Re: O.T...Old Barns

Posted by RayP(MI) on February 17, 2007 at 13:22:45 from (216.46.208.236):

In Reply to: O.T...Old Barns posted by mike a. tenn. on February 17, 2007 at 07:39:31:

Unfortunately, most of the old barns here are deteriated or gone here in Michigan too. Many cases, they don"t meet todays needs in farming. Often the farm operations changed or ended with the passing of the old farmers, and the operation changed under new operators, or was allowed to cease. Many of the old barns here had wood shingles, and those have deteriorated. Some were reshingled with conventional shingles, or steel roofing. All three types have a finite lifetime, and soon as the roof starts leaking the superstructure starts to deteriorate.
Then it is only a matter of time to become a pile of rubble. Many foundations were not built the best - often fieldstone and poor quality mortar. They didn"t really do a good job with concrete back then either. Or if they used cement blocks, those walls are crumbling too. Once a superstructure or foundation gets going, it takes a supreme amount of investment to reclaim and restore. Can understand why so many barns were let go. Son was involved a while back in a project to identify and photograph many of those ols local barns, before they were all gone.

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