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Are all the barns in CT the same?
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I don't know if all the barns in CT are alike, but it sure seems like a large number of barns in WNY are alike... falling down!!!
That's not unique to WNY unfortunately.
Well that one looks familiar and so do those English blankets. Nice boats too, I'd keep em if they were mine.
I built that when I retired, it's a pole barn. I bought a small Hudson saw mill and cut logs in my woodlot. I added that 12 pitch to the roof, I like the look, tough to roof by yourself.
I need to sell those canoes for my too many hobbies
early canoe shop.
I love to look at old barns or new barns too. I sold that saw mill. I kept it in mint condition and I didn't loose much from the original price. Sometimes I wish I had kept it.
I need to sell those canoes for my too many hobbies
early canoe shop.
I love to look at old barns or new barns too. I sold that saw mill. I kept it in mint condition and I didn't loose much from the original price. Sometimes I wish I had kept it.
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Robin - Your barn construction is every bit as good as what you do with the canoes!
Until next time...be well.
snapper
Until next time...be well.
snapper
Did you have lots of that color of enamel??
Robin, did that barn go up green, or did you season your lumber for a year on site? Great fun and idea selecting, cutting, milling it yourself.
I love barns. Yes, it is a crying shame to see them fall down. I've played in a few as a kid, worked in a couple as an older kid. When I was a young teen I thought my prayers had been answered (always wanted to live on a farm) when Dad, myself and my brothers started building a barn. Strangely, it came in kit form. By the time the walls were up it looked... small. Too small I thought. That was when I made the mistake of calling it a shed. I was banished from the job till I'd learned my manners. "It's a barn, Brad, now go inside and help Mom." Mom and Dad are long gone, but always with us; my brothers and I are moved away and living other lives. I still drive by that place and can just make out the yard from the highway if I slow down and squint. You know what? From this distance, and looking through the trees and across the farmland...nope. It still looks like a shed to me. But it's a nice one Dad.
I love barns. Yes, it is a crying shame to see them fall down. I've played in a few as a kid, worked in a couple as an older kid. When I was a young teen I thought my prayers had been answered (always wanted to live on a farm) when Dad, myself and my brothers started building a barn. Strangely, it came in kit form. By the time the walls were up it looked... small. Too small I thought. That was when I made the mistake of calling it a shed. I was banished from the job till I'd learned my manners. "It's a barn, Brad, now go inside and help Mom." Mom and Dad are long gone, but always with us; my brothers and I are moved away and living other lives. I still drive by that place and can just make out the yard from the highway if I slow down and squint. You know what? From this distance, and looking through the trees and across the farmland...nope. It still looks like a shed to me. But it's a nice one Dad.
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Since we're a bit off topic...one of the main reasons we purchased the old farm we've lived on now for almost 30 years is because of the barn. I spoke with some knowledgeable folks about it and found out it was built no earlier than 1795 but no later than 1820; this was all based on the interior joints, hand hewn beams, etc. It also started out in life as a threshing barn but was turned 90 degrees, raised and had a lower level added in the mid-19th century when the dairy industry came into its own. We had it restored two winters ago (those guys worked in some brutally cold conditions with only a small salamander heater to keep the cold at bay) but the work they did was fantastic. This barn will stand for at least another 200 years and we're extremely proud that we were able to keep it going for future generations.
That's all for now. Take care and until next time...be well.
snapper
That's all for now. Take care and until next time...be well.
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For years I could look out from our place and see what was left of the Barn on our old farm site a mile away. It was on top of a hill. In '48 there was a fire,my Grandad died pumping water trying to put it out. The barn burned and all that was left was the skeleton. It stood until 5 years ago. Pretty solid. The old guy that bought the place off my Dad right after the fire is still there. Lives all alone in the big old house.
While the timbers are all gone now, you can still see the foundation on Google satellite maps. Pretty cool.
The coolest barn I have run into lately is Pam Wedd's place in Parry Sound...beautiful workshop on the main floor and the second floor is stuffed with W/C canoes. I was unable to pry any of them out of her hands.
Christy
While the timbers are all gone now, you can still see the foundation on Google satellite maps. Pretty cool.
The coolest barn I have run into lately is Pam Wedd's place in Parry Sound...beautiful workshop on the main floor and the second floor is stuffed with W/C canoes. I was unable to pry any of them out of her hands.
Christy
You probably ought to keep your hands off the outhouse too.. though I hear that Pam lusted after Tom MacKenzies inside four piece workshop bath in SC.
I haven't been to her Seguin barn but the outhouse on Pancake Bay is pretty cool.
I live in great barn watching country too http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/maine/beautiful-barns-in-me/
I haven't been to her Seguin barn but the outhouse on Pancake Bay is pretty cool.
I live in great barn watching country too http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/maine/beautiful-barns-in-me/
Brad the timbers where green pine and hemlock when I put the barn up. No issues from what I can see. I hired a guy to help me put up the 2x10 19' rafters, same age as me, we talked "leave it to Beaver" Creedence Clearwater Survival and the way things used to be for 3 days non stop...good times. By the time we where finished we had solved all the world's problems, at least we thought so.
I enjoy seeing old barns, really like it wen it has old joinery, such talent.
I enjoy seeing old barns, really like it wen it has old joinery, such talent.
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What else can Robin do? wow!
What else can Robin do? wow!
I love old barns and for some reason people are always asking me if I was born in one.
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Me too, although I no longer track cow crap behind me. I spent a good deal of my youth playing (and later working) in barns. The regional differences in preferred barn style are interesting as well, design perfected for the specific use, climate and conditions.
In the coastal Carolinas every defunct small farm seems to have the same oddly shaped barn. More of a large square shed, usually 2+ stories and taller than they are wide.
Those were tobacco curing sheds, from back in the day when small farmers grew tobacco.
http://marty4650.blogspot.com/2011/11/tobacco-curing-sheds-in-rural-north.html
I have seen dozens of those in Bladen County alone, all in some state of aged disrepair. In fact, I don’t think I have ever seen one maintained in good condition. Such was the fate of the small crop tobacco farmer.
For those interested
Field Guide to Barns of New England
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N0KYA2FCSKVCTDF04HGD
and The Barns of Maine
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XQZBTTC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
One of my favorites requires suicidally standing in a traffic circle to get a good picture.
Field Guide to Barns of New England
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N0KYA2FCSKVCTDF04HGD
and The Barns of Maine
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XQZBTTC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
One of my favorites requires suicidally standing in a traffic circle to get a good picture.
Maybe some of you have seen these barns on the way to the put-in to the WW on the Lower Madawaska near Quadeville... A. J. Casson painted in the area during the 50s and so did A. Y. Jackson, both Group of Seven artists.
About Pam Wedd's barn... I have not seen it in it's new canoe form either... it was always visible as a working barn and farm from Hwy 518 when we had a family cottage on Maple lake a few miles west, one of the more scenic places in the area. Hwy 518 east of Parry Sound was a much different road at that time, rougher during the 60s and 70s, before cottage development on the lakes really took off and the look of the area began to be smoothed over.
Bear Lake to the east looked very rough and Orrville still had a working general store (always wondered whether Parry Sound's Bobby Orr was from there). When a 40-lot subdivision started up next to our cottage lot, that was it, sell and find another place.
There still are general stores in the Bancroft area... at Combermere you can get Kawartha ice ceam and then sit by the edge of Kamaniskeg lake and watch the boats. And at MacArthur's Mills, it's still nice and rough, go into the store and inside it's still a general store. North of there on the Boulter road at Boulter, the general store has closed, but there's this scene still visible from another Casson painting.
About Pam Wedd's barn... I have not seen it in it's new canoe form either... it was always visible as a working barn and farm from Hwy 518 when we had a family cottage on Maple lake a few miles west, one of the more scenic places in the area. Hwy 518 east of Parry Sound was a much different road at that time, rougher during the 60s and 70s, before cottage development on the lakes really took off and the look of the area began to be smoothed over.
Bear Lake to the east looked very rough and Orrville still had a working general store (always wondered whether Parry Sound's Bobby Orr was from there). When a 40-lot subdivision started up next to our cottage lot, that was it, sell and find another place.
There still are general stores in the Bancroft area... at Combermere you can get Kawartha ice ceam and then sit by the edge of Kamaniskeg lake and watch the boats. And at MacArthur's Mills, it's still nice and rough, go into the store and inside it's still a general store. North of there on the Boulter road at Boulter, the general store has closed, but there's this scene still visible from another Casson painting.
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Snapper, your post reminds of a talk I heard from a man that restores barns around WNY. He explained how the old ones were raised up one story for a dairy on the first floor when farmers went from grain to milk as a living. This explained several barns with large doors one story off the ground. He also said almost all were built of chestnut. When he restores them he has to use hemlock and attach a sign notifying of the incorrect material. If I had a lot of money I would pay to have new roofs on barns to save them-a shame.
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