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Posted by RayP(MI) on February 17, 2007 at 14:03:58 from (216.46.208.236):
In Reply to: O.T...Old Barns posted by mike a. tenn. on February 17, 2007 at 07:39:31:
Here's ours - built in starting late 1940's - first used in 1952, as a dairy barn. Walls hand poured 12" thick concrete. Rafters are arched hand laminated, there's no inside framework! Most of the lumber was harvested off the farm, gravel for concrete was hauled by hand from pit at back of farm. Screened on a screen shaker power by old washmachine motor. Forms were hand built. Concrete mixed in hand mixer, and carried up ramps in wheelbarrow. Only help Dad had was the thrashing crew came in one Saturday, and they set the rafters with a ginpole. When he put roof boards on, he skipped every 4th or 5th so he had a way of climbing the roof. Roofing was put on in th winter - Dad built a rack to hold 1/2 a bundle, and brought in and warmed shingles in oven to make them soft enough to lay (T-lock shingles.) WONDER WHY THEY DON'T BUILD THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE? While my Dad was building this, my uncle was building his, a more conventional structure. Both barns are still in good structural shape, and should last a long time. Uncle's is going to need siding attention soon as boards are starting to deteriorate. Ours has had three sets of shingles, and now sports vinyl siding over old ship-lap lumber siding. Should be good for quite a while. This makes both barns about 60 years old, young compared with their neighbors, several of which have fallen in the last few years.
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