[AT] OT Barn floor question

[Robinson]

>
>Hi Larry:
>
>         Those are called "puncheon" floors... The old high school wood 
> shop here had those. They seemed to work very well. The shop in the new 
> high school where I went my senior year just had concrete. I took down a 
> chicken house on an uncles place that had one. Well, actually a tornado 
> took it down, I just cleaned up the mess for them. The one in the school 
> shop was almost perfect and I always assumed that there was a concrete 
> floor under it. A lot of the old ones were treated with creosote or oil. 
> I seem to recall puncheon also referring to some kind of use of animal grease ?
>
>
>         I remember the floors in the wood shop at BSU in the early 
> 1960's. Somebody had a "stupid attack"... They were maple hardwood floors 
> with a thick finish and waxed so much that you could hardly stand up on 
> them. I remember trying to plane boards by hand and not being able to 
> keep my feet under me while pushing hard enough to plane the wood.
>
>
>"farmer"



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"farmer"

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net