An empty hay mow also could be transformed into a basketball court with the hoop sturdily mounted on a high wall. Meanwhile, the main floor of the barn evolved through the years.

Loose hay was unloaded into mow with a fork and track. When Blazek's father started baling hay, the opening in the middle of the barn was bridged over with loose lumber to hold more bales.

Twenty large rectangular bales of hay, together valued at $2,000, were destroyed, but another 20 were saved, Reimold said. One wall of the barn was charred, but damage to the structure was ...

These bales would be taken to the barn and put on an elevator that took them up to the barn mow. Hay mechanization took a major leap in the 1970s and 1980s with the introduction of the large round ...

The barn you'll see is the second built in its location. The original burned down, likely due to the spontaneous combustion of the hay stored in the mow, Bush said.

A barn cat lives between bales of hay in the hay mow at the Jerry and Deb Heinz farm in rural Tolono on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.

It was filthy. There was old hay still in the mow and you could see daylight through cracks between the boards. It was last used about 30 years or so ago, to house milk cows and hogs.

On April Saturdays my brothers and I liked to have the barn door open so that there would be light enough for us to roll marbles on the floor. In the afternoons our cousins joined us to play ...

The barn’s northern section — which has an additional bay — was added during the 1810s. The original three-bay portion of the barn had a depth of 30 feet; that depth was expanded by another ...

There might be better berths than a hay mow, but as I was drifting off to sleep in a Union County barn on Thursday night, it struck me that Chanel could make a fortune bottling the aroma for ...

Photos: Humfeld barn fire Town of Jefferson farmer Steve Humfeld was critically injured when a fire exploded in the hay mow of his barn late Thursday afternoon. Firefig… ...