Having lurked on here for a while, I thought it time to post something.
A while ago a group of us built a copy of a Sussex Barn, 40 foot long by
12 foot wide, from scratch, starting by felling the trees - mainly Oak with a bit of Ash.
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of the Oak had to be split before we could move it - a 14 foot long
3 foot diameter Oak is a bit heavy. Takes about 10 minutes with a few wedges and a couple of lump hammers. Initially, we used a chainsaw mill to cut the timber we needed but it was taking too long so we hired a man and his mobile sawmill - brilliant piece of kit. Took him 10 minutes to do what took us 5 hours.
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Oak was used for the main frame of the barn, with the Ash used for the roof. The only timber we bought were the tile battens. The tiles themselves are hand made, over a hundred years old and were saved when a nearby house was re-roofed about 12 years ago.
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's nearly finished, all we need now is a nice large wood burning stove to boil the kettles on a cook the sausage and bacon :)
Phil