Makes what we did look a lot easier. Milked 40-50 in a 20 cow stanchion barn, 3 milkers and a pipeline with the cows in a freestall barn that was cleaned out with a tractor and scraperblade. Fed grain by hand in the stanchions, corn silage in a trench that what was up high was forked down behind a self feeder and just pushed feeder back against silage fot the lower part. Had a hesston stackhand were the hay was set in a barn and we forked off the top of the stack into a manger fir the cows.
awesome old barn thanks for sharing, I reckon back in the day they might of had wheat and or oat sheaves in one area to do barn threshing in the olden days
Interesting lay out in that old barn. I had a SP22 vacuum pump I sold about 10 years ago. Should have just kept it! Thanks for the tour, might sound crazy but I love seeing how old barns were laid out
@@Mad_Farmer912 If I remember right it was a 2 piston, because at one point I also had an SP11 and it was a single. I bought them on auction, fixed them up and used the 22 to milk a few cows back when we raised a lot of bottle calves and milk replacer took that big jump back in the early 2000's. Glad my cows feed the calves milk for me know!
It looks like there was stanchions instead of tie stalls. Were the main beams put together with wooden pegs? I grew up in Ohio on a 360-acre dairy farm. The house and barn were built in 1875. Someone still lives on the farm, but I think it is a beef farm. We had a spring, and the water was always cold. We put our milk cans in the water to keep it cold until the milkman came. We then got a milk cooler filled with cold water that you put the cans in. That milk cooler would cool a watermelon in just a short time.
Yeah it's wood pegged. Having the stanchions was one of the factors to just build new. The concrete in the manger was getting bad also. So changing to tie stall along with all new concrete, in the end just wasn't saving that much.
@@Mad_Farmer912 In the original part of the barn there was no concrete, wide planks in the center of the barn and dirt floor in stalls, when we added the milking part with stanchions it was concrete.
What's left of today's farm kids will never have a clue what real work is . Pretty cool barn tour 👍👍
Yep, too much automation being relied on and not just agriculture. Most kids today, tying their shoes is too much work.😁
It's so cool seeing old barns like that back when farms grew from within and they could manage it. They made things work with what they had available.
Makes what we did look a lot easier. Milked 40-50 in a 20 cow stanchion barn, 3 milkers and a pipeline with the cows in a freestall barn that was cleaned out with a tractor and scraperblade. Fed grain by hand in the stanchions, corn silage in a trench that what was up high was forked down behind a self feeder and just pushed feeder back against silage fot the lower part. Had a hesston stackhand were the hay was set in a barn and we forked off the top of the stack into a manger fir the cows.
awesome old barn thanks for sharing, I reckon back in the day they might of had wheat and or oat sheaves in one area to do barn threshing in the olden days
Thanks for sharing that story. I enjoy the history of old farm buildings and it's cool to hear the back-story.
Sadly if things don't change in this country all we're going to have left is history, and they're actively trying to erase that.
@@Mad_Farmer912 Ain't that the truth!
Interesting lay out in that old barn. I had a SP22 vacuum pump I sold about 10 years ago. Should have just kept it! Thanks for the tour, might sound crazy but I love seeing how old barns were laid out
Is that a two piston surge pump? I think I have one of those.
It is interesting to see the evaluation over the years.
@@Mad_Farmer912 If I remember right it was a 2 piston, because at one point I also had an SP11 and it was a single. I bought them on auction, fixed them up and used the 22 to milk a few cows back when we raised a lot of bottle calves and milk replacer took that big jump back in the early 2000's. Glad my cows feed the calves milk for me know!
It looks like there was stanchions instead of tie stalls. Were the main beams put together with wooden pegs? I grew up in Ohio on a 360-acre dairy farm. The house and barn were built in 1875. Someone still lives on the farm, but I think it is a beef farm. We had a spring, and the water was always cold. We put our milk cans in the water to keep it cold until the milkman came. We then got a milk cooler filled with cold water that you put the cans in. That milk cooler would cool a watermelon in just a short time.
Yeah it's wood pegged. Having the stanchions was one of the factors to just build new. The concrete in the manger was getting bad also. So changing to tie stall along with all new concrete, in the end just wasn't saving that much.
@@Mad_Farmer912 In the original part of the barn there was no concrete, wide planks in the center of the barn and dirt floor in stalls, when we added the milking part with stanchions it was concrete.
Love your videos man!!
I appreciate that!
I enjoyed the history
If only these old barns could tell their stories…..
You missed your open house and the auction Saturday 😮
Yep, I'm just an outcast. 🤣
Still have the largest coverall building in the area though. 😁
Would you ever put animals in the old barn again?
What state are you in.? I'm in Wisconsin
North West Pennsylvania
Most old barns are useless for today's machines and most farmers no longer raise livestock
All comes down to labor available
interesting.