My dad salvaged an old Amish barn when I was a kid in Ohio. He builrt a huge addition to our house with the hand hewn beams. He rented a truck a lot like yours to haul the stuff to our house.
I run a small woodworking business on the side that specializes in reclaiming old barns specifically for selling bulk reclaimed materials to end users, creating custom furniture (both for sale and for personal use), and obtaining materials I need for my farm. I am still building up my personal farm so this ensures I always have good dimensional lumber, sheet metal, etc on hand to use and produces income to cover other farm expenses via selling the high dollar beams, siding, etc. I've overhauled all existing buildings out here and started to raise new ones specifically with these materials. Its a good way to quickly build up an operating farm without needing lots of money or taking out major loans.
The materials from the buildings in those two videos will raise the new cattle/hog barn next spring and then the processing barn sometime next fall or early 2025. I also managed to snag all the old poles since both building were pole style barns and once retreated with creosote, those will net me ~1000' of fence posts for new pasture expansions. Very little goes to waste.
