lots of barn fires this yr

blue water massey · Feb 25, 2016

since New Years it seams like I've heard of at least barn fire every week up here in Ont Can
most recent one I heard of is only about 10 miles from me
70 cows gone and the barn
link posted

was also one a lot further south of me as well last night not too sure of te details on that one

as we had a wet summer around here my thoughts were that hay got stored to green or wet last yr
but it's only my guess
barn fire

Brendon Warren · Feb 25, 2016

Where are you in Ont? I'm just across the river from Brockville Ont in Morristown or Brier Hill to be more specific.

blue water massey · Feb 25, 2016

I'm about 30 miles south of Owen Sound

formerly ny bill · Feb 25, 2016

i would think that the cause would be something besides wet hay. spontaneous combustion of hay likely would have taken the barn within a month or 2 of baling the hay.
in my neighbor's case last week, something on his skid steer shorted or overheated during the night. he lost 71 cows and 24 calves. barn fires are never good.

stonerock · Feb 25, 2016

barn burnt last Saturday in central ohio, killed 31 calvs, 3 draft horses 3020,630,530 and miss equipment wind blew hard that day. 50 by 100 full of hay,gone in just a few hours

john in la · Feb 25, 2016

Why would anyone store farm machinery and hay in the same barn as the cows are in?
Just does not make sense to me.

brutus49DC · Feb 25, 2016

Maybe some of them got struck by Jewish lightening!

Adirondack case guy · Feb 25, 2016

Many dairy barns have leantoos built on the sides and equipment is stored there. Smaller operations have an area where the barncleaners exit with an enclosure where the spreader tractor and poo spreader are kept out of the weather. Poor addon electrical wireing to those areas to plug in a blockheater in those tractors have been known to burn barns down.
Loren

Geo-TH,In · Feb 25, 2016

My daddy used to use the term Jewish lightening! Haven't heard it in a long time.

the tractor vet · Feb 25, 2016

A few years back we had a rash of barn fires over this way just one after another spread over three countys . The main cause was a volunteer fireman was setting them , he was seen leaving a barn and just min. after he left it was ablaze . Now here a month or so ago a guy about 10-12 miles from me lost his barn and all of his equipment and a few cattle , they are not sure what started that one .

Bruce from Can. · Feb 25, 2016

Cruel thing to say but , a barn fire on a dairy farm every two generations can be a good thing. New barn , better location etc. Seen it happen many times when the old barn burns down ,no one ever builds back what they had. Great chance to get a better set up, and expand . Like I said , sounds cruel but, never seen any one go any where but ahead after .

Ted in NE-OH · Feb 25, 2016

I don't think the cause should be green hay this time of year. It should have burned long ago if it was green hay.

Bob · Feb 25, 2016

Not a problem in my area, as most barns are (sadly) long gone!

Part Time Pete · Feb 26, 2016

I've seen a lot of scary wiring in barns, as one of my farmer buddy's says "anything goes on the farm"
I'm surprised more don't burn
I'm paranoid about fire - in my barn everything is in a minimum of EMT conduit.

Mike M · Feb 26, 2016

Wayne and Holmes county Ohio lost a lot of old and even some newer barns during that time.

formerly ny bill · Feb 26, 2016

i have to agree, unfortunately. i had a 1870/1944-built barn until the fire in 1989. it was a really neat barn- you could even park 2 hay wagons upstairs and unload when it was raining if necessary. i added a parlor and feed bunk to make chores easier, but it was a well built building. best thing from the fire was no more barn cleaner or water buckets to maintain. we built a new freestall/parlor that was way less work for more cows.

massey333 · Feb 27, 2016

No body mentioned the barn fire in NE Ohio last week,$7.5 Million of equip.burnt in 1 fire.

K Effective · Feb 27, 2016

Spring of 1950, Grandpa met with the Pastor at the house to enroll my Dad at the Seminary High School in Saginaw in preparation for college and Seminary to become a Pastor.

That very night, the Good Lord took stock of that situation and intervened with a well-placed lightning strike, leveling the barn but sparing the cows and pig shed. Made boarding school a financial impossibility, thus sparing hundreds or thousands from suffering through hour-long sermons for decades to come.

T in NE · Feb 27, 2016

There were a couple volunteer firemen starting fires around Saegertown, PA, about 6-8 year back, too.
Til someone noticed they always beat the firetrucks to the fire.

Bret4207 · Feb 28, 2016

(quoted from post at 21:45:29 02/25/16) Why would anyone store farm machinery and hay in the same barn as the cows are in?
Just does not make sense to me.

Judging by some of the photos and stories I hear about other parts of the country, things vary a lot. I rarely hear or see pictures of farms like ours in the Northeast, where the land lays in such a manner that you on;y have a few choices on where and how to situate a barn, where there's no room for a tractor shed, where you have to make choices that aren't ever what you'd really like. I think that's part of it and a big part of why you rarely see all the equipment parked inside, out of the weather up here. I actually had visiting farmer from the mdwest once tell me they didn't run their tractors in the mud because then they'd have to spend too much time washing them off. Not only is that simply not an option here, washing a tractor is a once a decade event done just prior to a rebuild.

It's just different from place to place.

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