hey it's pete from cheap homesteading and today we're working on the barn project
uh you know if you've been watching the channel for a while i've mentioned many
times i've been wanting to get the barn up and going i'm trying to get my pasture done
and you know it feels like i don't have any of it done like i just have a bit started
here and a bit started there and when i started to see how the economy was going
and what was happening i thought you know what it's more of a priority to try to get the burn
up and ready where we can actually have animals and a bit of a barnyard uh then get the whole
pasture done and hay fields uh we'll just have to figure that out later um so i thought this
spring i'm gonna start working on the barn project but one thing after another it just
i haven't been able to get to it i wanted to start on it before june 1st so i thought okay
i just have to start on it so that's what we're going to do today we're going to start on the bar
i'll show you so this is what the barn is my grandfather moved this from down the road and
he really wasn't a carpenter so the building the way the building is built it's really quite nice
like they did a good job on it but the part that my grandfather he kind of put it back together
um is where it ran into issue like if you see up there there is no framing it's just boards over
the hole and you know what he might not have had enough money to even do that that's all he
had so i'm definitely not going to judge him for that but we do need to sturdy up the whole front
of the barn and there definitely is some issues with the doors if you look that door
it doesn't shut properly it hits the ground but it's way lower and the issue is this part
is kicked out this way because there is no real foundation it's just sitting on some rough cut 2x4
straight on the ground or on some patio stones what i'm gonna do is start framing in this corner
uh we'll uh frame it in and we'll fix the floor joists fix it to the uh vertical two by four
we'll make sure it's all secure get this side secure and then probably what we're going to do is
get a come along and we're going to pull the door together in the bottom and try to get it straight
the first issue is this door isn't straight it doesn't have to be perfect but i kind of want
to get it somewhat level and it is a little out of square and i'm off by that much and that is
too much um so what i think i'm gonna try to do is i'm gonna just hook a ratchet strap to this corner
and see if i can hook it to this corner um i'm not expecting to be able to straighten this side
but i might be able to pull it over enough so at least it's straight
uh so i can actually uh frame it in and then once it's framed in it'll probably stay
put
i can't see anything going wrong here
i kind of fastened it on the corner
i really don't think it'll take very much to pull this and straighten it
the doorways a little off and it's about this much off so i've got
quite a bit up there but i feel like that's as close as i'm gonna get
uh to plumb on this door because i don't even know if it was ever uh straight so
what i'm gonna do is uh frame in the wall just to fit this space and then we'll go from there
okay so i marked it at 16 inch centers we'll keep this at 16 for this one and
this one the last one will be on a slight angle because uh the wall is a little bit crooked so
to
so let's see if it fits
so this is where it fell apart i started to uh remove the old boards that were here and uh the
bottom board was rotten this board was rotten um it's all rotten on the bottom of there i'm
gonna have to square up those boards and put new sill board and then start framing it in
uh you know this building is old and it's kind of been neglected a little bit so
um the worst part is i was trying to save the outside boards and these two just got demolished
so we're gonna probably have to uh i'm probably gonna have to replace some of them uh which i
really didn't want to have to do the way the front of the barn looks it kind of matches so i
just didn't want to touch it but i guess i'm going to have to start building the bottom sill board um
49 inches we're going to cut that up i have a nice vintage piece of lumber so i think i'm going gonna
cut that one up to use this is all right in there i'm gonna try i'm gonna try to cut that off here
as i always say good quality carpentry already starts with a chainsaw
okay
we are going to make a better base for this originally but i need to make the building sturdy
uh to lift it
you know i should have known that the sill probably would have been more rotten than this uh
barn because it was basically sitting on rocks uh when i was a kid and then my dad went around
to put patio stones underneath them but basically dirt kind of washes in around it and then rotting
out the sill um i'm hoping i don't have to change all the sill around the barn uh but i know this
front corner was really bad i got the front down i'll show you and then i'll show you what else got
to do to kind of sturdy up the building still done i framed it in um i have to wrap around the corner
and replace the sill here so now i'm going to have to fix the sill the rest of the way
so i think i'm gonna fix from here to about here um and then finish framing everything
because then i can make the doorway pretty sturdy and same with here if that is same
with this side if this isn't intact i'll have to change that too but um we'll make the whole
front corner really sturdy uh fix it up and then we can move along and see if there's any
other places that the sill is all rotted out i'm assuming there's going to be quite a bit of it to
replace i'm hoping that it isn't um but man um i mean the barn is old my grandfather had it so
it's due for a little bit of work i jacked up the wall there and i blocked it and
i removed the old sill which is pretty rotten and i have this piece and i think what i'm gonna do
i'm going to cut the studs off at the right height and then just slide the two boards
in nail them all together and uh i'm going to stop here for now we're not going to fix
any farther back than that i want to get the front fixed up and nice and solid and then
we can worry about the rest of the shed after that
so there you go that's all i got done uh i always overestimate what i can actually do in a day
uh you know what i'm not a carpenter so um that kind of slows me down on top of everything
we'll just keep plugging away at it and hopefully the burn uh we just see some major
progress by the end of summer so that's about enough for today you guys have a good