o/t cleaning up the old barn

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larry@stinescorner

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Ihad to clean it up and sweep and blow the hay out,the insurance man wanted it done

underneath the barn,due to my neglect pigeons were getting in

I blocked up all the places they got in

now to clean up

Iplasterd these walls about 15 years ago,the pidgeons messed them up a bit

heres one for SweetFeet

and heres another for SweetFeet

Hope you dont mind me taking and posting pictures,it makes my day more pleasant.

 

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Greg1959

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Thanks for the ride.

 

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gmccool

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• Dec 9, 2015

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I love old barns. Thanks for posting.

 

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37chief

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Nice barn. I could fill it up real quick. Looks like corn sheller in one of the pictures. Stan

 

jon f mn

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Great pictures! I really wish I had that barn, it's a beauty!

 

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Cory Schmidt

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• Dec 9, 2015

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If the insurance is that picky(that you needed to sweep the floor to satisfy them), time for a new outfit. Around here it seams if its got a good paint job on the outside it can be insured(though the roof is bout to cave in), yet weathered boards(solid the rest of the way) gets denied.

FIY that barn is spotless compared to the sheds and barn here.

 

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jeffcat

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• Dec 9, 2015

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One time my dad did that with a 125cfm air compressor and a "wand". Good windy day and started in. Looked like he had a super sun tan if you get my drift.

 

SweetFeet

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Larry on the Corner,

Great photos! Beautiful old barn - the timbers/ladders look like art. The rusty, old license plates add a nice touch! We have an old plate hanging in our granary that my husband found in the building. I like the really long/wide hinges on your old barn doors - nice!

I still have the PA rusty plate - just haven't located an old, small barn/shed door yet to hang my rusty stuff on. Tried to buy one the other day, but the owner wanted to keep it. It needs to be on the small and lighter-built side... a regular barn door will be to big and heavy for in the house, I think.

Always enjoy your photo posts and those of everyone else... even if I don't reply.

 

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Cory Schmidt

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Hay Sweetfeet! Your in luck, I think there are a few smaller weathered doors out on the firewood pile(s), I might give ya one(if you get here before we start tearing though the piles, better hurry), good excuse for a road trip(if you can convince your husband)...remember the camera(for all the rust your camera can hold) if coming out here(to eastern Wi)out to our farm.

 

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Dave Sherburne, NY

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Those old ladders built in between 2 upright posts are neat, we had one in out old barn even though we had 2 haymows.

 

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Andy Martin

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Beautiful barn! Old dry pigeon poo is designated carcinogenic.

 

Janicholson

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Incredibly beautiful. Thanks. Jim

 

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JD Seller

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Larry I love the old building pictures. You need more "STUFF" to fill that barn up!!!! LOL

 

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IA Roy

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• Dec 9, 2015

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In the second and 3rd pictures, I thought someone had broke in and stole all your treasures. Way too empty, but then it looked more normal further down.

 

SweetFeet

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• Dec 9, 2015

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Cory,

Thanks for the offer... I'll have to find a local one though. My husband is just not the traveling kind. Photos of old tractors are always fun to take though.

 

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gene bender

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• Dec 9, 2015

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In this day and age what isnt.

 

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Spudm

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Old barns like that out in the country are great venues for weddings.

 

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yak651

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Looks pretty clean to me! Would love to have something like that, nice barn!

 

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Leroy

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Wish my barn was half as good as yours.

 

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Mike M

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Really looks clean. The stories it could tell if only it could talk.

Time for a local barn dance or use as a haunted barn for Halloween ?

 

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bobwny

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• Dec 10, 2015

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nice to see an old barn being maintained instead of being torn down.they just don't build them like that anymore.but remember,pigeons have feelings too.

 

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tim s

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Nice old barn,, My barn has ladder rungs like yours, they are made from wooden pump rods from an old oil well pumping unit, they are soaked with paraffin yet after all those years, mine was built in 1934.

 

Gary Mitchell

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Keep em coming Larry. It makes mine more pleasant as well. gm ;-)

 

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Bobl1958

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Great pics. You have probably said before, but do you know how old that barn is? Out here in Kansas we have old barns, some of them dating to the late 1800's, but in your country that would probably be a newer barn. Thanks - Bob

 

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sotxbill

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Tell your insurance man you raise pigeons...

 

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Ken Macfarlane

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• Dec 10, 2015

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I thought it was that it carried those toxic spores that infected your lungs?

 

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Dr. Walt

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Larry,

Keep the Pigeons. Ever hear of "squab" ? Pigeon meat is DELICIOUS ! It's a very mild flavored, "sweet" meat that tastes like it was soaked overnight in sugar-
water. I've eaten quite a few of them. Fry them up the same as you would a chicken.

Doc

 

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Mike M

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• Dec 10, 2015

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Don't do that ! Mom told hers she had chickens (very few) and they raised her rates !

 

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gab

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• Dec 10, 2015

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I like the hay mow of all those old barns, guy a few miles over the hill along the highway has one packed full of antiques and old farm stuff out to the road. I stopped last summer to check it out, lot of the stuff the same or similar to junk that was hauled out to the ditch back on the farm 60 years ago. The guy had some staggering prices on his inventory and he also had a bunch of customers so it must sell. When I seen that clean barn that's the first thing I thought of, Larry's going to fill it up with odds and ends and open on weekends, could maybe move some turnips and apple chips, ain't sure how those blue handled tools are going to sell though.

 

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Spook

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• Dec 10, 2015

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(quoted from post at 23:53:52 12/09/15) Old barns like that out in the country are great venues for weddings.

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Went to a barn wedding last summer. The waiting list for the barn was over a year in advance. Provides jobs for local folks, catering and services.

 

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Mike Henry

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• Dec 10, 2015

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SO THATS WHERE MY BLUE WHEEL BARROW WENT!!! Seriously I lost one in the last month or so that looked just like that one. It had been in my family for about 10 yrs when I found it laying on a rail road track grade out in Blanchard. Was always going to paint it. But found a family story that said I had a great uncle that would BORROW? things, then when he would get them home he would paint what ever it was blue. So I left it blue since Im sure I never paid for it. Use it in good health as I never liked it much anyway the tire kept going flat and the left handle always give me slivers. LOL Sure looks good around there.

 

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buickanddeere

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• Dec 11, 2015

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I would like to have a bank barn like that on my place . Fairly typical around here having the gangway up onto the barn floor. With three sided access to the stone walled stables below.