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Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Wed Jul 12 04:54:27 PDT 2017


Mother Nature is such a fickle bitch!!   Last winter I lost my big shade 
tree where I did most of my welding and repair work to the two ice 
storms between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Then in March we had a small 
tornado turn one of the Morton equipment sheds upside down.



On 7/12/2017 6:08 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I am desperately trying to save an about 38' x 60' timber frame barn down
> the road that sits on ground we used to rent in the 1950's but own that
> part of it now. I have been unable to do much with it until now mostly due
> to health issues etc. I think I can have it in "safe and holding condition"
> in a couple of weeks if it will stop the damn storming... Son Scott is
> going to help on it.
> Yesterday, July 11, 2017, we went to town (we sit just outside of the line
> and it is getting closer) for lunch and the sky fell open and leaked a lot
> of water, wind and uncontrollable electricity... When we got home the first
> thing I wanted to check was if that barn was still intact and remarkably it
> was.
> We did lose another building (and a pair of tractor fenders ) though. We
> had a huge old maple tree about 20' east of the house that blew down.
> Luckily it blew to the south- east away from the house. It is going to make
> a lot of firewood. It did however fall on a building that we had used as a
> farm shop when we moved here in 1951. It was a fairly new chicken house
> then about 18' x 18'. The tools were inside and the big bench but most work
> was done outside and it only had a walk door. It was the only decent
> building other then the 3 barns and they were in full use for livestock. It
> was also the only building with a good concrete floor. My father had moved
> a small chicken house building with us along with a 10' x 20' cottage from
> a pay lake / private park at the old farm. That cottage became known as the
> seed house. It has since been built onto on both sides and is now about 20'
> x 34'. I do sometimes refer to it as "the little barn". My father never
> really finished the little chicken house much so the chickens were mostly
> "free range" but we didn't know they were back then, we thought that they
> "just ran around loose"...  :-)  We didn't know what free  range was.
> That old shop building is toast... We had taken over the timber frame
> former dairy barn / 1,500 bu. corn crib / 300 bu. oats bin / 12' wide
> driveway area as the farm shop many years ago. The old shop had become odd
> stuff storage.
> The tree also fell across the back of my little Ferguson TO-20 and mashed
> both rear fenders down hard against the rear tires. I will have to remove
> the fenders to move the tractor. So far I don't see any other damage to it.
> The fenders will go to a loft to await later repair, maybe this winter. In
> the meantime I have a pair of Ford 8N fenders I won't be needing before
> maybe next spring and I will stick those on the Ferguson. I just hope it
> doesn't give it a rash or something.
> At the barn lot (has anyone ever used the term "shed lot"?) down the road
> to the west I have an open faced 28' x 64' "tool shed" or "implement shed".
> If I close it in with walls and doors can I call it a "barn".  :-)
> If I call the tool shed and the seed house "barns" I can claim 5 barns
> here. All 5 of them were built smaller but tall and they all have been
> built onto to make them bigger. The open faced tool shed had an 18' x 18'
> "shop room" added to the back. The "at risk" barn down there was maybe
> originally (1800's) 30' x 30' but added to at least 3 times. The one that
> is now shop was added to at least twice and the east barn where our 6
> horses live was added to at least once. It is really interesting to me to
> study them all closely and try to figure out the stories they contain if
> you just look for them.
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