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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [24.32.202.166] on Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 03:27:52 :
In Reply to: funky repairs posted by Jerry in Idaho [24.223.94.244] on Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 01:15:19 :
My grandpa would do things like that. He knew he wasn't a very good carpenter. He built a big barn when he bought his farm. For footings, he used large flat river rocks under the posts. The main post at one end that went clear to the peak of the central post was about a 16x16 timber. Unfortunately the timber he got was a couple feet too short. So he put a big round river rock on top of the flat one there, and stood the post on end on top of the round rock. I never could figure out how he got it to to stay in place until the rest of the barn was sufficiently complete to hold the post up. I wish I'd taken a picture of it. I went by a few years ago and someone had torn the barn down. Probably sold the old "barn boards" to some interior decorator.
He did something similar with the house. The house consisted of three small houses that he obtained in various places, skidded across the fields from town using his donkey engine, sat on round river rocks for a footing, and nailed together. By the time I knew the place, the trees around the house and grown up and the rocks had settled in, but my dad said when he was a boy, when the wind blew hard, the house would roll back and forth on its "ball bearing" footings and it was like sleeping on a boat.