How to make barn foundation

In this story I will show you how we (My friend Alex and me) made barn foundation.
Last year Alex bought piece of land close to Orangeville, Ontario and this year he decided build a log house. Before build a house it was make sense to build barn. In a barn you can store any tools or even live in it.
Here is how we started:

We dug 6 pits in a ground by one of this kind of shovel:

We decided do not dig very deeply and put flat stone on the base of it. We bought it a "Home Depot" by ~2CAD.

First floor of the future barn supposed to be a little bit up from the ground. According to that, we cut first bar. My friend Alex is cutting bar on the next picture:

Put it in a center of pit and centered by level, which was bought at "Canadian Tire" store and it was the cheapest model.

On a field we found many stones and put them by layers in a pit around the bar. Some people use concrete for that but we put soil between stone layers and pack it. May be it is our mistake do not use concrete, but hundred years people did it the same way.
Here it is - our first bar is ready!!!

Next step was to use ties to make a proper level according to ground. We used regular rope with level bound to it:

We used hummer to dig in small wooden stick 1"x1" right across pits, bound a rope to it and tight it up.

It is time to install 3rd bar.
All other steps where similar to previous one:

4th bar:

5th bar:

6th bar:

When we finished installation of the foundation we decided to check how good we made it.
We took one of the wall pieces of the future barn and put it on a base. It was good adjusted!

Finally Alex decided to make extra tests :-)

In next articles I will describe how we did barn frame.