Under the nibbed scarf joint on the north wall of an tigin, the wall that was original but became the shared wall with the kitchen addition, was a support post. The post has been buried in the soil for 91 years and is still in great shape. It is solid and doesn't show any signs of rot or deterioration. Martin raised the sill at the nibbed scarf joint to rebuild the support for the joint and to remove the post. The post is buried so deeply that he couldn't get it to budge, so he decided to perform the delicate operation of taking the top of it off with a chainsaw without cutting into any of the support now holding up the joint.
He carefully checked for nails and asked me to double check. Next he fired up the chainsaw and removed a 6 inch chunk, only to discover he needed to remove more. The chainsaw was fired up again and Martin started to saw, but very quickly stopped since he hit the nail pictured above. Once the offending nail was removed, another chunk of the support post came off.
When we dig the foundation we will be digging out the original support post. I'm curious as to the depth that it is buried.
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