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I keep searching for Old Stone Barns here in New York, but I've only found that one.

Today I was high atop Mount Pisgah in the Northern Catskill mountains on my '82 and captured a flock of birds rising from a superbly maintained Old Wood Barn on route 10, north of Ashland.

Who will be next to meet the "Old Barn Photo with your XS650 Challenge?"

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I keep searching for Old Stone Barns here in New York, but I've only found that one.

Today I was high atop Mount Pisgah in the Northern Catskill mountains on my '82 and captured a flock of birds rising from a superbly maintained Old Wood Barn on route 10, north of Ashland.

Who will be next to meet the "Old Barn Photo with your XS650 Challenge?"

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Beautiful Jeff! That looks like a postcard! :geek:
 
Well good thing I took the picture when I did back in 2020 because that barn was torn down a couple months ago! Just a bit of a scar on the ground left.
That's sad. But yes we have much less than half the barns left 'round here. The design fits no modern purpose. Repairs, maintenance on a building with no practical use very expensive. Insurers HATE them, down they go.
 
A few miles from the house.We get hay from this farmer sometimes, he still puts up small squares with old equipment.
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Over the county line into Columbia near the Wisconsin River. I was shooting from the road and the farm lady waved me in to get closer and a better angle We chatted for a while about making hay while the sun shines. ;^)
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A wood silo, She said it was a little off the foundation and didn't trust it for silage anymore. A "traditional" farm with cows, sheep, various crops.
 
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A few miles from the house.We get hay from this farmer sometimes, he still puts up small squares with old equipment.
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Over the county line into Columbia near the Wisconsin River. I was shooting from the road and the farm lady waved me in to get closer and a better angle We chatted for a while about making hay while the sun shines. ;^)
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A wood silo, She said it was a little off the foundation and didn't trust it for silage anymore. A "traditional" farm with cows, sheep, various crops.

Very nice Gary, that old XS1 just looks right prowling your country roads! :thumbsup:
 
Barns:
Barns are simple box-like structures originally built from wood and stone to protect horses, hay and farm implements from the weather.
The earliest barns were constructed with attention to design and longevity.


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They have never lost their purpose.
80% of my neighbors here in rural Central New York have built wood/aluminum "pole barns" that are much larger than their house.
They use them to protect their vehicles, tractors, and "stuff".

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Old barns are being repurposed as homes (I come upon them all the time in my travels)

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and
businesses, and places to hang out.
Around the corner from me is Tim's Pumpkin Patch. This year they put in a stage and on friday nights have bands and beer.

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Why preserve the old wood barns??

Why do we preserve '55 Chevys?
Why do we care for our grandparents who can no longer work?
Why do we have museums ?

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Because they are a part of our Heritage.

We look to the old barns as links to our past. Old barns are often community landmarks that make the past present. Such buildings embody ethnic traditions and local customs; they reflect changing farming practices and advances in building technology. In the imagination they represent a whole way of life.

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I can't imagine a world without our old barns.
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Most of my relatives were farmers in Iowa and Missouri , and most of them had relatively modern metal Quonset huts or storage buildings. But I had one aunt and uncle that lived in a really old farm that had an absolutely cavernous barn, the whole upstairs was a hay loft, downstairs were horse stalls and tack rooms for when the farm was worked with those great big Belgian draft horses. After tractors came along that barn turned into a catch all for all sorts of equipment. The last time I ever saw it was in the late 60’s , I was a kid playing in the hay loft with my cousins. The farm cats used to use that barn to have their kittens in and we were chasing them around. I always remembered cats being around that barn. And outside the barn was a big fenced in pen that my uncle used to keep this bad tempered old ram in, we used to think it was great sport to hop into that pen and try and run across it before that ram could get to us.
That barn was 100 years old when I was kid, their house was even older. Last I heard it was empty and falling in on itself, but in my memories it will stand forever. I had some of the best days of my youth running around that farm.
 
Barns:
Barns are simple box-like structures originally built from wood and stone to protect horses, hay and farm implements from the weather.
The earliest barns were constructed with attention to design and longevity.


421a5aae819799ba7cca3ccd36dada4f.jpg
4b4b59cef7f30b26acc5e1b1ac9bf25d--rustic-barn-farmhouse.jpg
ea67500329cd1065083c661c779d2efe.jpg

twenty-acre-dairy-barn-early-spring-picture-round-university-illinois-urbana-illinois-designed-51612606.jpg


3-ScottishBarn10-12-15.jpg


They have never lost their purpose.
80% of my neighbors here in rural Central New York have built wood/aluminum "pole barns" that are much larger than their house.
They use them to protect their vehicles, tractors, and "stuff".

30x50x12-Stud-Frame-1436792609-Web.jpg


Old barns are being repurposed as homes (I come upon them all the time in my travels)

af402a257fbece2413baeb8f1dd2c31b--barn-loft-apartment-barn-plans.jpg


and
businesses, and places to hang out.
Around the corner from me is Tim's Pumpkin Patch. This year they put in a stage and on friday nights have bands and beer.

attachment-tims-brew-barn-e1624880826166.jpg


tims-pumpkin-patch__MG_0130-copy-1000x600.jpg



Why preserve the old wood barns??

Why do we preserve '55 Chevys?
Why do we care for our grandparents who can no longer work?
Why do we have museums ?

sellars-gallery-of-historic-hand-tools-at-funk-heritage-center-1477421114.jpg



Because they are a part of our Heritage.

We look to the old barns as links to our past. Old barns are often community landmarks that make the past present. Such buildings embody ethnic traditions and local customs; they reflect changing farming practices and advances in building technology. In the imagination they represent a whole way of life.

9592cf31297ceda9b5ef0f156f684227.jpg


I can't imagine a world without our old barns.
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.


I should’ve led with this, but Jeff you went and got me all sentimental with that post. Great stuff. :)
And I’ve never seen a round barn like that before, very interesting!
 
Wow, some amazing buildings. Thank you for the history lesson, Yamadude! Never seen comparable round buildings on farms in Britain - the internal detail of construction maybe shows why, must have taken a lot of labour and resources to build one of those?

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I'm always interested in how words are used. The meaning of barn seems to have shifted and has become a general term for any large, uhm, shed on a farm. When I was little and use to play on farms - happy memories, just like Bob - barn meant a place for storing crops. An animal shed, specifically for cows, was a byre and usually had a hayloft above. Often with cats living there! The building set up for milking cows was a milking parlour. A big, often open-sided shed for hay was, surprisingly, a hay shed. Tractors were kept in the tractor shed.

There are some traditional very old barns in England, varying in size, of wooden construction but placed on mushroom-shaped stone stilts. The stilts were to keep rats out of a building filled with oats, barley, wheat. Not aware of any in the Borders so gonna have to surf the web to find a picture:

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Also in England, there medieval tithe-barns, which are some of the finest surviving buildings from their time. This is Great Coxwell tithe barn, built about 1292 by the Cistercian abbey of Beaulieu to store grain:

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In the 21st century, people put up a retail building on a farm or just anywhere rural with a large internal space, perhaps as a coffee shop or farm shop, and they always seem to call it a barn.
 
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