Pine Barn #2

Swing Beam, 2020

Measures 30’ x 50’

This is a new frame cut from white pine and organized into five longitudinal bays with a central drive bay, a type referred to as a swing beam barn. Traditionally, these were side entrance barns with wide threshing floors for animal powered threshing devices. The swing beam allowed the threshing floor to extend into the next bay without any interior posts in the way creating here a nearly 20' wide bay. This barn is framed according to the “Square Rule” and is very well-suited to become an open and inviting living space.