How the Amish build a "Real" barn

The Amish are the finest furniture craftsmen, I know because I own part of an online Amish furniture store (http://www.amish-furniture-gallery.com.

Here's a news story about the Amish building a two-story, 1,700 square-foot barn that's strong enough to last several hundred years.

They cut eight-foot poles and beams in order to frame the barn. The trees were Pennsylvania hemlock trees. Guess what? No nails. Everything was fastened using oak pegs.

All of the wood was pre-cut at the shop of the Amish company that built the barn, then hauled to the work site in a single trailer truck.

Here's the link to the story:


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