Thomasthetankengine
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Attended an auction in VT today. Lots of small and antique items. The best part was checking out this 10 sided barn
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Jon Erickson
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- Minnesota
Very interesting barn. Thank you for posting the pictures.
gtractorfan
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Looks efficient but complex to build. Thanks for posting pictures.
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
That barn would have been wonderful to work with 100 years ago.
Crazy Horse
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What is the advantage of such a complicated build? I'm sure someone must know the reason for that design. Does it have something to do with its primary use?
Thomasthetankengine
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It was a dairy barn. Owned by one family for two hundred years.
On the lower level, cows faced inward, calves in the middle. Windows gave a lot of light to the ?busines end? of the cows. Being on a side hill, you could drive in a load of hay on the upper level, weigh it on built-in scale, unload, and go right around out the way you came in.
Whole farm is being preserved by the Vermont Land Trust and is for sale to a farmer.
On the lower level, cows faced inward, calves in the middle. Windows gave a lot of light to the ?busines end? of the cows. Being on a side hill, you could drive in a load of hay on the upper level, weigh it on built-in scale, unload, and go right around out the way you came in.
Whole farm is being preserved by the Vermont Land Trust and is for sale to a farmer.
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
The advantage of this barn would be some of the following. The livestock stalls were around the perimeter of the barn, and so it was never far to a door for them to enter or exit , and more importantly, never far to wheel out the manure.
Having the hay mow sitting on the ground in the middle of the barn gave you easy access to the feed, with limited forking to get it to the cattle. With the barn built into a hill, the hay could be dropped into the mow from above, instead of having to use a winch to raise the hay from the floor to the top of the mow. . Also the structure did not have to carry the weight of the hay , as the hay sat on the ground.
Ventilation for both the hay and the livestock was easy to achieve, through the centre of the roof. In one photo you can see some ventilation duck work, still mounted to the ceiling.
Keeping in mind, this barn would have been long before baled hay, and electric lights, so have ing windows to allow natural light in , while milking and cleaning the cows would have been a tremendous advantage.
Having the hay mow sitting on the ground in the middle of the barn gave you easy access to the feed, with limited forking to get it to the cattle. With the barn built into a hill, the hay could be dropped into the mow from above, instead of having to use a winch to raise the hay from the floor to the top of the mow. . Also the structure did not have to carry the weight of the hay , as the hay sat on the ground.
Ventilation for both the hay and the livestock was easy to achieve, through the centre of the roof. In one photo you can see some ventilation duck work, still mounted to the ceiling.
Keeping in mind, this barn would have been long before baled hay, and electric lights, so have ing windows to allow natural light in , while milking and cleaning the cows would have been a tremendous advantage.
Thomasthetankengine
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In the third picture you can see there are three floors. Cows on the bottom, hay on the second, unloaded down from the third and pitched down through chutes at feeding time to the cows.
Thomasthetankengine
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Hmmmm. No problem. Ten corners and a gutter mostly all the way around to choose from. Lol
Had a nice visit with farmer who had worked this farm for 50 years following his father and grandfather. He gave me a tour of the barn with a lot of fascinating details: it isn't really round: it has 10 sides which means that each of the joints meets at a 36 degree angle. when it was re roofed some years ago, none of those joints had opened a crack at the top: perfect workmanship in places that no one would look for many years. Also told me that the many who put the current roof on had figured that the opportunity to do it would be his crowning achievement as a roofer--he had been hoping for the job for 20 years. Interestingly enough, the barn had had a chain gutter cleaner which somehow made it all around the circular stable with one wicked reverse corner. It is a pleasure to know that the farm will continue in agriculture due to the Vermont Land Trust having bought it to pass on to a young farmer at a price stripped of development rights.
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