Show 2000 27 July Utah Logan TAB The 14 Page Volunteers work together earlier this Summer to raise one of the walls on the ox hoven BY L “Y v s H fsrtefai u Is tier months of construe- tion done by hand the Ford Oxen Bara is reaching completion just in time for the Festival oftheAricanWest Tt was a wonderful experience to see members of the community come together to honor their her- itage by learning skill and tech- niques used by the early settlers of this valley” said Ronda Thompson executive director of die Amencan TSSS&i- - - builders from Tillers International in Michigan taught four days of hands- on training and classes where stu- dents straddled long pine beams and used baring mills to dig holes m the fresh wood They learned about wooden joinery and pounded the huge logs together with wooden mallets The Dutch pattern bam was built with tools and peg joinery — where beams are joined with wooden pegs not metal nails 100-year-o- ld ed v Good Old Fashioned Gumption Is Behind This Barn Hie bam is called a hoven and will become a training center for oxen and own drovers Visitors will be able to interact with the oxen by teaming how to drive train and care for them and experitiieoxra’ varied pioneer uses Other demon- strations will inchide yoke making with pioneer tools involving steam bending of the bows said Dixon Ford oxen trainer and bam donor “This new facility will enable us to show die public die unique way SKKlS West Heritage Crater is die ideal place to accomplish this" Only two or three structures are built in such a historical manner across the country each year said Dick Roosenberg director of Tillers International a group that focuses on preserving and teaching histori- cal trades and skills especially those that can be used mthirdl-worl- d countries The oxen-ku- n raising was done without cranes even though the xv A volunteer uses a pike pole to support a bam wal bents (or cross sections of die build- ing) weigh more than a ton each Raising them took the efforts of a choreographed team of 30 to SO neoole usine rooes trike L tackles At the drop of the director s arm a team of oxen pulled the beams up while builders lifted die framework a high sis t§v tram them ggy wht f ' ' '’v1 't1 i7 ? irhel H mat are up to 16 feet tall) to finish lifting the frame into place where it was anchored with interconnecting beams After the framework went up the fkxv was nut in slats of wood were the sides of the build-P0BlyT7J - facility will provide accurate histon- cal interpretation during die festival and year-rou- nd Evarybody pKehad In to raise the bam v T |