02-25-2011, 01:47 PM
doctorwayne Wrote:It looks as if the walls are sheathed with drop siding applied over t&g boards, with tarpaper between the two. There's a good chance that the tongue and groove boards are applied diagonally.
The diagonal boards are an interesting detail. I might just have to model that in some way by scribing the inside of the wall with my knife at a 45 degree angle. Thanks!
doctorwayne Wrote:I'm curious as to the purpose (and placement) of those four "chimneys on brackets", though: they appear to connect to nothing. Perhaps there were woodstoves connected to them? I certainly wouldn't want to be the guy cutting firewood to heat that barn!
Wayne
I thought the same thing too! I looked at that and thought to myself, "No way?" How big must those wood stove/furnances have been in order to heat that space and where did they put them? I remeber my Grandad used to have an old wood burning Octopus Furnance in his house and he'd keep that thing stoked with wood almost every day in the cold winter months. There was no insulation in the walls however, I keenly remember that the house never felt cold during the winter months.
However given that I'm bringing this building forward into the early fifties, I'll have to find a 1950's way of heating the building like an oil furnance and duct system.
