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roxynoodle
Veteran Member
I think I would be better off with clamp on ones like yours, Timber, or the ones with the chains and binders.
The barn was insured once when tornado #1 took off the back half and drove it 3 feet into the ground in the neighbor's field. I used the money to build the pole barn. It was also very underinsured I learned. Got enough money to build a pole barn but not enough to have it built for me or take down the other barn. The animals were moved temporarily to the corncrib which is why there are stalls in there until their new barn was done. The front half remained intact and just needed a few new supports where it was attached to the half that flew away. Well, if tornado #2 comes it doesn't matter what you did to fix it! So no insurance this time. I guess actually this is the third tornado to hit it because it was pretty much demolished in 1948 also and then rebuilt. That storm took one of the large beams and threw it right through the house across the road. You can still see where the wall was repaired from the inside of the house. How many people do you suppose have (or had) a barn that was hit by 3 tornados? People are telling me not to put a new barn there because it's bad luck. Seems a waste though not to reuse the cement floor and I do have things that could go in it like my Corvair, manure spreader, trailer and extra hay storage.
As for antique, the beams are hand hewed and I don't seem to be having any trouble selling some (I kept some too to make something out of, not sure what yet). I also salvaged nearly all the siding. The 2x6s and larger lumber can always come in handy, so keeping all those too. The roof was aluminum and I scrapped that out. The cable to ground the metal roof was copper and that brought quite a bit at the scrapper too.
The barn was insured once when tornado #1 took off the back half and drove it 3 feet into the ground in the neighbor's field. I used the money to build the pole barn. It was also very underinsured I learned. Got enough money to build a pole barn but not enough to have it built for me or take down the other barn. The animals were moved temporarily to the corncrib which is why there are stalls in there until their new barn was done. The front half remained intact and just needed a few new supports where it was attached to the half that flew away. Well, if tornado #2 comes it doesn't matter what you did to fix it! So no insurance this time. I guess actually this is the third tornado to hit it because it was pretty much demolished in 1948 also and then rebuilt. That storm took one of the large beams and threw it right through the house across the road. You can still see where the wall was repaired from the inside of the house. How many people do you suppose have (or had) a barn that was hit by 3 tornados? People are telling me not to put a new barn there because it's bad luck. Seems a waste though not to reuse the cement floor and I do have things that could go in it like my Corvair, manure spreader, trailer and extra hay storage.
As for antique, the beams are hand hewed and I don't seem to be having any trouble selling some (I kept some too to make something out of, not sure what yet). I also salvaged nearly all the siding. The 2x6s and larger lumber can always come in handy, so keeping all those too. The roof was aluminum and I scrapped that out. The cable to ground the metal roof was copper and that brought quite a bit at the scrapper too.
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