Posted by Bill Brox on December 29, 2017 at 09:04:30 from (24.130.47.29):
In Reply to: Ramp at the barn posted by Bill Brox on December 28, 2017 at 16:50:34:
The way you describe it is just how old barns in Norway are. Concrete or stacked rocks at the bottom, for manure. A door so you could get in with a horse carriage or a tractor trailer to load it. Some even high enough so you could drive in with the tractor, mostly without a cab. Above were the livestock, cattle, sheep, goeats, pigs, and the mandatory cat that had her little bowl for fresh and warm milk from the cows to make live a little extra pleasant. Usually this was maybe half of the barn, then the upper level, that was above where the livestock was, and that was for hay. In the other end it was usually hay for two levels, with the ramp ending up in the second level so they tipped the hay down there, and when it got up to the level where the tractor was, they tossed it to the sides both over the level for the livestock and over the hay on the other side. At some point people stopped using dried hay, and build silos inside the barn, so it was easy to get the grass in to the silo from the high level the tractor was at.
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