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Justdroppedin
07-19-2017, 10:40 AM
https://i.redd.it/ehyalpp7pgaz.jpg





https://i.imgur.com/3bnK8w6.jpg

TLG
07-19-2017, 11:05 AM
Cool ,,

That looks like two different buildings , at two different locations,,, and also, there appears to be a silo to the back, side of the
barn in that first picture

Justdroppedin
07-20-2017, 01:34 AM
The second pic is another barn raising. Just come across it so i Added it...........

Justdroppedin
07-20-2017, 01:47 AM
This is apparently a 10 hour time lapse of the first barn......

http://i.imgur.com/4RXMT3F.gif

"Food for a Barn Raising" from a 1950 Mennonite cookbook:115 lemon pies, 500 fat cakes, 15 large cakes, 3 gallons applesauce, 3 gallons rice pudding, 3 gallons cornstarch pudding, 16 chickens, 3 hams, 50 pounds roast beef, 300 light rolls, 16 loaves bread, red beet pickle, pickled eggs, cucumber pickle, 6 pounds dried prunes stewed, 1 large crock stewed raisins, 5 gallon stone crock white potatoes and the same amount of sweet potatoes. "Enough food for 175 men"

Mr Hanky
07-20-2017, 12:48 PM
Wonder how long it would take unionized.

staticrider
07-20-2017, 02:09 PM
Wonder how long it would take unionized.

3 months with just as many workers. Then it would suddenly burn down for another 3 months of work.