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East of Broken Bow | Yes, clean out everything you can first.
Next, depending on where you are, there may or may not be value, the key is finding the right market.
We took a barn apart years ago. My dad had just retired, mom was sick, and dad wanted some busy work in between mom's treatments. Something to keep him occupied but that he could stop at a moment's notice if mom needed help.
Someone took the roof down for the steel. Then we dropped the haymow, and laid the walls down, and dad started pulling nails. About a month later, we had piles of lumber, and buckets of old nails. Once the nails were pulled and the lumber somewhat sorted, we sold the siding to someone who was restoring an old barn. Inside was some really nice lumber, like 24 foot long 2X8s without a knot in them. They actually started out at 26 footers, after cutting off the nail holes and splits on the end they were a bit over 24 feet long. Used them and a bunch of other lumber from the barn in an open front storage shed I built, probably 2/3 of the lumber used in it.
Now, had I not had a use for the wood, the selling price of used lumber wouldn't have paid dad much more than a couple $$$ per hour, but he needed the distraction, and between what we sold and what we saved by not having to buy new lumber for my open front I would say we got maybe $400-$500 worth out of it. We then spent about the equivalent of half that cleaning up the old site, paying ourselves minimum wage and using half custom rental rates for the skid steer doing cleanup. Had we ruined a tire on the skid steer, it probably would have been a wash.
Long story short, I don't think I would do that again, as I don't have the time to pull nails, no one I could hire could do it for anything but a loss, and the people who will take it apart for the lumber are few and far between. If you have an offer from someone to take it apart for the materials, I would jump on it. Otherwise, the best thing to do if it has a dirt floor is to dig a hole in the floor under it, then either burn it and push the remains in the hole, or push it in the hole and then burn it. | |
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Old barn removal
