Exploring A Pre Civil War Era Bank Barn With Surprising Discoveries
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2022
- Today we explore an old pre Civil War era limestone bank barn not far from the waters of the Potomac River in Maryland. It's a huge barn with a lot of history, a good solid roof, and huge wooden beams. This barn also has a VERY unique wood silage silo with the wooden planks wrapped around the inside and outside of the structure. I explain how silos work and also explore the entire stone and wood barn. There is a really creepy discovery on the bottom level, but that will have to wait for a separate video.
Video of strange room located beneath the wood silo: • Barn Door Leads To Cre...
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A comment/addition about the silo (or silos in general, I suppose): The reason they unload it from top to bottom isn't just because it's technically easier for them... It's also done that way because they want to keep the grain, or corn, or haylage, or silage (whatever is in there), packed down so oxygen doesn't get to it. When oxygen eventually gets to the material, it starts becoming moldy and inedible for the animals. So the idea is that if they are able to time it just right, they're able to feed it out to the animals with the materials on top that have been exposed to the oxygen fast enough that it doesn't get moldy or ruined before they can use it in their feed mix.
This really takes me back. My parents bought a farm in the mid-60s in upstate NY that had a barn every bit as big as this one. Actually, it was in the shape of an L and banked on 3 sides. The house was built in 1842 and the barn a few years later. It still had the hay hooks, pulleys, tracks and the 2" hemp ropes used to pull the hay across the barn. All pegged (and probably Chestnut) and so absolutely cool for a 10-year old kid to climb around in/on. And that incredibly sweet smell of freshly cut hay will never leave me as long as I live...
In Norway,when silos where introduced to the farmers,it was used to ensilage hey with addition of formic acid.Its a way of storing hey in a smaller space.When they had filled the silo and sprayed the acid over it they had a tarpauling over it and up the sides a little.That "basin" would then be filled with water to press it all together to create more space.This had to be done and the silo had to be filled and ready by autumn before the frost set in.During winter they had a hell of hard work to hack out the hard compressed ensilated hey to feed the animals.
I’d give almost anything to have big barn like that again. It hurts to see them in disrepair.
Hey Chig,I've really been enjoying these barn walk through videos that you've been doing lately im on the west coast and we just don't have barns like these. We do have big barns just nothing this old. Thanks again for all the work you put in to produce these videos ! 😊
I want to know more about that 'barn octopus'..
Greetings from north west central earth
In Decatur County, Indiana there is a restored totally round barn. The family uses it for parties and a just a fun place, filled with antiques. Thank you Chigg for the tour of this historic barn.
This was a fun barn explore! Any questions about what you see?
I imagine that anybody who grew up in an agricultural area, grew up on a farm, or just worked on or around farms as a kid is more than familiar with the smells that you were talking about. It brings back so many memories when I drive past a farm I can get a big ol' whiff of all the different smells that come from it. I know this might be weird to some people, but one of my favorite smells on a farm is the smell of silage. When it's that good high quality stuff, it's great. Talk about a flood of memories rushing back into my mind when I smell it. I also tend to love the smell of a burning field (which, thanks to stupid regulations, they've made it harder and harder to find an area where they're able to burn their field), or when they burn the big piles of leaves in the fall. It's amazing how a scent can bring back so many emotions and memories.
Chigg,
Howdy, from North Idaho Beau. I've enjoyed watching these barn tours Beau. With me living in the Western part of the country, this series has shown me things I've missed in real life.
Thank you, for all the archetcture and historic buildings you share with us. The scratches on the wood silo, that's just rats and mice. I've watched them scale walls with ese.
Good evening from Southeast South Dakota
Back in the day they built this Barn They Built Everything to last, That's why so many are still Around, The Way Things are Built Now it Will Never Last as long as that has, Thanks for the Tour Chigg
Wow! That reminds me of a farm on Darnstown(?) Rd near Gaithersburg MD where I lived a couple of years 2011-2013. Ya gave me a start there! Beautiful old barns built so well they are still standing. It was a marker for me on that route. Thanks for the informative vid.
Thanks for the tour. Enjoyed it.
Than you for the barn tour. Adding your experience to the video was very informative. My thought on the curved wall in the corner is that it was done for greater structural integrity. The curve would keep the corners from splitting as it receives shear forces from mainly 2 directions.
love these old barns. ours here in Ontario Canada were built similarly, our silo was a square one. then we dug out a bank and made silage there. you could drive the tractor on it to pack it tight. the curved corner may have been for steering the cows out of the door. also protecting the corner stones from constant nudging from a heavy animal
It makes me sad every time I see one of these old barns fall down. They're getting to be a rarity. We have a few round barns here in Minnesota.