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spencefarm 
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Posted: 20 Dec 2017 at 6:53pm |
I know this is off topic of tractors but I've been gloomy through one of my old barns and looking at redoing it. Just curious what all you guys old barns are like? I would love to see some pictures! FB_IMG_1513817787011.jpg
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 12:54am |
How about an inside out pic? think this one is worth saving?  Been looking at several barns in my area and the owners no longer care about their barns and once the roof starts losing their shingles, they are basically done... one nice old barn that was very straight got a leak in the corner several years ago and now the corner is sagging out past the old wall and another quarter mile away the shingles on another barn are gone and can see sky through the roof...from the road. What a shame. The pic above isn't as bad as it looks, because it still has a good roof over the top, but it does need new siding for sure. Old siding was softwood from before 1915... Just haven't figured out if it should have the old siding peeled off entirely and new wood siding nailed on and then painted, or to nail 2x4's across the outside of the studs every 2 feet and then screw tin on vertically and leave what is left of the old siding on. Here is the west end barn wall in 1965, was in really good shape, just needed a new coat of paint back then, the mow door was blown off just prior to putting up the silo.  Notice the 2 WD tractors, the first one was the WD that was converted over to propane in 1960, and the second WD was a later one with a little more HP, but when it got warmed up, you couldn't start it unless cranked it a long time or you pulled it. Dad is on the second WD in the picture. The foreman of the crew was on the first WD. Don't know how much steel was on each skid, but there was only 3 skids for a 20x60 Harvestore.. First pallet had the thicker steel sheets and one WD couldn't move that skid.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 1:13am |
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Grandpa built his barn in 1903, I still have the saw ona truck that was used to saw all the timbers for it. it's still usable. it was a very large barn, cow stations on one side of the middle alleyway, and horse stalls on the other side. and like said above, once the shingles blow off, no one wants to replace them, nor could we ever hire anyone. Dad had called at least 20 contractors to come put steel roofing on, they'd drive in the driveway, take a look at the barn and drive right back out! we even thought about lowering the roof down about 20 feet, and put a new roof on, but it never got done, seems like there was always more important things to do. I finally salvaged most of the beams and heavy planks, and the rest was burned....so sad.
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dt1050
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 4:49am |
sorry no old barn photos or stories for me, I'm a first generation farmer, we built our barn. the frame is from pallet racking like you see at sam's club. I'll try to get some photo's this morning. the worst part was trying to figure out the cut in the middle of the orange bearms to make them bend for the roof pitch...
I sure do like seeing the old barns, as long as you have a good foundation and frame work it should be worth saving. a friend had a bank barn that was beyond repair, his nieghbor told him it was a "good barn, it's propped up good". it had two large telephone poles burried in the ground on an angle propping up the one side.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 5:51am |
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sadly I was thinking about the local barns , now all gone, this morning when a certain grey kitty said 'morning I WANT TO GO OUTSIDE'...
There were FOUR barns within walking distance( 1/2 mile). all gone.sad really.2 gone by city kids with matches, 1 sold,other just 'tore down' to build hobby garage. All were 100+ years old. I'd really have like the opprotunity to salvage the one across the street,make a small 'bank barn' in memory of Old Bill.
great..now I'm depressed...sigh...
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 7:02am |
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DT I'd love to see a picture of the Framing for your barn...... i've thought the same thing for a barn.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 7:25am |
 Our barn had aluminum roofing on front side that needed to be refastened every year and was getting bad had shingles on back side roofers removed aluminum and replaced with steel and used 2x4 purlins over shingles for steel on back side. Used a telehandler that would reach almost whole roof.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 8:32am |
 This barn is still standing and was built in 1901. Great-great-grandpa and his family lived in the loft until they got their house built. The combine is a 1938 Gleaner E pull type. Unfortunately it's gone now, but I did save the Hesston auger attachment off of it.
 This barn was the second barn built by another set of g-g-grandparents. The first one burned down in 1927, because the windows in the loft acted as a magnifying glass for the hay. This one was built in the same spot and didn't have windows. We were planning on restoring it, but unfortunately in a twist of fate it burned down as well, in 2011. Oilfield traffic was going down the paved road nearby. A semi truck was pulling a frac tank. One of the right side duals on the trailer blew out, but he kept going. Then the other tire blew out, rims sparked on the asphalt, caught the perpetually dry Oklahoma grass on fire, swept through the state for over 20 miles, at some times over 3 miles wide. The barn didn't burn with the first wave of the fire. At night, the winds changed, brought some embers back, and it went up. It had to have been embers, as nothing else around the barn was burned for several hundred yards.
This next one isn't mine, just one I saw on the internet. I thought it looked cool.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 9:10am |
I dont have any current and close up pictures of my barns but here is an aerial photo taken in the 70s. The big barn, silo and sheds furthest from the house are gone. The 4 closest barns and sheds remain. All have sawn beams thus they are not as old as the house. The original part of the house dates to 1890. That is just 1/4 of what it is today. 
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 10:49am |
I have a old barn very similar the one on fire posted by Creston. A tin roof was put on in the 30's. BIL did a major rebuild in 94 added 20x20 doors in the end to make it usable for modern hay handling methods.
Just did a little patching on a wall and saw a bunch of lose nails in the roof. Had a hard time finding anyone to just put a few hundred screws in it.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 12:42pm |
here it is. I layed the uprights (they were the uprights now they lay horizontal) on there side and hooked 2 of the cross beams on the bottom and bolted them in place. I added a few extra supports in the uprights. the beams are bolted to the uprights in case I wanted to tear it down and move it. I built it a few hundred feet away and put it on skids and drug it to it's final resting place. don't mind the dumb black and white shorthorn, he thinks he's a dog.
I used to work at walmart and they were thowing tractor trailer loads of the stuff away...I hauled t tags of the stuff home. I believe it's 16x20.I would have made it bigger but I only had 2 of the uprights..i know it's more of a shed but it works.....except the cow lays outside...ugh |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 1:57pm |
My little town barn. Iv had repairs done here and their to service but never spent much on it. Think the roof is original some new metal and windows, some old..be cool restored but it's fine as is. Have a old garage on rental house that has great lines next to the barn that needs help. 
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 3:27pm |
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/06/03/travel/03BARNS-12.htmlWell Im sure many people on here know I love old barn discussion, especially when I get bragging about our old barn. Our barn was built by my Great Grandfather in 1921. He wanted a barn to do all of this cattle and horse chores in. It is over 100 feet long, when built it had room for 20 milk cows and calves, as well as 6 to 8 teams of horses. It has a driveway in back for machinery storage and a very elaborate hay mow featuring a custom built Hoth Hay Mower to fit the size of the barn. It is part of the Iowa Barn Foundation and we usually have it in the annual tour every other year. It was also on the cover of the New York Times when they did an article on Iowa barns. We get a number of visitors through out the year that want to walk through it.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 9:45pm |
what is function of cupolas on top of barn?? and hoth hay mower?? please explain
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 9:54pm |
Cupolas are just for ventilation, right?
As to the Hoth Hay Mower, maybe he means hay mover? Like a grapple and trolley system?
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Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 10:28pm |
Here is the farm my grandfather grew up on and my dad worked with his father and uncle. It's still in the family but distant cousins I wouldn't know if i saw them.  Here is all that is left. They took down the main barn 30 years ago and sold the lumber. All that remains is the machine shed and the original slate roof. 
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 11:08am |
The Hoth Hay Mower was a local invention. With the hay carrier and fork system one would have to have several workers in the barn to fork the loose hay to the sides of the barn to make more room in the center. Charles Hoth of Postville Iowa invented what he called the Hay Mower. It consisted of a platform that was attached to an offset linkage so it could have an angled down slope to the left or the right. It also had tracks going the length of the barn so it could be positioned anywhere in the barn. The mower would be positioned as needed and the hay would be brought in with the carrier and fork. The hay would be dropped on the mower where it would slide off and to the side of the barn eliminating the need for so many people to have to fork the hay to the side. I have seen a number of these in the tri-state area and have some literature on them. It is pronounced mower as you would say hay mow, not mower as in lawn mower. Make sense? Other than AC stuff I also collect carriers and forks. I will attach a photo of my NOS Porter carrier. I can post more pictures and stories if anyone wants to see them.
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 11:12am |
 dt1050 wrote:
sorry no old barn photos or stories for me, I'm a first generation farmer, we built our barn. the frame is from pallet racking like you see at sam's club. I'll try to get some photo's this morning. the worst part was trying to figure out the cut in the middle of the orange bearms to make them bend for the roof pitch...
I sure do like seeing the old barns, as long as you have a good foundation and frame work it should be worth saving. a friend had a bank barn that was beyond repair, his nieghbor told him it was a "good barn, it's propped up good". it had two large telephone poles burried in the ground on an angle propping up the one side. |
Good to hear there are still some first generation farmers popping up!
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 11:38am |
Jim, I for one would love to see more pics/stories! I have (or maybe had) an old hay carrier and 6 tine grapple fork for loose hay that was in my g-g-grandfather's barn. However, it was stored at my grandpa's place, and after his death it's more-or-less being held by other relatives at hefty ransom, due to "my lack of written proof that it's mine" so I'll probably never see it again. Unfortunately I don't remember what brand it is. |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 12:01pm |
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Hay mow. yes. . That a seriously big barn. Must of been rich in the old days with all the workers and horses.
How many acres went the that big barn?
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 12:12pm |
Dandan111 wrote:
Hay mow. yes. . That a seriously big barn. Must of been rich in the old days with all the workers and horses.
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Hell what do you mean in the old days all that money been pass down to the one that is on the farm now ain't that right Jim Jr. 
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 1:21pm |
Jim - I'm with Creston on the "Gimme more pictures and stories, please" deal! if you keep posting, we'll keep reading. thanks for taking the time to share.
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 3:47pm |
JimIA wrote:
dt1050 wrote:
sorry no old barn photos or stories for me, I'm a first generation farmer, we built our barn. the frame is from pallet racking like you see at sam's club. I'll try to get some photo's this morning. the worst part was trying to figure out the cut in the middle of the orange bearms to make them bend for the roof pitch...
I sure do like seeing the old barns, as long as you have a good foundation and frame work it should be worth saving. a friend had a bank barn that was beyond repair, his nieghbor told him it was a "good barn, it's propped up good". it had two large telephone poles burried in the ground on an angle propping up the one side. |
Good to hear there are still some first generation farmers popping up! |
Thanks, there is a rare day when I can look out my window and smile as my cows take a dump in the lower pasture, just 50 yards or so from the 5 bed 4 bath mansion they built across the rd. been farming out here for the 20+ years ain't stopping anytime soon. sadly they ran public water and public sewer out here and houses are popping up like weeds...
love seeing the old barns and hearing the history off them. glad to see a farm passed down from generation to generation.
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 6:31pm |
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Here is a slide photograph of our barn from around 1960. The barn was built in 1897.
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Posted: 22 Dec 2017 at 7:09pm |
uploads/14529/IMG_0570.jpgHere is the barn today. Still the same, just covered in metal siding.
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I had to think about this post today as I drove from near Wentzville, MO south through Washington and Hermann Missouri today driving my work's "parts run" truck. The area near the Missouri River wine country all through the central portion of the state still has a great stock of barns in well-kept condition.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2017 at 12:12am |
Creston wrote:
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Creston, I think that old barn looked rather HOT in that photo... what a shame it was on fire and burned down. look at the bracing that went into it. Just simply shameful at the skills and time it took to build it by the craftsmen of old, only to have it removed like that.
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Posted: 23 Dec 2017 at 8:48am |
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The old barn that I grew up in was built by my Great Grandfather and a few Great Uncles. I'd have to look through my old black and white photos to see if I have any pics of it. It was taken down by a tornado back in the early 80s.
It also had room in front for about 25 to 30 cows to milk and horse stalls in front and back. It had a creek that ran through the barn for keeping the milk cold. (pre-refrigeration)
I spent a LOT of hours in that hay mow! It was in that barn that I got to harness my first horse. That was a proud moment for me! A little scary too! Ever see a picture of an 8 year old boy next to a Breton (sp?)?
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