This is very simple I realize and maybe not what you had in mind for your contest but the simplicity is what I favor here. For the most part all the wood started this project in it’s round form, that is as a tree stem which is always the case only here that is how I first encountered the wood personally. Planks and boards were sawn for me to thickness and that is where every form of non-hand power ended. I hand hewed the timbers with axes and ripped all the boards,(not the tung & groove siding on the barn though), with a japanese rip saw, cut the jointery with mallet and chisel and hand saw using the scribe system. All the edges and profiles I did with a drawknife. Also, not unimportantly, my capital outlay was under $1000.
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Don,
I am impressed with your dedication to using hand tools for almost all the work. The original barn looks like an interesting structure also. Thanks for sharing your project with all of us. Shelley