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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. 🙄
 
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.....!!!!!!!!
 
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.
 
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 fucked up because they're all locked together.

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

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