[AT] new duties

[charlie hill]

When the wind got our old barn, it lifted the roof off and laid it on the
ground off the back corner of the barn and all 4 walls fell out to the 
sides.
It was almost like it had been purposely taken apart and laid out.
There was no need to even try to fix it.  People in the neighborhood helped
themselves to the tin from the roof and sides which was fine with me.
I left the rest to rot and rust.   I was on a piece of land that we no 
longer
keep cleaned up.  It broke my mothers heart  to see it gone and I think she
blamed me but there was nothing I could do about it.  She didn't have a clue
how much it would have cost to fix the old thing.  It had gotten so 
deteriorated
over the years that I was afraid to go inside of it anyway.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dennis Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 1:35 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] new duties

I need to try and save some of what is left on an old barn in Kansas. Posted 
a picture a few months back where wind blew out North wall of it.
Issue it time and money - do not get to Kansas that often, and it will take 
a while to repair or save parts of it. Probably start just doing one side of 
it. Upper hay loft will take more $$$ than I have to put in it.

Dennis

Sent from my iPad

> On Jul 12, 2017, at 6:31 AM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> 
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> -- 
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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