Enroute to Red Power

Been traveling the last few days to Bloomsburg Pa. Fo the Red Power Show the 27th-29th. Started in west central Wisconsin. Yesterday we visited Gettysburg. I really brushed up on my history. Today we checked out Lancaster. Real amish country.

A Few observations along the way:
1. A lot of fields are not planted.
2. Some corn just popping out of the ground and some over waist high.
3. Amish people work too hard. It still amazes me how they add steel wheels to modern tractors and equipment.
4. Why do some of the barns in the Pennsylvania area have an overhang on one side?
5. I saw a few silos that did not have roofs on them. They were set up for with unloaders and what caught my eye was the tops of the silos looked like someone removed a part of a stave. Only thing is that these silos were poured concrete. What was the purpose of the notches?
 
I can help some with number 4. The overhang is the front of the barn and is called the forebay. It is found on what is refered to as a bank barn. The barn is built into the side of hill with the second story being at ground level so you can drive tractors and equipment into them.Standard was often 80 ft long with a 20 hay mow and then two machinery floors and then another 20 ft mow. The forebay below was used to tie up the horses each morning when harnessing them. The Amish still build their barns that way in many places. Tom
 
Thanks for answer. I am smarter now. I wonder why you never see barns built this way in the midwest. Something I also noticed is that there are very few hip room barns as compared to back home.
 
Tractorkrum, you lucky guy.... Alabama last summer and PA this year! Wish we were going to the RPRU, but it didn't work out. Please post lots of pictures! Thanks Kevin
 
Heading up there also to Red Power, not sure which day. I'm about an hour southwest of Lancaster. Everyone takes pride like the Amish in that area to keep property neat and mowed.
 
(quoted from post at 08:13:10 06/26/19) If you got time go to the Shady Maple to eat

Looks like it is somewhere you could go to die happy eating. Probably have to call 911 often.
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