Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . wide enough no great additional expense in building a and high enough to admit the supply roof like this or in the little projection easily. The doors to the box stalls should from the upper door in front. There is be made in halves so that the upper half storage room above for hay, straw and may be opened and the lower half closed. BARN PLANS 33 An Octagon Barn—A150 This is a cement silo with a barn builtaround it. The arrangement is a good one
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . wide enough no great additional expense in building a and high enough to admit the supply roof like this or in the little projection easily. The doors to the box stalls should from the upper door in front. There is be made in halves so that the upper half storage room above for hay, straw and may be opened and the lower half closed. BARN PLANS 33 An Octagon Barn—A150 This is a cement silo with a barn builtaround it. The arrangement is a good onefor feeding young cattle to make themgrow, rather than to fatten steers for themarket. The silo is sixteen feet in diam-eter and thirty-two feet high with a twelveinch cement wall and a pit that reachesthree feet below the surface of the ground. rods connect all the floor joists and all therafters. This makes a circle of three quar-ter inch iron at the floor and again at theroof, but if the different sides of the build-ing are well tied together there will be nogetting away even if the iron rods are notused. The octagon construction has been. Three feet is deep enough to give a goodsolid foundation and it is deep enoughwhen you come to pitch the last silage outof the bottom. The frame-work of the barn is verylight. The silo is used to support the mid-dle and the barn really is braced from ev-ery direction. Every side is both a braceand a tie for the next side. To preventany possible pulling away from the silo. £LCr/ITJON worked out in this plan in preference to around barn because the construction ischeaper. The sills and other timbers arestraight. The joists usually are cut square,at least there are not very many bevels andwhen a joist is beveled it is only on oneend and the other end is cut square. It isthe same with the rafters. There is considerable room for strawand hav around the silo and it is easv to 34 RADFORDS PRACTICAL make places next to the silo for puttingboth
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