Exploring A Pre Civil War Era Bank Barn With Surprising Discoveries
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Today we explore an old pre Civil War era limestone bank barn not far from the waters of the Potomac River in Maryland. It's a huge barn with a lot of history, a good solid roof, and huge wooden beams. This barn also has a VERY unique wood silage silo with the wooden planks wrapped around the inside and outside of the structure. I explain how silos work and also explore the entire stone and wood barn. There is a really creepy discovery on the bottom level, but that will have to wait for a separate video.
Video of strange room located beneath the wood silo: • Barn Door Leads To Cre...
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A comment/addition about the silo (or silos in general, I suppose): The reason they unload it from top to bottom isn't just because it's technically easier for them... It's also done that way because they want to keep the grain, or corn, or haylage, or silage (whatever is in there), packed down so oxygen doesn't get to it. When oxygen eventually gets to the material, it starts becoming moldy and inedible for the animals. So the idea is that if they are able to time it just right, they're able to feed it out to the animals with the materials on top that have been exposed to the oxygen fast enough that it doesn't get moldy or ruined before they can use it in their feed mix.
Interesting
Hey Chig,I've really been enjoying these barn walk through videos that you've been doing lately im on the west coast and we just don't have barns like these. We do have big barns just nothing this old. Thanks again for all the work you put in to produce these videos ! 😊
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I’d give almost anything to have big barn like that again. It hurts to see them in disrepair.
This was a fun barn explore! Any questions about what you see?
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I'm in Ohio and there's plenty of Amish built bank barns. if there's a pond or a fair sized depression near the barn that may be where they soaked the boards to build the silo.
steam bending them took too long so cutting the planks then stacking them in water would prep them for bending. and that still was some kind of job. once you got past the half way point you had to use a pulley to hold the boards in place for nailing. I was hoping you'd go down in the sump.
if I were going to stash something I didn't want found it would be under 100 tons of feed. love doing barn explores there's not only relics but the craftsmanship is Amazing! Thanks Beau! great tour👍🇺🇸
And the boards were tongue and grooved to make the silo more weather proof.
Those “scratch marks” on the sides of the silo are most likely from pitch forks when they would have to scrape old stuck on silage off the sides of the silo.
The music at the end! What is i??! Thank you for the best barn tours ever.
This really takes me back. My parents bought a farm in the mid-60s in upstate NY that had a barn every bit as big as this one. Actually, it was in the shape of an L and banked on 3 sides. The house was built in 1842 and the barn a few years later. It still had the hay hooks, pulleys, tracks and the 2" hemp ropes used to pull the hay across the barn. All pegged (and probably Chestnut) and so absolutely cool for a 10-year old kid to climb around in/on. And that incredibly sweet smell of freshly cut hay will never leave me as long as I live...
That would have been my dream. I was almost swinging on those strong ropea that don't rot and felt 10 again. This is a great channel and only $5 for Patreon.
It is a smell hard to describe but oh so sweet. Hated the hard work of hay carting and stacking. Blister’s on my hand’s, my back and shoulder’s so sore I just wanted to lay down and die. I still have problem’s with my back to this very day.
@@delphinabunter1469 - We'd put in 1000's of bales of hay each summer and for me, it was my forearms. They'd get scratched up and itchy. That and being on the receiving end of the elevator in the top of the hay mow on super hot days...
In Norway,when silos where introduced to the farmers,it was used to ensilage hey with addition of formic acid.Its a way of storing hey in a smaller space.When they had filled the silo and sprayed the acid over it they had a tarpauling over it and up the sides a little.That "basin" would then be filled with water to press it all together to create more space.This had to be done and the silo had to be filled and ready by autumn before the frost set in.During winter they had a hell of hard work to hack out the hard compressed ensilated hey to feed the animals.
Chigg…what was the mystery with the bottom of the silo…..?
Separate video he said
Yeah the bottom of the silo ???
Great information. I could smell the hey from here🌸👍👍
Claw marks might be pitchfork scratches.
I want to know more about that 'barn octopus'..
It's just all the baling twine that is cut from the square bales before feeding the bales to the cattle.
They are on the endangered species list.
Good evening from Southeast South Dakota
What did you do in the Army? Or would you have to kill us if you told us? 😂
Wow! That reminds me of a farm on Darnstown(?) Rd near Gaithersburg MD where I lived a couple of years 2011-2013. Ya gave me a start there! Beautiful old barns built so well they are still standing. It was a marker for me on that route. Thanks for the informative vid.
I have put up a lot of hey. Me an my brother just us 2 we could put up 1000 to 1400 bails hey in a day. Kids of today don't know what hard work is. You talk about the smell of the hey I can set here an smell it just thinking of it. Clover an Fetch Q. It would Separate the men from the boys. Before I lost my legs I was 29 yrs old, 6' 2"
230 pounds. Every job i had from 15 yrs old to 29 yrs old was hard labor jobs. I love watching your videos as awesome.
pitchfork marks on wall?
Those cat prints in the concrete were AWESOME! One of my favorite finds EVER is an early 1800s style brick with a very light and small human hand print on one side. I suspect it was a child, possibly even an enslaved person. I found it in a creek next to an old millsite from the early 1800s, so I reckon thats what it came from. Ive found lots of other bricks there, but none with any prints. I really enjoyed this look at this old barn too!
Great video. I was just looking at that date in rhe concrete floor. I'm seeing
9' 8' 42
Just a thought?
Anyway, keep the great content coming.
They really need to get a handle on those groundhogs or that old barn will soon start to collapse on them. They're getting under the support posts badly. That old beauty is a cantilever bank barn and you completely missed the cantilever in your video. Pity, as it's an art form in itself.
Thank you, for all the archetcture and historic buildings you share with us. The scratches on the wood silo, that's just rats and mice. I've watched them scale walls with ese.
That, or more likely a mechanical silo unloader.
@@farmerbill6855 Another possiblity.
I was thinking they were from cleaning off dried buildup with some type of tool.
They round the wall on the barns like that for strength. If they didn't do it like that it could collapse if livestock leaned into it.
Right, having a rounded corner prevents horses or cows from getting wedged into the corner of the doorway and jamming it out.
In Decatur County, Indiana there is a restored totally round barn. The family uses it for parties and a just a fun place, filled with antiques. Thank you Chigg for the tour of this historic barn.
That is one cool barn. Never seen a round wooden silo with horizontal planks. It's not really hard to bend them, but goodnight, it's time consuming. There's no doubt, putting up square bales in the loft, in Virginia, in summer, is the most miserable job I've ever done. Hot, sweaty, dusty. Spitting black for two days. Plus, green hay bales ain't quail eggs. I put on tin roofs in Maryland/D.C. I think I prefer a July day on a tin roof to a July day in a hay loft. LOL. Thanks.
Make's Me Think Of The Old Farm's In Michigan In Day's Gone By.
Howdy, from North Idaho Beau. I've enjoyed watching these barn tours Beau. With me living in the Western part of the country, this series has shown me things I've missed in real life.
My father used to work part time at a couple of dairies when I was young. With 6 children in the family, the extra money sure helped out. Like you, I have a strong memory of the Alfalfa smell. At our local hardware store, they have bales of hay/alfalfa out front. I've often stopped to smell that Timothy Alfalfa. It brings back memories for me when I'd go with dad to feed the cows.
Thanks again Beau.
Stan in North Idaho
Excellent information and a look at what most will never see. Thanks, and be well.
they built that curve in the wall so the animals dont push the post and are corralled out the dpor more fluiently
Next time could you show us some of the hinges on the doors that a blacksmith might have made
Canada calling ,
It makes me sad every time I see one of these old barns fall down. They're getting to be a rarity. We have a few round barns here in Minnesota.
You can blame Hugh Mann.
My pa yarded one over with the tractor at one of the older farms in the area,had to go though must have been eaten away,wood silo was old 40 years ago
Was a silo ,not quite the sama as the round barn
While I get why so many of these barns are left to rot - they're essentially obsolete and require a lot of maintenance - it's still extremely sad to see such examples of history just fade away like that.
Our own farm and the others in the village (Netherlands) had some older sections as well, but keeping old barns around rarely made much sense, so there were very few around. Let alone any that are as beautiful as these bank barns. Rather wish they were a thing were I grew up. They feel like a child's dream :)
@@MayaPosch I'm with you on that maya ,shame they are obsolete
Back in the day they built this Barn They Built Everything to last, That's why so many are still Around, The Way Things are Built Now it Will Never Last as long as that has, Thanks for the Tour Chigg
Than you for the barn tour. Adding your experience to the video was very informative. My thought on the curved wall in the corner is that it was done for greater structural integrity. The curve would keep the corners from splitting as it receives shear forces from mainly 2 directions.
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Chig when I lived in New Mexico there were grain silos for dry grain that you filled with a scoop. Then I lived in Vermont where the barns were similar but I didn’t see any silos made of stone. I guess they were all gone where I lived. When you fed silage you could not get the smell out of your clothes
Very interesting vid. Than you.
love these old barns. ours here in Ontario Canada were built similarly, our silo was a square one. then we dug out a bank and made silage there. you could drive the tractor on it to pack it tight. the curved corner may have been for steering the cows out of the door. also protecting the corner stones from constant nudging from a heavy animal
Thats wild! Very cool!
Lovely old barn, feels like the kind of thing my grandmother would tell me about
It’s so awesome that thing is still around.. In pretty good shape too.. a lot of houses built not even 70 years ago are in worse repair than that 150-170 year old barn..
Thanks for the tour. Enjoyed it.
We have to wait? Awwww. Darn it, Chigg!! 😆
What a beautiful barn! You can always tell a person was raised on a farm. Usually they're good, respectful, people. The world is the way it is because kids today dont have to do anything, they think they deserve everything for nothing. I remember days coming home wanting to die because my arms were so full of scratches and holes from throwing hay around all day. I absolutely hated those days! But I thank god today I went through that and my parents actually raided me right by putting my ass to work.
Very nice. Thanks for sharing this. I'm from Maryland, and PA, I wonder where this is.
I imagine that anybody who grew up in an agricultural area, grew up on a farm, or just worked on or around farms as a kid is more than familiar with the smells that you were talking about. It brings back so many memories when I drive past a farm I can get a big ol' whiff of all the different smells that come from it. I know this might be weird to some people, but one of my favorite smells on a farm is the smell of silage. When it's that good high quality stuff, it's great. Talk about a flood of memories rushing back into my mind when I smell it. I also tend to love the smell of a burning field (which, thanks to stupid regulations, they've made it harder and harder to find an area where they're able to burn their field), or when they burn the big piles of leaves in the fall. It's amazing how a scent can bring back so many emotions and memories.
Totally awesome wooden silo. Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE
That's a really neat barn. Thanks Chig for that video. Can't wait to see the creepy room.
I grew up on a farm great memories after the chores were done thanks Beau !!
those "grd holes " are from big rats!!!!!!!!! my friend barn had HUNDREDS of holes just like this and thought ground hog... until.. he walked in on them one nite cause he forgot something in that barn...HUNDREDS WENT RUNNING ALLLLL OVER as for the claw marks.... i am betting RATS eating out of the silos....... not very sanitatry back then...probabaly the main reason ppl died so young ....due to rat pee /poop soaked into the grains....and whatever else milking pails feed troughs for the cows/horses/pigs/goats... AND INGESTED INTO THE FEED FOR THE ANIMALS AND INTO THE MEATS WHEN SLAUGHTERED... best way to get rid of them......water buckets with a rollar in the center when the rats walk on it plop into the water with no way out. there is a video on u tube showing it and he ended up with wheel barrow loads of dead rats... ... it works...
Awesome barn!
I've seen plenty of Barns like this in my day too bro. My uncle had a business to run he had two arcades in Prescott Arizona and one in Chino valley and one in copper city. I was 16 he sent for me to help him out. I ran the one in copper city. I ran it from sun up till sun down about 12 to 13 hrs a day.I got Sundays off. Me and my cousin took the same day off
So we could go canoeing down river about a 29 Mile
Canoe ride. There was a lot of abandoned buildings Barns old houses and the cowboys place to lodge after work of riding fence all day. Anyways we would stop the canoe at places at this one
Particular barn we wanted to go exploring we did. That lasted about 5 minutes. When we got to the barn it had these enormous doors two of them and they were they was about 16 ft tall each door and there was a bunch of Bones nailed to the doors on both sides and then there was a little plaque right next to the barn that it read the following I'll never forget it it said "THESE HERE BONES ARE FROM HORSE WRESTLERS WITH SOME BEEF WRESTLERS ABOUT FOUR THESE HERE ARE THEIR HANDS. WE GAVE THE WRESTLERS A CHOICE
THEY CHOSE LIFE. THESE HERE ARE THEIR HANDS THEY HAVE THEIR LIFE."
Me and my cuzz counted the hands there was 8 hands on each door so when you do the math there 4 sets on each door 8 people went around life in those days without hand back then from what I hear it was a death sentence back then no hands no work no food no life. Man that my friend is rough. They shouldn't be stealing period. Plus if you left somebody on foot without their horse that too was a death sentence. Just how rough was it way back in the day???LMFAO
Loved the tour of the barn. I love old barns. When I was a kid I would stay with my grandparents in the country and spent a lot of time in their barns and hope on horses bare back and take off through the woods to the creek to go swimming. My cousins still have the land that is shared by us all . Barns aren’t in good condition anymore and the house got burned down but we do still have the land and the creek ( it’s called The Bap Hole because people would get baptized in it long ago).
Thanks for the tour and I can’t wait until the mystery room you will show in another video!
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Spent all my high school summers feeding the cows in SullivanCounty, Pa. hard work, but great memories!
I’m at 1:43 I’ll finish watching tomorrow Chigg be safe and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏
You forgot one important part of that silo ... putting a few unglazed jugs in before the silage goes in. Lol @ trying to describe the smell of hay :::sneeze::: :::sneeze::: Not so many chestnut trees these days 😪. Wall niches usually for curry combs n brushes ... syringes .... band stretchers. And a bottle or two of something to sterilize. I grew up with a bank barn. Can still smell the memories. Thanks, Chig, for the upload and the warm fuzzy memories of sore muscles, bruises, chopping ice, nipple buckets and the smell of warm milk replacer.
Ahhhh so evocative I can smell.the hay!! ..I drove silage truck one summer whrn I was a young cowgirl.i loved that job driving alone under a full.moon..we had to drive at night for some reason..I still love the smell of silage too. SILO: VERY unique! And the technology supernb and yet dangerous.
Great explore Chigg. So many memories of my youth, summers spent on my uncles farm. Nothing like pitching hay; soaked in sweat and all the chaff sticking to ya, the smell of the freshly bailed alfalfa/ timothy, and the gallons of ice tea or lemon aid afterwards. Thanks Beau 👍
Thats Cool stuff.
The claw marks are from the silage forks I imagine.
I was thinking the same
@ 11:38 - I read that as 9'8'47 (or 42) ... which makes sense, they're using the apostrophe instead of a slash or hyphen to demarcate month, day and year.
What an amazing structure!
Maybe I missed it but when was it built approximately?
Modern folks seem to believe that people of the past were not as intelligent as current day.
This is absolutely proof that they were not less intelligent but More than us today.
The amount of innovation, blood, sweat, and tears that went into building that is unimaginable today.
Thanks again Chig!!
Very educational video thank for sharing your knowledge 👍👍
@ around 10:00, too bad about the chestnut blight wiping out all of those big nut bearing trees.........beautiful wood and chestnuts are really good as well..............
Ah, you know you worked hard as a kid if you ever had to put hay in the barn on a regular basis. Brutal work in high humidity and heat! And worse if instead of Bermuda it was alfalfa cut during a rainy season - 100 lb. bales (my back still aches just thinking about it!).
Bro I’m not even kidding, I was watching a video of yours and you were talking about the smells of the liquor making process, then I went to a different video entirely and it started with you talking about the exact same topic lol. It was trippy.
Great tour! It brings back a lot of memories of hot, humid summer days in central Maryland putting away 100 lb. bales of clover hay in my grandfather's barn. His barn had many of the same features as this one including the fragrant smell of new hay. That stone foundation looks like the type of stacked limestone that one can find along the creek bed of Antietam Creek in Washington county. Can't wait to see what is in that "special" room!
Helped gather the hay on summer in Michigan with my Uncle. Allergies kicked up but it was worth it. Another Uncle in Kentucky had the tobacco barn, that was neat too
Thanks for this! Brings back memories of playing around the farm when visiting my grandparents
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Farmers are hard workers, today and in the past. I’m guessing they did a pulley system to take the silage to the top of the wood silo. I wonder if the basement of the silo you showed us yesterday was for raising veal. Gross, but maybe. I’m going with the corn liquor hypothesis. Wish I had some.
In Connecticut we used to hang out in the tobacco barns. ( broadleaf tobacco ). Some still exist. Beautiful.
What's worse then bailing hay in the blazing sun? Bailing hay that has been rained upon. 50 lb bails went up to 75 or 80 lbs. That would bust up your back and legs.
They used to say. Amish would throw in corked bottles. The liqour would fill the bottle. They would pull them out as silage was removed.
Curved wall... maybe to keep animals going the right direction? (instead of them sticking their head in a corner)
The claw marks in the silo are probably from a chupacabra that a former owner trapped there. They’re known to wander the wilds of Maryland. 👹😄
Chigg FYI, I lost your subscription 4 days ago for some reason, glad I got you back. 😉
Beautiful barn. Too bad it is not being used. When we first married we bought a farm that had that exact silo on it. You described it to a tee down to pitching the silage out. I was lucky. I pitched it out to the floor of the barn loft and then pitched it up and down the trough. That was my job while my husband milked. Oh the good old days. LOL
A bunch of kids will never have the satisfaction of the smell of fresh baled hay stuck all over while sweating out twice as much as you could drink.😔
Old barns are so beautiful. Thanks for the tour Chigg.
A friend of mine that's pretty old told me they would put a wooden floor in the bottom of the silos and under the floor they would put containers to catch the fermented juice dripping under the floor and use it like alcohol { farm booze } .
Usually there is just a small pipe that drains it onto the ground.
That's nasty. Back in the day they'd consume anything. I knew a guy that worked at a corn syrup processing plant and he told me about how he would wash all the corn (husks, leaves, stalks and grain) down a hole where it was processed. He said there were rats and mice running around all over the place. So bad he had to tie his pant legs closed or they'd try to crawl up into you pant leg and bite you. Anyway, he said he washed all the rats and mice and everything down the hole. Today people drink it in there soft drinks and eat it in their foods. That is nasty.
@@jessechristian8665 holy crap
The claw marks in the silo are probably from the pitch forks and shovels used to dig the feed downward along the edges.
Another fabulous presentation of a piece of history long gone.
We would ride on the trailor grabing bales and stacking them around 1968
That was really interesting, I love old barns like that. In Cornwall, England, they still build stone walls with that shale rock. I know a few master masons that still do it.
Nice, this brings back memories, I grew up on a farm 50-58 years ago.
I knew what silo are and what they held but didn't realize what they actually done, very informative video now I understand pretty cool info
I use to haul hay when I was a teen. It was hard hot work, but we could make some spending money. I think we split 25 cents a bale between the crew.
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As the silo had many different amounts of feed in it. There would be scratch marks all up and down the walls from mice.
I always thought silos where made for storing grain. Are they all for fermenting/silage?
NICE WORK,, DES CREAN,,BELFAST ,,IRELAND
Awesome! Great that it's been kept up! Thanks for sharing
I love watching your vids Chig!!!
Every farmer thinks they're gonna go something with all that twine some day, ha!
I like the ending song but I still miss the old coyote howls you used to have, it gave it a more "earthy" feel
8:45 anytime you are finishing concrete there’s guaranteed to be a cat and/or chicken that walks right through it
I grew up in a dairy town threw many a bale of hay in my youth! All the farmers had daughters 😉
Chigg is a bank barn what you showed once you said was a German style barn?
3:11 those claw marks are from pitch forks because you need the silo wall as clean as possible to put the new silage in for next year
When you grabbed that handful of hay, I could smell it in my house.
cool old barn! i have many happy memories of playing in barns.