cornstalk barn

[strawking]

barn and corrals made of corn stalk bales

 

[Trinity man]

That could only be made in Neb. :wink: Thats wild I wish we could do that down here.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Pretty cool.
If they had used a white/clear tarp the barn would have been well lit during the day.

 

[TexasBred]

trinity, I have a friend down in the Wacoarea that fuilt about a 1600 square foot house out of small square bales of wheat stray....stuccoed it, and it's cool in summer, warm in winter and basiclaly impossible to burn.

 

[MO_cows]

Now that is just brilliant! But if the critters using it run out of feed they could literally eat themselves out of house and home. Should be warm as toast in there, the walls are so thick.

 

[Shortgrass]

Your cattle may put real meaning to "eating themselves out of house & home." :lol:

 

[George]

I love it - - - - I have seen a neighbor who uses round bales of straw for corralls and they work very well but the idea I'll bet if the sides were tarped as well the building could last a long time - - - -I'll bet you could heat it very cheaply for equipment maintance.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I love it - - - - I have seen a neighbor who uses round bales of straw for corralls and they work very well but the idea I'll bet if the sides were tarped as well the building could last a long time - - - -I'll bet you could heat it very cheaply for equipment maintance.

I know of a shop in Brandon Manitoba that is built with big squares.I always wish I had taken pictures of it. He had a rafter roof and I think they plastered the walls with stucco mix but I am not sure on that.

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

That's a really cool little structure,easy to put up,and very functional 8)

 

[Northern Rancher]

I have some friends made one out of round bales-thery work really well-if you get a bug in it you can just pull your tarp and rafters and burn it up. My friends in Alta have a straw bale house in Alberta its pretty sweet.

 

[Silver]

Pretty cool barn, I wish it was here. I always thought the square bale house was a good idea til I met a guy that had live in one. He said it was great until the creatures found a way into the walls. First mice, then snakes slithering around in there. Yikes.
I find the log house bad enough in some ways, bumble bees for example...

 

[randiliana]

When we first moved home, we built a barn out of big square flax bales. Worked pretty good, but anywhere there were weeds, the cows would eat the barn. But it did work, until we could find another building to move in for a barn. Only thing different is we used plywood and powerpoles to build the roof.

 

[Northern Rancher]

I wouldn't want to get trapped by an EXT in there not sure I could bury into the straw fast enough lol.

 

[strawking]

These are pictures from last year I just had to have my niece figure out how to put the pictures on here! I only own a 7 acre pivot corner where my house and I had 250 cows to calve out so I just baled a pivot of stalks. Both the pivots by my house were corn so I threw up a hot wire and it worked pretty well. The tarp is a used bill board "The motor city casino and hotel" is where my cows spent the bad weather HAHA.

 

[strawking]

I used 2 stack cages and and put a couple 16 foot panels in the center to add length. Then just stacked bales around it. It was 15 feet wide and about 55 feet long. I could put 5 pairs in separate pens. This year the 2 pivots that were corn last year were sugar beets this year so wont be calving by my house again this year so we just stacked the bales up and i have been using them for wind breaks.

 

[Denny]

Pretty cool barn, I wish it was here. I always thought the square bale house was a good idea til I met a guy that had live in one. He said it was great until the creatures found a way into the walls. First mice, then snakes slithering around in there. Yikes.
I find the log house bad enough in some ways, bumble bees for example...

Ours is Hornets and an occasional Bat Gosh I hate Bats.

 

[burnt]

Pretty cool barn, I wish it was here. I always thought the square bale house was a good idea til I met a guy that had live in one. He said it was great until the creatures found a way into the walls. First mice, then snakes slithering around in there. Yikes.
I find the log house bad enough in some ways, bumble bees for example...

Ours is Hornets and an occasional Bat Gosh I hate Bats.

A bat in the house is likely the only thing that freaks me out more than the sight of a rat.

 

[Denny]

Pretty cool barn, I wish it was here. I always thought the square bale house was a good idea til I met a guy that had live in one. He said it was great until the creatures found a way into the walls. First mice, then snakes slithering around in there. Yikes.
I find the log house bad enough in some ways, bumble bees for example...

Ours is Hornets and an occasional Bat Gosh I hate Bats.

A bat in the house is likely the only thing that freaks me out more than the sight of a rat.

My daughter plays Tennis and those Fancy racquets she has work very well on their removal.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

These are pictures from last year I just had to have my niece figure out how to put the pictures on here! I only own a 7 acre pivot corner where my house and I had 250 cows to calve out so I just baled a pivot of stalks. Both the pivots by my house were corn so I threw up a hot wire and it worked pretty well. The tarp is a used bill board "The motor city casino and hotel" is where my cows spent the bad weather HAHA.

I just read a piece in the Farm Show paper about those bill board tarps. Sound like a pretty good deal. Not many bill boards where I live. :?

 

[Northern Rancher]

I'm really leery of bats-the last person to dioe of rabies in Canada was a buddies older brother from a bat bite. I found one in the house once it was a battle royale getting that little sucker out.