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A friend took this pic of his Dad's car shed in Maryland in the 1960s. The old rural farm is now a housing development in a Baltimore suburb.

From that barn's design, what would you say it was built for? Maybe hay in the loft and corn in the cribs?

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"From that barn's design, what would you say it was built for?"

Well, for one, it allows a tractor to pull a wagon straight through, or a tractor to be semi protected from the weather. Since the rafters are open (does not appear to be a floor from this angle) it would not be hay.... maybe an old corn crib (unshelled corn ears)? All speculation. The last barn I saw like that went into siding my mother's rec room in a house she and dad built. hundred + year old rough sawn 8" to 12" x 1" x 6 to 8 foot long oak planks made for a barn sided play area for adults.

#1 JoeC on 2011-01-26 18:42 (Reply)

Huh - that's a good question. The corn cribs I remember were open slat sided affairs to allow for air flow. The carry beam roof joists look robust so maybe hay in the loft but with the slope of the roof, you couldn't fit much hay up there. Silage maybe (that doesn't make any sense either). Probably if you had a picture of one of the sides, it would give more of an idea - it's obviously meant to store something.

#2 Tom Francis on 2011-01-26 19:06 (Reply)

Grew up on a farm with a corn crib just like that. We'd unload grain wagons (gravity wagons) of ear corn (dried but still on the cob) through an opening in the roof. Then shovel it over to one of the cribs. Yes, it doubled as a machinery shed since one could store implements underneath it.

Iowa State has plans for a double corn crib with 11' alley. It would be very similar to the one I remember on the farm.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mwps_dis/mwps_web/images/73280pic.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mwps_dis/mwps_web/hy_plans.htm&usg=__IYcjtWwbPpMTnAd2NW0B1vRTfwk=&h=100&w=236&sz=12&hl=en&start=9&zoom=0&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=yT8m9QwXgv9gIM:&tbnh=46&tbnw=109&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddouble%2Bcorn%2Bcrib%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=3bpATbbuFM2cgQfYm43kAg

Cool pic, thanks for posting.

#3 Gordon on 2011-01-26 19:24 (Reply)

Maryland Style Tobacco barn

#4 Jess on 2011-01-26 20:23 (Reply)

Appears to have been built for Packards!

#5 South of 5 and 20 (Link) on 2011-01-26 20:34 (Reply)

It's a corn crib. It would have been filled all the way to the top with ear corn - nothing else. Machinery would be parked in the drive or could have had a couple of sows with pigs.

#6 Steven Cox on 2011-01-26 20:42 (Reply)

South of 5 and 20 you beat me to the Punch!

#7 peter on 2011-01-26 20:49 (Reply)

Ah, tire chains. No need for snow tires.

#8 chuck on 2011-01-26 21:13 (Reply)

I worked in those barns as a kid. They hung tobaccoo in them. The truck would pull in and we would hand it up to the guys working up in the rafters. The tobacco was speared through the leaves to hang and dry. After drying it was sent to auction. A big auction was in Upper Marlboro, MD. Worst job I ever had. The super would swat you with a thin stick (a switch) if you didn't keep up with the work. We made .35/hr. I was 12. I told my dad they whipped me for not keeping up. He laughed and told me to work harder the next day. He had worked on the same farm for the same farmer when he was 12.

#9 Stan on 2011-01-26 22:33 (Reply)

I worked in those barns as a kid. They hung tobaccoo in them. The truck would pull in and we would hand it up to the guys working up in the rafters.
The tobacco was speared through the leaves to hang and dry. After drying it was sent to auction. A big auction was in Upper Marlboro, MD.
Worst job I ever had. The super would swat you with a thin stick (a switch) if you didn't keep up with the work. We made .35/hr. I was 12. I told my dad they whipped me for not keeping up.
He laughed and told me to work harder the next day. He had worked on the same farm for the same farmer when he was 12.

#10 Stan on 2011-01-26 22:35 (Reply)

not for hay i don 't think --only enough room for winter haying a herd probably too small to even get a barn built at all --maybe 20 cow/calf units, or twenty dairy cows, for a middlin' American winter. Herd that size would pay for a tarp over the hay, not a two storey barn.

#11 buddy larsen on 2011-01-27 02:34 (Reply)

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