Barn Work--Replacing Rotted Beams

This week we worked on the barn.  The floorboards in the whole back of the barn are rotted from water pouring in the holes in the roof.  A few weeks ago, Matt helped the guys rip up the old floor boards (I had posted pictures of that).  This week, we worked on sawing off the rotted boards using scaffolding to reach them and prepped the area to re-stabilize the floor.  I have a few pictures to show you the details of the progress.  

Rocky cleaned out the right top side of the barn.  There was tons of stuff in there.  He organized it and swept the left side clean.  Look at the gorgeous windows on this side of the barn.  A neat story Rocky shared was that in high school, he had a huge barn party with his band in the corner.  The barn doors were open and the food was set up in the other section.  Lots of dancing and good times. :)

Another view of the top right side of the barn with the windows.

Downstairs in the back left of the barn.  This is where the guys had ripped out the floor upstairs.  

You can see the scaffolding that they are using to reach the top beams to cut out the rot and replace them.

These next two pictures are shots of the back right downstairs of the barn.  See how the ceiling here is rotted?  They will do the same thing to fix this part.  They will rip out the rotted beams, put in temporary stabilizing columns, and replace the beams with extra strong purple heart wood (from Africa).

Another view of the rotted section that still needs to be ripped out.

Look!  The window is open!

This is the area they are working on in the barn from the outside.

I love the window open!

Another view of the barn.