Whats in that old barn?

[Tnmountains]

What's in that old barn?

What treasures do you come across or see in the old barns. Feels free to post your old barn finds. Here is one I got to peak in the other day.



The Hunley prototype?



The new work horse for farms "steam"




Seems like there is an old saying for these?




Manufacturer




Maker marks




100 year old kids sled?



Wood stave bucket



Me for scale! Ha!
What do you see in those old rooms and barns?
HH
TnMtns

 

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[1320]

Very cool post!

 

[Tnmountains]

Thanks 1320. I was trying to think of what area might enjoy seeing these old things.

 

[VOL1266-X]

VERY interesting Ag. relics Richard. I've never seen stuff like that in any barn or living history museum. Thanks for showing us thooe. HH, Q.

 

[Breezie]

GREAT pics! Thanks for posting these outstanding finds!


Breezie

 

[Tnmountains]

I can see why people enjoy steam and the restoration. The wood wheel by me was used with a belt and the different size wheels created the different speeds for the tool you were running on the farm. Industrial revolution infancy.
Thanks for looking!

 

[kingskid1611]

Those are some nice pics. I don't get to check out old barns. I do like looking at that rusty dusty junk that people keep though. Thanks for sharing.

 

[hvacker]

That's a huge flywheel. There was some serious hay bailing or what ever.

As a boy in Wisconsin I can remember my grandmother cooking lunch for the men from the co-op coming to
do some hay cutting or corn harvesting. I didn't know. The machine took up the whole road and made a serious amount of dust.
The men would walk along side of it and seemed to be having a good time.
A lot of celebrating took place around that machine and probably over the labor it saved.

 

[watercolor]

Wow! It would be so cool to see that in operation back in the day. . . those were the good 'ole days for sure.

Here's a "folk art" plane I found in my great uncle's barn near Herndon, Iowa about 10-years ago. . . he let a neighbor store some stuff in his barn and when everyone passed away, his property went to my mom. Amongst all the stuff, this hand-made plane was tucked in a back corner.

 

[Peyton Manning]

lovely thread, don't allow whoever owns that stuff to scrap it

every summer near me there is a week long show featuring all the old time machinery

 

[can]

nice find

 

[Anduril]

Pic #3: Governor valve?

 

[Tnmountains]

Pic #3: Governor valve?

Yes sir they had a bucket of different ones. As the speed increased the balls would fly out. I have not seen any like that with the metal strap. I should have taken a picture of everything to be honest .
Kinda like art in a way if you like old mechanical things. One had metal wheels the others were wood wagon wheels.

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[Tnmountains]

Wow! It would be so cool to see that in operation back in the day. . . those were the good 'ole days for sure.

Here's a "folk art" plane I found in my great uncle's barn near Herndon, Iowa about 10-years ago. . . he let a neighbor store some stuff in his barn and when everyone passed away, his property went to my mom. Amongst all the stuff, this hand-made plane was tucked in a back corner.

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I have an old wooden hand made plane that was made for me as a kid. Glad you shared yours. I need to get mine out and clean it up! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Dman]

Those are some great barn finds. I bet you enjoy going out and finding unusual items.

 

[Anduril]

Yes sir they had a bucket of different ones. As the speed increased the balls would fly out. I have not seen any like that with the metal strap. I should have taken a picture of everything to be honest .
Kinda like art in a way if you like old mechanical things. One had metal wheels the others were wood wagon wheels.

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Very cool - thanks for sharing. !!
As an (electrical) engineer, I am drawn to the realization that there are so many unguarded moving parts on the machinery in that video.
There must have been some very unforunate and horrific accidents over the years. One little slip is all it would take.

Also, a +1 shout-out to "enginefitter".
Stands to reason he (she?) would definitely appreciate a video like this.

 

[kingskid1611]

Don't you just love the old sounds of the steam engines. The sounds of real progress is good.

 

[Tnmountains]

The belts were pretty scary and of course they blew up if any of the steam releases failed. Am sure many people were injured. I think Jay Leno is a big steam engine buff?

 

[against the wind]

That's really cool
I would ask farmers if they would let me take pictures of their barn contents,, but I think maybe some farmers don't want people to know what they have in their barns.

 

[hvacker]

lovely thread, don't allow whoever owns that stuff to scrap it

every summer near me there is a week long show featuring all the old time machinery

We have a tractor restorers club that has a parade in town. Great stuff. One is started by hand turning a flywheel on the side of the tractor. Better than an engine crank. Arm buster.

I remember road signs in Wisconsin nor allowing steel wheels like on the video of the steam machine . I have forgotten what they were called.