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While out looking at the water build up I decided to take some pictures of the barns and cribs on the place.. Water standing so deep the weeds are strating to take over since we can't get the machines in to clip.. Might be time to load up some sheep and some fencing and have the pasture maggots take over..

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"Beef" barn by the stucco house..

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Old Corn crib next to a lot, they used to feed cattle between the barn and the crib...

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Another old barn.. We don't do much with it, love the thing but it will cost a fortune to fix up.. From time to time we have talked about either burning her down or fixing her up.. The leantoos are about to go but the core of the building is still great.

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The other barns crib.. Kind of a neat one really.. Pretty good shape but not used anymore.

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Another old crib.. Not so good shape..

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Huge old crib but no overhead storage. The other cribs have compartments up tope for beans or oats or what storage....

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Old farrowing houses from when the folks who used to run this place did hogs back in the 50's and 60's..
 
Been watching the national news and am seeing that the entire mid-west is getting hit pretty hard with storms and flooding!!! :shock: :shock: Hope all is well with you and yours, IL!!! Keep the pictures coming, though...love seeing all the green...not to mention my fascination with really old buildings!! :wink: :wink:
 
They might need some fixing but hose older buildings have so much character. Hope you dont' have to burn it down.

It always amazes me when you stand near a barn the sheer size of it!
That never comes through in little pictures somehow.
 
Neat buildings, IL. Thanks for sharing. You certainly live in productive country.

We tore an old barn down that we thought couldn't be salvaged. Boy, were we wrong once we started knocking it down. It was more solid than we thought. Took quite an effort on our part to flatten it.
We were always sorry we didn't fix it up. You just can't replace those old wooden structures. One thing, we only had ONE, where you have many, and I am sure it would be spendy to redo them.
 
Oh, we have more buildings that that too, lol... Three Machine sheds, another Crib, a Pole Barn and a big old Dairy barn too.. Its tough because you get into these barns and you can find the "original" of the barn and than the added on stuff. The tow barns posted for example should only have the middle high part. When you get into those there are not nails used like in modern construction but Holes drilled and than wooden rods drivin in to hold the seprate pieces togehter.. Tennon and.. I can't remember what they call, but when you watch the old movies and they are doing it without nails that is how these are built.. But the sides are all modern and not so good of construction.. The big barn by the house, we just reroofed it and if we resided it it would be as good as new.. The older, browner one.. I bet if we took those leantoos off, resided the center part and put a new roof on it would be as good as new.. Might have to do it..

We are actually reworking the farm budget to push some of the the land rent we are getting towards fixing up the old buildings.. Now, we have to decided which ones are worth saving and put them in order.

This place is comprised of at least 6 old places if not 7 or 8.. I think there used to be 8 houses on the place and at many of the places there are still some buildings left. 20 years ago there would have been twice as many probably.
 
We call those old barns put together without nails "Peg barns" or "Pin Barns". I have torn a couple of the old pin barns down and it is amazing the workmanship that is involved there. All hand hewn...no electric saws or drills :!: After the pin barns came the barns that were nailed together with square nails. I've been told that square nails "went out" around 1900. They were no match for the pin barns. I've noticed that the structure of pin barns is usually pretty stable, but the weakness comes in the roof and sides. We just got an estimate to put a steel roof on a shed like one of those farrowing houses.....materials and labor--6000 dollars :cry: :cry:
 
You should have seen what they wanted to charge for nailing steel siding onto that building :shock: :shock: I said, maybe next time..As it was we went over budget but the boss kept asking for more and more to be done and I was happy to oblige to a point because I knew at the end of the year I would get my arse chewed one way or the other and I would rather get chewed for everything not being perfect than for wasting his money.
 
The ground is continous....So I would call it "Farm" instead of farms.. Besides the small roads that cut through the place all but 200 acres of here is pretty much intact.. It was one big chunk of land when it went up for sale which is why it didn't sell (Strange tax situation)..
 
Hmmmm....."hornery" :? :???: ......well, whatever that might be, it sounds like sherbert is the fixall :P I think I know what you meant, but at first I read it to be what I don't think you meant :D :D
 
What kind of wood was used in the old buildings? Any problems with termites in them?
 

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