6 January 2010 - With the snow removed, installation of the vertical timbers can commence.

11 January 2010 - The rectangular central frame, which originally accommodates bins and stalls, will again support the lookout tower on top of the roof.

20 January 2010 - Frank Korvemaker (left), Chair of the Bell Barn Society, discusses the loft construction with Ken Baker, supervisor for Hahn Contractors.

21 January 2010 - Carpenters begin installation of the loft floor curved ring beam.

21 January 2010 - Carpenters install another segment of the curved ring beam that will support the loft floor joists.

28 January 2010 - After the ring beam has been bolted in place, the cross bracing between the 14 vertical timbers has been removed, considerably opening up the space inside the Barn.

28 January 2010 - The joists for the loft floor are now being inserted into the slots left in the stone wall, while the other ends rest on the ring beam.

28 January 2010 - Each floor joist end is encased in plastic to prevent moisture in the mortar from leaching into the wood when the space around the beams is filled with mortar and stone in the spring.

28 January 2010 - The first of 14 vertical posts that will hold the ring beam for the roof is installed.

29 January 2010 - Gerald Pletz has joined the other Hahn Contracting carpenters of Fort QuAppelle to work on the wooden loft and roof construction.

2 February 2010 - The newly installed loft floor joists are inserted into the stone wall at one end, and rest on a laminated wooden ring beam at the other.

2 February 2010 - Carpenters hoist up the loft floor joists in basically the same process as their predecessors did in 1882

3 February 2010 - The vertical beams that will support the ring beam for the roof rafters start to project above the 14-foot high stone wall.

3 February 2010 - The lower ring beam supports the floor joists for the loft, while carpenters begin to install vertical posts for the upper ring beam to support the roof rafters.

4 February 2010 - The underside of the loft floor at the Bell Barn reconstruction.