CHAPTER XVI 



BUILDING THE BARN— THE BASEMENT 



Squaring the foundation site is a simple 

 operation, yet few are able to perform it, and 

 it is seldom that a surveyor is at hand. Build- 

 ings are so generally placed with their fronts 

 parallel to the highway or the private way, that 

 the road may be assumed to be the base line. 

 Four stakes set in the middle of the road, 

 as shown in Fig. 96, establish the base line, 

 from which is measured the distance from the 

 road at which it is desired to place the building. 

 The stakes A and B should be placed farther 

 apart than the width of the front of the build- 

 ing ; they are connected by a line which is par- 

 allel to the road and forms the permanent base 

 line. Next the stakes C and D are placed, and 

 also connected by a line. With a 10 -foot pole, 

 six feet are measured off on either line, begin- 

 ning at the intersection of the lines, and eight 

 feet on the other line. If the line C to D is at 

 right angles to the line AB, the 10 -foot meas- 

 ure will just reach from 6 to 8, since 6 multi- 

 plied by 6, plus 8 multiplied by 8, equals 100, 



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