Duck Pond Redneckery

[Electric Chicken]

well educate me, if you would?

you got animals, in a barn. it's sub-zero temps, and the barn is like (in a way) wide open with those planks being spaced apart.

how do the animals stay warm, and not freeze to death? or get sick from the extreme weather?

Frozen beef, bruh. Cheaper than a chest freezer.

 

[Duck]

but come winter, the animals get a huge draft up thier tails, with all those spaces. (as the cold/wind) can blow thru the molding strips.

how do you keep the animals from freezing to death? or getting pneumonia?

I had already explained that those gaps are covered up by the skinny strips of wood.

I even posted a photo of the skinny strips covering the gaps in the lower part of the wall.

 

[GAnthony]

You missed his point. Those trim strips close the gap. They aren't tied to the siding board, so the gap opens and closes behind the trim piece.

yeah, i got that, so then there is still a draft into the barn.

why aren't barns more draft free, for the animals?

 

[GAnthony]

I had already explained that those gaps are covered up by the skinny strips of wood.

I even posted a photo of the skinny strips covering the gaps in the lower part of the wall.

that was like, so you think i go back and read this shit all over again..??

you gotta keep up boy, you gotta keep up.

ain't like i got a lifetime to go back, forward man...forward.....!!!!!!!!

 

[GAnthony]

Frozen beef, bruh. Cheaper than a chest freezer.

well doh......that's if the barn don't got no electrickety..????

 

[BlackBart]

that was like, so you think i go back and read this shit all over again..??

you gotta keep up boy, you gotta keep up.

ain't like i got a lifetime to go back, forward man...forward.....!!!!!!!!

Next time use yer readin binoculars

 

[Rigjockey]

that was like, so you think i go back and read this shit all over again..??

you gotta keep up boy, you gotta keep up.

ain't like i got a lifetime to go back, forward man...forward.....!!!!!!!!

No wonder it takes @Duck along time to finish a project, He has got to explain everything twice and draw pictures.

 

[GAnthony]

No wonder it takes @Duck along time to finish a project, He has got to explain everything twice and draw pictures.

don't matter, he's still as slow as a sloth........

 

[GAnthony]

Next time use yer readin binoculars

i can't find them.

last time i used them?

i was watching some birds take baths in my bird bath.

come to think of it.......i think they swiped it from me, the dirty little bastoidavitches....

 

[Duck]

don't matter, he's still as slow as a sloth........

Right now I'm in the house watching Beetlejuice

 

[Duck]

See the little flat strips covering the gaps?

 

[Shreck]

I live in MN and I'm a dairy farmer. All of our heifers, dry cows, and steers live outside in 3 sided sheds. As long as they have a dry spot to lay down and some protection from the wind they are just fine.

Yep and a lot better for them the sweating one minute then chilling the next.

 

[Rigjockey]

I don't know much about barns other than I have been in one and possibly was born in one according to my Mother (something about leaving doors open)

I just figured the barn was enough protection for an animal with the herd shedding body heat.
I had no idea about the slats. I learn something new everyday.

 

[Duck]

I just figured the barn was enough protection for an animal with the herd shedding body heat.
I had no idea about the slats. I learn something new everyday.

From my (recent) observations, there was a wide variety of types of siding for barns back before they discovered sheet metal and that magical powder coat they put on that stuff.

Tongue and groove was pretty popular.
Unfortunately... I hate it. You can't replace individual planks that get ****ed up because they're all locked together.

I think spaced planks with cover strips is probably the simplest.

 

[Duck]

Today's steel barn siding is great stuff though..

My pole barn was put up in 2008 and there were leftover sheets. I put one of the gray sheets (leftover from the roof) down on the dirt next to the house to keep weeds down.

Then in 2018, a full ten years later, a tree limb made a little hole in the roof and required patching.

So I looked at that piece that was lying directly on the dirt for ten years, because the top side looked good.

I washed it with the hose and a rag. No soap.. and it looked brand new. So yeah I cut off a 6 foot piece and put it on the roof.

Directly on dirt for ten years and not a speck of rust.

Why can't they paint cars that way?

 

[Rigjockey]

I think Just about every barn I have seen, storing farm equipment or the farmers private Cessna 172 was steel.
The ones with livestock all had gaps between the planks. I always wondered why they couldn't get the planks closer together or hire some Amish Folks.

Or go on down to the Home De-Pot and say I need 8 to build a barn?

Now I know.

 

[Duck]

I think Just about every barn I have seen, storing farm equipment or the farmers private Cessna 172 was steel.
The ones with livestock all had gaps between the planks. I always wondered why they couldn't get the planks closer together or hire some Amish Folks.

Or go on down to the Home De-Pot and say I need 8 to build a barn?

Now I know.

Corn cribs have the planks spaced an inch or so apart because they would fill them with corn cobs and they needed ventilation to dry them out.

 

[MJ1657]

Yep and a lot better for them the sweating one minute then chilling the next.

Exactly. Heat is hard on livestock cold not so much. Brutal cold temps and cold will hurt their ears and udders but for the most part heat is much worse.

 

[Duck]

Exactly. Heat is hard on livestock cold not so much. Brutal cold temps and cold will hurt their ears and udders but for the most part heat is much worse.

Do you have any old barns or just modern pole barns?

 

[MJ1657]

Do you have any old barns or just modern pole barns?

Modern in the respect that the original part or our milk barn has been covered in tin. Its still an old style barn that has been added onto twice. There is a brick barn at the original home place. Its beautiful. I'll send pics this weekend.