Country images you don't see much anymore

Mail Pouch barn ads.

This is probably regional to Ohio and WV. But they were everywhere at one time. Actually even wood barns are hard to find now.

mailpouch.gif
 
  • Like
Reactions: 911
Corn shocks:

cornshocks.jpg

When we were little kids the neighbor boy's grandfather would put these up in their corn field in the fall. We used to hollow them out and pretend they were teepees.:cool:
 
  • Like
Reactions: 911
These modern "red iron" barns are made of high grade steel pipe and perlins with 28 gauge barn metal. Insurance carriers say that they are 5 times more resistant to high winds and tornadoes than lumber. A week after we closed on our ranch a tornado passed through and our 5,000 square foot wooden barn appeared to have been nuked and we found barn material in the far ends of all of our pastures. Luckily, we salvaged at least half of the 100 year old lumber and it was so hard that we had to drill pilot holes in order to pound nails in it. I love these new barns but they have none of the nostalgia and charisma of the ones with which I grew up.
 
When we lived in PA there were barns in such dis-repair they looked like a slight breeze would topple them...but still they stood. When you consider how old some of them were, they definitely built them to last in those days.
images
 
th

Even falling apart still beautiful, my relatives lived in Pennsylvania, so especially at this time of the year old barns and cornfields bring back lovely memories.
 
100 Year-Old Farmhouse

Situated on private land within Mark Twain National Forest, the few farms all clustered there were "grandfathered" after M. T. became National Forest in 1939.






Above, we are standing exactly where the critter below "snaked" it's way towards our feet as we returned from an evening walk: (Copperhead)

 
Go Imp! Ha!
-----------------------

Hand-operated Water Pumps---Indoor and Outdoor

My grandmother had both. You got a stern reprimand if you forgot to save a can of water to prime the pump for next time. :whome:

ww.jpg

waterp2.jpg

They still make a lot of these, but I haven't seen many in actual use lately.
 
Y'all thought I was going to quit, didn't you?

Wood tobacco barns (a regional thing)

34079858.jpg

tobacco-barns-1175x620.jpg

Tobacco curing inside.

TobaccoBarn.jpg

This one in North Carolina, with Pilot Mountain in the background. I've been up there. (Reason for the town named Mount Pilot of the Andy Griffith show)

tobacco-barn.jpg
 
Nancy, I can smell that tobacco when I look at those barns. My Dad's family lived in North Central Florida (almost Georgia) and I went to HS up there, worked in that dreaded stuff in the summer. I thought I was in high cotton making 8.00 a day as a stringer! Worked watermelons too. Not much agriculture up there now, mainly peanuts, some watermelon and corn for feed. Yet many of those old barns still stand.
 
Waterlilly said:
Nancy, I can smell that tobacco when I look at those barns. My Dad's family lived in North Central Florida (almost Georgia) and I went to HS up there, worked in that dreaded stuff in the summer. I thought I was in high cotton making 8.00 a day as a stringer! ....
Click to expand...

Waterlilly, is this what you mean by stringing?

 

  • Like
Reactions: 911
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top