side topic, but farm related; old wood barns and corn cribs

ericlb · Sep 1, 2008

after reading some of the 'fall' posts below, is anybody interested in posting pics or telling stories of your younger days in or around the old wooden barns and corn cribs? i have fond memories of both [ i dont mean the stories of you and cousin katy, just regular happenings] or posting pic's of the old surviving barns and buildings, now due to the cost most places have modern steele buildings but there is still a few old ones around they were as much a part of the old fall days as the old tractors,

glennster · Sep 1, 2008

we were shelling corn out a wooden crib once, up in the crib pulling the ear corn down into the drag. i was wearing grey one piece coveralls with baling twine tied around my ankles to keep the mice from running up the pantleg. all of a sudden the guy i was up there with clobbers me in the lower back with a grain shovel, knocked me right down on my knees, i though he broke my back!!! whal the he** you doin i yell. he says reach in your back pocket. i put my hand back and there was a rat hanging out. it ran up my pantleg and he saw it and smacked it with the shovel. heres a couple pics of my crib
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jose bagge · Sep 1, 2008

my barn's still wood!

IaGary · Sep 1, 2008

Spent many of hour in this barn.

We use to put 5000 bales ayear into it and feed them all out in the winter till about 1980.

I also spent a lot of time shooting sparrows and starlings in it as a kid. Lucky I didn'y shoot my eye out.

Built many a hay forts in there as well.

It was built in the 40's. My dad bought the farm in the 50's and I now own it.

It is now covered with steel. We got tired of painting it and the bottom of the boards were getting bad.

It will probably never be filled again but still has about 3000 bales in it that I need to feed up.

Gary

IH2444 · Sep 1, 2008

Except for the new rich horse playing farms. Most all the barns around here are still wooden.

Fawteen · Sep 1, 2008

So's mine!

Anonymous-0 · Sep 1, 2008

What is the reason for not telling about Cousin Katy? As a kid we always had cats or kittens at the barn. I remember climbing to the top by walking on the bales which were stacked to the roof. I estimate I was about 40 feet above ground and there was always a cool breeze up there. Down below we has a corn crib and a hand powered corn sheller.

jose bagge · Sep 1, 2008

...and those bays look tall enough for a dual post lift, too! SWEEEEEEEET!

ericlb · Sep 1, 2008

thanks for all the responses i enjoyed all the pics,too, the corn crib on the place i grew up on is gone now, but the old wood barn is still standing,mostly, it looks a little tippy now, we youngsters had some great times in the old barn,building hay forts and climbing the ladder in the hay mow up to the old hay door from the horse drawn era [ strictly forbidden to us] guess thats why it was always done, seemed you could see forever from up there, when i was young i remember the pully and rope and tongs to grab the loose hay with were still in place, dont know if there still there or not but i bet not, lol, now miss grundy we had barn cats all the time but i wasnt referen to them, and you know i cant talk about cousin kate on here, lol

Fawteen · Sep 1, 2008

10' to the center of the arch, and another 8" over that to the engineered wooden I-beams that hold the loft floor up.

Dirt floor. If I ever hit the lotto, I'll have a pad poured.

730 virgil · Sep 1, 2008

i once helped shell corn out of a wooden crib that also had a wooded floor. it smelled so bad from the rat pea and shut it would have gagged a magot.

Don Hopf · Sep 1, 2008

Now that"s a deluxe corn crib!

I"ve seen the built in elavator but never a built in wagon hoist.

Where is that crib located?

glennster · Sep 1, 2008

near dwight illinois.

paul · Sep 1, 2008

I'm not all that old, and I still fill & shell the wooden crib every year (cheap drying, elevator talks about the high quality grain every year), and the cattle do fine in the 1909 stone wall in a sidehill barn.....

--->Paul

John S-B · Sep 2, 2008

My dad bought 45 acres in the country that had a barn, drive thru corn crib and a well house. We"d go out on weekends to do a garden and stay overnight. He insulated one side of the corncrib with OSB and sheets of polystyrene and put in an air conditioner and a couple of beds. He gave it the name "The Corn-dominium".

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