More barn destruction

The last week and a half has really flown by! We've been busy playing with the dogs, tearing down the barn and a quick visit from my sister who helped with some of the barn destruction. I thought I'd show some pictures so you could see some of the progress.

Rich finally got enough trees cut down that we could get close to the building. Here's a picture of the corner of the barn now that we can get close to it:



I told him I didn't want him to start pulling it down until I got home from work so I could take pictures. He was all set though with the chain wrapped around the corner post of the barn and the other end of the chain attached to the truck. Slowly he inched the truck forward and I could hear the wood crack and then...





Yeah, it wasn't dramatic. The corner post pulled away from the building but otherwise nothing really happened. The wood creaked and popped a little bit but otherwise the barn stayed standing.

Here you can see the front of the barn. The corner where the support is pulled out is barely sagging. That's because there was a huge beam that was still in pretty good shape holding it all up.



It ended up taking 5 attempts to really get any good progress. Here are some pictures from each attempt:













So, there are some pictures of the barn coming down. It wasn't all that exciting really.

We found a couple old glass pepsi bottles around the barn, as well as other gallon size glass jugs.


This is an action shot of my sister pulling apart more of the barn. She's pulling on the floor of the second story that's fallen down. She thought this was fun.


Inside the barn. This is a central hallway through the middle of what was the barn. There are little rooms or stalls on both sides. The roof is gone and this part fell in years ago. There are trees growing up in some of the rooms.


Another picture inside the barn.


We found this inside the barn. I'm not entirely sure it's empty.


Here's Jake exploring the inside of the barn. He's pretty fearless.