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Thad in AR. 
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Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 6:23am |
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Hey John, I’m looking for a barn located in Co. a friend from Highschool says he thinks it’s in Boulder county. It’s a long barn with what looks like an elevator leg at the back of it and a silo behind it. It says AM Doddisons on the barn.
Are you familiar with it?
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JohnColo
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Posted: 12 Sep 2022 at 1:28pm |
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Yup, it's on the farm directly south of my place. on the north side of Niwot road and south of the Diagonal Highway. The county owns the land but the buildings and house are still owned by the family. I've seen the barn in various pictures over the years. It got a new wood shingle roof a few years ago but could use a paint job.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2022 at 5:29pm |
 JohnColo wrote:
Yup, it's on the farm directly south of my place. on the north side of Niwot road and south of the Diagonal Highway. The county owns the land but the buildings and house are still owned by the family. I've seen the barn in various pictures over the years. It got a new wood shingle roof a few years ago but could use a paint job.
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It looks like an elevator leg at the rear of it. What was the purpose of this barn? Next time I’m out that way I intend to get pics.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2022 at 10:13pm |
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Actually, I haven't been in that barn in close to 40 years. As i remember it has several wooden grain bins on the north side of the building and they have a leg taking grain up to a bin higher up that can dump into a tuck in the alley. The family were very progressive farmers and farmed around 500 acres in the 50's through the late 70's. The last male member of the family retired around the early 1980's and had a sale. They sold most of the land to the County as open space which will not be developed but will continue to be farmed. A neighbor now farms the land on both sides of the homestead, where the barn is but the husband of a woman family member farms 100 or so acres to the west of the place, growing hay. One sad note, back in the 40's or early 50's, during the winter, before my time, a bunch of cattle got out of the feed lot behind the barn and crossed the road and got on the lake (Dodd Lake). The ice gave way and a couple dozen cattle drowned. I guess it was a real mess getting them out of the lake.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2022 at 5:09am |
JohnColo wrote:
Actually, I haven't been in that barn in close to 40 years. As i remember it has several wooden grain bins on the north side of the building and they have a leg taking grain up to a bin higher up that can dump into a tuck in the alley. The family were very progressive farmers and farmed around 500 acres in the 50's through the late 70's. The last male member of the family retired around the early 1980's and had a sale. They sold most of the land to the County as open space which will not be developed but will continue to be farmed. A neighbor now farms the land on both sides of the homestead, where the barn is but the husband of a woman family member farms 100 or so acres to the west of the place, growing hay. One sad note, back in the 40's or early 50's, during the winter, before my time, a bunch of cattle got out of the feed lot behind the barn and crossed the road and got on the lake (Dodd Lake). The ice gave way and a couple dozen cattle drowned. I guess it was a real mess getting them out of the lake.
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John thank you for the information. I’m fascinated by this barn.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2022 at 8:15am |
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Sounds interesting. Pictures sure would be nice.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2022 at 12:04pm |
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Whats an "Elevator Leg"?
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JohnColo
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Posted: 16 Sep 2022 at 1:41am |
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An elevator leg is a bucket convayer that takes grain up to a bin or distribution point and then allows the grain to flow down into a bin. They are similar to the clean grain and return elevator on a combine, just bigger. There is usually a pit in the floor where trucks or wagons dump the grain into.
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Posted: 19 Sep 2022 at 8:46am |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2022 at 9:09am |
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Very cool. thanks for sharing!
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 20 Sep 2022 at 11:42am |
Thank you for that link. I just spent my lunch hour looking at awesome barns
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Posted: 21 Sep 2022 at 12:05am |
I know where most of those barns are. The curved roof post and beam barn under construction in a couple pictures belongs to a good friend of mine. In fact, in one picture, my bucket truck is parked next to the barn. Unfortunately, my friend , Ron, has a brain tumor and doesn't have much time left. Like most places, a lot of those barns are no longer used, nor are the silos next to them.
Thanks for posting the link, I had no idea there was such a thing!
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Posted: 21 Sep 2022 at 1:10am |
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there is a HUGE barn just south of Bennington NE that has been re-done, they hold events in it now, was an old dairy barn, when they painted it, it took real close to 800 gallons of red paint.
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Posted: 21 Sep 2022 at 7:03am |
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Glad to hear the Bennington barn is a survivor-most aren't. Now you're in my home turf. I grew up about 3 miles from there but was never in it. Now being surrounded by subdivisions-part of the Omaha sprawl.
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Posted: 22 Sep 2022 at 11:48pm |
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yeah Dennis...there are new houses just across the street from the barn, and all the way to Maple street! I remember when we moved into the new Sheriff's office, 156th didn't have any stop signs or stoplights, was all farm ground, and numerous nice farm steads along it. now there is all those things plus a golf course and gas staion, bars, and other business's along with the jillions of houses! PfffffT! they even took a horse barn and changed it into a school! lol
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Posted: 23 Sep 2022 at 3:46pm |
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For a follow-up on the Bennington Barn, it is covered by Wikipedia as the "Ackerhurst-Epperhurst Dairy Barn @ 15520 Military Road south of Bennington Ne. Built in 1935. 193 ft. long & 40 ft. wide. Made it to the National Register of Historic places in 2002. Now used as reception venue holding up to 450 people.
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