Advise on Old Barn

[GYPSY]

So, make sure that your tetanus vaccination is current.

Steve

absolutely, forgot to mention that, make sure your up to date on it. i had one just puncture my foot, wrong foot wear, my bad. excellent advice

 

[jdjdjd]

Thanks for all the advise. After all the ice melts I will just take my time and pull it apart a little at a time.
I will try to remember to take pictures of the progress and post them here.

JD in Texas

 

[oosik]

jd,
Around this neck of the woods folks pay REAL GOOD MONEY for old barn wood. I had an old two story barn - probably 18 x 30 and a builder paid me over $2500 for the outside wall boards. They were 10', 12' & 14' by 12" - one inch thick pine boards. He came with his truck and salvaged them himself. He dressed them up and used them to panel the walls in a rec room of a very expensive home he was building. I know the old barn was built when this property was homesteaded in 1882.

 

[SanDucerro]

Went out this morning with the tractor to break ice on the ponds. Barn was OK then. Went back this afternoon to feed steers and barn was down.

Ah Ha! So the barn fell when no one was around and it didn't make a sound...

I'm with the others who say keep it. I wish I had one on my property right now that I could scrap out. We built a temporary green house using cattle panels and the wind darn near destroyed the whole thing. If I had the tin I could have made a make shift wind break...

 

[Stimw]

The good thing about pole barns is they are cheap to put up for the storage space that you gain.
I would think that repairing it would be far better than removing it?
I vote for repair.