Junction Farm (BESTTrains kits)

[Bernd]

It's a little detail, but the pulley will explain that door 'hanging in midair' on the terrain.


dave

Didn't they use the pulley and door to get hay/straw into the upper part of the barn? It is a neat little detail. Now all you need is a rope and some kind of hook on the other end.

The shingles look great. The color and unevenness make it really good looking.

Bernd

[deemery]

I've been thinking about fishing a rope through the pulley.  I did drill out the hole so I could do that.  But then I'd have the typical modeler problem of how to make a piece of thread look like a rope.  

The shingles are Bar Mills, slightly worked over.  I described that a couple pages back.  

dave

[KentuckySouthern]

Nice looking barn.  I also checked in a page or so back, Credible Critters too!

[deemery]

Ok, a question for you 'teamsters' out there.

The hay wagon rolls up the slope underneath the pulley, and they start unloading.  But how does the hay wagon get out of there?  Would the teamster back the wagon down?  There's not enough room to turn the wagon.  Or, the teamster could back the wagon up the hill.   

I'm thinking "pull-up the full wagon, back-down the empty wagon," but I know nothing about managing a team of horses.

Anyway, the plan here is to spray that part of the grass mat and remove most of the grass, and then put road-dirt in place.  

dave

[KentuckySouthern]

Not sure the designer of that barn kit had any experience with 1:1 farming, just mho.  That end of the barn should be at a higher fill, the hay entrance a higher level.

Most barns stored the hay on a higher level inside the barn and the loading equipment often was on "trolley's" that ran the inside of the peak of the barn. Here is more info than you would ever hope to know, https://haytrolleyheaven.com/hay-trolley-basics/what-is-a-hay-trolley/  I really enjoyed that, hope it helps.  Or not. 

[deemery]

Here are pictures of the prototype (from BESTTrains website)

There's no pulley on the prototype, but that door hanging in mid-air on the wall is definitely in the prototype.  There's more space on the prototype to turn a wagon than I have.

Mebbe there was a hay door in the gable where the window is now, and I should have put the pulley right under the eave.

Anyway, thanks for the 'hay trolley' link.  Interesting stuff!  Now I need to figure out what to put on the running end if I add the rope to the pulley.



dave

[KentuckySouthern]

Can't see the image.

[deemery]

Can't see the image.

You know the 'rule', wait 10 minutes. It's the picture of 'hay forks' from that link you provided.

dave

[Jerry]

The second one from the left looks dangerous to me!! 

Jerry