Barn Recycler Tape
Show Date:	05/01/2003 

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	MUSIC: LEO KOTKE Peculiaroso  Track 1
	> = RICK IN BARNT-7	BOTT-1 01:17:52;15 01:17:55;15 [00:03]
	1:18:15:00
	I've always had a passion for these old
	barns since I was a kid

	> = T-76 1:32:26  OLD	BOTT-1 01:19:07;29 01:19:18;29 [00:11]
	FOTO/OLD BARN RAISING
	I have a great deal of respect for the
	people who originally built these buildings
	> = T-76   4:45:29 ws + ms	and these barns stand really as a monument
	BETTER?
	>	to our ancestors who settled this state.
	= T-4 14:31:08 BEAUTIFUL
	OLD RED DAIRY 
	> = T-4 15:54:04 BEST
	EXAMPLE
	>
	= T-14 1:17:35:20OLD RED
	BARN/BIG SKY
	> = T-16 3:05:05BEAUTIFUL BARN
	field f.g.T- 19:17:23 ditto

	> = SYNC: KEYLOWER	BOTT-1 01:05:19;01 01:05:31;21 [00:13]And,
	THIRDRick Bott Barn Recycler
	unfortunately, many/many of these buildings
	are disappearing.  And, in a lot of cases
	they're simply burned for fire practice or
	they're allowed to deteriorate to the point
	where they basically just settle into the
	landscape.
	MUSIC UP MONTAGE
	> = ceilingT-2 	BOTT-1 01:05:51;12 01:06:13;14 [00:22]
	2:08:24:07dresserT-2 
	2:14:09:00tableT-2  2:17:31:05
	And, what we try to do is reuse this
	resource.  And, we can do anything from
	salvaging barn siding that can be reused as
	paneling but we can also re-mill it, re-saw
	it,  we can make it into flooring/trim.  We
	build furniture out of it.  The old wood
	has a beauty and a quality and a patina
	that is unsurpassed by any other material
	that you can get.

	> = SYNC Rick kneeling	BOTT-2 02:09:40;12 02:09:47;02 [00:07]
	This was milled from barn siding off a barn
	in northern IL that rumor has it Al Capone
	actually stabled horses in for awhile.
	MUSIC ENDS
	> = CU FLOOR SYNC	BOTT-2 02:10:03;22 02:10:11;11 [00:08]
	These little holes that you see here are
	from buckshot.  Somebody must have, yk took
	out a pigeon or something up against one of
	the walls

	> = HOLE IN ROOFT-5 	BOTT-1 01:07:40;14 01:07:55;26 [00:15]
	2:07:03:21
	We pay a nominal fee for salvage rights to
	the building but primarily what we're doing
	is we're taking down a structure that is
	becoming a danger toour clients
	Possibly it's to the point where it's a
	liability because of insurance and because
	of the tax rolls

	> = BIG PIECE SIDING	BOTT-1 01:10:34;28 01:10:46;18 [00:12]It's
	PUSHED/CUTOFF
	FALLS/SWINGST-5  2:03:30:06
	not just the case of just going out, taking
	a crowbar to a building and hauling it away
	in your pick up truck.
	NAT SOUND UP
	What you have to be able to do is utilize
	as much of the structure as possible, not
	just the most premium parts.
	NAT SOUND UP
	BOTT-7 01:08:50;18 ~01:09:00:18 [00:10]ish
	Gently guys, (trying to) all right, the
	point is not to produce kindling.

	BOTT-1 01:17:59;25 01:18:33;17 [00:34]
	I got started doing this back in the 70's
	when I was working my way through college
	and we would take a few barns down and sell
	the material from them. Gradually we
	developed techniques for using more and
	more of the buildings and eventually found
	ways to use the entire structure.  It was a
	learning process.

	The closest we've ever come to squirreling
	up/there were a couple times when we/when a
	building tipped a little faster than we
	thought it was going to and we just barely
	got out of harm's way.  This is not
	something you want amateurs doing because
	the learning curve can be quite short if
	you don't get it right.

	> = B ROLL CONTINUES	BOTT-1 01:12:20;12 01:12:34;23 [00:14]
	We come in and we'll strip the siding off
	very carefully.  And that usually requires
	scaffolding the building, making a series
	of pre-cuts and using specialized tools to
	pry it off so we don't damage it.
	NAT SOUND UP

	> = CU CHAINSAW CUTST-5 	BOTT-1 01:12:43;13 01:12:47;12 [00:04]
	2:09:01:29
	Then we make a series of precuts in the
	structure in very key places

	> = COLLAPSE BARNT-6 	MUSIC CX 1662 Track 6 Joel Mabus 
	6:06:22:11    T-5  2:13:21:24
	BOTT-1 01:12:56;22 01:13:08;14 [00:12]
	Then we chain the building up and we tip it
	over.

	NAT SOUND UP FOR COLLAPSE :05
	And it comes over just like over a large
	tree, makes a big crunch, everybody gets a
	kick out of it and if we do it right and we
	made all our precuts properly we damage
	very little material
	NAT SOUND UP
	> = BLACK AND WHITE
	PHOTOS/LOGGINGT-73  2:21:52:01
	T-75  4:07:19:17     T-77 
	6;12:14:27     T-77  6:14:59:07
	BOTT-1 01:02:08;05 01:02:37;05 [00:29]
	WI as a state was blessed 150 years ago
	with some of the finest standing timber in
	the world
	MUSIC ENDS particularly some of the old
	growth white pine.  These are massive trees
	that grew in the northern part of the
	state.  Often they would grow 6 or 8 feet
	apart and they'd be 6 feet in diameter and
	people would speak about them like they
	were standing in a cathedral.  These trees
	took centuries to grow, often 500 years and
	because they grew so slowly the quality of
	the wood was far superior to the lumber
	that you could possibly get today.

	BOTT-1 01:21:03;11 01:21:08;21 [00:05]
	You'll never see lumber like that again.
	It's just not going to occur anywhere
	except in very remote regions
	> = EXTERIOR HOUSE RICK
	EXITS? W/DOG T-2 
	2:23:34:17
	MUSIC: LEO KOTKE Peculiaroso  Track 8
	> = continues	BOTT-2 02:22:30;15 02:22:34;15 [00:04]T
	he house is built almost completely out of
	recycled materials.

	> = INTERIOR     T-2  	BOTT-2 02:22:45;26 02:22:52;05 [00:06]
	2:18:20:26
	They came out of old barns, old warehouses
	ah, all of it saved from landfill
	somewhere.

	> = WET/PLANED BOARD   T-5 	BOTT-1 01:19:18;29 01:19:23;29 [00:05]
	2:20:06:13
	When you work with this kind of wood it
	just puts everything else out there to
	shame.

	> = SYNC     PAN TO	BOTT-2 02:03:29;11 02:03:33;21 [00:04]
	WALL/CEILING
	This is a good example of post and beam
	work.

	BOTT-2 02:04:22;13 02:04:42;23 [00:20]
	This is a little more finished than a lot
	of the buildings that we do ah, we power
	wash the timbers to get the dirt off, then
	we come in and use large power planers that
	surface the timber.  We take a little bit
	of the old rough surface off and then you
	can finish the beams with either an oil or
	polyurethane or good quality shellac.

	BOTT-2 02:04:55;24 02:05:03;15 [00:08]
	There's not stain on any lumber in this
	building.  It's all original patina and you
	can see the deep rich tones that you get
	from it.

	> = T-105 9:16:0   ragged looking	BOTT-2 02:05:16;16 02:05:36;06 [00:20]
	red barn     T-17 1:19:33:15    
	board falling off/hole in
	roof/paint all faded barn    
	T-27 2:03:34:24     mws barn
	pile
	Most of what you're looking at there would
	be in a landfill, this is recycling on a
	grand scale and I couldn't achieve this
	look or this finish if I was using new
	lumber.  The only way you could really do
	this or do this effectively is to use the
	old growth lumber from the old barns and
	the old warehouses.

	BOTT-2 02:11:07;24 02:11:19;04 [00:11]
	Here it's going to have another 100 years
	worth of life.

	> = RICK WALKS UP TO OLD	BOTT-7 01:26:54;02 01:27:17;15 [00:23]
	BARN     T-7 1:17:14:15
	Well whenever we take down one of these old
	buildings and we see it come down, we
	always have a little bit of regret, such
	magnificent structures.  Wisconsin wouldn't
	be Wisconsin if we didn't have these old
	barns on the landscape, it's such an icon
	of the state.  But if the building has to
	come down, it's far, far wiser to at least
	use as much of it as we can and recycle it
	and give parts of the old barn new life.
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