Old Barns.

[Larryjk]

Adam Helmer, Very interesting information about the construction methods used at that time( wooden pegs holding members in place). My father built a farm in eastern Nebraska in about 1930 that also had the hay sling (hay hook) rail along the top of the barn with the poles and rope that made a sling lying along one side. The rope to move the sling system had pulleys so that horses on the opposite side of the barn could pull on the rope to raise the sling load of hay. My father was a recent day "sodbuster" who plowed up the virgin prairie to start his farm. He bought the land from a corporation held by a man from Chicago that had a large mail order house.