[AT] Merry Christmas

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Out buzzards must've moved to your place, David. We had a very old home on our property that was  still in relatively good shape. The  buzzards roosted in the attic every year. The house was post and beam and mortise and tenon joinery.  It was all oak and was a very nice, very well-built place for the time - which was the late 1850s. We sold the house to an historic  home restoration company, who disassembled it and used all those nice beams for repairing the other homes they were actually restoring.  In fact we looked into restoring it, but the contractors all came back with the same verdict: we bought it 10-15 years too late.

The next year the buzzards tried to use my tractor shed(tractor reference); which does have a second story "cubby hole", and did raise one brood. But they never came back after that.  In fact for the next two years they would circle in the spring looking for the house and then move on.  It was a little bit sad actually.

Spencer Yost

> On Dec 27, 2015, at 2:47 PM, David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net> wrote:
> 
> The log tobacco barn was probably from the 1940's while the other barn 
> might have been from the early '50's (which means a bit older than me).  
> 2x4's with plank sheathing then tar paper, tin roof. The problem came 
> maybe 20 years ago when part of the roof came off - you can guess the 
> rest. On my aunt's - half is as the property line there splits in in 
> half. Years a go I would have had it taken down for the tier poles but 
> she would not agree. The older barn is on her's as well. Currently it is 
> a buzzard roost.
> 
> David
> NW NC
> 
>> On 12/27/2015 8:38 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> 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
> 
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