[AT] new duties

[charlie hill]

All of mine have fallen down Spencer.  It would have been nice to keep them 
but
they just weren't worth the maintenance cost.  Even the old "pack house" 
barn,
that was originally a cotton gin building and was well over 100 years old 
fell
about 15 years ago when a freak wind storm lifted the roof off of it.  It 
had withstood
many hurricanes.  I wasn't there so I don't know if it was tornado or just a 
combination
of age and a hard gust that got it in the end.

I think the real barns here in my area were properly named barns.  There 
weren't many because
of the kind of farming we did.  The tobacco barns were almost always 
addressed with the word tobacco
ahead of barn to distinguish it.  The pack houses meet the definition of a 
barn because they were generally
two story with doors on both ends of both floors.

Dairy barns were usually referred to as "dairy barns" in the same manner as 
"tobacco barns".

We have one small "barn" at our farm that was built from cement blocks in 
the late 50's
It has one bay to store a tractor in and two rooms, one room intended to be 
a shop and the other
a smoke "house".  We never called it a barn.  It was always referred to and 
still is as a "shelter".
It was built with dirt floors but when I was in high school I earned the 
money and paid to have
a concrete floor poured as my FFA project.  If I don't get over there and do 
some work to it, it won't be
around many more years either.  The roof needs painting and an oak tree is 
growing up right against one
corner and threatening the block work.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Spencer Yost
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 5:38 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] new duties

I had never thought of this before, but now that you folks mentioned it I 
hear  inconsistencies when the word "barn" is used, too.  Where I am from in 
western Pennsylvania, seems that only buildings with hay mows and designed 
for animals are called barns.  Places were you milk, or where pigs farrow 
(sp?) , are called parlors.  Everything else seems to be a shed, or building 
(i.e. saddle building where you keep tack).

But here in the south, any outbuilding with an agricultural purpose can  be 
called a barn but not every one of them is necessarily called a barn.  In 
fact it seems to have more to do with design(i.e. open on one side is always 
a shed) than anything else.   But then again, if the open side had an 
overhang it might still be a barn. :-) it gets very confusing.  At any rate, 
not long after I moved down here I learned to wait for the owner to put a 
name on it before I did.  (-;

PS: An old-school, honest to God flue-cured tobacco barn is about 800 feet 
from my house. If any of you want to see a picture of it let me know.  I 
can't get inside, because the property was recently sold to distant owners, 
but I can get a picture of the outside of it.  Old tobacco barns are getting 
pretty scarce. Between falling down and getting torn down there's very few 
left.

Spencer Yost

> On Jul 11, 2017, at 12:24 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> On 7/9/2017 11:49 AM, John Hall wrote:
>> Here is a twist for you Ralph, tobacco is cured in a barn. It was 150
>> years ago and is today, but the size and styles have changed greatly.
> Seems to me I might have heard the term "barn" used for tobacco too. I'm
> also thinking of a term "car barn"
> in reference to where they parked the street cars in the cities.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>>
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