Barn foundation replacement

I made a little more progress during January thaw. This beam required a pocket to be cut into one of the blocks: Concrete is much easier to work with than stone! It sits on its own three walls again: I still need to dig out the remaining poured wall so it can be backfilled with stone

The existing footing drain ended up under the blocks because they are wider than the poured wall. And I noticed a restriction in at least one place, so I decided to add another run of pipe outside the block walls. Mud on the outside: Stone on the inside: First wall about half backfilled:

Had to fix the water line that I broke when digging at the base of the hill above the barn. Was a little tough getting through the frost. (Forgot to take a picture until after I had bedded it in most of the way) I made two more plywood partitions so I could backfill this wall all at once: Burning the midnight oil (except it was only 17:30)

I found some unfrozen dirt under the frost layer: Smoothed everything up a bit: Piled up all the frost chunks so they're out of the way until May or whenever they decide to turn back into dirt: Good enough for now

In Peru, I don't think frost typically happens. We'd go to camp at Griffith Lake until trout season ended. We'd bury canned goods in a covered bucket under a heavy layer of leaves. Never showed evidence of freezing next spring. I remember 1971/1972 driving snowmobiles onto the roof of a camp. Dirt doesn't freeze under 10 feet of snow.

Nice little barn, see why it was rescued. Who lives there beefers or hay burners?

stinky64 said: Nice little barn, see why it was rescued. Who lives there beefers or hay burners? Click to expand... Oops, I guess I never replied to this question... Nobody lives in the barn at the moment. I think it will probably be for horses and maybe goats and chickens after everything is back in usable condition.

Finally back at it this week Hopefully the inch and a half of rain we got yesterday and today didn't wash any of it away...