Can we have a Barn Pic thread?
 

I love barns, especially old ones, but really all barns are just so cool! I would love to see yours!
this is our barn in the fall. Have to get better pics

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...barnview-1.jpg

This one the shadow is rather long, you can see my chicken run from a distance

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...H/HPIM3443.jpg

First picture is the front of the main barn which shows the barnyard gate area....the second picture is the inside of the main barn and one of our feeding stations........the third picture is the inside of the main barn and another feeding station and lambing stations.....the fourth picture is our barnyard where we raise our lambs that will go to restaurants in NYC and Boston & our llama of course. Our barnyard and barns are actually shaped in a "U" shape. The main barn which is our lambing barn is on the left, the back barn is our ewe "drying and breeding barn", the barn on the right houses the lambs designated to go to market which feed in the barnyard and go inside the barn at night or when bad weather hits. After the ewes have been bred in the breeding barn they go out to pasture until they start "showing" then the process starts all over again and mothers come in the lambing barn and raise their lambs. We breed/lamb 5 times a year and have a constant rotation of animals thruought our barn/pasture system. ALOT of work, but we love it.


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Not sure how to post pictures here, but I am going to try....Hope it works...here goes.


Good Shepherd Farm
http://www.goodshepherdfarm.com
518-597-9850

As you can see the barn isn't finished yet...supposedly should be done this weekend.Ours isn't a 'real' barn as we plan to live on the upper floor.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...and/Barn51.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...and/Barn50.jpg

Really nice barn Crownpoint! And oz, I love your home/barn! very cool.

Took this of a neighbor's barn (in WI) when the creek was overflowing - normally there is no water.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...Aug022001b.jpg

Here is ours. It isn't new; we built it ourselves 3 years ago so of course it isn't quite done. The big doors will go on this summer and I have a big Penn Dutch hex sign waiting to go up in the gable. It has 6 stalls and a big hayloft.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/...o/IMG_0537.jpg

Here's a photo of the barn from the other side of the pond. It wasn't finished in this photo:

http://pic.piczo.com/img/i223923979_11880.jpg

Not ours, but one a few miles away:

http://www.spittlevixens.com/reen/im...snowday/19.jpg


Here's ours, so far (photos taken last summer, before we piled all of our junk inside):

http://www.spittlevixens.com/reen/im...os/barn/08.jpg

http://www.spittlevixens.com/reen/im...os/barn/07.jpg

http://www.spittlevixens.com/reen/im...os/barn/04.jpg


Here's what our barn should look like when we're done (more or less) except with board-and-batten siding:

http://www.spittlevixens.com/reen/im...m/barnidea.jpg

I love to see everyone's photos of their barns!!!

We love barns too... but unfortunately the land we bought doesn't have any on it. :grump: So we just admire everyone elses! :) Here's a picture that my husband took of an old barn a few months ago near Gatlinburg, TN (in Townsend).

And I've never posted pics before so bear with me...

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...ldBarncrop.jpg

~Ashley

Love old barns!!
 

Here is my dairy bank barn as the Amish are just finishing up the tim roof in the summer of 2005.
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/kaefer@a...03421788735/46

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Really great barns! Wow jenigrey! Love the old one and yours is just wow!

Winter, 2005...

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...ordy/farm1.jpg

Solid oak 60x40 barn on concrete footings, built 60 years ago when the land was cleared, out of wood sawmilled from the trees cleared off. The hay loft will hold 1,200 60-pound square bales (we have had it full before), but we now use it to store rounds that I load from the front with the tractor loader. Even has an old fashioned corn crib (which I'd like to take out for more useable storage space). Good old barn. She's due some new siding in spots, and I plan to do that once the money catches up. Worth preserving.

Cool to look at this pic, and visualize all the fence and stuff that I have added since then. There's also a '51 GMC 5-window pickup in the center of the barn now, awaiting restoration someday. Looks cool in there.

This barn is near the intersection of I-40 and I-77 in western NC and is available free to someone that will move it intending to reassemble.
http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/agmantoo/barn/

Oz,
The sky in these photos is amazing! Is it always that blue??

Wow! Beautiful barns, every one of them.

Jennigrey - that first picture is a gorgeous barn. I could see living in that - what a house that would make!

Halo

Here is a good link for barn preservation, by the way:

http://www.uwex.edu/lgc/barns/barns.htm

First time trying to post a pic...

Our barn. Just got a new roof and will have some needed wood replaced and painted this spring.
It has a garage on one end that the tractor is in now. 4 stalls and a feed room on the inside. The hay loft is huge. I'd have a hard time filling it for certain.

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Okay, this posting pics is kind of fun! You all are in trouble now....

Here is another view:

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The middle part of the main barn, the one with the roof running the opposite way, was built in roughly 1870. The addition to the left of it was built in 1952 completely out of elm. The one on the right was built in 1977. The freestall barn in the foreground was built in 1974. Building on the right is the milking parlour I'm working on. Little shed just to the right of the main barn was built in the 50s and is falling down, hopefully it will come down this summer and be replaced with a 50x100 machinery shed just to the right of it. The little 2 car garage you can see between the barn in the house used to have a house attached onto the right of it. The house burnt two years ago and the fire department saved the garage so we built the new house farther back and I use the garage to store my loader tractor and for my shop. Also has a new 14'x34' woodshed built on the back of it since the picture was taken.

Ignore the farm show, we had 17000 visitors over 2 days in August.
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This looks an awful lot like the barn on my parents' farm in NW AL. It was built in 1934 and is on rock pilings. Unfortunately, during the years Daddy was battling cancer the barn went downhill and he wouldn't let us do anything about it. Now it appears we will have to tear it down as the loft has fallen in. It makes me cry because I love that barn so much.

Thanks for sharing this photo.

Hmmm,I guess so... :shrug:

We are always walking around dumbstruck that we have a building on our land.... :p :D

I LOVE barns,and the pics are incredible.

Whoa. I COVET that hay elevator!

Our barn in the snow. Looks just like now, but this pic is from last year.

I love the other barn photos, keep them coming!!!

Have a happy day, Kimberly

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The barn that came with our SD property is in sad shape. It needs to come down. We've had the fire department stop in and ask if we would let them burn it for us. DH and I hope to salvage lumber. Just don't have a good idea how to take it down without hurting ourselves in the process.

We had really hoped to save it, but along with the more obvious broken roof, the entire bottom few inches of the barn is rotted away all around, and in most places it has slipped off the foundation. Believe me, though it may not look that bad in the photo, in person it is obvious this barn is beyond cost-effective repair.

This picture was taken a few years ago, it's in worse shape now.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...Silos/ts03.jpg

Cathy

Here is the barn DH and I built when we lived in WI.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...n/wibarn01.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...n/wibarn02.jpg

This is one of my favorite winter pictures

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...wibarnsnow.jpg

There is a lot I miss about WI, and it hurt a lot to give up that "dream" but I'm much happier here in SD.

Cathy

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...elorb/barn.jpg

This is a "Before" of our barn. Now the roof is patched, and it is back up to the level it was before the splinter chokers started eating it. Used a carjack and a 4x4 to get it back. Took a whole summer, but its dry now and holds hay and a tractor and a baler.

Great pics on this thread!

It's fun to look at all the various styles of barns out there.

I hope you all don't mind but I saved some of your pictures for backgrounds and screen savers for my computer.Thes are some very nice pictures!

New Ones!
 

I wanted to post some pics we took this morning- we have done a lot of work painting trim and wanted to show off a little. Our barn and farmhouse are circa 1800 by the way (some additions made of course.)

This is a view of the barn from the back with the chicken run
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...ackbarn207.jpg
this is the entrance to the stalls/stables
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...ableent207.jpg
A view from the field, the little building will be used for goats this spring, we need to build the pen.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...oatyard207.jpg
the chicken coop attached to the barn
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...NH/coop207.jpg
This is behind the barn, a little porch off the pig room.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...doorbrn207.jpg

Thanks for letting me show off!

O.K., I'm jealous!

What WONDERFUL barns. The kind I would LOVE to have. Ah well ... here's ours. Not beautiful, but serves us well for the moment. :)

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...nAndShower.jpg

Very nice set up Hill Crest Farm!

I love the shake siding.

Yeah, well, I have an elevator and you have a river! I'll trade ya!

:) :)

<big grin>

This our farm in Maryland. My husband's job has taken us to Tampa FL and we have had the farm up for sale for a while. Since it isn't selling I will probably move back end of next month and take it off the market. Yippee! I miss my farm. We have 2 barns and a indoor riding arena. The indoor arena is made out of a type of woven fabric. I'm not sure if it's against the board rule's to post this or not (since our place is for sale), but it's a really cool building and I thought people would be interested in seeing it. The building come from a builder in Canada. There are photo's on our web site sweetwaterstable.com

barn near me. Click on the "photos" page at the top.

http://www.thumboctagonbarn.org/

I'll tell you what: I'll keep the river and your nice elevator and you can have my old decrepit elevator that I'm sure is 8 million years old. Do all of them require that antique tool thingy to fix the constantly breaking chain? :p
(Clearly, I'm not the mechanical one in the family)

I'm not having much fun right now with the one I have. The hub on the drive sprocket broke and I can't find replacement parts yet.

Oh well, it's all part of the game I guess!

http://www.sweetwaterstable.com/pic6.jpg

http://www.sweetwaterstable.com/stableisle.jpg

My hubby just showed me how to post my photos.

my barn. pretty standard construction gable roof design and heavy guage metal roof.
30 x 40. It's sided with OSB which Needs new paint.

early spring picture:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3...arlyspring.jpg

winter:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3...barnwinter.jpg

late summer:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3...l/DSC_0026.jpg