Quote: What's older the truck or that barn you are working in?
The barn is barely older than the 2001 dakota chassis. I think dad started his shop in 1998....but he had looked at old barns for probably 30-40 years before he figured out exactly what he wanted to build. It is 70x70 with a 30x70 open area down the middle and 14 20x10 bays on the sides (seven on each side).
The big window in the back was from a 30's Ford dealership in Tunica, MS that was salvaged when the casinos went in. The huge front doors were built from cypress rafters slavaged from the same building. Dad built the whole building pretty much by himself. He built the sides with the stalls and then spanned the middle with arches that he assembled in a jig on the ground. He then raised them into position using a homemade crane (35 ft tall tower mounted on a 16ft car hauler trailer, powered by a suzuki samurai with a winch and trailer hitch mounted on the front). He would build the trusses, raise them in the air, drive them to their destination and nail them in place. Man, I wish I would have taken pictures of the set-up. It worked incredibly well.
Awesome barn, we don't have things like that out here
69.5 A12 Bee, first purchased in 1976, car 169 on registry
69 Coronet R/T 440/4 spd
69 Coronet 500 Conv H code 383 4bbl/auto
37 Plymouth PU
Find your spot on earth and ride it.
