. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . HAY BARN FRAMING AS SHOWN IN FIG. 30 OTHER BUILDINGS 111 ing building comes at the ends of the hay barn, trusses shouldbe carried down from the purlins to the ground to stiffen theends of the building, as otherwise the hay will be very liable tobulge them. Hay barns with a capacity of seventy-five tonsor over are more
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . HAY BARN FRAMING AS SHOWN IN FIG. 30 OTHER BUILDINGS 111 ing building comes at the ends of the hay barn, trusses shouldbe carried down from the purlins to the ground to stiffen theends of the building, as otherwise the hay will be very liable tobulge them. Hay barns with a capacity of seventy-five tonsor over are more easily filled with the hay fork, and the cus- NOTE- TWO y+ BOLTS WITHHEAVY CAST IRON WASHERS ATEVERY INTERSECTION OF TRUSSOTHER IRON WORK AS SHOWN ROOF PITCH c]-£an IIKJ SHINGLESTx ZSHlNGtLATH RArTEGS BETWEEN TRUSSES 2* * IO2** O-C. »A 60U>. CROSS StCTION PART LONGITUDINAL SECTION FIG. 30—DETAIL OP FRAMING FOR HAT BARN torn is to drive into the barn at the center of the long side,unloading the hay in either direction. By this method the haytrack is kept within the building. If, as occurs in some in-stances, this scheme is not feasible, it is quite practicable tofill the hay barn from either one or both ends, in which casethe hay track is projected through the end of the building some 112 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS . 1 six feet, and a door not smaller than 6 ft. wide and 8 ft. highis located just below it. The best way to arrange this doorto open is to hang it on counter weights and slide it down (platefacing p. 76). Where it is arranged to drive into the hay barnat the side, it is an advantage to drive right on through; but insome locations, as on a hillside, where the grade will not per-mit this readily, the second door may be omitted and the haywagons, after unloading, back out empty. If, being on level ground, the situati
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