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Aaron Ford

08-15-2007 19:06:12




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Visited a barn tonight that was built in the 50's. It had a grain dispensor, a trolley track, a pulley system, a bale grapple, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I could not name. It looked like the barn was built by someone into engineering. The bars that held the ouside loft doors shut were lifted by pulley system. There are counterweights hanging by cables that we have yet to trace. On the opposite end of the loft doors there are two doors high up with attending ladders that I could not see a use for except for ventilation. I am dying to find out how the hay bale pulley system works. I can't wait to get the junk out of this barn, but it is really hard to discern what is junk and what is that mising piece of the puzzle a floor away. BTW, the barn came with a really dusty, low hour 8n that still has the 6v system. Darn it cranked slow, but started at a bump of the throttle.

Neat stuff. Gonna get some pics.

Aaron

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Bob Kerr

08-17-2007 19:27:22




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 Re: Neat Old Barn in reply to Aaron Ford, 08-15-2007 19:06:12  
Grandpas old barn had a full size basketball court in the loft. Barn was built in 1935. I think Dad and my uncle had something to to with that though. That barn was "state of the art though when it was built. had silo, milking parlor very large loft with the pulley set up and I can"t remember what all else it had besides plenty of windows and ventilators on the roof.



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John S-B

08-16-2007 18:36:25




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 Re: Neat Old Barn in reply to Aaron Ford, 08-15-2007 19:06:12  
Sounds like that barn belonged to the guy who invented "work smart not hard".



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Mattlt

08-16-2007 06:18:52




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 Re: Neat Old Barn in reply to Aaron Ford, 08-15-2007 19:06:12  
Sounds a lot like our barn, built about 1952. I spent lots of hours on a JD B, going back and forth pulling bales up on a pulley system like you're talking about. 10-12 bales at a time.



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gene bender

08-16-2007 03:33:52




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 Re: Neat Old Barn in reply to Aaron Ford, 08-15-2007 19:06:12  
Thats just the way barns were built as we learned over the years newer stuff to make the building more user friendly. Someday you should get to tour a 50s corn crib with the shelling tunnels for increased drying ease of shelling the ear corn overhead bins for storage inside elevator automatic electric grinder to process the grain and on and on.



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Spook

08-16-2007 01:42:14




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 Re: Neat Old Barn in reply to Aaron Ford, 08-15-2007 19:06:12  
Sounds cool. Like to see some pics.



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