[AT] Merry Christmas

[charlie hill]

Sadly all of our barns have fallen in.  The log barn was very old and in 
poor shape
when I was a boy.  We only used it when we had to.  The newer barns that my 
dad
had built were very light duty built by design.  Something NC State or 
someone came
up with back in the 50's.  They were just framed with
2  x  4's and covered with something similar to bear hide
like you might sheath a house with.  I don't know how the
stood as long as they did.   They worked well though.

Charlie


----Original Message----- 
From: David Bruce
Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2015 10:01 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Merry Christmas

It was the same here Charlie. One of the two tobacco barns is a log
structure and I remember going around with my grandpa (I was his shadow
in those days), mixing some clay and water to make a thick paste then
filling any cracks. The other barn was newer and was not built the same
way. It has fallen in while the old one lives on.

David
NW NC

On 12/26/2015 8:15 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> When I was a boy we had one tobacco barn that was an old log barn.
> Every few years the cracks between the logs had to be dobbed or at least
> that is what I thought my dad was saying.  He'd mix up some clay and sand
> and lime or maybe cement into a muddy consistency and get me and one of
> my friends to get up in the tier poles of the barn and throw the mud at
> spots
> where we saw light leaking in.   Now I realize that he was saying that the
> barn had to be daubed.   I'm guessing that is where that little wasp we
> call a dirt dauber got his name.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indiana Robinson
> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2015 12:13 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Merry Christmas
>
> Hi Larry:
> I think that we pulled the trigger on wattle and daub at about the same
> moment... Great minds think alike.
> :-)
>
>
>


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