how to get straw out of the barn (pictures)

Don-Wi · Mar 21, 2011

I snapped a few pictures before my dad and I pitched the last of the straw out of a barn that's gonna be torn down. Dad built the chute to the hopper on the blower and then we use the spout off our old Fox chopper to blow it into our wagons. Then we bring the loads home and unload into our other blower and put it in our own barn.

Got the last of the bedding now, but we're still gonna go after the hay chaff on the other side of the barn.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Weldon K · Mar 21, 2011

Ingenuity works every time .
What's the history of the old barn? Was it used for dairy or general livestock barn? Lot of folks would probably like to see a picture of the entire barn.

Don-Wi · Mar 21, 2011

It was my great uncles farm, and his son (my 2nd cousin) kept his dairy herd there and he kept beef in his own barn. He was killed 2 1/2 years ago in a farm accident, but got rid of the cattle a fews years prior when he was almost killed by his bull. His sister now is heading getting rid of everything and lots of the inside of the barn has already been removed. All the stanchions, milk pipeline, bulk tank, etc is all gone.

We could've gotten his machine shed, but we dropped the ball on it and didn't get it down in time so it went to the next guy. I think they're gonna start pulling boards off in another 2 weeks or so, depending on the weather.

Donovan from Wisconsin

showcrop · Mar 21, 2011

When I was a kid working for my neighbor he once bought a quantity of loose hay in a barn. I was part of the crew of probably he, his two sons and I, that went and pitched it down, into the baler and stacked it on a wagon. I don't recall which job I had, but I kinda think that it was feeding the baler.

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 22, 2011

We've got a 30x50x24 block of loose hay that has been in the barn
since the 1950's that needs to come out eventually. It is packed so
darned tight, you can,t get more than about 200 lb's an hour loose.

Need something like a no spark chainsaw to cube it up a bit.

RLA · Mar 22, 2011

Yep that ole barn looks pretty square to me &
I thinking I"d rather pay the tax"s on that
barn than the new building thats required to
replace it.

RLA

Anonymous-0 · Mar 22, 2011

When I was a kid each year dad filled one of the mows with loose hay. He had a tool that you need. It was somewhat like a spade, but had what looked like 3 cycle bar mower sections- very sharp- and a a metal piece that stuck out 90 degrees from the handle. You could go along a line, step on the protruding piece which would shear down into the hay. Along the cut edge you could get large forkfuls of hay. Dad would keep cutting along the same line til there was a high wall. Then you'd go to the top of the stack and start a new cut. I'll bet that tool is still in the barn somewhere though I haven't seen it for ages.

Canadian Ken · Mar 23, 2011

We had old hay loader hay in the base of our mows as well. We used a "hay knife" a flat piece of steel with a serated edge that we sharpened-it had a 90 degree tee handle - we would cut sections of the old hay and peel it off and feed it into the New Holland S717 and blow it into the straw mow.

Ken

Don-Wi · Mar 23, 2011

RLA- Never said anything about building something else there. Gonna be torn down, and eventually the land will be sold for development. No more animals are gonna call that farm home. Kinda sad. I helped my cousin bale hay and do some other fieldwork if I wasn't too busy at home with our own work.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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