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Subscribe This is my favorite photo of the barn, even though it’s far in the distance.
This photo was taken from the first upper pasture. I came out here one day, in advance of moving in and with the previous owners’ permission, to walk some of the fields and inspect fencing as I made my plans on where to unload animals. Unfortunately, I discovered a lot of fence repairs needed in that field and had to knock it off the list as an unload location for the cows. It was still warm then, and I thought they would enjoy it for a few weeks, but they had to go straight to the rear barn yard.
The barn was built in the 1890s and is a dream barn to me. The previous owners told me they had considered tearing it down. I was shocked. Luckily, they didn’t do that. I can only assume they were considering it because of the maintenance costs coming up on the barn. The roof looks like it needs some attention in particular. Otherwise, the barn is in sound condition. Some boards seem warped and aged, of course, but that is part of the charm. This barn looks like it has a lot of farm life left in it to me as long as the roof and other crucial elements are maintained.
I’ll be breaking up the barn tour into a few different posts, like the pasture tour. There is a lot to be explored in the barn, and I haven’t even had a chance to explore it thoroughly myself. There are also all kinds of unidentified (non-flying) objects, and I know some of you can help!
As you face the barn, there is a large sliding barn door. To the left of the sliding door, the lower area of the barn encases the stalls on that side of the alleyway. The higher side of the barn to the right holds the hayloft.
When you slide back the door, there is a gate with a chain and latch to hold back animals even with the door open. (Well, it would secure a horse or cow. I can tell you it doesn’t secure sheep or goats! That could be solved by adding woven wire fencing to the gate, but I haven’t gotten around to that yet and it’s not critical for now.)
The alleyway runs down the center, with stalls on both sides.
There is a door in the back that opens to the rear barn yard. I have it temporarily barricaded with several items because the lower end of the door is too high. Goats and sheep could slip under the door and out to the rear barn yard (which is not secure for smaller animals). I can move everything and go out that door if I need to, but there are two outside gates to the rear barn yard as well, so for now while I have sheep and goats coming and going in snowy weather to the stalls, I’m leaving it barricaded. Eventually I’ll do something to fix it.
The barn is lighted throughout, with electric outlets, and there is a water faucet (in addition to the two faucets in the front barn yard) right in the alleyway that is “disabled” (in a manner of speaking) because the previous owner’s horse knocked the faucet down. When I start getting my milking room ready, I’ll have that redone because the faucet is right outside my proposed milking room (which I’ll be showing you in another post).
In this post, I’m going to bring you into the “office”–which I think is really the tack room, but calling it the office entertains me for some reason.
I could set up a little desk in there and bring the goats in when they need chastised. Daily. And write bills out to the chickens for pooping on the porch. Put Glory Bee on the naughty list. And count sheep.
Inside, there are all kinds of tools that were left behind by the previous owners. Shovels and rakes, a pitchfork, a hay hook, clippers, a trimmer, even an old horse shoe. (I don’t know if the trimmer works.)
There’s also a chain saw (?) and I don’t know if that works either. And what is that thing to the right of it? It has a tall handle.
There’s a basket hanging on the far wall with what looks like horsey stuff.
There’s this other thing and I don’t know what it is. (Not the trimmer, the other thing.)
There are some gasoline cans and kerosene cans and a heater. Those three cans are empty.
But this kerosene can is mostly full.
And, of course, the bladder tank is in here.
The room could use a little cleanup, and I still need to go through it all and figure out what everything is used for, but it’s a handy nook.
More barn tours coming up as I show you the stalls, the storage area (with some interesting left-behind items), and the hayloft.
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I love your place……
BB
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The first, with the blue handle and the twisted thingies is a cultivator! Very handy for your veggie plot. You push the twisted part into the ground, then turn and wiggle the handles and pull upwards, repeat. Gets rid of weeds and makes your soil loose!
The other object, next to the trimmer, is an attachment for a long pole pruner. Used for branches that are too thick for the scissors attachment. Usually comes with a pole with a slit in the top end where the attachment should be inserted and clicked shut.
Greetings from Spain!
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Isn’t it somewhat ironic that a HORSE knocked over a WATER faucet, you have had WATER problems and the HORSEshoe is letting all the good luck drain away? Hmmmmmmmmm!
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http://chickensintheroad.com/dailyfarm/mystery-solved/
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PS: The shoe looks good by the front door.
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The basket of horse stuff is….just that, a basket of horse stuff. The wormer (Ivermectin) does not look too dusty (so it is probably not that old), but I would throw it away. I don’t think it is supposed to get cold. And you don’t have a horse yet, so start fresh when that time comes. I am not sure what the black thing is from this angle.
The blade on a stick next to the trimmer is a branch trimmer for trees using the saw part. It is probably retractable (or at least most that I have seen are). They are not exactly easy to use, working way up over your head like that, but it is better than climbing the tree.
Hope that helps.
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~~peace & love & joy & blessings~~
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Looks like on the wall is where it’s intended to be so I guess your “luck” is improving already….you hung it in the right place!
Beautiful barn and what treasures!
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They might have forgotten to tell you about plugging in the heat tape for the plumbing, but I am sure that was accidental. In the big picture, I would say you are still ahead
On the tank you had to replace…well some years ago I did a complete remodel on the basement, including carpet. Just two weeks after it was all finished, the well tank sprung a leak, the bottom had rusted out of it. So, its just one of those things that happens. By the next time it happened 10 years later, i decided to just replace it myself, after all it really is just simple plumbing. So we went to Lowes and purchased it and installed it..All good! …well till the next time, lol
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As far as the horsey stuff, did you know that you could use that brush (or even a stiffer one if you can find it) to brush down your cow? We do that as the cow eats her chop before every milking. It takes off the loose hair that might otherwise fall into the milk pail and we have read that it helps relax the cow so that she gives more milk. We even brush over her udder. It took her a bit to get use to, but she loves it now! Nothing like eating candy and getting a full body massage to boot each morning! lol Often while milking is being done, she will relax so much that she falls asleep,
(hey this fits well here) then wakes herself up with a jump! It is pretty funny! She will do this a couple times a milking some mornings.
We would love exploring all the stuff they left behind. If you find that you don’t need some of it, we would be willing to take some off your hands!
Kind of hard to send it over to us online, though. Enjoy your stuff.
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