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log barn

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1795, OED Evaluation: N/A

A barn constructed of logs

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Interviewer 1: Ah what other buildings did you have on the farm? Speaker: Well, these were all log. Interviewer 1: Mm-hm. But- Speaker: L-- log barn, log stable and then the other place for pigs and a place for hens.
A barn constructed of logs
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Yeah. Um what are my first memories of here? Um my g-- my grandmother's farm actually. Um, going to- running through the fields um at my grandmother's farm. Um, they had a log barn which my grandfather had. Um, balls in there that he used- he had a dog that would always run to catch the ball.
A barn constructed of logs
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Yeah. Now that- that barn was in the big field that's- it was over here and it was in the foreground of that fall picture I showed you. That was a log barn for hay overflow, if you had too much hay.
A barn constructed of logs
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The main- the main dog house was the- Interviewer: What's the word mow mean? Speaker 1: Mow, mow. Interviewer: M-O-W. Speaker 1: Yeah, where you pour the hay. Goes in the mows- Interviewer: The hay mow. Oh, okay. So that word was used in Ellerton's house. Got it. Speaker 1: The log house was- was log barn. Speaker 2: Yeah when um- when Ellertons bought my grandfather's log barn and- and- ah, that was the one- the one mow became- became the living room and the other mow became the- the kitchen and- Interviewer: Oh I understand, okay. Speaker 2: So the big wide- big wide hallway.
A barn constructed of logs
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My grandfather was a barn-builder and-that too, and my dad learned the trade and my Uncle Wilfred, he was there and he liked that sort of thing. So I had lots of help. So we tore down the old barns that were there, and one was ah wasn't a log barn they were frame barns and their roof was steel. So we took the steel roofs off, saved that, saved most of the boards and the big ah timbers they were like about a foot square and-everything, tore them down. That was nineteen-fifty.
A barn constructed of logs
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He'd be sitting in there in the pouring rain and the water just running down his neck 'cause the roof was totally done. There's no log barn and it was completely done. But by the time I got to about maybe less than eight years old, he put a ch-- ah ah piece on the end of the barn and he put a nice (inc) of it. And they put a good harsh stable in it. That
A barn constructed of logs