October 1, 2025
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Welp, this has been in the list for a few months now, but you know what, its the first of october and I'm feelin spooky
but i'm also a basic white girl hoosier so we're getting quaint lil rustic barn with pumpkins and corn :3
Uhh so this is a real old thing, but while these were constructed in the 1700s to the 1870s, they were actively used till the 20s.
Now, since you guys are all prototypically pedantic as i've become as of late, lord forgive me, lemme give you the dietz:
so yeah old style barn, basic idea is you have two separated barns so you dont have say corn and wheat touching or whatever and you can put some planks across the middle and have a small loft. you always have the ends slightly overhang and have the roof extend far out as to prevent rain from getting in and it lets you put things like crates and barrels out the side of it. Now, the dogtrot (the alley in the middle) is there so you dont have to haul in place too many long logs, if need be you have quick lil pen you can set up in the middle, or if its raining and you're doing work you have a quick place for shelter. But the primary purpose of the dogtrot in the middle is primarily there to thresh wheat. The alley way creates a steady breeze through it, making it easier to thresh wheat and separate the grain from the straw, but it also keeps the rain off you so that if its raining and you've got the harvest in, but you havent threshed it you can still thresh it and it gives you work to do while it rains. Do note as well, this isn't a log barn, this is a hewn barn, so you aren't using straight logs you're cutting them down a little straighter. That doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, aside from that this would be a more perminant structure than the cheaper and easier to build log structures.
Again, really small and old barn, which wouldn't be seeing much use past the 1880s, but you'd often still use them as a shed hell even nowadays in some parts. These things litter indiana because they're so cheap and indiana was settled only shortly after the american revolution, so in the area and era I model these are a common sight. Hell theres two down the street from me lol.
I think i may have autism?? jesus that was a long rant about one particular american barn type.
So, on assembly, you print it, and then you glue the front and back dogrun joists in between the two cribs. then you take 3 of the rafter trusses and you put them in between the lil notches on the top plates on the cribs and glue em down. you also put the two end rafters on the ends of the barn on the outside of the lil nubbins there. Once you got that done, you wanna print off the roofs and match each one up to the coorosponding number on the topplates of the cribs. then you glue them down onto the foundation since you can't see inside, though, just in case, i did make the interior sorta accurate so you can just make the roof removable and have it as a lil diorama.
Now, Theoretically you could do two of the small cribs or two of the large cribs to make it, though the numbers wont match perfect and the roofs may be wonky.
also thanks to Atlas for lending his sona to shove in here
Yes, i know there's a issue on the large crib, just double up on the small cribs. Tinkercad HATES how much detail i put in this and REFUSES to export a working file of it
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