Blog #7

Over the last few days, after the scraping of our wind turbine, we began working with the Bio-Barn Raising Intensive. For the most part, we just carried things out to the barn sight and oversaw some of the younger students in the intensive. Probably the most involved job we were tasked with was leveling spots on the ground by the barn site so that posts could be placed over them evenly. We did this by first digging down, then putting a layer of gravel on top. We then followed this by placing concrete pylons with a four inch by four inch groove for posts to sit. We started with the pylon that was the highest already without any gravel. We added gravel, then made it level to the ground. Then we began working on the other ones, leveling each by itself, then off the starting pylon. We did this until each of the 12 pylons was level. Then we put together the framing of the pavilion that the intensive had set up inside earlier and began placing the posts into the pylons, reinforcing each wall with temporary braces until the other ones were put up. 

The rest of our days consisted of mostly carrying heavy things such as bags of gravel, long wooden beams, and even a 6x12 foot set of doors.