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On Sept. 18-20, crews from Foard Panel, PanelPros, and Winter Panel along with several students are installing about 7,000 sq. ft. of panels on the Gould Farm barn. 
Winter Panel's driver Ron Frankiewicz delivers the panels to the job site on Friday. 
Work begins Monday morning to cut and install the wall panels under a beautiful Berkshire sky.   Left: Winter Panel installer Joe Turco of Westerly, Rhode Island, Doug Anderson, and Dale Meuse of J.A. Everard Builders, Inc., discuss the day's work. Right: Scott Mathes, a timber framer in Brattleboro, Vermont, climbs the ladder to assist the wall panel installation.   Left: Winter Panel's Doug Anderson and PanelPros Brian Googan confer about who will do what today. Right: Bill Moffatt, National Sales Manager (left), and other members of the Olympic Manufacturing Group, Agawam, MA. The company donated the OLYLOG wood fasteners to tie the barn rafters together, plus the fasteners for the panels being installed.  Dale Meuse cuts a window opening with a chain saw, while Russell Ley of Scotia, New York, returns to help with installing panels, after volunteering for 2 weeks in July to help with cutting the barn itself. 
Kevin Smith, a sales rep for Winter Panel, uses a router to cut a window opening.  Dan Aukstikalnis, a builder in Louisville, Kentucky, learns how to cut a window opening with a router. At left, another student for the course is Pat McElroy, a real estate broker in Brewster, New York, who recently completed a 3-week house building course offered by Heartwood School. Scott Mathes and Russell Ley hold the panel steady. | ||