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Woody demonstrating a lathe specifically designed to make the pegs that hold together the barn timbers.	Woody showing a set of smoothly-working gears that a blacksmith-in-training had to create at the end of his training in order to demonstrate that he was now fully competent as a metal worker.	Initials and year ("J M 1900") carved into one of the barn beams about twenty years after the barn was built.
Area where hay was lifted up into the hayloft via a pulley system powered by a horse pulling the rope.	FTHS visitors to the barn and grounds; Hughston Wooden on far right.	View of rafters over the hayloft. Woody had this section re-roofed last year, and said that water damage is the single greatest threat to these old barns.
Woody describing ways you can date the age of a barn.	Close-up of a section of a 125-year-old beech tree, with bark still intact, one of several like this that help support the west end of the hayloft. Woody said that the proliferation of beech trees in the area is what gave Beech Grove its name.	Woody has a fine collection of vintage John Deere tractors.
Antique horse tack.	1880 Homestead.	Part of the collection of antique farm tools and equipment.