Old Barn

[inyati13]

There are two old barns on my farm. Both are post and pin. One is a hay barn and the other is a tobacco barn. I remodeled the hay barn. It has a hay loft. The roof juts out on one end and there are two doors at the end of the loft that swing out under the jut. There is an old loose hay spear that suspends from a pulley system. Loose hay was pulled in under the jut and then transported suspended from the spear along a track suspended from the comb of the barn, and finally dumped into the loft. When I retired, I decided that the old barn could be useful. I jacked up the posts that were rotted off at the bottom and spliced in treated post that I had a guy custon saw to fit the rough dimensions of the existing post. I hired a local guy to put on a metal roof and metal on the two long sides. I resided the front with hemlock. I built a shooting bench in the loft and can open the end doors and shoot from the barn loft. The bench is not as stable as a bench in concrete but it is nice to be able to shoot from a shelter. Does anyone know the name for the juted roof? And the two doors? I see dutch style barns often with the hip roofs. But I wonder what the name is for this style barn. Here are some pictures.

 

[J&D Cattle]

I'd love an old barn like that. I still go out to Grandpa's just to stand there and look around. I remember all the horseriding and horsing around us grandkids did. Stacked many a square bale in it and shoveled many a scoop of shyt out of it.

 

[papavillars]

Ok nice barn, but you left out a lot of info. What rifle are you shooting and what distance? Really a real nice looking barn.

 

[john250]

From a barn I tore down, I have a hay trolley on a wooden beam. Like your system, but I don't have the hay spears.
My granddad, built a hay barn in 1949. It's a work of art. In the '50's, a fertilizer merchant paid him $ and staged barn dances in the place. People got rowdy, and the dances eventually ended. Today, it is a White Elephant.

 

[inyati13]

Ok nice barn, but you left out a lot of info. What rifle are you shooting and what distance? Really a real nice looking barn.

I have two Cooper Rifles. One is a Montanan, 6.5X.284. The other is the standard Cooper in .223. I was disappointed in the distance. Farthest I could get was about 350 yards. Good for the .223 but the 6.5 X 284 using 140 grain Lapua Scenar HPBT bullets, Federal Large Rifle Match Primers, 46.2 grains of IMR 4831, Neck sized only, .294 Bushing in Redding Competion Neck Sizing Die, OCL w/comp 3.459 and the master (me) at the trigger prints less than an inch at that distance so need a might more to really squeeze out what that rifle can do. BTW at an OCL of 3.459, the bullet is just kissing the lands.

When I got the 6.5 X 284, it did not shoot as good as I thought it should. I was living in Montana so I personally took it back to the factory and showed the guy the groups. He took a look at it and said "might be a burr on the crown". They recrowned it while I was standing there at the lathe watching. Yes, they took a barrel wrench, screwed off the barrel, chucked it in the lathe and done it before my eyes. It was magic. I clean that barrel with the attention you would perform brain surgery!!