Just Some Old Barns

[77Birdman]

I love to see old barns, sad when they fall apart though. These all belong to a customer of mine and thought I would share.
2018-02-20_09-04-41 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-04-57 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr 2018-02-20_09-05-06 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-05-15 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr 2018-02-20_09-05-26 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr

 

[930dreamer]

Old barns are cool.

 

[77Birdman]

2018-02-20_09-05-34 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-05-52 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-05-43 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-06-01 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-06-15 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-06-26 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
A few more pics.

 

[77Birdman]

2018-02-20_09-06-39 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-06-59 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-20_09-06-59 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr

 

[sublime68charger]

very cool thanks for posing up all those Pics!

 

[rusty1]

...those old buildings are pure beauty...

 

[Homebody]

Love em!

 

[77Birdman]

There was talk about a year or so ago about in imenant domain situation that was going to result in all of them being taken down. I am pretty sure that issue has passed. This was part of a very large estate dating back a couple of century's. They have dozens of really cool structures. Because of the thought that they would be taken down, there has been minimal upkeep. We have boarded up windows and keep the roofs tight.

 

[Bert_]

Neat old buildings, they all look very straight. Many of the old barns around my area end up with sagging roofs and bowing walls unless someone puts some time into them. It's sad that these buildings don't find much purpose these days and a lot of them get left to fall down.

 

[captain14]

Any idea what some of the uses would be for any of these barns/buildings?

One I can identify as a machine shed but other souls be guessing.

 

[mdog892001]

The back side of the barn my great grandfather built in 1945.



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[53PontiacSD]

Love old barns. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[FTWingRiders]

Love those old barns! Thanks for posting!

 

[77Birdman]

Yes, the history of them is fairly obvious once you get inside. The first is the gable shot of a large hay barn. The bottom half was for the livestock. Interesting the yard area had was enclosed with 2 large granite walls that were rounded off at the end, and covered with a roof. There is a dedicated machine shop/carpenter shop in one of them, one appears to be simply a garage, another is full of stalls, may have held horses, a bull and there are what looks like smaller pens maybe for sheep. The one that is an open shed may have been used for some kind of milling purposes, there is a closed portion at the end that held a machine room with belts and pulleys. There is also a belt pulley system running through the open shed. This at one time was a very large working farm dating back to the late 1700's. Most of the buildings are early 1800's thru mid 1800's.

 

[Renchi]

Thank you for sharing.

 

[captain14]

My grandfather had two barns on his farm. One was a bank barn which has used for hay storage on the second and the milking operation on the first door which was finally turned into housing for cattle he raised for beef.

The smaller barn held the pigs and a silo. I’m not sure what was on the second floor there.
Chicken house,tractor shed and milk house were all separate buildings .

The largest barn collapsed several years ago.

 

[77Birdman]

2018-02-21_04-54-05 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
2018-02-21_04-53-53 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
This is front and back pics, of a corn crib on the same property. I restored this a couple of years ago. This is on the side of the road with their home where all of the outbuildings are kept up much better.

 

[77Birdman]

2018-02-21_04-52-30 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr
With a light coat of snow last winter.