The Barn at Pineola Farms - Peach County, Georgia

Peach County, GA

Saving the Bassett Barn

We were in the process of purchasing the old Bassett Barn - The Cotton Barn - when the tornado came down Taylor's Mill Rd. There was considerable damage to the structure, but we still feel it is worth saving. We will be repairing the roof and the back wall that was blown out, then removing the 2 sides to prepare the main structure to be moved across the street in 1 piece. The main frame of the barn is 30 by 70 feet. Check back for updates on the progress. We purchased the barn on September 21, 2005.

September 29, 2005 The roof has been repaired and the sides are coming off. Johnnie Wealot of Wealot and Son Construction are taking care of this stage of the project. They do great work. They installed the metal roof on our house a couple of years ago. We had no roof damage from the tornado!

October 23, 2005 - We are making progress. Saturday and today, we filled up a 20 yard dumpster with trash, sawdust, boards, sheetrock and insulation. Troy Himes, of Himes sanitation just delivered our second dumpster. The 4 pictures below were taken this afternoon - October 23, 2005


Email we sent out Jan 22nd, 2006 The holidays are over and we are getting back to one of our projects - the barn. The barn mover called last weekend and said his schedule is looking somewhat clear in about 4 weeks, so we have to get ready. We went to the barn yesterday with the trailer and loaded a lot of wood and metal roofing. We brought it back to the house and stacked the metal in a pile. We then began removing the nails from the boards. Those nails have been there a long time and some of them do not want to come out. Went back to the barn this morning with the big truck. I loaded the dumpster from the warehouse in Macon into the truck Thursday. A lot of the wood is in short pieces or rotten, unfortunately we are throwing a small amount away. After loading the trash bin to capacity and loading a lot more wood on the truck this morning we spent this afternoon pulling more nails. So far we have saved over 1000 pounds of old pine boards and pulled about 25 pounds of nails. Who's idea was this project? We were wondering about the people who built this barn and hammered these nails 65 years ago. Some of the wood looks like it may have been used before - maybe from the earlier barn. Does anyone have any pictures of the barn during construction or at any time of its life? If those boards could talk... Do you know anyone else who would like to receive this newsletter? We will keep you updated. More Later from Pineola Farms, Paul & Delise www.pineola.com Pictures below are from January 27, 2006 - We have another dumpster on the way...
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4/25/06 The foundation goes in. 40 pier	pads have been poured