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why are barns painted red?
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Painted red? every barn is red. I am getting ready to paint my chicken house and the only color i want is red.
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http://www.thebarnjournal.org/stories/story006/
Add this to it.
"Farmers added ferrous oxide, otherwise known as rust, to the oil mixture. Rust was plentiful on farms and is a poison to many fungi, including mold and moss, which were known to grown on barns. These fungi would trap moisture in the wood, increasing decay."
I forgot about this one, so add it.
"The Archives of the Shiawasee County Historical Society explain that a week or two after a farmer would put iron scraps into a large barrel of buttermilk, that buttermilk would be transformed into a durable red paint. That this paint was so easy and so inexpensive to make explains why so many barns were red in color."
Source: Michigan's Heritage Barns - Mary Keithan - Michigan State University Press.
why is it cheapest? because companies turn out more of it because it is popular (for barn painting)
The joke is of course a classical paradox, the explanation two posts up makes much more sense
Allen
Painted red? every barn is red. I am getting ready to paint my chicken house and the only color i want is red.
On the down side Red also fade the fastest!!!
Because a blue barn is gay.
Next thing you know Hollywood will have to make 'Brokeback Farm' complete with a blue barn.
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
My barn is dark green, all 42'x80' of it, with a tan roof.
"every barn is red" I think not!
My barn is dark green, all 42'x80' of it, with a tan roof.
I know[:I]
There is a huge white barn just down the road from me.
the joke is that red paint is cheapest,
why is it cheapest? because companies turn out more of it because it is popular (for barn painting)
The joke is of course a classical paradox, the explanation two posts up makes much more sense
Red is the cheapest huh? No not really. Historically red is an expensive color. The question is why do so many barns have See Rock City painted on the roof, or why are all barn roofs painted black.
All the barns around here used to say "See Rock City" on the side.
A Tennessee boy eh? Where I grew up it was either Meramec Caverans or Onendaga Cave (owned by the same guy. I wouldn't own a barn that did not say one of the three![:0]
White will keep your chicken house cooler in the summer.
My Dad (R.I.P.) told me that, and it must be true.
I have seen many red barns, none of which had any sort of elephant problem. The green, white, blue, etc. barns, however, cannot be proven to have never had elephant problems.
Back in my yout, when I was 8 or nine, a farmer with a white barn hired me to protect his barn from elephants with my bb gun. After that summer, he painted the barn red, and never needed my guardianship again.
Remember, if you paint your barn red, you may be denying a young man the ability to feed his family (or, his cocaine habit. You pick).
Doug
quote:Originally posted by KSUmarksman
the joke is that red paint is cheapest,
why is it cheapest? because companies turn out more of it because it is popular (for barn painting)
The joke is of course a classical paradox, the explanation two posts up makes much more sense
Red is the cheapest huh? No not really. Historically red is an expensive color. The question is why do so many barns have See Rock City painted on the roof, or why are all barn roofs painted black.
It was explained to me that red led is cheaper than white lead, you would buy the lead and mix it with linseed oil, roofs, (cedar shake) were mopped with plain linseed oil.
Don