Explore our Historic 140 Year-Old Barn. It's still a working barn.
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2023
- Don takes you on a tour of our 138 year old Pennsylvania Bank Barn. Learn about the history and architecture of barns from that period.
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I grew up with a bank barn. When I was a little girl Mom and Daddy milked with milkers, going from cow to cow. Milk cans were picked up every other day. In the early 60's Daddy built a milking parlor (he was a Master Farmer of Pennsylvania). The big, red barn was entered via a bank towards the road. The threshing floor was large enough to have a wagon, elevator, and tractor or two. Two story hay mows were to the front right and left with granerys to the back. Silos stood on either side. The lower level was first overhung by the upper level and later, when the milking parlor was built, daddy removed that outer wall so the cows could move freely from the parlor to the barn yard and barn to eat hay afterward. Hay holes allowed bales to be dropped down. One of the inspectors once fell through one of those holes and broke several bones. We played in the barns in the winter, using the bales as forts for cowboys and Indians. Mom would have family picnics on the threshing floor when the whole family came over. Calves, heifers and birthing cows were also kept in the bottom of the barn. The farm was sold when Mother and Daddy died, after my brother, who was taking over the farm, died. Today the barn still stands thanks to Mother thinking to aluminum side the barn and add a good roof before she died. The interior is a marvel of pegged beams and thick boards. The stone walls on the lower level were whitewashed. The original barn was on the other side of the milking parlor and was used as another heifer barn. It no longer stands.
What a beautiful memory! Thank you for sharing. We didn't grow up on a farm but with stories like yours we can imagine the memories being made by our grandchildren playing on the farm. Thanks again.
Nice duch farmer star on the wall :)
Awesome. My wife and I just moved back to where we grew up in Ohio. I am a disabled veteran, but I always loved the old barns working for farmers growing up, but it couldn't be a big place. We found a 1880 homestead with a bank barn with even a new partial foundation, the home is in top condition and no one painted the wide trim. Only 5.5 acres, so with a small tractor and stuff I am able to maintain things, and have my small farm. The taking care of animals and doing this is like therapy for me, and has gotten me out of the house and doing much better.
Great story! When I retired and bought this farm folks said it would either kill me or bring joy and good health. I am very happy and I feel stronger. I wish the same for you! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for service sir!
. Thank you for telling us of your exciting adventure , and may you both have many happy and fruitful years on your wonderful farm . May God Bless you and your wife and guide you when needed in your farm duties . Love from Australia 🇦🇺
Stunning (and still functional!) example of an old barn. I love that it's still in use and that you appreciate every part of its form and function. A most excellent tour indeed, thank you kind folks. You mentioned your son, I hope he keeps it functional for another generation, and another. You can't learn and appreciate the way "things were done" as easily without working examples, your barn is precious. Thank you again, loved the tour!
Hello from Australia. My Great grandfather built a stable for 20 percheron cross horses for use in the sugar cane industry. The building was typical of stables of that region around Mackay Queensland. It was build around 1900. It had round iron bark bush timber posts up to maybe two feet in diameter to support a long hip roof. Bush timber of blue gum rounds shaped s 26:13 quare with a broad axe and adze were morticed across the main supports or these round posts, and they held a sawn timber frame for the hip roof. There was a strong local timber industry which supplied Australian hard wood and cedar so sawn hoop pine was used on the roofing timbers and the 20 feed boxes. The stable had 10 walkin stalls each side fitted with round blue gum rails, but being North Queensland and hot and humid, no doors behind each horse were present but a simple slip rail slipped into a sideways L shaped notch, on each outside post. A simple steel latch swiveled on a coachscrew to hold the rail in place should a horse get their rump under the rail and need a quick release. However each horse rapidly knew exactly which stall was theirs and whoa behold a newbie who accidentally strayed into the wrong stall. So the slip rails during the working crushing were not really needed. Each end of the entire stable were large open rooms with some concrete was placed on some ends like the electricity generator and feed areas, but overall the floor was dirt. One end was for wagons, feed and electricity generation, the other end for the workshop and blacksmithing for shoeing and repairs. Corrogated walls and roof typical of Australia were the coverings. Finally there was a split timber four rails high for horse yards on each side where the 10 stalls were. There was a centre walk way for feeding and each stall had round blue gum rails with a round bush peg nothced up high to hand up the harness out of the dust and dirt. Being sugar cane growing, feed for working horses and milking cows were a mixture of the cane tops cut in a chafe cutter, mixed with molasses. It was a pretty big shed. When small crawler caterpillar dozers and tractors replaced horses in the mid 1950s, the centre stalls were pulled out to fit these vehicles. Usually the monsoon rains came in mid summer so everything was under cover then. Unfortunately Australia experiences sturdy termites so the bush timber despite being termite proofed, fell victim to this and decay and eventually the building was taken down after standing for nearly 120 years.
Thanks for the beautifully written story about the family barn. You painted a picture of the working barn and I could picture myself there. You caught me by surprise with the story's end. Thank you for the story. We love Australia....but have never visited the North of the country.
I disassembled a 4 bay Gambrel roof barn built in 1901 here in Illinois by myself. Transported most of it back to my place and put it on top of a 2x6 stick frame. It was work but worth it now when I go inside and look up 35 feet to the ceiling.
Some of my fondest memories as a young teen was working in a bank barn doing chores, milking cow's. Its definitely had a positive impact on on.
Thanks for sharing...I don't have any barn experiences or memories. I sure would have had fun as a kid in a barn.
Hi!
I grew up on a small farm in south west Sweden.
We had two barns similar to yours on our property tho ours was without the "overhang". We don´t have the tradition with overhang on houses as Germany, Switzerland aso. The ground floor was build of stone on both of ours and the top level of wooden planks. One of them was lower than yours and one the same high.
Our barns was very long and had built stone sections for different purpose. The lower one had storage for all small farm equipment, a fire wood storage, housing for smaller animals, a general storage room and a large mechanical shop. All of this in a long row with individual doors. On the top level of that building was a board drying storage that you opened from ground level at the back of the house + storage for wood that was reused in the farming, fencing material aso.
The taller building had two double garages and different housing for larger animals on ground floor. On the top floor we stored huuuge stacks of hay, bales of straw and other things. To enter the second floor of this house you opened large doors on the back. Those doors was at ground level there and then you backed in with a small tractor and trailer.
A farm is a great place to grow up on, loads of things to do, to learn and loads of space. It´s hard work of the good kind.
Hello to our new friend in Sweden. Thank you for sharing the details of your farm. Yes, farms are a great place for kids and families (seniors too...LOL). Our barn really has the German/Swiss influence.
We have never been to Sweden....maybe someday.
Thanks for watching.
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 You are always welcome to Sweden.
Absolutely enjoyed this video the barn is stunning and in good shape Was very interesting
We are thankful for how good it has held up over the years. It's beautiful and functional.
Truly mind boggling engineering, architechture, crwftsmanship and almost no expense spared! These barns had to be such a source of family pride! Hard to believe it has been so well preserved and cared for!!
Yes, they were real craftsman! Thanks for watching.
The center bay in a 3 bay barn is the threshing bay. It was intended to be used for removing the seeds of wheat, oats or barley from the seed head. The floor had doubled boards in order to keep the seeds from falling into the lower level and lost. The boards on the side of the threshing bay were there to keep the seeds out of the hay mow when using a flail that separated the seeds from the heads. The chaff created was separated from the seeds windowing. Which using flat baskets to toss the failed grain into the air. The seeds being heavier would fall to the floor and the chaff w being lighter would blow away from the seeds. Barns had doors on both sides to open to get the wind through the barn to use for winnowing of the grain. Bundles of grain were stored on temporary lofts made by putting logs or beams long ways across the two inside bents (the name for the wood frame structures that made up the barn.) There is much more to know about how barns were constructed and used, but I haven’t the time now to relate more. I appreciate your stewardship of this barn. They need to be preserved for posterity to admire. Thank you for caring for this fine example of this Deutch-style bank barn.
Thank you for your comments. You obviously have more experience and background in barns than we do as we have only owned the barn for 4 years. I knew the center bay was designed as a the trashing bay (also mainly used for wagons later) but I did not know why the boards were 4 ft up the sides of the thrashing bay. It makes sense now that you point it out. Our center bay has only 1 layer of floor decking boards that are tongue and groove but that may not be original. I would appreciate any articles or books on the subject if you names to share. I do have the one book referenced in the video. Thank you for sharing your experience. We love your barn and have spent time and money repairing doors, walls and painted the roof this past year.
My grandfather had a rope running from the barn to the house. My dad who grew up in the depression in missouri asked why he did that. If he was in the barn and a blizzard hit he would be able to make it to the house. There was more than one that walked around in circles trying to find their house in a blizzard that didn't make it. I was in one up there with snow that crusted and allowed cattle to walk right over the fences. We were snowed in about one week. Grandfather had a loader on one tractor and took several days to meet the county grader. Took about 3 days just to get to the road. Very long driveway.
Wow, he was ready for the big storm every year. Reading your story I'm never going to never complain about the snow again!;
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 yeah his barn and house were both white so in a true white out that rope might be needed. It wasn't that far but he took no chances on that. Some of those storms moved in very quickly.
Beautiful barn. I have always liked barns. I stacked many a bale of hay in my Grandfather's barn.
Great memories. We stack some small bales but when I can I use the round bales. I'll bet you can remember the smell of fresh hay as well..
I love old barns. The best setup I've seen had several levels with large vents between each level. These could all be opened or covered so feed could easily be dropped to the livestock. The upper level was a grain bin, next was hay, next was livestock, on the bottom was a manure storage and the hogs. This area was well ventilated. There were chutes between the livestock level and the manure storage. All very efficient.
I didn’t know I’d find barn history, construction, and utility so interesting! Thanks for the tour!
Hi Sheri. I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. Let us know if you ever want a tour in person. We love showing people around our farm.
Relaxing and pleasant program
Thank you for the kind words, and thanks for watching.
I bot the 8 acre homestead of an old dairy farm. It has an awesome dairy barn, but I must admit to some barn envy watching this.
It's great that you have a barn! We put a lot of TLC in the barn and it still needs more. I have a lot of stone masonry repair to go, but when you put the work in you find that your attachment to the barn grows as well. Enjoy your homestead!
Thank you for sharing the beauty and history of a great barn.
Love the clean up music
If only the clean up really went that fast. 😁
Just beautiful and beautifully looked after too. Thanks for showing us this great building.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the tour. I'm from northern Ohio, and have always loved barns and their history and construction.
Next I'm trying to learn more about the history and use of this barn over the last 140 years. I would love to have 1 day in 1885 to work in this barn when it was new! Thanks for your interest.
@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 This barn was built at the time the steam powered threshing machines were first used, about 1890's.
The farmer who built your barn was what you might call a modern farmer. I wonder if they flailed their wheat and oats on the floor immediately up from the bank?
Love Buddy the cat appearing in almost all of the videos!
Before moving to the farm I didn't really care for cats much. But this little lion changed my view. He is a hard worker and he has a personality. Buddy the cat is a full member of this farm.
Beautiful wood work
Agreed. The builders are craftsmen using old tools.
Loved the video. Thank you for the tour. I enjoyed that.
Thanks for watching!
Its a beautiful barn you have there. I appreciate the stewardship of you and all the previous owners for taking such good care of it. Hopefully it will last another 150yrs.
Thank you very much. We will do all that we can to make it last for years to come.
Thanks for sharing, you can tell from the construction they never dreamed of driving a tractor (what's that?) through the barn with the low ceilings ... I hope this barns still stands long after i'm gone
I think you are right regarding the tractor or any of the other equipment. We are doing our best to preserve the barn as a working barn. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for this episode of “Barn Science” Excellant🤠
Thank you for watching. Yes, even though the barn was built almost 140 years ago, these craftsman builders understood the form and function of the barn.
You get straw from rye and barley too, both of which used to be grown in the area. Your barn reminds me of my step-grandmother's barn, which would have been forty miles or so down river from you. She was a widow when I was a child and her neighbor leased the farm and farmed it. He was still growing barley, wheat and corn on it every year. I can remember the grain room being half full of barley. He also grew a big field of tomatoes for market and some cigar wrapper tobacco. There was a separate barn for the tobacco. He usually fattened six steers in the barn each year. Her barn was much smaller than yours. As I recall it was only a two bay barn upstairs, and there were only two pens downstairs, the one the steers were in, and the other which had been stalls for probably four horses. A hay shed had been added on one end for baled hay, at some point, and a door had been opened into the livestock area. Some of my happiest memories center on barns in general, and that barn in particular. The tobacco shed had a root cellar like room under it for storing the stripped tobacco to keep it damp and cool.
I'm guessing the root cellar built into your barn must have been for potatoes? I know potatoes were a big crop in central PA. I would imagine that at least one of the bays in your barn was for tie stalls for work horses. In 1895, you couldn't have farmed without them.
Wow, I love to hear family memories in the barn and farm. We have no family history on a farm so we take great joy in stories of others. I'm not sure about the use of the barn root cellar. We have one on the 1840 farmhouse too. Thanks again for sharing!
Yeah, I saw the one on the farmhouse. Actually, that was where I started. Gram's house had a cold cellar, which she called "the arch" and I wasn't allowed in it. I was always curious about what it looked like, and was searching for anyone who had such a thing in their house. That's what made me think this was a potato cellar. They already had one for personal use, so this one must have been more of a commercial use. I don't know if potato growing came that far south, but I know my great aunt was hired out in Lehigh County to dig potatoes, because it was a commercial crop there. You would have to have somewhere to store them all. Also, I was watching a video of someone in that area talking about the barn on the farm where he grew up, and it had a potato cellar. ua-cam.com/video/v1F_2tB3U3c/v-deo.html @@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764
@@userunavailable3095 most of the potato growers are north of us. We are going to be growing more apples....perhaps we can use the barn root cellar for fruit.
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 You probably can. It might be a good place to store cider as well.
Love the tour, especially the barn cat! Our barn here isn't nearly that old, 90 yrs, but I still use it for my antique equipment storage and man cave ! I soon will need to reroof it as the asphalt shingles are starting to disintegrate. I last reroofed it some 30 years back. I think someone else will have to go up there this time as my knees won't take the abuse anymore. Not many old barns survive around here, to costly to keep up. That and the taxes are murder.
I wasn't much of a cat person, but Buddy the Cat changed my view. He is a very hard working cat! We are happy to have him!
Thank you for sharing ❗ and thank you for maintaining just a small part of History ❗ IF THOSE WALLS COULD TALK ❗
Oh, if the walls could talk. I can only get history back 50 years here from old timers who lived here. Thanks for watching.
Loved the tour! What a wonderful barn!
We LOVE our barn!
Very cool old barn, thanks for the video!
Thanks for checking it out. I saw a few of your videos....wow, you are a real craftsman!
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 thank you, I appreciate that!
It’s a wonderful thing to see you appreciate the heritage of that beautiful structure and to desire to maintain it - I kept thinking how neat a swing would be from those rafters.
I see swings and maybe a basket ball court when the floor is fixed. 😁
What a beautiful old barn. I wish I had one like it. Nice tour, thank you
Thanks for watching!
People 100 years ago didn't have the technology we have today, but they were SMART!
Great observation! Yes, they had useful "know how" as the old farmers had to have construction, mechanical repair, butchering, animal husbandry, food preservation, and crop management skills. They have my respect and admiration for sure. Thanks for watching.
Great video. Grew up milking cows in a four bay bank barn built in the 1860's. Unloaded countless bales of alfalfa hay into an elevator going up to the hay mow. We always called the ramp the barn bridge, and it led into two of the barn bays, Our barn set facing a creek, in the old days the cattle would have been left out in the winter to drink, and in the summer they went into the meadow around the creek. This barn is still in use housing dairy youngstock.
Great story. Milking cows is a lot of work. Our beef cattle are easy. I'm glad that the barn is still in use. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for a lovely tour of that magnificent barn, I wouldn't mind sleeping in there on the bales, once again thank you and best wishes to you from Long Melford, Suffolk, England.
It also has the smell of fresh cut hay....as long as the cattle stall below is cleaned out! The cat makes sure there are no mice so it would be a comfortable night sleep. Thanks for watching.
Thank you
I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. These old barns are a lot of work but we enjoy the sense of connection to the past.
Great job. I love barns.I grew up with them in western Ohio
I just wish I could give viewers the smell of fresh hay. The memories would flow back fast! Thanks for watching.
Very cool. A lot of work in the old barns. And many still in good shape. My grandfather made it to age 99. Good mental shape all the way. He was a hardcore Nebraska farmer. His barn did very well also.
Thank you for the story....hard working farmers and their barns.
Very very cool. Love the demo and explanations. Learned a lot. Thank you
Great video!
Thank you. We love our old barn.
It makes sense now why my great grandfather a farmer and builder built the bank barn. His father was from Switzerland. Our barn was built in early 1900 and has 5 bays. We always called the forebay the forebee. Great video. Ps my goats love hanging out in the hay racks 😊
Thanks for sharing your family experiences with your barn!
I grew up not too terribly far from where you are in Hershey PA. As a child, we had to work in the dairy barns that looked exactly like yours. Summers filling the mall. Shoveling grain, silage. What you have done with your property is very impressive. Peace!
Yes, Hershey is beautiful...many farms remain. We visit Hershey often as our granddaughter lives there. I would have loved to have the experiences on the farm as a child just as you had. But now I play as an adult! Thanks for sharing.
Really enjoyed this. Wonderful looking barn.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful barn, very happy to see its being used and preserved.
Yes, I think we need to keep using these old treasures. Thanks for watching.
You are very informed and shared with us! Great to see preservation! You are also great at narrating!!!!!!
We're very passionate about preserving the barn and the entire farm. Thanks for the kind words.
Just subscribe to your channel Enjoy it we loved it It reminds us when we were young on the farm I wish we were still the same way See if people have a good day and stay safe And we'll watch your Channel and the new ones you have will be watching
Thanks for watching and for the encouraging words. A new video comes out Thursday at 10 AM Eastern time.
Loved that large door closure mechanism. I am going to use it on my horse barn project here in Missouri.
Great idea. It is simple and strong....just wish I was the original designer. Thanks for watching.
Oh wow! Your barn clean up reminded me of when I was a child and we lived on a dairy farm. Every week, my dad would have to clean out all the muck and manure, and it was so surprising how much manure would build up in a week's time. We were literally wading in it!!🤪
The cattle are extremely 'productive' as far as manure. I'm always thankful to have it added to my compost piles. :)
Thanks for sharing your barn ! I love old farms and fascinated by the old farm buildings. Beautiful barn !
Thanks for watching. We love old barns too!
What a beautifully built utilitarian building!
Thanks. They built all amazing building without all of any modern tools/technology. It's mind-boggling.
This is absolutely gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for watching! There are many folks who care about preserving these old barns.
Beautiful!
Thanks! We fell in love with the barn as soon as we saw it.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful and masterful piece of work.
Brings back many memories of playing in the barn as a child. Loved the smell of hay in the loft.
Much appreciated the time and effort making this video possible.
Best regards. ❤
Thanks for the kind words. We didn't grow up on a farm, but love watching our grandkids enjoy all aspects of farm life. Hopefully we are creating beautiful memories for them.
What a nice tour..! I drive 35 miles out from the city for my job and always see these barns around. I have always wondered and wished if I can stop some day at one of these barns and they could let me see from inside. For some reason it interests me a lot. Having a barn like this one thing but explaining it to the details that you guys have given is another..! Really loved the video. Keep going guys.
Four years ago I always wondered what barns were like inside just like you! The first time I walked in the barn I felt lost. How will I ever learn to work here? Working in and on the barn taught us a lot. We love the barn! Thanks for watching.
So glad I found this. I learned so much about barn history and why they were built the way there were. I am in south central pa and have an 1860's barn very similar to that one.
Glad you found us! Yes, barns are a beautiful piece of history. It is easy to see how hard the farmers worked...now it is up to us to take care of that legacy.
Beautiful
Love old barns….awesome!!
Glad you enjoyed it. We love our old barn!
What a beautiful barn. Some parts of your barn reminds me of a cathedral ceiling with all the joinery and timbers. It would be hard for me to not say, wow! what a breathtaking barn this is, every day I walked in it, if I worked in such a barn. Some parts of your barn actually reminds me of the now historic log church at Cain Ridge Kentucky, were Jesus so marvelously met with his people in mighty revival power during the second great awakening that happened in our country. May Gods blessings be on you and your beautiful barn in Jesus name, amen.
Yes, we are blessed in many ways....and we are thankful for God's provision in our life. I share your admiration of craftsmen of prior centuries as their work stands the test of time. In return it is our job to maintain what they built.
Wow! Amazing you are very blessed to have such a beautiful part of history. Thank you for sharing.
We are VERY thankful for our farm/farmhouse. Thanks for watching.
Neat! Our barns out west here are a little different!
It's fascinating how barns are different all over the country... And all beautiful in their own ways.
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful, historic barn with us! I love it! 😍
We're very thankful that previous owners took good care of it.
Beautiful barn !
Thanks....we love it!
Great video! Thanks for taking time to show us your barn! It's in such good condition for being so many years old. At our farm our barn was built in 1885 too and almost looks just like yours. We're working at restoring it back to the way it should be. We raise American Lineback cattle 😊
Wow, it's great to hear from another old barn owner! You and I both know that photos don't always show the details that need repair. I have a long list of barn repairs and it sounds like you do too. Take care. Thanks for watching.
Great tour!! I love old barns! Yours is in amazing condition! Thanks for sharin!.
Yes, it is in good shape and I feel the responsibility to protect it for sure. Thanks for watching!
I learned so much watching this video.
Thanks for taking the time to share with us!
Stunningly beautiful!
We have grown to appreciate the barn and its history. We have a lot to learn yet ourselves. Thanks for watching.
This is wonderful. Really appreciated this video tour and information.
Thanks for the kind words! I see AK in your name....I lived in Juneau as a kid. Loved it.
Excellent vlog and tour of the barn! A true national treasure. I would encourage you to go to a salvage wood yard (old barn demolish) and get a few beams to cut boards or they may have long 12 to 16 boards from an old barn in great shape on site. These can replace the worn boards. This is will keep the integrity of the age and maintain the vintage style. Thank you for letting us see this wonderful structure.
Glad you enjoyed it. Good suggestion. Thanks.
that is beautiful and I dont know if I am more impressed of the fact the wood is probably 200-300 years old or that is was all cut, milled and erected by hand. hthanks for the video and for preserving this relec
I am in awe every time I stand under that huge oak summer beam as it is just over 40 long! Thanks for watching.
Enjoyed the tour, what a magnificent old barn.
Thanks for watching. We are very thankful for our beautiful barn.
Thank you, I spent loads of time in old barns as a child in Bucks County. I ❤ them! They give you a warm cozy feeling. Learned quite a lot from your video.
I also grew up in Bucks County (Don in Yardley). I don't have childhood memories of barns, but they work their way into the heart of old men too! Thanks for watching.
Nice
Thanks for watching.
Great 👍job kids!!😇
Hey thanks! So far the farm is keeping us young....LOL.
I have one a barn that’s 70x90 and a date that says 1886 the bank on one side no over hang was there at one time I’m sure but very similar in structure Woodlawn Ontario Canada
Oh....nice size barn!
I like your video and that's a pretty nice Barn and you also put on a pretty good presentation to somebody that doesn't know anything about a barn and what it's used for and what the different compartments in the barn are for but it truly is a nice don't you wish you could have grown up working your fanny off in a barn like that the barn I grew up around and also in was similar to the fact that it was hand hewn beams that were all peg fit and the second floor sat on top of trees and they still had the the bark on them everything was whitewashed because my dad was a dairy we also had a grainery that was upstairs with six different compartments we had a grain shoot and a hay bale shoot underneath the barn bridge that is what you call the incline that goes up into the top of the barn down under that inside of it there was a water tank that the windmill that water into that we also had a cistern that would collect rainwater and fill the cistern and when the cistern was full at ran down into that tank so there was a constant flow to the waterers that were in the barn for each stall for every milk cow nice video 🌞😇
Wow....you have way more experience than we had in a barn! Yes, it would be great to have those childhood farm memories. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing! It is an incredible structure.
Thank you for watching. We love sharing our beautiful barn with others who appreciate old buildings.
lovely barn, lots of barns around here over 500 years old,always enjoy working in them.
Oh wow... Just guessing, you are in the UK? We would love to visit 500 year old barns.
Very nice! I love it ❤
Thanks!
how nice! our garage is from 1869, itl be 154 this year! its not in the best shape though, reasonably so
These old structures need a little attention....and after all those years they deserve a little TLC. Thanks for sharing.
It was easy to see the respect you have for the builders and the love you have for your barn. I spent many, many a day playing in the upper level with the hay. It was always surprisingly warm compared to outside. Summer was just plain hard work getting the hay into the barn. Thanks for the tour. It was educational and brought back lovely memories of my uncle's barn in upstate NY.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad it brough back some beautiful memories.
Great video - really covered all the details I wanted to know! Had travelled from MN to PA this spring for an equipment auction and really enjoyed the distinctive barns (like yours)
Great. The US has such a rich heritage of farms and barns. Yes, it is great fun to travel to different parts of the country to see the styles of barns. Thanks for watching.
He sounds like Kevin Costner !!!
This is Brenda ... He's heard that several times before. 😊 He really does.
Thank you for showing that! I cannot even tell you how beautiful that barn is… your so lucky to have inherited that property. I am very happy for you. Would you ever make an air b&b above the barn?
Thanks for watching. As long as we still have animals in the barn we wouldn't be able to do an air b&b, but who knows what might happen in the future. ☺️
Fantastic video. I am from Australia and we don’t get many old buildings like that.
We love old farm buildings. The farmhouse is 1840. It is good to know we have viewers down under. We visited Sydney in 2005. Beautiful country....loved a visit to a sheep farm. Thanks for watching.
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 I am just north of Melbourne and run heritage poultry, dairy goats and Dexter cattle
We didn't get as far south as you are but we heard good things. I think I would like that latitude better. We did pop over to the South Island of NZ and I guess that is closer to your latitude.
nice barn tour. so manny original detais still there. i am from the netherlands (never say holland) in a small village situated 20 km from the bigger village of Waardenburg close to the river Waal. maybe you have dutch origine
Yes, we are from the Netherlands...my grandfather came to the US in 1900. I visited a few years ago...stopped in the little town of Waardenburg (Castle Waardenburg...McDonalds...BMW dealership etc). We are actually from the area around Harlingen in the NE. We love to cycle...great bike riding and cycling roads! Thanks for writing.
Very nice barn! I'm hoping that you'll have time to restore and put into use the barn root cellar.
We hope to get that root cellar restored. We almost have the one in the house finished. I'm looking forward to using both of them.
Thanks for the tour! I hope to someday stop in for a visit. Do you think you'll ever put the silo into use?
Also, I loved how Buddy the cat was taking the tour with you. 🤣
We'd love for you to stop in for a visit. We don't have plans for the silo, but who knows what might happen in the future. 😁
Thanks for the tour.I am a farmer and familiar with what you are discussing. You are preserving history.Dont buy goats by the way
Thanks for the advice. I heard they can be a pain....but so cute!
When I was 6 years old I drove the tractor and the wagon with the hay loader wich put the hay on the wagon then Dad backed the wagon in the barn the trolley was fasten the sling on the wagon and I pulled it up Dad pulled it down the track tripped the sling open l was adiged
Wow, that sounds like a great childhood memory! We've only been on the farm for 4 years so we don't have that kind of inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing.
At 18:51 what is the strange shape of the lower right pane? This was ca very enjoyable video, thank you very much.
Art from Ohio
Art, you have a sharp eye to catch this....it's actually just a maintenance item. The wood frame was damaged years ago and the glazer patched a portion of the damage frame to fill-in for the missing wood. It is weather tight so I didn't rebuild the frame. Perhaps an object hit the window and broke a chunk out of the frame when the glass broke? Thanks for visiting the farm!
Beautiful barn and thank you for the tour. ❤. The root cellar, was that for fodder or for extra storage for the farmhouse food?
We're not exactly sure what all they would have stored in there. It's colder than the root cellar in the house so might be good for apples and other things that like it cooler. We hope to fix it up and use it in the future.
I’ve heard the lower level of bank barns called the, “stable,” “basement,” and “lower level.” I’m not sure which of these titles is correct. What is your understanding of what the lower level was called back in the day, as well as what the the barn-floor level was called? Thank you.
In my reading the authors refer to lower level and upper level broadly speaking. Then the actual spaces are named by function. For example the upper level center bay could be called the threshing bay/floor, or wagon bay or machinery floor....depending on use. In the same way the lower level could be called stables, manger, horse stalls, pig pens etc depending on the use. Thank you for watching.
I am getting ready to reside our old barn on our York County farm. We’d like to go with wood siding but have a lot of carpenter bees around the barn and am also considering metal siding. Any suggestions of how to get rid of the carpenter bees? We’d really rather good with wood.
Oh that is such a tough question. We have carpenter bees and I whack them if they get too annoying. We do have minor damage in some of the beams. Our barn has the original wood siding that runs horizontal and the exterior has painted steel in the vertical orientation. The roof was wood shake and it was covered with a standing seam steel 50 years ago. We just repainted it. I prefer wood siding but the steel does a great job of preserving the structure. Tough call....one that I did not
have to make myself.
Has anyone ever told you that you sound a lot like Kevin Costner?
Ha, yes I've heard that many times. I'm not sure that I hear that in my voice but I've heard the comparison many, many times so there must be something to it.
Some amish still build those type of barns
Yes, isn't it great that they keep these skills going from generation to generation. Thanks for watching.
Our barn we think is around that age. A bit bigger and definitely in worse shape than your beauty! The roof still has wooden shingles. We plan on fixing it up 💛
Our barn has wood shake shingles as well....just covered over with a standing seam metal roof. We love the look of the wood shake shingles. We are very thankful for the barn. Over the next few years it will need a lot of masonry work. Have fun fixing up your barn. It's a worthy endeavor.
looks like a german construction?
Yes, most of the farmers in central Pennsylvania in the 1800s were German immigrants. They brought their construction skills with them.
Most Pennsylvania Barns were constructed from American Chestnut Timber. How did you verify that your barn is built from Oak? American Chestnut Timber looks grainy like oak and has the beautiful marbling of the grain when quarter sawed just like Oak, but has a brownish color when planed. I am around 2 bank barns often and both are made of American Chestnut. The one was a replacement barn built on an existing foundation in the 1910's and that one is also all American Chestnut timbers. Pennsylvania Bank Barn building mostly became extinct after the Chestnut Blight destroyed all of the American Chestnut Trees. There is no better barn timber than Chestnut. Chestnut timbers are rot resistant and lighter in weight than other species.
I am not a wood expert. I had an old farmer tour the barn and he said it looks like oak. One of the huge planks he said was Pin Oak. The farm is located in an area called "Oak Grove". There are huge oak trees still remaining in the wooded areas around the farm. So I can't say for sure...both would be a possibility. I wish I could go back 180 years ago to see the farm and the massive Chestnut and Oaks! I am also not a barn expert....I always welcome those with more background to share insights or visit. Thanks for sharing!
Here is a great lecture presentation on American Chestnut Trees that I came across on youtube. The presenter is Scott Merkle, Professor of Forest Biology. The presentation is titled 'UGA Rebirth of the American Chestnut as a Dominant Forest Species in Eastern North America'.
@@Scott2510A Scott, thank you. I will watch it tonight.
why the red star? are communist?
The Pennsylvania Dutch have been using the star on barns for well over 200 years as a sign of goodwill and a wish for a plentiful harvest.