
🤣 No idea! No lights though!
@@livingon80 but was power to the barn ...
Small room in the barn propably was going to be a sauna?
Possibly!
Might be old American chestnut, this barn dates to before the blight that destroyed most of the population. Big trees with straight trunks and rot resistant wood. They once made up 30-50٪ of Eastern hardwood forests.
Great info, thank you!
Onward!
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If you tear down barn, keep all the old wood. You can sell it off for home decoration believe it or not, people use it in their baths, etc. or you could reuse it elsewhere. I would tear it down and build a more modern one, solar panels for electricity.
Thanks for the suggestions!
I would tear down all the additions and repurpose the wood to restore the original log building
Having the log cabin back to original would be pretty cool. Someday!
maybe for curing tobacco
Root cellar / cold storage
Very possible!
that room is for the kids when theyre misbehavin....🤣
Lol. Right? Thanks for watching! 💗Allison
Have some p eople that are experienced with barn take downs , take it down safely and sell the wood, save the old beams..
The old beams would make good mantels!
Was the intent of the room framed with OSB going to be a grow room for weed by the previous owner or trespasser?
No idea! Maybe?
Don’t like all the tearing down ideas!! It actually looks pretty good! I’m not seeing a log cabin, log barn yes! The WV people are great!
The only time I will tear something down is if it is not worth fixing or not safe. This one we haven't decided yet, but we love the beams and will definitely reuse most if not all of them if the barn part comes down. Thanks for commenting!
Storage area maybe trying to fix it open
Very possible!
What your barn was used for was to dry tobacco.🤔
Interesting! Thanks!
Drying shed for his weed harvest.
😁
You could knock it down and re use the wood on another one
Absolutely!
log store or contact barnwood builders to buy it off you
Thanks for the idea!
Root cellar for food storage
Very likely!
First I'd remove the barn boards on the exterior they are worth lots of money in any condition, people repurposing. I'd leave all the beams intact. Have it checked for how sound it was then maybe replace some beams or poor workmanship. The next step rebuild using great bones and make it new and great again. but that's what I'd do, it will be interesting to see what you do
Good suggestions! Thank you!
I would fix it again back up
I would like to!
Did you try dating any of the hinges? On line
I have not but thats a good idea. Some parts are newer so I'll look for some hinges in the cabin part. Thanks for the suggestion!
Your right not to let the kids in there it looks super dangerous . I’d carefully demolish it and reuse as much of the timber as possible maybe in putting up a much smaller but safer wood storage building ?
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Thanks for the suggestion!
Restore it.
Thanks for your suggestion!
I think it was a log cabin first then turned into a barn.
I think you are right!
What state are you based out of?
We are in Indiana. Thanks for watching! 💗Allison
l would rescue all the beams and logs and rebuild on a new foundation and rebuild and replace what HAS TO BE REPLACED
Thanks for the suggestion!
Repurpose the barn wood or sell the wood, its probably worth quite a bit for someone wanting to build a cabin or other traditional structure
Thank you for the suggestion. If we dont end up using the barn wood I definitely want someone else to. Thank you!
I would completely dismantle the building as it is clearly very unsafe and probably past saving. But I would run all the beams etc through a machine to make the use able again and build another cabin or barn with them. So much decent wood in there
Thank you for your suggestions!
re furbish sympathetically and use as air b and b to pay for it
turning it into an Airbnb would be neat! Thanks for the suggestion!
Feed room.
Very possible!
you got a pot grow house.
🤣 hmmm....well that's a thought! 💗 Allison
Rebuild it I think you should ?
Thanks for the suggestion!
Made out of wood. St.Paul,Minnesota.
Yes it is 😁
Root cellar
That would make a lot of sense. Thanks!
Slow and careful deconstruction. Old barn wood is high sought after.
Thanks!
What you are calling beams are called logs as in log cabin....
Sometimes I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed 😁
Back in the 1800s they used square nails
Interesting. I saw some online that looked similar to the one I pulled, but nothing exact. I need to look for one in the cabin part to see if there are any. Thanks for the info!
What u are calling “beams” are actually square cut log walls.
Thank you!
Looks like a sauna or trying to be.
Could be!
Repurpose the wood
If the barn ever comes down, we most definitely will! Thanks!
Take it apart And. Put up a new barn out of the materials.4
Great idea! Thank you! 💗 Allison
He old barn is protecting the log barn... exposing the old logs will cause them to decay faster...
That makes total sense. Thank you!
tear it down, save the wood for another project.
Thanks for the suggestion!