Be it ever so humble for kcm

Richard G. · Feb 23, 2022

I drive by this on the way to a friends house up in the mountains near here.
Notice the dovetail joints and the wide planks.
Common way barns were built around here in the mid 1800s.
It is still used.

Little roy · Feb 23, 2022

That is great, especially since it is still being used.

rick n ohio · Feb 23, 2022

Beautiful picture I love those old log barns

Steve in VA · Feb 23, 2022

I've always been impressed by how the builder could stack a few stones as a foundation and they stayed that way sooooo long.

Richard G. · Feb 23, 2022

My uncle Bill and his family lived in an old house built on a hill.
It was on a steep hill and the rocks holding up the back side were stacked 6 feet high with no mortar or mud between them.
My Mama who was from London was scared to go in that house.

casecollectorsc · Feb 23, 2022

Impressed by the fact that it is that old and still standing. Here, E SD, barns built in the 40s are falling down with a lot already gone.

Jim in NC · Feb 23, 2022

There a few log barns, mostly tobacco barns, around here built like that. There are two where my my daughter lives, where I grew up, that were used for tobacco curing until around 2008-2009. There is one in our barnyard used for storage now, but was one a tobacco barn and later a tobacco pack house. Ours have either rock foundations, or a foundation built within a wooden form filled with a mix of rocks and cement.

Richard G. · Feb 23, 2022

Enjoyed talking with you yesterday sir.

Mike(NEOhio) · Feb 23, 2022

We had a small barn on our place built on stones like that. Originally for the horses but FIL parked his truck and one tractor in it. It was shifting to the back a little at a time till it fell in '87. He salvaged the timbers, they're still stacked in the barn. I've heard something about setting the stones during the dark of the moon and they don't settle over time but I don't know for sure if it's true or just something the old timers believed.

dr sportster · Feb 23, 2022

No puzzle ?

Brian G. NY · Feb 23, 2022

Great picture and great old log barn.

Watch "Barn Wood Builders" on TV to see many of these old log buildings being dismantled and rebuilt or repurposed as beautiful homes.

casecollectorsc · Feb 23, 2022

Same here...always great to get different perspective from people around the country.

John Deere D · Feb 23, 2022

Thanks for the pic Richard G. and some history.

Here's a building that I clearly recall the Autum day in 1959 when it was being skidded / moved by a Hart-Par and a 15-30 McCormick Tractors tied together.
The fields had an early frost with no snow ...both Tractors are steel wheeled and were Jumping and bucking !
I had a 1967 Pontiac Firebird stored in this building for many years. When my youngest brother turned 16 years of age and after a summer of working for me the Firebird was his.
Now the building is full of 1X 6 x 12' planed ship lap. The lumber had been stored in this building since 1986, As well as 2 X 10 X 12' planed Birch planks.

The Hart-Par and the 15-30 McCormick are stored in an adjacent building..

Bob..

Richard G. · Feb 23, 2022

That is a beautiful building.
I can see why the tractors were hopping.

SweetFeet · Feb 23, 2022

Beautiful, Richard.

WalJohn · Feb 23, 2022

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