Air-conditioned Iowa barn
Dec 10, 2023 17:33:27 #
Lots of old barns in Iowa yet today, however they too are gradually disappearing.
Dec 10, 2023 17:56:21 #
radiomantom wrote:
Lots of old barns in Iowa yet today, however they too are gradually disappearing.
Great find on this dark and dreary day. I like that you choose black and white.
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SteveFranz
Loc: Durham, NC
They were built that way to improve air circulation and prevent mold when you are storing crops.
Dec 10, 2023 23:29:31 #
SteveFranz wrote:
They were built that way to improve air circulation and prevent mold when you are storing crops.
My Grandfather had one like that in Western Kentucky, it was for drying tobacco. If the weather was too cool or too damp, he had 55 gallon steel drums turned into "Coke" burners (think charcoal made from coal instead of wood) to warm and dry the barn. Those slats were on swivels to adjust the openings. Like if a wind was blowing rain in, you closed the slats on the upwind side of the barn.
Dec 11, 2023 06:33:58 #
radiomantom wrote:
Lots of old barns in Iowa yet today, however they too are gradually disappearing.
Someone should buy it and take it down saving the wood. They could then plane it down and square it up and have some of the most beautiful wood. Then they could use to build all kinds of things. Thanks for the photo post more. BE SAFE!!
Tom
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tshift wrote:
Someone should buy it and take it down saving the wood. They could then plane it down and square it up and have some of the most beautiful wood. Then they could use to build all kinds of things. Thanks for the photo post more. BE SAFE!!
Tom
Tom
We have a "Living History Farms" here in Iowa. They should just move it there.
Dec 11, 2023 13:37:35 #
Gosh, of all the pictures barns I've taken, I don't have that one. Do you recall where it is at?
Dec 11, 2023 19:01:53 #
robertjerl wrote:
My Grandfather had one like that in Western Kentucky, it was for drying tobacco. If the weather was too cool or too damp, he had 55 gallon steel drums turned into "Coke" burners (think charcoal made from coal instead of wood) to warm and dry the barn. Those slats were on swivels to adjust the openings. Like if a wind was blowing rain in, you closed the slats on the upwind side of the barn.
Did not realize that. Thanks much for the info.
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