Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . :cr/o/v --- £L£K/9t/oaj Of- /fO(/A/a CO/TA/ C/f/S RADFORDS PRACTICAL The floor plan shows the way the joistsare laid and the circles represent the girtsto which the 1x4 upright pieces are the crib is sixteen feet in diameter it. is necessary to have a ventilator in themiddle. Ordinarily it is not advisable tohave a body of corn more than six or sevenfeet in diameter. By making the innercircle three feet we have six and one halffeet bet
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . :cr/o/v --- £L£K/9t/oaj Of- /fO(/A/a CO/TA/ C/f/S RADFORDS PRACTICAL The floor plan shows the way the joistsare laid and the circles represent the girtsto which the 1x4 upright pieces are the crib is sixteen feet in diameter it. is necessary to have a ventilator in themiddle. Ordinarily it is not advisable tohave a body of corn more than six or sevenfeet in diameter. By making the innercircle three feet we have six and one halffeet between the inner strips and the outerstrips and as there is no floor over thejoists in the center the air can pass upthrough the three foot ventilator easily. The round girts may be made in twoways, either by using thin stuflf and nail-ing one layer upon the other, breakingjoints, or they may be ripped out of twoinch planks. If ripped out of planks asingle saw-cut through each piece of plankwill shape the sections, cut as shown in thediagram. Use two inch plank ten incheswide cut to four foot lengths. Make seg-ments enough to build up all the girts nec-essary by ripping the short planks length-wise through the middle, then rip again onthe curved line. The finished girts are about4x43<4 inches. There is verv little waste. The roof is supported by a similar girt andthis upper gir
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