Beauty Through Age
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Beauty Through Age
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
In the U.S., older barns were built from timbers hewn from trees on the farm and built as a log crib barn or timber frame, although stone barns were sometimes built in areas where stone was a cheaper building material. In the mid to late 19th century in the U.S. barn framing methods began to shift away from traditional timber framing to "truss framed" or "plank framed" buildings. Truss or plank framed barns reduced the number of timbers instead using dimensional lumber for the rafters, joists, and sometimes the trusses.[9] The joints began to become bolted or nailed instead of being mortised and tenoned. The inventor and patentee of the Jennings Barn claimed his design used less lumber, less work, less time, and less cost to build and were durable and provided more room for hay storage.[10] Mechanization on the farm, better transportation infrastructure, and new technology like a hay fork mounted on a track contributed to a need for larger, more open barns, sawmills using steam power could produce smaller pieces of lumber affordably, and machine cut nails were much less expensive than hand-made (wrought) nails. Concrete block began to be used for barns in the early 20th century in the U.S.
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Comments (24)
Alana Thrower
Wonderful capture of this unique old barn! Thanks for the great history of the evolution of barn building! l/f
Belinda Low
What a title to a image that's beautifully captured! To me, it's analogous and the idea akined to and is symbolic to a human being who has gone through a lot in life and has matured so much that this person is beautiful inside out. f/v
Nadine and Bob Johnston
Thanks for the Beautiful image of These antique buildings, really like this.. Enjoy seeing your style, one of my favorites of the day...
Ram Vasudev
Revisiting, Marcia. Voted (All Seasons Landscapes group, Fast Submit 1 Comment on 5 thread)