Posted by larry@stinescorner on May 13, 2018 at 08:51:53 from (173.70.90.109):
In Reply to: Re: The root cellar posted by Steve@Advance on May 13, 2018 at 07:04:58:
The doors keep water from entering,,and the walls dont leak at all,,the floor is set in dirt,,not concrete,,it gets damp from condensation,,stays cool year round and never freezes that I know of,,you can stand upright when you are in it,,have to duck your head going down the stairs,there are cubby hole shelves on the way down the stairs too.When we first went to the farm in around 1965 there were old rusty cans of lard in the root cellar and a few other old things.It was used as sort of a Refrigerator years ago I believe.I wish I could meet the people that built it.Imagine digging it out with a pick and shovel..designing this all out of stone picked from the fields,and making this work of art.The stairs are all flat stone.The walls are thick,,layers of stone and mud intertwined .Then many coats of some kind of plaster..It looked like some hair was in the final coat of plaster too.Then was a whitewash coat too.It is an amazing design and really is something to behold.
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