barn explosion

[roxynoodle]

Here is a picture of my new project thanks to Mother Nature Wednesday evening.



I will salvage what I can like the roof (aluminum), beams, copper wiring, and good structural lumber and any siding the neighbors want. The rest will be pushed into a hole in the farm field behind me and burned part at a time until it is done and then we will bury whatever is left. Hopefully nails won't resurface through time to puncture tractor tires.

 

[Egon]

Ouch, that hurts.

 

[roermo]

what happened and was it insured. Looks like a lot of work ahead.

Be safe you and the tractor.

 

[roxynoodle]

Well, it was either straight line winds in excess of 100mph that came suddenly out of the west and then immediately out of the east or a tornado. None of us could see anything other than horizontal rain and trees bending down. We also have several uprooted trees and a few utility poles snapped too. Luckily the electric on our road was back on after about 6 hours. We used a backhoe to get the tree off the pole we had that was snapped and they put in a new pole.

I have a feeling my tractor won't be doing that much of the work because it is small. Another neighbor with a dozer/backhoe seems to be willing to let us use it as long as we provide him with a couple cases of beer and a full tank of diesel!

I spent all day yesterday cleaning up what seemed like 5000 tree limbs.

 

[texasjohn]

MAN, what a blow!!! Hopefully nobody was injured! Nevertheless, a PITA and long time to recover.... best wishes!

 

[rox]

roxy,

You have my sympathies. The only good thing about the whole situation is that your neighbors are in the same boat and it prolly will make you all hang together. 6 hours for the electiric to come back on, wow that must be some kind of record.

By chance is that the barn you said you built where you didn't have access to the blueprints?

 

[roxynoodle]

Oh, no. This barn was built I think in 1918. At least that is what is scratched into the cement water trough behind it. My pole barn thankfully was unscathed, as my horses live in it. A few years ago the horses did live in this one. It was just the kind of nice old barn we all dream of owning when we are kids (at least if you grew up in the city like I did.)

 

[rox]

roxy,
I think you can get some good money for barn boards...

 

[Soundguy]

Dang! When mother nature talks.. everyone listens! Reminds me of structures here in florida after our last 2 years of hurricanes...

sorry about the luck.

Be safe when you clean it up

Soundguy

 

[PineRidge]

Glad you and the family are OK.

Can you post a before picture so we can get an idea of what the barn looked like before mother nature remodeled it?

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Here is a picture of my new project thanks to Mother Nature Wednesday evening.

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I will salvage what I can like the roof (aluminum), beams, copper wiring, and good structural lumber and any siding the neighbors want. The rest will be pushed into a hole in the farm field behind me and burned part at a time until it is done and then we will bury whatever is left. Hopefully nails won't resurface through time to puncture tractor tires.

First and formost, I'm glad no one was hurt, and that their wasn't any animals or tractors in the barn. Sad though, another piece of rural history is gone for good. I wish we were a little closer. I'm looking for some old barn siding (about 220 sq. ft.) for a project I'm starting. I hate to see anything old go away.

We had a storm here last friday that took down a number of big trees. I lost one. (Hickory, 21" at the base) Neighbors took a direct hit. A big silver maple landed on their kitchen roof. Nature has a way of getting your undivided attention when she wants it.

I see where your area has got its share of rain lately too. Last summer at this time, we were in the begining stages of a drought. This year, we've only seen one period of over 6 days without rain, and most of them have been fairly substancial.

Good luck on the clean up efforts.

 

[roxynoodle]

I'll have to get someone with a scanner to put on one. It was one of those T-shaped barns where 2 barns are built to be one. The front half that you see in the pic was about 55 feet long and 35 feet wide and about 40 feet tall. The back part was a little smaller and shorter.

Speaking of hurricaines, that is what it looked like here while it was happening. If you can have a hurricaine for 10 minutes anyways! I couldn't even hear or see the barn go down and I was looking towards it. All I or any of the neighbors could see were trees bent down and horizontal rain and lots of thunder blocked all other sound. Many of us did see it change direction though, which is the weirdest part maybe of the whole thing. I was standing in the kitchen watching a rather large tree bend over almost to the ground and thinking holy ****! Then the wind just as suddenly came from the other way and took it the other direction. Our electric went out immediately so gone was the news report on it. Of course we all should have been in our basements but I think we were all so scared no one was thinking. The house next door had a big hole in the roof so they were worrying about the water pouring into their living room. I couldn't see my pole barn and thought that was down too and went running out there like a fool before it was over. But the adrenaline had taken over and all I could think was I had dead or trapped horses... thankfully that barn was fine and so were the animals.

I will see if I can get a pic up of what it used to look like. I used to tell people they could find my house by looking for the biggest ugliest barn on the road but guess I can't do that anymore.

 

[roxynoodle]

Farmwithjunk, I would give you siding if you were closer. I love old things too. Old houses, barns, cars, tractors, antiques.

All the rain we have had was probably a contributing issue for all the trees that uprooted. The city of Toledo has flooded badly 5 times in the last 5-6 weeks and so have many other cities in Ohio. We had a drought last year too. I put new siding on my house last summer and think I was only rained out 4 days the whole summer. We aren't just getting rain, we are getting torrential amounts every time it rains almost. Maybe I should take the barn wood and build an ark?

 

[Soundguy]

We also have what are called 'microbursts' here. I was setting on my back porch one day, and say the tarp /tube frame structure covering moy ford 5000, slip up inthe air, bend up in a pretzel, and then land on the tube frame tarp structure covering my NH 7610s that was 5' away.. and otherwise untouched...

Soundguy

I'll have to get someone with a scanner to put on one. It was one of those T-shaped barns where 2 barns are built to be one. The front half that you see in the pic was about 55 feet long and 35 feet wide and about 40 feet tall. The back part was a little smaller and shorter.

Speaking of hurricaines, that is what it looked like here while it was happening. If you can have a hurricaine for 10 minutes anyways! I couldn't even hear or see the barn go down and I was looking towards it. All I or any of the neighbors could see were trees bent down and horizontal rain and lots of thunder blocked all other sound. Many of us did see it change direction though, which is the weirdest part maybe of the whole thing. I was standing in the kitchen watching a rather large tree bend over almost to the ground and thinking holy ****! Then the wind just as suddenly came from the other way and took it the other direction. Our electric went out immediately so gone was the news report on it. Of course we all should have been in our basements but I think we were all so scared no one was thinking. The house next door had a big hole in the roof so they were worrying about the water pouring into their living room. I couldn't see my pole barn and thought that was down too and went running out there like a fool before it was over. But the adrenaline had taken over and all I could think was I had dead or trapped horses... thankfully that barn was fine and so were the animals.

I will see if I can get a pic up of what it used to look like. I used to tell people they could find my house by looking for the biggest ugliest barn on the road but guess I can't do that anymore.