markadoodle
Well-Known Member
[SIZE=12pt]May I have pictures of your barns; Inside and out Tackrooms; Inside and out and Sheds; Inside and Out [/SIZE]
What a gorgeous barn! I love the vintage picture.Our barn is an old old bank barn that has been in John's family for over 120 years.
Here is a photo taken of the barn with John's ancestors back in the late 1800's .
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And this is the same barn today. Not as much character, for sure.....but has been kept in very good shape.
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This photo shows where we dug a trench to put in water to the barn.
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Here are photos showing the inside. This barn was made with HUGE 1 ft square beams & wooden pegs to hold it together!
Before stalls.....
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After putting in "gate" type stalls.
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The bottom of the barn has concrete block walls which keeps it cool in summer & warmer in winter. We put a lot of money into updating & bringing water to the barn, lots of electric in conduit so every stall has good lighting & an outlet to plug in heated buckets. We opted for the "temporary" gate stalls so we didn't have to change the barn any more than we had to. This way also allows us to change stall sizes when needed.
We have 3 huge barn doors. One on the east, one on the south & one on the west. Each door goes out into a separate paddock/pasture area. So we can black off three areas of the barn, each with their own separate access to the outside when we want to allow them to come in & out thru the day. This way, we can keep the weanlings separated from their moms when weaning, as well as giving our stallion his own "space" when needed. Works well for us.
Thank you! I really love it too. I tell my boyfriend all the time that I just love my barn. It was a great build for a small income. My uncle did the labor for free, but I did have to pay for a worker. In the end between all the wood and the labor it costed me $1800. I paid $500 for the carport, and it was used. Normally sells for $2000 here. The most expensive item bought for it were the track for the doors. They came in at a little over $500 each. Theres not to many things I would really change about it. I took alot of consideration into building it. I looked at other farm ideas and adjusted them to suite me.lilmiraclesfarm,
I have a 30' x 50' professionally built metal pole barn (the inside is still a work in progress as I only have three stalls finished and in regular use) and I would trade it for your barn in a heartbeat! I LOVE it. I mean, I want to extend to you the highest compliments on the quality of your work and it's appearance. LOVELY. It's not cute, it's beautiful. ...well, it's cute too. The PERFECT "pony" barn. I want one.
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