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JimIA 
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 Topic: Roto bales in the New York Times!
Posted: 04 Jun 2012 at 5:21pm |
Lets see if this link works..... There was an article written about barns in NE Iowa and ours was one that was part of it. This picture is of me in the hay mow, behind me and to my left theres a stack of older roto bales, to my right is my great grandfather's buggy. For some reason the picture makes our hay mow look like its a bigger mess than it actually is! Heres the article
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 04 Jun 2012 at 5:45pm |
I have a soft spot for old barns and the one I spent time in as a kid especially. It's too bad so many have gone over the past few years but the farms of today don't seem to be able to put them to economical use  Sure glad some people have put the effort into saving an old barn.
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Austin(WI)
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Posted: 04 Jun 2012 at 6:49pm |
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"Better By Design"
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Ted J
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Posted: 04 Jun 2012 at 9:06pm |
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I know my barn dates back to 1872. I have since put tin on the sides of it though. All the rest of it is wood cut out to fit into each other and I don't see any nails anywhere. On one of the main beams there are a couple of wooden pegs that I can see though. I just wish it was BIGGER!! Only 26x24.
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Ted J
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Posted: 04 Jun 2012 at 9:17pm |
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Just got done reading the article and looking at the pic. Good article. Alas, progress. Jim, don't all haymows look like that? Mine sure does! LOL
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singingpig
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Posted: 04 Jun 2012 at 9:58pm |
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beautiful.
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Rfdeere
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Posted: 04 Jun 2012 at 11:18pm |
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Great, Jim !
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Kenny L.
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Posted: 05 Jun 2012 at 12:21pm |
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Jim, where is the better half at. Kenny L.
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LionelinKY
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Posted: 05 Jun 2012 at 2:58pm |
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Here's a neat story for you folks talking about old barns. Grandpa started our farm as a young man in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Typical small dairy barn of the time I guess. Over the years he added on in both directions until we were at 100+ cows when I was growing up. Then in Dec 1977, the whole barn burnt to the ground. Dad rebuilt the barn on the footprint of the original foundation. It was great having a complete new barn but it did lack the character of what stood there before. I'll never forget the surprise on Dad's face a year or 2 later when he purchased an aerial photo of the farmstead. The steel roof actually had visible variations in it and not sheet to sheet like you might expect. Dad was able to point out sections on the new roof and show us where the original structure started and then how grandpa had added on this end and then the other end to make the old barn what it was before the fire.
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