Jogeephus
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After finding some calves were were missing and finding all the fences were still in good shape I figured rustlers had got the better of me. However, I was relieved to learn was only a case of vagrancy.
MO_cows":1oejgml1 said:That's funny! Hope the nosy little buggers don't go thru the floor!
cowwrangler":1oejgml1 said:do you supply them cable tv also?lol
mnmtranching":8ojk8tfs said:Joe is that my cabin for next Winter?
bigbull338":8ojk8tfs said:1 thing is for sure itll take you awhile to findout how thet are getting in.an put a stop to it.
Calman, one of my grandpa's barns has an 80ft hand hued beam. You can't destroy those barns even if you tried. We stripped one down and moved it on a semi without it falling apart. Oddly enough we were just talking about this a week ago, I wish I could find pictures of the horse drawn cranes they used to get the beams in place.Calman":39g1catp said:It always amazed me to see those big old barns when I lived up in Ohio.Hand hued native oak beams 14in square,forty to fifty feet long and penned together with wood pins. Some three stories high.Built on a hill and a dug out basement,a first floor and then the hayloft.Not far from where I lived the hay loft was as big as a basketball court and they actually played basket ball up there.
And not to mention the weight of that old slate roof alone.Then in winter time also had a foot or two of snow on it.Sure was some kind of work getting those huge beams upright and penned.
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Jogeephus":7esm32d6 said:It impresses me how they could overcome certain obstacles with common sense and hard work instead of technology. The tools they invented, the methods they used all impress me.
Its amazing how we think we "need" all this technology when the old timers made things a hundred times better with less. My dad's house is over two hundred years old, he bought it when I was 2 but we have pictures of it from the 1800's and there was an amazing circular barn that was attached to the house that burned down. The thing was HUGE. Our house is big but in the picture it dwarfs it. Can't say I would've wanted to be one of the guys who put on the roof :? scary.Jogeephus":22awswrs said:It impresses me how they could overcome certain obstacles with common sense and hard work instead of technology. The tools they invented, the methods they used all impress me.