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Valldal barn

submitted by Master_B to Architecture 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 15:21:58 ago (+51/-0)     (files.catbox.moe)

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Not high tech or cutting edge design, but unique nevertheless.
Barn with slope.

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[ - ] Master_Foo 7 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 17:24:43 ago (+8/-1)

That ramp cost more than four barns and takes up just as much space.
You might as well just build four single story barns.

[ - ] BoozyB 8 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 19:59:02 ago (+8/-0)

You've obviously never had to store hay in the second floor of a barn. I have.
This is innovative genius.
Also, this is in the region where my ancestors lived.

[ - ] Master_Foo 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 21:48:27 ago (+1/-0)

We store hay in the polebarn.
No second story required.

[ - ] BoozyB 2 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 22:19:22 ago (+2/-0)

Of course, with modern equipment.
I'm dating myself, but when I was very young I helped pull bales off a bale elevator and dragged them to the back of the hayloft so the men could stack them high.

[ - ] Master_Foo 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 22:25:30 ago (+1/-0)

What kind of magical modern equipment are you imagining associated with a pole barn?
It's poles holding up a roof to keep the hay out of the rain.
There aren't even walls.
It's about the lowest tech thing there is.

[ - ] BoozyB 3 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 22:44:14 ago (+3/-0)

I know.
But you need a tractor or frontend loader to move it around.
Once it was in the hayloft,all you needed was gravity and a couple holes in the floor.

[ - ] observation1 3 points 2 monthsFeb 12, 2025 00:57:26 ago (+3/-0)

"Costs" are relative to if you have the equipment and the time.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior 2 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 21:30:57 ago (+2/-0)

Are you kidding that ramp is rocks and dirt? You just need a small tractor or a wheel barrow and a strong back set up the out line stack up the rocks with a good base and fill it in and pack it down.. the barn would be expensive unless you had access to cheap lumber or had an old barn that you could demo and slavage

[ - ] Master_Foo 0 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 21:41:42 ago (+0/-0)

Even if the rocks are free in the field and you are only using your own labor, the labor is going to cost SOMETHING, that something being:
value = cost_of_calories + time / value_of_doing_something_else

the value of "value" for a ramp is probably going to be less for a ramp than multiple/bigger barns.

[ - ] letsgetit 2 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 23:56:53 ago (+2/-0)

Also if this ramp has been used by several generations that's some additional value

[ - ] x0x7 0 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 19:53:36 ago (+0/-0)

But then you would still have to hoist hay into them. That's what the labor of the ramp is being contrasted against. Still doesn't seem worth it.

[ - ] Nietzsche 0 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 20:20:38 ago (+0/-0)

It's probably filled with 90% shit that was being carted out anyway.

[ - ] TheNoticing 3 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 16:32:34 ago (+3/-0)

What's the slope for? A two level barn with animals on both levels? Or does the second level have carts?

Definitely imagined and built by White men.

[ - ] ProudRebel 3 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 16:35:34 ago (+3/-0)

Reddit told me niggers built that. Isn't the upper level always the hayloft? idk

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 17:46:11 ago (+2/-1)

What's the slope for?

Building railroads or dry cleaning?

[ - ] Peleg 0 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 18:26:40 ago (+0/-0)

You make joke!
HAIHAI! velly funny!
Aweso Big in gol lush in commifolna

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 2 monthsFeb 12, 2025 11:11:25 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 2 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 16:19:15 ago (+2/-0)

...nice, the spiral in that ramp is no roughshod design either

[ - ] ManwiththeNewspaper 2 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 17:29:09 ago (+2/-0)

Wouldn’t be surprised if the stone work was previously built for defense works or some greater purpose and farmer came along and built his barn.

[ - ] uvulectomy 3 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 18:15:17 ago (+3/-0)

"The barn and barn staircase of Lars Petter Olsen, in Framgarden in Valldal, was completed in 1885. It was until then the largest and most modern barn. Lars Petter spent seven years building the barn bridge with stone, which he picked up on the mountainside."

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 22:59:13 ago (+0/-0)

How would it take one person 7 years?

[ - ] letsgetit 2 points 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 23:58:23 ago (+2/-0)

Maybe he was just working on it in his leisure time

[ - ] Rotteuxx 0 points 2 monthsFeb 12, 2025 12:43:29 ago (+0/-0)

Because daily chores are the priority when you're a serious farmer. He probably only had horses & buggies to move all the earth back in 1885.

[ - ] Reunto 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 17:00:20 ago (+1/-0)

"With a twist!"

[ - ] Puller_of_Noses 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 19:15:52 ago (+1/-0)

Put the poor White people on that useless land.
Ha ha, wait til they try to plant crops in those fields full of rocks.

[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 21:11:41 ago (+1/-0)*

@Puller_of_Noses ...are you being serious or joking around?....have you ever seen how gardens are grown on the slopes of dormant volcanos in tropical islands?...the ugliest jagged rock in the world with pockets of trapped soil, a few tablespoons of soil at that, a pocket with "maybe" a half dozen cubic inches of soil, yet it'll produce 3 stalks of corn with 3 good sized ears on each one, I've seen cabbage the size of Paul Neri's head grow out of those pockets, what doesn't grow is the tubers simply because of the lack of depth...I've even seen watermelons grown in those pockets but with the required water supply.

[ - ] Puller_of_Noses 2 points 2 monthsFeb 12, 2025 00:16:00 ago (+2/-0)

Serious.
A White man will take an unplowable field of boulders and dig them up to make stone fences (or elevated egress to the 2nd floor of your barn) to improve the land. A negro will destroy any environment he lives in and complain about racism.

[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 0 points 2 monthsFeb 12, 2025 19:56:09 ago (+0/-0)

I watched my father turn 120acres of sand and clay into arable earth, a lot of manure, a shit load of rotted wood, bark, chips and sawdust from the board mill and a proportionate amount of lime...the oats and barley he produced had even the Mennonites and Amish impressed...but then again, that's what we Russians do.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 21:29:40 ago (+1/-0)

Is that about a 30 foot ramp? What would the smallest usable ramp be? 8 foot or 10 foot wide to drive a tractor up?

[ - ] Master_B [op] 0 points 2 monthsFeb 12, 2025 06:56:06 ago (+0/-0)

Tractor with 24 inch wide tires is 8 feet wide (about an inch of play), so 12 for a bit of comfort.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 1 point 2 monthsFeb 11, 2025 23:49:25 ago (+1/-0)

MY DICK UNIQUE 2

[ - ] carnold03 1 point 2 monthsFeb 13, 2025 19:02:40 ago (+1/-0)

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the guy had worked for the railroads before building this.