Posted by Aaron Ford on August 15, 2007 at 19:06:12 from (72.84.32.93):
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.
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