Hertzler Barn Project
George Rogers Clark Historic Park, Springfield, Ohio
July 7-21, 2007


Reports from the field by Joel McCarty

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Day 13 Report


Thanks to a western breeze all day, and Tom Haanen's monster nail driver, we moved discernibly forward. Meanwhile back in the tenon shop, all sorts of subtle and clever repairs were rolling along. While we hesitate to estimate how much remains to be accomplished, we are rocking. Movie Night after supper; but it doesn't look like any of us have enough left to stay awake for Barry Linden.


Photos by J. McCarty
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Captions:

  1. Invisible scarf? Can you see it? Raymond Friend made it vanish.
  2. Just one of Tom Cundiff's many tool chests.
  3. Brutal 20-year-old TE-72 wielded by a weary 20-year-old timber framer. We already know which one will be running at the end of this day.
  4. A harsh job calls for a harsher tool; the sun comes up on an old Hilti TE-72 chipping hammer modified by Tom Haanen to drive those galvanized cut nails through our 2" oak floor. It takes about a second, and it makes a gratifying amount of noise.
  5. Tom Cundiff fully engaged in the Tenon Shop. Replacement tenons and most patches are being made from salvage threshing floor stock; some very tightly grained white oak -- hard, strong, rot resistant and appropriate.
  6. Mystery joint? This is the BOTTOM of this post, where it engages both the forebay plate and a very large floor joist, underrunning.
  7. Park Mason Don Rice (l) and TFG leadership team member Brian Beals do a dawn survey of the unruly joists they will spend this day attempting to subdue.