This is our barn,
and it is falling apart.
It is a historic barn that was written up in Hoosier Magazine in the early 1940s. We live on an old dairy farm and the farm was the first farm in the NE to go from manual pumping of cows to electric. This was especially significant because it was during the war when metal was hard to come by. This is the calf barn.
Our barn was built in 1920 and until it is on he National Registry...
We needed a new roof, but didn't have 15K laying around We were thinking of a way we could do it.... cheap, but sturdy.
We were thinking of something like this, to put over it.... but too much $$$$$$$dough.
Scott researched and mentioned that billboards like these go up for sale on Ebay
On Ebay, they are too expensive so I called around and got a free source. I was given 12 billboards for free. They are HUGE and VERY VERY VERY sturdy (as you can imagine).We only needed 5 for our roof. In fact, they are sooooooooooooo sturdy( heavy) they are more than double the strength of the Farmtek stuff. They are white on one side,printed on the other side.
We are enjoying an Indian Summer so Saturday, Scott, Alex, Matt and I... got to work. Scott devised a great plan that used our John Deere mower to pull them up and over with out a hitch.
Highlights:
Now we can actually start putting the things we want to keep IN the barn.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Saving our Barn Roof
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Very creative! You should have left the ad side out though, tee hee.
That's fantastic!!!
We were able to fix our roof by using recycled "big" real estate signs! Saved us BIG TIME since plywood was (is) so expensive!
What a cute barn. If you are on the historic registry can you get grant money of the likes to save the barn?
PArt of me getting them for free waas a promise NOT to have the advertising side up. It *WAS* tempting though because there is one billboard on our roof from the the Barnes lawyer group. We thought it would be funny for the Google map people to take a picture of our barn with a Barnes advertisement on it, but alas we stuck tot eh agreement.
Grants from being on the National Registry is a goal.... but with the economy these days...not a priority.
I have never heard of such a thing. Amazing.
Nice. Smart idea. There's a roofing material called thermoplastic membrane roofing that heat seals at the seams. You might be able to do the same thing too.
By the way, putting your barn on a historic registry comes with alot of long term baggage, so be carful if you go down that path.
(From Nathan)
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