Plans for a Small Barn

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March/April 1970
By Ed Robinson 
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To return to our barn, a couple of rainy weekends, a garden waiting to be planted, plus the inescapable fact that Cassandra, the goat we'd bought but hadn't brought home yet, was due to kid in two weeks, made us call a carpenter to help finish our barn. I am not going to take time to describe in detail just how the interior of our barn was finished—you can get a good idea of that from the sketch shown below. If you want to build a small barn, we've had a draftsman work out complete details with a number of variations.

In the years that we've used our barn, we've found little that we've wanted to change. The only addition we are planning is to extend the barn another 10 feet in length to the west; this will give us more storage space which we will need when we begin harvesting our own hay. Of course, we could change the shed-roof to a gable or gambrel roof and store the hay there, but it is just as cheap to extend the length and eliminate hoisting hay into the loft and climbing up to throw it down.

Suggested Reading:
"The 'Have-More' Plan," by Ed and Carolyn Robinson from Mother Earth Shopping.

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