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Doggy Diaper Designer
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Location: WI | Anyone have a barn built out of rough sawn lumber? Siding and all? I'd love to know how they hold up? Pics? |
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| I have seen a lot of them. It depends on the type of wood used as to how long they last. Amish us them. My dad has a small one that he built in 87 and he got most of that wood from an old Dutch style barn my great grandparents built in the 30s.But it was all of the internal wood. I'm still using it today, in fact I am about to add on to it. You can treat the lumber as well.
I will be using rough sawn because I know lumber prices are about to go through the roof due to the hurricanes. |
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Location: Lone Star State | We do and I'm assuming mine falls under "rough sawn lumber." Several years ago, we cut huge oak trees off the place I grew up and had them cut into lumber by a local guy who had a portable sawmill. Pretty neat to watch. We then let the lumber air dry out for a year and then built a barn. Honestly, it needed more drying time because the wood still shrunk and changed a little even after built...there are gaps in the wood where it was once nailed flush to each other. But, it gives character. It really is my favorite structure on our place because of the lumber being from my childhood trees I played around and the fact my husband built it for me. But that's sentimental reasons, I do love the look of it. OP- I apologize if this is not what you are asking about. |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | The inside walls of my all steel construction barn are lined with rough-cut oak 2x12s It is invincible. So hard that it had to be drilled to attach. Horses will only kick it once because it is so hard and has no give. |
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| Just make sure the rough sawn boards are COMPLETELY dry, which usually depending on the type of wood takes well over a year. It will shrink, a lot! Yes, it goes up nice and tight, but shortly after, you could end up with 1" gaps. |
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Doggy Diaper Designer
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Location: WI | Thank you for the feedback this is exactly what I was looking for. To the gal that has the one from her childhood trees can you send me a picture or post one I mean |
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| I was raised in a family that operated 3 portable sawmills and sold
rough sawn boards on a % basis to the timber owner or to barn builders.
Any type of wood you use to build a barn except oak needs to be sprayed or
painted with a penetrating oil like linseed oil mixed with mineral spirits
so it will not coagulate and be messy or moldy.
5-7 year repeats are necessary.
Some of the softer woods are allowed to season out under cover for
up to 5 years as logs before cutting into boards to keep them from
warping and rotting. Note .. that I said as LOGS...
Logs of all kinds of timber are cut into standard lengths such as
8, 10, 12 foot lengths.
OAK TIMBER .. NO CURING IN ANY SHAPE OR FASHION ...
Oak will dry out and be as tuff as concrete in a very short time
in log form or cut boards!!
Hence .. you will have to drill every hole to put a nail or screw in
the board and burn up drill// saw motors and have to get a bank loan
to buy titanium drill bitts and saw blades ....
You cut oak and saw boards when freshly felled and already have
your barn site with standing poles, roof and frame work done.
You unload your boards inside the barn out of the weather or sun.
Then you get your work crew to put the walls, doors, stalls etc etc
up as quickly as possible. Today it is advisable to use corkscrew
nails or weather protected screws stronger than deck screws.
Lug bolts on any supporting or heavy frame runners.
Any drive thru alleyway doors ... use metal swing, slide or roll up doors.
There are no hinges made strong enough today to support the
weight of oak doors!!
When prepped and ready ... have your boards hauled to your location
by saw mill operator. Blown out tires on trailers and trucks add up
quickly when you overload if you try to do it yourself ..
OAK IS HEAVY!!
CRACKS BETWEEN THE BOARDS ... some want the ventilation while
others do not want rain or snow to wet down the inside of the barn.
You get saw mill to cut you strips, runners, slats etc of the same type
of wood to nail over the cracks on the exterior walls.
Oak timber barns last for many years as long as they are being used.
With all things built with wood the humidity and oils from animals or
cooking and humans keeps a wood building standing. I know we have
all seen a wooden house or barn fall apart and roof cave in when they
become vacant in just a matter of months.
FYI: The picturesque farm houses you see have 1x12 width interior
board walls hidden behind wallpaper or whatever ..
Here is the worst thing that can happen to the boards on an OAK barn.
You cannot allow them to touch the ground because they will wick
moisture and rot .. so provide a treated running board at the foot of
your barn.
New green Oak boards cost me $2/sq ft for one inch boards and $4.25/
sq ft for 2 inch thick boards .... a 2x12x12 board cost $50+/board...
4 boards equals one 4 ft stall wall ... this was 5 years ago.
To make a 4 ft stall door .. you have a treated in the ground post where
you intend to put the hinges. You put up your 12 ft boards and nail to the
door hinge post and not to the adjoining stall barn support pole.
Then you secure your door with 1x2 oak strips just like you would
a Z supported walk thru door. Measure door to hinge post and
saw thru the top board ... then mount your big strap hinge to it ..
then saw thru the bottom board and mount another strap hinge ...
now you are ready to saw thru boards 2 and 3 and walla you
have a swinging already aligned stall door. If you try to
build the stall door and then hang it ... you will need a crane
to hold it in place and it will still end up crooked ...
make sure the bottom board is 2 inches above the ground..
so gate will not drag.. lol
If you use oak timber that has been dried ... you will learn to
cuss the person that told you to as you hang the first board
... LOL
Here are some pictures of barns /house .. some built w/exterior boards
from old barns and the one I have an apartment in and a new
shedrow for my lawnmower etc etc .. It was built in 1907..
TAKE NOTE: all of these have the weather strips of wood nailed over
the cracks of the larger boards ...
These old barn boards are worth their weight in gold and take twice
as long to build ..
You will see these protective strips show the age of construction,
better modern tools used today vs all hand tools in the past ..
ONE MORE NOTE: If you build a wooden barn out of softer wood
you will have to protect it from your animals ......... your horses
will turn into termites and chew your barn down ... lol
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