. Barn plans and outbuildings . FRAMING Fig. 250—FRAMING THECORNER built against the inner wall. This is covered by thepacking, when the house is filled, but as the ice is takenout, the ladder is exposed for use. AN ICE HOUSE IN THE BARN The following is a method of putting up ice in a cor-ner of the barn, without anything more than a fewboards and some sawdust. The coolest corner of the barn is set apart for the iceand a board is nailed to thefloor on each side of the cor-ner, or across it. One of theseshould be just beneath a beamof the upper floor. Somerough boards are tacked tothe posts of
. Barn plans and outbuildings . FRAMING Fig. 250—FRAMING THECORNER built against the inner wall. This is covered by thepacking, when the house is filled, but as the ice is takenout, the ladder is exposed for use. AN ICE HOUSE IN THE BARN The following is a method of putting up ice in a cor-ner of the barn, without anything more than a fewboards and some sawdust. The coolest corner of the barn is set apart for the iceand a board is nailed to thefloor on each side of the cor-ner, or across it. One of theseshould be just beneath a beamof the upper floor. Somerough boards are tacked tothe posts of the barn wall, i;pto near the top. A batten isthen nailed to the floor, oneinch from the board; thismakes the foundation, thei^round plan of which is shown in Figure 251. The spaces,a, a, are filled with sawdust. The ice is then packed in. Fig. 251—PLAN OF ICEHOUSE IN A BARN ^52 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS the space bounded by the dotted lines, a foot of sawdustbeing placed beneath it. The sawdust is kept in at thesides, h and c, by upright boards placed against thosenailed to the floor and a beam above it, or the boardnailed to the beam. When all the ice is in, it is wellcovered on the top, a space for a door being left in theboarding above the ice. Then a second row of boards is II bH Fig. 252—A VIEW OF AN ICE HOUSE IN A BARN placed outside of the wall already built, and fastenedto it, as may be most convenient, a door space beingmade to match the inner one. The space between thesewalls may be filled with cut straw, sawdust, clover chaffor any other non-conducting material, up to the hight ofthe ice within. There is no need of closing the doorspace; it will be better to leave that open for 252 shows the outside of this ice room as it ap-pears from the barn floor. Such a space as this may beeasil
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