Barn foundation replacement

[materthegreater]

I made a little more progress during January thaw.

This beam required a pocket to be cut into one of the blocks:


Concrete is much easier to work with than stone!


It sits on its own three walls again:


I still need to dig out the remaining poured wall so it can be backfilled with stone

 

[materthegreater]

The existing footing drain ended up under the blocks because they are wider than the poured wall. And I noticed a restriction in at least one place, so I decided to add another run of pipe outside the block walls.



Mud on the outside:


Stone on the inside:


First wall about half backfilled:

 

[materthegreater]

Had to fix the water line that I broke when digging at the base of the hill above the barn. Was a little tough getting through the frost. (Forgot to take a picture until after I had bedded it in most of the way)



I made two more plywood partitions so I could backfill this wall all at once:


Burning the midnight oil (except it was only 17:30)

 

[materthegreater]

I found some unfrozen dirt under the frost layer:


Smoothed everything up a bit:


Piled up all the frost chunks so they're out of the way until May or whenever they decide to turn back into dirt:


Good enough for now

 

[Willie B]

In Peru, I don't think frost typically happens. We'd go to camp at Griffith Lake until trout season ended. We'd bury canned goods in a covered bucket under a heavy layer of leaves. Never showed evidence of freezing next spring.
I remember 1971/1972 driving snowmobiles onto the roof of a camp. Dirt doesn't freeze under 10 feet of snow.

 

[stinky64]

Nice little barn, see why it was rescued. Who lives there beefers or hay burners?

 

[materthegreater]

Nice little barn, see why it was rescued. Who lives there beefers or hay burners?

Oops, I guess I never replied to this question... Nobody lives in the barn at the moment. I think it will probably be for horses and maybe goats and chickens after everything is back in usable condition.

 

[materthegreater]

Finally back at it this week





Hopefully the inch and a half of rain we got yesterday and today didn't wash any of it away...