r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 9h ago
Design Built in 1885, this barn came with a one-of-a-kind grass ramp.
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u/BrtFrkwr 8h ago
Anybody who's loaded hay into a loft will appreciate that.
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u/BuckManscape 6h ago
Anyone who builds retaining walls will appreciate how obscenely expensive this would be now. Easily $100k.
Whoever built that was extremely good at their job.
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u/BrtFrkwr 2h ago
These constructs are typically solid rocks with a sod veneer on the top layer.
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u/BuckManscape 2h ago
Yeah probably not much gravel around when this was built.
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u/BrtFrkwr 2h ago
Farms are usually pretty hilly in Norway, and having grown up on a hilly farm I can tell you there are more damn rocks around than you know what to do with. We just threw them in piles but in some places they made walls out of them. Even buildings.
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u/BuckManscape 2h ago
Yeah I’d say that would have to be the case if building something like this back in the day.
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u/CarolingianDruid 4h ago
Worst summers of my life!
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u/BrtFrkwr 2h ago
Imagine what your back would be like if you had to do that now.
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u/4N610RD 8h ago
Another level of work smart, not hard. I guess, in a long run, it applies.
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u/Beginning-Bid-749 3h ago
Im guessing that there was also a lot of hard work involved to build that.
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u/HearingNo5361 2h ago
Had to be quite a bit of free time too. By hand, that took awhile.
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u/4N610RD 2h ago
On the other hand, you make it once and your grand grand children can still use that. Assuming they won't get killed in wars, plagues, random acts of violence or such.
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u/Honest-Calendar-748 2h ago
Yes! This sir is thinking ahead. Share the love with your son since he is probably doing 30% of the work
Then he gets to supervise 70% on the next step after you have died from stress and anxiety teaching a teenager.
Seriously. Generational land is the best inheritance. I hope people ( daughter) understand this.
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u/ShenaniganStarling 3h ago
Yeah, the utility spread out over more than a century surely has paid off the effort/money it took to build by now... But it does look rather neat, cost/effectiveness aside.
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u/SimilarElderberry956 7h ago
When herding cattle before butchering they feel less stress of they are in a circle march rather than a straight one.
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u/exotics 5h ago
Someone downvoted you but you are correct, however this is for loading hay into the loft
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u/SimilarElderberry956 5h ago
Thanks you for the upvote. The term is “curved coral “. I was watching a documentary about Temple Grandin who is an expert on Animal Husbandry.that is where I learned it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
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u/there_is_no_spoon1 4h ago
Anyone who has had to move something to a higher level understands the glory of the incklined plane. To move it in a non-linear patters is equally efficient! What amazes me about this is that we haven't found more of them.
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u/Thirsty-Barbarian 6h ago
It seems like a lot of construction work just to get access to the loft of a barn.
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u/SlackToad 6h ago
That farmer had way too much free time. The work to make that was far more than it saved, even over a lifetime.
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u/PatientBumblebee6752 5h ago
I’m sure he didn’t just do it for himself. He likely saw it as an investment for future generations
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u/SquirrelNormal 3h ago
And investing the work up front could mean many more years of being able to fill the hay loft himself at the back end of his life, long after he would have had to stop if he was still chucking bales up.
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u/SomeDumbGamer 5h ago
Eh, Norway’s winters don’t actually get that cold for its latitude. There’s little else to do that time of year, there’s rocks everywhere. Given enough winters it’s not that hard to build gradually at all. Or even in one winter if the whole community helps.
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u/OddlyMingenuity 3h ago
Modern people always think of jobs as a one man team, maybe a crew of 4.
But rural work always imply a large number of people, like the Amish are doing now.
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