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[TomE]

2 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

i photo just about anything interesting to me. This is an old barn loft i thought was cool, way out in the boonies.

 

That is totally cool.  Don't see much hay put up in lofts in this age of steel pole barns.  Did someone take the tin off the roof for another building?  Shame to let those rafters rot in the weather.

[chuck123wapati]

4 minutes ago, TomE said:

That is totally cool.  Don't see much hay put up in lofts in this age of steel pole barns.  Did someone take the tin off the roof for another building?  Shame to let those rafters rot in the weather.

 

 

Thanks natural light effect at its finest! The good old Wyoming winds took off the roof lol. This old barn was long abandoned in the 50s or so, it started as a train stop/spur back in the steam locomotive days to load sheep. With our dry desert weather and no humidity deters alot of rot but the constant sand and wind does most of the erosion out here. 

[TomE]

@chuck123wapati is there much hay produced in your area?  A long distance trucker in our area brings large square bales of WY and KS hay back here for sale.  I buy small bales from local producers bc I can see it growing in the fields and it's easier to handle the small bales.  The hilly ground around here is good for pasture and hay fields.  Row crops are grown in the MO River bottom.  We had a barn with a loft that was built in 1939 and was falling down in the wet Missouri weather.  Habitat for Humanity salvaged the tin and the lumber, which they already had buyers for. 

[chuck123wapati]

1 hour ago, TomE said:

@chuck123wapati is there much hay produced in your area?  A long distance trucker in our area brings large square bales of WY and KS hay back here for sale.  I buy small bales from local producers bc I can see it growing in the fields and it's easier to handle the small bales.  The hilly ground around here is good for pasture and hay fields.  Row crops are grown in the MO River bottom.  We had a barn with a loft that was built in 1939 and was falling down in the wet Missouri weather.  Habitat for Humanity salvaged the tin and the lumber, which they already had buyers for. 

Not  a lot around here but south of here about 60 miles along the Platte and little snake rivers is where most of the local hay is grown in our county. The eastern part and northern part of the state has the grass lands and more water. Where i live is on the edge of the red desert. Its been a good year for them not to much rain but enough to do the job they will be getting two good cuttings i'm sure this year.

Here is another cool picture, my great grandmother took this probably in the early teens, i have about 30 glass negatives of hers. I put them on a light box and took photos of them then had to reverse the image from negative to positive to get the image. My dad told stories of the old timers, haying was a community endeavor so the men would go from ranch to ranch helping each other and the women would get together to feed every one. This would be on the little snake river where my family homesteaded

[TomE]

@chuck123wapati is that frame for gathering hay out of the field or loading it on the hay mow? My farm girl-wife will enjoy seeing the pictures tonight. 

[chuck123wapati]

11 minutes ago, TomE said:

@chuck123wapati is that frame for gathering hay out of the field or loading it on the hay mow? My farm girl-wife will enjoy seeing the pictures tonight. 

its is for raising the hay up onto the stack then men on top would move it around, i wish i could remember more about it too if i remember right a buck rake would bring the hay in then load onto this by men, a horse pulled it up  then  the men on top of the stack would place it in such a way that the rain or snow melt would run off keeping the hay good inside.