paden cash, post: 390330, member: 20 wrote: ...although the X was backwards..
looked frontwards to me......
That looks kinda like an old round barn (now long gone) around here where my father told me a man had died. He walked himself to death looking for a corner to pee in (grin).
Andy
Dang it, Andy. You beat me to telling that story. The same thing happened about 50 miles from here when I was a kid.
I told you we grew up on the same farm a thousand miles apart.
You got that right.
Once you start looking for them...
I love that bottom photo.
They've sort of reproduced those in modern steel versions here but they just don't, can't, have the character of wooden versions.
As they age they don't take on the patina that one does.
This is the only "Barn" near me. A surprising amount of Country stars have performed there. Also Dan Whitney aka Larry the Cable Guy, did stand up there before stardom.
Old cypress cistern wood is worth a lot of cash to cabinetmakers and custom builders. I saw it used as interior paneling once and it was beautiful.
The minerals from the water naturally stained the wood in marbelized patterns with assorted hues.
One major drawback of old barn wood is removing the lead base paint.
Sandblasting and/or planing destroys some of the character.
Automatic gate opener
Been a while but I did return and grab some images. Still doesn't show really well.
It's a contraption made from an old toilet cistern that fills and empties according to where the gate is. Open or closed.
It opens when the "chain" is pulled allowing water to empty and the counterbalance kicks in and pulls gate open.
Then the cistern fills with water, falls to bottom with that weight and shuts the gate.
It's all so smooth and quiet.
Gate opening
That last photo shows the pull cord going downhill where you stop and "tug the chain".
Then relax and wait for nature to run its course, before driving onwards.
GMPLS, post: 390301, member: 8404 wrote: This barn is probably one of the most photographed in the Adirondacks of NYS. I took this in 2011 and the old barn has gone down hill since. I believe there is a group trying to raise funds to restore it. If you google "keene barn ny", you'll find all kinds of info.
Gregg
Keene is a beautiful town. We stop in there on our way to visit friends in Raybrook (Placid area).
paden cash, post: 390330, member: 20 wrote: Did you really think we could talk about old barns and not stir up an Uncle Paden barn story? Of course not...
There's an old round barn on Route 66 in Arcadia, OK. Folks finally got together in the late '80s and restored it. Now it's a sight-seer's mecca for all the old grey haired motorcyclists that let the SSA make their Harley payments. It didn't use to be that way. As a matter of fact, in the early '70s the roof had darn near fallen in and it was full of junk.
There use to be an APCO gas station just west of the barn. The old man that ran it lived in the house that was connected to the station. Just this side of that blue Chevy use to sit two old gas pumps. The wooden garage to the left also use to proudly announce "Mechanic on Duty" and "Flats Fixed"...although the X was backwards..
At the time I was keeping company with a girl that lived in Chandler, a little town about 25 miles east of Arcadia. Oklahoma City was about 20 miles west. I use to stop in, get gas and jaw with the old man that ran the station and pet his dog. The barn was adjacent to his place and all the junk in there was his, but I don't know if he owned it. But he knew everything about that old barn.Late one night I was heading back to OKC and the fuel line broke on my old pickup about a mile from the station. It was 2AM and I knew the old man would open up about 7 so I walked old 66 and crawled in the old barn to snooze. I didn't feel like a trespasser because I knew the old man and I also knew his dog...who stayed with me in the barn until the sun came up.
He use to have a bench under the roof there by the gas pumps. I and the dog had migrated to the bench about dawn and I knew the old man would shake me when he got up. He did. But we had to have coffee before he got started. I didn't mind a bit.
I helped him push the doors open to the garage and we found a short piece of rubber fuel line and a couple of clamps. He drove me back to my pickup and I was back on the road in no time...probably wasn't too late for work either.
He and I also use to walk across the street to the wood along the Deep Fork (it's a tree farm now) and hunt Morels. He had a good eye for such things.
Now the barn is all painted up and folks come from miles around to see "The Round Barn". Maybe someday there will also be a sign there stating "Paden Cash slept here". 😉
My first wife was from Chandler. Lived there in 72-73. It was a nice little town. I drove through Arcadia twice a day while driving between Chandler and Edmond and going to school at CSU.
Some of our classic Australian sheds are the "Woolshed".
Australian wealth was once courtesy of wool and huge sheds were built to shear sheep and deal with the wool.
Many farms still have these magnificent structures.
Here's a few older ones.
Later woolsheds are corrugated iron but still have character and are very much a part of our Aussie landscape
Too drafty for our climate. Reminds me a bit of tobacco barns where they need the air movement to facilitate drying.
FL/GA PLS., post: 390168, member: 379 wrote: Is that a "dog tent" on the left under the lean-to?
Dog tent house... Yes
That one is definitely uncommon.
Those boards were cut with a circle saw.
Good old days. Hard work, and deep dreams.
Nate
