Old barns

This barn was built in 1920 so i was excited to be asked to tear it down. It is 98 years old and some of the wood was nice. Iam new to barn wood and thought you could make money fast.


This is the left and right sides. These were added on later and dont know age.

The problem with this is the boards were put on with pallet nails. So getting them off with out them breaking was very hard and not worth the time. Most were short and most buyers want four foot or longer. I did get some off.


Here is the front and back with the wood off. You can see the add ons still with the wood on. Were not finished yet.



With the small scrap i decited to make bird houses. This one i need to cut hole in front better but got holesaw now so will be doing it today. All wood,tin,and hinge from old barn. The hardest part of builing this is iam use to everything being square but its not. I could cut to square it but then you lose some of the look of it. I thought about selling some. What do you all think? Iam thinking milking stands would be really cool. Thanks guys just sharing what we do on the homestead.