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Lost my barn to a fire
TrinityScrimshaw
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When it rains it poors.
Our 120 year old two story post & beam dairy barn burnt this afternoon. It appears to have been an eletrical problem.
We were not at home at the time. I got a call on my cell phone from a friend who told me the barn was on fire. By the time I got back home the entire structure was down. A large hay field adjcent to he barn was also buring. The Fire crews faught the blaze for almost three hours, but it stil has hot spots that are flaming up.
All the anmals were out to pasture, so all we ost was the barn, and all the equipment inside. I had just put over $5500 in new roofing tin & materails in the upper hay maul last week. I had paid an Amish friend $6500 dollars last Saturday to put a new roof on the barn. All my decoys, and several tree stands, a new lawn mower, snow blower, air compressor, three saddles, and a ton of tack, all my ice fishing gear, and too much other stuff to worry about now.
Tinity +++
Our 120 year old two story post & beam dairy barn burnt this afternoon. It appears to have been an eletrical problem.
We were not at home at the time. I got a call on my cell phone from a friend who told me the barn was on fire. By the time I got back home the entire structure was down. A large hay field adjcent to he barn was also buring. The Fire crews faught the blaze for almost three hours, but it stil has hot spots that are flaming up.
All the anmals were out to pasture, so all we ost was the barn, and all the equipment inside. I had just put over $5500 in new roofing tin & materails in the upper hay maul last week. I had paid an Amish friend $6500 dollars last Saturday to put a new roof on the barn. All my decoys, and several tree stands, a new lawn mower, snow blower, air compressor, three saddles, and a ton of tack, all my ice fishing gear, and too much other stuff to worry about now.
Tinity +++
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Please post some before and after pictures if you can.
One thing I would suggest you start doing. Get something in writing from your friends on what you just had done. They can't "depreciate" something you JUST had done. Another thing is to start writing down everything you had in there. You cannot imagine what all you will remember was in there as time passes....and trying to list it all at one time is just about impossible. All the tools, kids toys, car parts, farm equipment, things stored away in there.....you will remember things from time to time.
Helped my dad deconstruct a couple over the years. Amazing const, Huge 12x12, 12x14 beams held together with Oak pins. You could see on some beams they had been trimmed and finished with an adze.
I have put up about a million square bales in them thru the summer months as a youth. That was some sweaty, dusty, labor intensive work.
There had to be some history lost my friend, that and the loss of your stuff, is very sad.