Were you raised in a barn???
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Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Not raised in one, but I think all kids should have one as part of their lives while growing up.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
I don’t but it would be a good place. I do have a good stand that overlooks the area around it.
Jordan Selsor
5 year old buck +
Love that old barn! You ever hunt out of it? Know any history on it?
Native Hunter
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Thanks Jordan. Yes, I do know the history. My grandparents lived there and there was another barn about 300 yards away higher up on the hill. My dad was just a small child and remembers the other barn catching on fire in the middle of the night and my grandfather jumping out of bed and trying to save the animals that were in it. They never knew what caused the fire, because there was no electricity in it and there was no lightning that night.
The next day all of the neighbors started finding out about the barn burning, and a group of them came together to help build the barn you see in the pictures above. My guess is that would have been in the early 1940s.
I spent a good deal of my life in and around that barn when I was growing up, and it's just a special place to me. There is a big spring just in front of it, and my grandfather had things set up to butcher hogs at that spot because of all the good water available. I can recall seeing as many as 15 or 20 neighbors out there at times with my grandfather butchering their hogs for them. He would do it for free and just enjoyed being out working and helping his neighbors. I still have the big iron kettle that they used.
Those are some great memories of a time and place when things were different and better than what is so common today - without all the hate and evil we see in society. I guess that's why it's a joy for me to just be there - soaking in the sun and remembering those wonderful days of old.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
The barn is cool... the native forbs are outstanding! Great pics.
Mortenson
5 year old buck +
Cool stuff. Does the barn have any use any longer? Do you store anything in it? Would be nice if it stands for a good while longer, and with the metal roof it should for a while. People always have to make the tough financial decisions regarding those old buildings before they get too far gone. We had a large expense in removing one a few years ago (had asbestos siding) and another old dinosaur in a less visible spot finally took the knee this past year. Still have three old classic style barns standing, for the time being. Two of them needed new roofs a long time ago.
Jordan Selsor
5 year old buck +
Wow Steve! I will never look at your old barn the same! Every time I see an old barn or home place I wonder what its history is. Your right about different times. Sometimes I feel like I was born 100 years to late but then know in my heart God makes no mistakes. Just admire the way they did things back in those days.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Mortenson, I really don't use it for storing anything, but as you said, I want to keep it standing as long as I reasonably can. You can see in the pics where I put some new roofing on one section, and I have gone over the whole roof with roofing screws. I also added a steel cable at one place on the low side where it was trying to kick out. I had to eventually let the old house go because of the poor repair it had got in, but so far I have been able to keep the barn intact.
don
5 year old buck +
The smell of Sheep dip, a Maple Syrup boiling vat fired up every spring, party line phones with their own distinct ring, outhouse with two seats, crank to start JD tractors, tons of pheasants but deer sightings were very rare. Neighbors helping neighbors, one room K thru 12 schoolhouse with one teacher for all grades, and walking to school to get there.
Just a few of the memories your beautiful barn pictures brought to my mind, thank you for sharing them, you have made my day !!
Just a few of the memories your beautiful barn pictures brought to my mind, thank you for sharing them, you have made my day !!
Native Hunter
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Bill
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Great pics!
Somehow I don’t have a pic but I had the Amish put a new roof and metal siding on my old gambrel barn.
It was that or let it fall in as the roof was shot. Neighbors tell me the original owner built it. The second story floor is made from cottonwood from the farm. Some of those boards are two foot wide.
good rifle stand from the second story window ;)
Somehow I don’t have a pic but I had the Amish put a new roof and metal siding on my old gambrel barn.
It was that or let it fall in as the roof was shot. Neighbors tell me the original owner built it. The second story floor is made from cottonwood from the farm. Some of those boards are two foot wide.
good rifle stand from the second story window ;)
I always wonder why so many people just let their barns fall down instead of maintaining, know it's expensive to paint a roof but cheaper than building one.My BIL rebuilt a barn that had good stone on bottom.he put metal on sides and roof but unless a Kansas tornado hits it,should be around for a long time,great pics
IkemanTx
5 year old buck +
I ended up with one of the desks from the one room schoolhouse my grandmother went to school in. There’s about 4 family members with one.
Outhouse at the family farm finally blew over in a storm in the late 90’s, and the tractor sits under one of the barns never to run again.
There’s the framing to an old covered wagon in the roof of the big barn. It carried the family from Gwinnett County, GA to Texas in 1871.
Honestly, I’m too young to have any of these experiences (33). I owe it all to my great grandmother living over 100, and staying on the farm until she was 96. And, to the fact that I never really could stay inside as a child. I always felt drawn to, and attached to the old farm like no one else in the family. It was well known that this was the reason I was Grandma Lovie’s favorite grandchild.
My Aunt owns the side of the farm with the old barn, and it is getting to be in pretty heavy disrepair. Hopefully I can salvage her someday, or at least the old wagon.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Super pictures Native!! Old barns are just cool. I wonder if there'll be any left in another 100 years. I don't think "corporate" farms build barns like those. It's so sad family farms are disappearing, - a couple on my father's side gone.
The colors of the jewelweed, chicory, goldenrod, partridge pea, and other flowers add so much to the landscape. All sorts of pollinators have to love your place. That 3rd pic with all the black-eyed Susans, daisies, and coneflowers is spectacular! Is there a cooler blue flower color than wild chicory?? The big buck pic is just the icing on the cake. Is that one on the wall of the man cave yet?
The colors of the jewelweed, chicory, goldenrod, partridge pea, and other flowers add so much to the landscape. All sorts of pollinators have to love your place. That 3rd pic with all the black-eyed Susans, daisies, and coneflowers is spectacular! Is there a cooler blue flower color than wild chicory?? The big buck pic is just the icing on the cake. Is that one on the wall of the man cave yet?
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Thanks Bows. I do love having a diversity of plants around, and feel that it helps all of the wildlife on the farm in so many different ways. Yes, that buck is the one I was able to harvest in 2018. He was a special one, because we passed him the year before and he not only made it but also packed on some more inches. That doesn't always happen, but it sure is nice when it does happen!
