Subject: [Homestead] Farm building plans, equipment plans
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:44:38 -0700
In the U.S. and Canada
Tvoivozhd---just for the hell of it, I opened a few links on plans for
farm buildings, some equipment. This is the one from Colorado.
Downloaded plans are $5.00 for the first page, $2.00 for each additional
page. http://www.cerc.colostate.edu/Blueprints/Farmbuildings.htm
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/ (North Dakota) http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/Construction1.htm (building
trusses, walls including adobe, pole buildings, straw barn, shed)
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/MISC.htm (Iike the
Miscellaneous list, old fashioned ice house, ice packed in sawdust,
slaughter house with cooler and smokeroom, root cellar, woodfired water
heater, rabbit hutches, rabbit barn, sugarhouse which would be useful if
the damned acid rain hadn't killed all my sugar maples and probably
yours too. Log lifter should be useful as all log lifters are. hulling
and scarifying machine, sod cutter if you want a quick-fix on pasture
washout areas, evaporator refrigerator if you live in a dry climate,)
http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/vaes/home/agr
(Virginia images, old and new---shelling corn, acorn haystacks,
gambrel-roofed pole barn using round poles, not milled ones. Gambrel
looks nice, adds a lot of room, but I keep thinking about sliding off
the damned thing when it needs roof repair---shed roof doesn't look as
nice but is a damn sight easier to build, safer for maintainance.
And only a brain-damaged farmer would put up a dairy parlor or any other
farm building without using solar heat to dry grain, hay---you really
don't want spontaneous combustion from damp hay
http://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/Extension/ExtPubs/PlanList97.htm (University
of Tennessee building plans including poultry and Pigeons---keep pigeons
in town, they are great scroungers, and goshawks permitting, always come
home to roost, eat, drink, confer with their family and friends.
Greenhouses and pig palaces so you don't have to keep them i the back
bedroom like Gee Gee at Heartwood or his Phoenix Borracho suburb. Hey,
roadside or PYO roadstands too---moke those strawberries in perforated
barrels a lot more profitable. Solar fruit dryer that I haven't looked
at, don't know if it is like the downdrabt Homepower one with a heat
chimney to really draw dry air through veggie and fruit slices. Bunch of
pole barns too, lot of other good plans.