This frame shows the western broad side and the northern face of the barn. All of the stall windows and doors that used to open to the outside were covered up after the barn was renovated in 1995.

This frame shows a close up of one of the barn’s metal ventilators. This barn is large enough that it needs two ventilators.

This frame shows the east side of the barn’s roof.

The foundation for this barn had to be replaced since its’ original construction. Before pouring started, the whole side of the barn had to be lifted and supported.

This frame shows more of the eastern side of the roof and a portion of the southern face of the barn.

The southern face of the barn still has the small door that could have been used for hay bales. The door on the left goes into the western set of stalls that is now the old pig pen. The right door leads into the shop area inside the barn.

The western side of the barn used to be used for pigs up until 2005.

This frame shows the pig pens inside the barn.

The eastern side of the barn is now a shop. This frame shows the tool bench inside.

This frame shows the middle of the barn, which used to be an open area used for storing hay. Now, the shop area can be used as a wash bay (because the Wellers had a drain put in when they lifted the barn to restore the foundation) and a meat processing station. In the back of the shop, the Wellers have their equipment that they use for making pork sausage with the Heisler Lions Club.

Once you step up into the “attic space” above the shop, the space looks much more like a traditional barn. The framing and parts of the hay rack are visible.

This frame shows the metal track for the hay carrier that sits in the peak of the barn’s roof.

This frame shows the loft space above the pig pens (the western set of stalls). The space would have been used to store square bales back before the barn was renovated.

This frame shows the eastern loft space. Square bales would have also been stored here back when the Wellers had dairy cattle.

The Weller’s litter carrier.

This frame shows the south face and the west side of the barn. The metal ventilators on the roof are from the original barn that was built in 1911. The Spiller family took the ventilators off the old barn and reused them on this barn.

The wooden structure in this frame is a cupola.

This frame shows a close up of the metal ventilator.

This frame shows the south end of the barn. What some might see as an addition, the east side of the barn, was actually present on the barn from day one. It is the milk condenser and supply room.

This frame shows a bit of the cattle yard. At one time, the bar was surrounded by fences that would keep the dairy cattle enclosed and close to the barn for milking.

This frame shows a direct view of the east side of the milk condenser/supply rooms. Near the peak of the arched roof, one can see a hole. This hole would have been used to auger chop into the loft for storage.

This frame shows the of the east side of the barn.

The door to the right in this frame is the eastern door of the barn. Denise recalls that the room pictured here was used to store chop.

The next room is just west of the molasses storage room. This room would have held the milk condenser and various other milk processing machinery.

This frame is a view of the entry into the main bar from the condenser/supply rooms. The photo was taken while standing in the walkway between the stalls in the main part of the barn. The staircase up to the loft is seen in the right portion of the frame.

This frame shows the staircase to the loft.

This photo was taken while standing in the middle of the barn at the south end. Some of the western stalls have been converted into concrete and metal bar stalls while most of the eastern stalls are still wooden. The walkway between the two sets of stalls has been leveled. Where there was once an indent in the floor near the stalls, for excrement to drain away, there is now level concrete.

The ventilator chute is branded with Denise’s father’s brand.

The loft floor in this barn was also supported by smaller cross beams.

Many barns have some sort of warning sign about fire for insurance reasons. This barn had a Liberty Fire Extinguisher. It was made in Wawanesa, Manitoba, Canada for the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company. Wawanesa Insurance was the largest fire insurance company in the country for a time. The fire extinguisher uses a dry powder, usually sodium bicarbonate, for extinguishing.

The hay door on the southern face of the main barn is well supported.

The two towers in this frame are the chutes from the wooden cupolas on the roof and are for air circulation.

This barn is unusual because it has an arched shape created by small trusses. Usually, an arched shape in difficult and time consuming to create with trusses. Modern arched roofs are made using glued laminated timbers.

Throughout my visit the original owner of the metal ventilators’ great-great-grandson followed us around. The ventilators were part of the first barn that was built on the property. The boy was especially interested in what we were doing since, in most other cases, he would not be allowed into the barn. He seemed somewhat smitten, at least for the moment.

This frame shows the south face of the barn.

The east face of the barn.

The north face of the barn. This would have been where the expansion of the barn would have occurred.

This frame was taken while going through the door on the eastern side of the barn. The barn has a concrete foundation, a dirt floor, and wooden guides for the door.

The south wall of the barn is where the ladder to climb into the loft is installed.

This frame shows the south half of the stalls. This barn was largely open with only three or four stalls at a time. The posts used to construct this barn are vertical logs.

One of the stalls on the south side was retrofitted to give the farmer a place to tend to cattle using a head gate.

This frame shows the northern half of the barn.

This frame is a nice close up of the techniques used in post and beam construction. This frame was taken above the sliding door on the west side of the barn.

Notice the pencil lines on the beam.

There are many different types of halter holders. This design is very simplistic but does the job very well.

The south face of the barn has doors for throwing hay out of the loft and into the feeding troughs below. Two sets of ladders were installed to allow access to the loft from outside.

This frame shows a bale elevator going into the loft from the west side of the barn.

This frame shows the door on the south face of the barn. This door opens up into the northern stall with the cattle gate.

Inside the loft the square bales that are brought up by the elevator can be stacked and stored.

The gambrel roof beams are supported by posts since there are no trusses.

This frame shows the loft’s hay rack machinery that is installed in the peak of the roof. The pulley system, the track, and the loft door are visible. Someone put a metal wire through the pulley to keep the loft door shut.

This frame shows a view of the trapdoor that is in the loft and leads to the ladder to the ground level. There are a few holes in the loft floor that allow hay to be thrown down to the ground floor. With all the hay covering the doors, one must be careful where they step.

This frame was taken from the west loft door on the south end of the barn looking out into the yard. The ladder that one must climb down can be seen slightly in the bottom right corner of the frame. Luckily, there is a bit of a fence on the ground to separate “man from beast”.

This frame shows the south and east faces of the barn. There is a Canadian centennial star on the east face of the barn.

This frame gives a closer look at the centennial star and the hay hood on the east face of the barn.

This view of the south face of the barn shows the unique three pane windows, the falling eaves, and the entry route for power into the barn. The door on this face gives entry to the walkway in front of the dairy cattle stalls.

This frame shows the west face of the barn. The upper left portion of the frame shows where a chunk of the metal sheeting has blow off the roof.

This photo was taken from the entrance on the south side of the barn. This photo looks east at the area in front of the dairy cattle stalls and the staircase going up to the loft.

The stalls had head gates to hold the cattle while milking and a vacuum system to run the milking machine. The cross member with attached pipe in this photo is part of the vacuum system.

The door in the right side of this frame is the door on the east face of the bar. The room pictured here was for storing feed and milking equipment.

This frame shows a closer picture of the staircase going up into the loft.

The loft floor uses wooden tongue-and-groove planks.

The staircase had a trapdoor lip and a brace to keep it open.

Inside the staircase room there was a hand carved wooden chute for transferring grains.

Also inside the staircase room was the hay rack sling that was used to carrying the square bales.

The backside of the loft’s hay door was visible from within the loft.

This frame shows the southern half of the barn’s roof.

This frame gives a close-up of the posts in the loft of the barn.

This frame shows the southern face and western side of the Streich barn.

This frame was taken directly from the South.

This frame shows the southern face and eastern side of the barn.

This barn has five lightning rods and one cupola. Edwin Streich remembers when the cupola blew off the roof during a strong storm. He decided that he would repair it and then reinstalled it on the barn.

The barn sits on a concrete foundation and has a concrete floor on the ground level.

Many of the stalls in this barn still have the mangers installed.

The manger in the pigs’ stall still has the wooden guides for hay to be dropped down from the loft into the manger.

This frame shows two of the eastern stalls. The Streichs now store their firewood here. It has proven to be a great area to cure the fresh wood and then store it until use.

Just off the southern door and to the eastern are the staircase to the loft and the chop storage room, the latter of which is pictured here. The chop room has a funnel that was used to bring the chop inside the room using an auger and a hammermill.

This frame shows the staircase to the loft. The wall on the right side of this photo is the southern wall of the barn and the wall on the left side of this photo is the chop storage room.

The large loft doors in this barn are double swinging doors. Usually the large loft door is a single door that folds down to the ground in order to operate the hay track. The doors on this barn were most likely installed because there was no hay track. Linda Streich told me that most times the family would load bales into the loft through the small door just below the two large swinging doors. They would toss the bales up into the loft before they acquired a bale elevator.

The northern side of the barn usually deteriorates faster than the rest of the barn. This is because the sun does not reach the northern face. With no light to dry the dampness, from dew and rain, the north side is more susceptible to slow deterioration.

The rafters in the loft support the roof. A roof with two slopes created by rafters is called a gambrel. This barn has a gambrel roof.

This frame shows the south and west faces of the barn. The tables in front of the barn are makeshift plots for starting plant seedlings.

This frame shows the south face of the barn. This barn hay both a hay hood and a hay track for loading loose hay into the center of the barn with a hay carrier. The barn used to have two doors on each face (north and south) for entry into the east and west sides of the barn. Now only one exists on both faces.

This frame shows the south and east faces of the barn. This barn has a bonnet style roof which is created by the two shed like structures. The two “sheds” are essential for the barns structural integrity and are part of the original construction.

The east side of the barn used to look exactly like the west side. John Feddema had the east side adjusted so that he could feed cattle there. He removed some of the walls and stalls which created a parade of arches to form a shaded arcade on the east side.

This frame shows the east door on the south face of the barn. The hallway in this frame runs between the old dairy cow stalls and the hay storage area.

The natural light in this frame is due to the covered arcade pictured on the right side of this frame.

This doorway leads into the middle of the barn where hay was stored.

This frame was taken from the previous doorway and is of the south wall inside the barn. The white sheets hanging in this frame used to cover the seedlings the Feddema’s planted to protect them during winter. The large loft door in this barn is very unique. The upper part of the door used to fold down with the use of pulleys so that the rest of the door could open inward.

After square bales became popular, the Feddema’s used bale elevators to bring bales into the barn through the smaller loft doors.

This frame shows the east half of the barn. Above both sets of stalls there is plenty of loft space. John Feddema guesses that the space was used as a covered storage area in the times before square bales. Later on the lofts were both used for square bales. John Feddema remembers the barn being stuffed full of strategically placed bales.

This frame shows the east and some of the south faces of the barn. Each side of the barn has one ventilator chute that runs from ground level up to the metal ventilator on the roof. The ventilator allows air to circulate within the barn which is very beneficial in the winter. Also in this picture, one can observe the timbers used to frame the barn. Wondrously, the timbers are all single pieces of wood from floor to ceiling. The trees felled to make them must have been giants.

Without the air circulation, keeping livestock inside the barn is more difficult. In the winter livestock within the barn create a lot of heat and humidity. If a barn has a metal ventilator or a wooden cupola, then the humidity can exit the barn through the roof without compromising the heat within the barn. This protects the barn from deterioration by moisture and economizes feed use.

This frame shows the peak of the barn’s roof. The chutes meet in the peak to allow air to exit through the ventilator. As well, the hay track is still present in the peak with a section of the original rope. Also, you can see where the Feddema family had to install steel cables in the rafters to keep the barn from falling over.

This frame was taken from the western doorway while looking north into the horse stalls. The floor in the western stalls is both concrete and wood. The wooden planks, seen in this frame, ran on the ground in front of the stalls and within the stalls.

Overview of the barn showing the northern side and eastern face.

A close up of the painted date, the metal ventilator, the hay hood, and the lightning rods. The wooden siding and shingles are more visible in this frame.

A close up of the metal ventilator and weather vane.

The northern face of the barn has an outline of a what must have once been an attached shed and part of the hay rack machinery.

This frame is a close up of the pulley that runs the hay rack. A rope would have run out here and been attached to a horse or tractor to run the other pulleys inside the loft.

Breaker box and plug-ins on the outside north facing wall. The paint line around the old addition is visible.

This frame shows the western face of the barn.

The view from the middle of the barn looking West into the northern stalls.

The mangers in the barn were cut in order to give cattle the ability to eat out of them. They were built for horses and, therefore, used to be too tall for cattle.

The floor inside the barn is mostly dirt and manure. It appears that at one point there may have been a concrete lip before the stalls started or a concrete slab for the stall timbers to lay on. These timbers could have been replaced back in the day if they wore out with use.

This frame shows the last stall on the north-eastern side of the barn. This stall is smaller than the others and also has a chute in it. It appears that a chute was created to allow feed to be augured through the window into the area under the staircase. Nathan Eshpeter remembers that his dog used to crawl into the space at various times of the year for protection.

Inside the loft light shines through the rafters on the north-western side of the barn. In the peak of the roof are parts of the hay rack.

A close up of parts of the hay rack. The rope would exit the hole to the right (not pictured in this frame) and be attached to a horse or tractor to run the pulley system.

This frame shows the eastern face of the barn, the door that must be opened so that the bales can be brought up to the loft, and other aspects of the hay track.

This frame showcases the main pulley for the hay track.

The roof on this barn has an arched shape. This is due to the use of glued timbers. This was a very early attempt at a practice that is now very common today. These timbers are actually thicker than what you would find today but the builders were successful with their design and the building has held up quite well.

This frame shows the main barn and the addition. The furthest door to the left in this frame was for accessing the pigs and the backside of the milking cows while they were in their stalls. The door second from the left was for reaching the head of the cow and placing food in the manger. The door to the loft above the addition can be seen above the window of the addition. The ground floor, middle door on the main barn gives access to the old walkway between stalls and to the staircase to go upstairs into both lofts. Either of the side doors on the main barn gave access to the rear of the horse stalls. The loft floor starts approximately just above the ground level windows.

This side view shows the metal roof, the barn’s metal ventilators, and the side access into the barn.

This frame shows the eastern side of the barn’s roof.

This frame shows the northern face of the barn.

This frame shows a close up of the barn’s roof from the south. This frame shows the hay hood which covers the hay track.

This frame is a close up of the middle door on the south face of the main barn. One can see how the doors are split to allow air circulation and light without risking livestock escape. Stan Chevraux opens the split door for a demonstration.

This frame shows the walkway between the two sides of the main barn. The corridor would have been wider when there were still intact horse stalls in the barn. However, now the walkway is narrower because of the timbers that were installed in order to use the barn as a the granary.

A close up of an aspect of frame 7. This notice was posted as required by the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company of Wawanesa, Manitoba. Wawanesa Insurance was the largest fire insurance company in Canada at the a time.

Another fire notice; however, this one is posted to your left when you go up the staircase.

This frame shows the southern face of the main barn and an aspect of the hay track. The staircase is just to the right but is out of view in this frame.

This frame shows a broader scope of the loft above the main barn. There is a hay rack in the peak of the roof used to help bring bales in for storage. The roof was built using trusses and that creates the gambrel roof shape. In contrast if this barn was constructed today, it would most likely be built with glued laminated timbers and be an arched roof.

This frame shows a close up of the trusses used to construct the roof.

This is the view from the main loft into the space above the addition which housed cattle and pigs. This attic is now used to store some old parts and construction materials.

This is the view from the main loft into the space above the addition. The door in this frame is on the south face of the addition.

Back on ground level we open the south-west door on the main barn. This gives us access to the back aisles on the horse stalls of the main barn. This area used to be used for grain storage as well.

The granary/horse stall area is used for storage now. These fence poles are being held between the front of the horse stalls and the wooden timbers which line the center walk-way.

This frame shows the inside of the granary/horse stall area. The furthest wall in this photo is the north side of the barn while the wall coming towards us is the west side of the main barn.

This frame shows the rest of the granary/horse stall area to the north. This area would have been the main aspect of the western set of horse stalls in the main barn.

This frame shows the view from the most eastern door on the south face of the addition. The left side of this photo is where the pigs were housed and the right side is where the milk cow stalls were. The far wall in the middle of this photo has the names “Ed” and “Joe” and the year “1941” painted on it. On the other side of that painted wall is a storage room for feed, tools, etcetera. The stone boat in the middle of the room was used for hauling manure out of the barn and was kept inside of the barn in the wintertime to keep it from freezing.

The walkway between the two areas would have given someone access to the pigs for feeding and the backsides of the cows for milking.

The pig pen had little head space due to the slanting roof and used whole trees for fencing and roofing material.

The addition’s roof is in poor condition and has partly collapsed.

After Grant and his son, Scott, had taken an interest in restoring barns, they set out to find a new barn for their property. This photo is of the Jackson’s old barn while they were tearing it down. The old barn was very small and the wood had rotted out.

This is a photo of the foundation the Jackson’s had poured for their new barn to sit on.

The Jackson’s found a barn south of Forestburg and bought it.

Moving the barn cost around 5000 dollars in 1996.

Some power lines needed to be moved in order to get the barn down the road.

The first thing Grant Jackson did when the barn was finally set and stable in his yard was rebuilt the cupolas. Later in the year, they would be installed and this photo was taken.

The north side of the barn was very worn from the weather. As such, the Jacksons resided the north face of the barn. Grant could not find any fir siding to match the original siding. Instead they special ordered this drop siding and installed it in 1996.

The siding was painted red and new double pane windows were installed. A few years after 1996 a wind storm went through and blew the cupolas off the roof. Grant Jackson repaired them once again and reinstalled them.

The barn on the right side of the photo is the original barn that rotted and was torn down.

This photo is of the Jackson farm yard in 1954. The barn on the left side of the photo is the original barn that rotted out. The barn on the right side was for pigs and is now gone.

This photo is of the Jackson farm in the early 2010s. The barn in this photo is the Mallet’s old barn which was moved and relaid in 1996.

This frame shows the east and south faces of the barn. The two cupolas on the roof of the barn were restored by Grant Jackson.

This frame shows the east side and north face of the barn. The windows on this barn are not the originals. The old ones were replaced with double pane rectangular windows.

This frame shows the northern face and western side of the barn. The Jackson’s installed a door on the western side of the barn in order to create an office for their alpaca farm.

This frame shows the view looking south from the north door of the barn. The interior of the barn was completely renovated. All of the stalls were removed and some siding was put up to protect the walls. This was done because the barn was used for alpacas in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The following pictures are of pieces of equipment that Grant Jackson plans on using for display in his future museum. Right now he and Scott are working on restoring them as a hobby.

This tractor is a three-wheel tractor. Grant says Scott got it in California.

This frame shows a wooden pipe and pump for a water well.

This frame shows one of the many different types of hay hooks Grant has acquired.

This frame was taken standing at the north end of the barn and it is of the south face of the barn. This barn has a hay track in the rafters and is one of a few barns that has the original rope for the hay track.

This frame shows the standing platform on the south face of the barn. This would allow the owner to fix and operate the hay carrier.

This frame is of the east side of the roof. It shows more of the original rope for the hay track and some of the roof framing. Sets of trusses and supports create a gambrel shape and have allowed the roof to stay strong and steady through the years.

The siding on this barn is wooden shiplap.

Grant Jackson is an avid collector and restorer of hay carriers, antique tools, and farm equipment. Pictured here are just three of the hay carriers that he has personally acquired and restored.

The hay carriers that Grant Jackson buys look like this upon purchase. He sandblasts them to clean them and then hand-paints them.

This frame shows the barn carrier from Grant Jackson’s barn. Many different markings are welded onto it. One of the most interesting phrases is the date specifying the age of the piece: Aug. 11, (19)08.

The day that I visited the Jackson farm was a momentous day. It was the day that Grant Jackson was installing his windmill, a three-year project.

Grant will set the windmill so that it pumps water out of the nearby pond. This will mean that visitors will be able to see how an old-fashioned windmill used to work.

The fans on Grant’s windmill are wooden and he got them from a dealer out of Texas, USA.

This frame shows the western face of the barn and the outbuildings. The closest outbuilding is the chicken coop with a small room for storing feed and other supplies while the next outbuilding is an enclosed outside area for cattle that also has a small room for storage.

Close up of the chicken coop with a small portion of the storage room seen on the far left of this frame.

Remnants of nesting boxes.

This frame shows the covered area for cattle with built-in storage on the west side of the building (the left side of the building where the small door is).

View of the main barn. The windows are boarded up to keep grain inside and a ladder was installed in order to inspect grain. Both of these features are remnants from the time when the barn was used as a granary.

View of the main barn from the south. The western side of the barn was used for horses while the eastern side was used for cows. There used to be a horse silhouette made out of strips of wood on the western door of the south facing side of the main barn (the door on the left of the broad face of the barn in this frame).

The beams and the anchors for the steel wire, used to keep the building from bursting under the pressure of the grain, are visible in this frame.

The painted number “36” is faintly visible. Numbering bins helps farmers keep track of their crop once it is stored in the granary.

The hay hood and the hay track can be seen in this frame. The addition is also more clearly visible.

One of the north doors. This one is for entry into the cattle side of the barn via the attached shed.

Alterations were made to the entry so that grain could be stored inside of the barn.

This frame was taken from the north-east entry door and it shows the view inside of the east side of the main barn.

This frame shows the north side of the barn. Once again, you can see boarded up windows and anchors for the steel wire.

The northern side of the main barn, of the cow shed, and of the chicken coop.

This frame shows the view from the north side entry. The enclosed area to the right of the ladder has the remnants of the west horse stalls. The enclosed area has the other half of the horse stalls and the walkway between the two sets of stalls.

The floor is a mixture of concrete, wood, and stone.

The west horse stalls. The stall walls have been taken out and the area has been boarded up for grain storage. The mangers, one feed chute, and some left over grain can be seen in this frame.

The view from the ladder looking up into the loft. The loft door in this photo is for the east end of the barn.

Many steel braces, to keep the building from falling down, can be seen in this frame.

The roof on this barn is a gambrel, meaning it has two slopes on each side of the roof. This is caused by the rafters that were used to construct the roof.

One of the two chutes over the western horse stalls. This particular chute was seen in frame 19.

The second chute heading into the western horse stalls. This chute is on the northern side of the barn.

This frame shows the first floor, eastern set of horse stalls. The actual horse stalls would have started at the posts and ran back to the east wall. You can orient yourself with the knowledge that the tack holder in this picture runs east-west. As said earlier, the stalls were dismantled in order to create an open space for grain. The concrete floor has an indent, which was for drainage of excrement, leading us to conclude that the walkway between the two sets of stalls ran north-south. The door on the right edge of this frame used to have a horse decoration on it that was made out of cut wooden strips. The wall of timbers on the right side of this frame separates the two granaries and also the two sides of horse stalls.

This frame is the view from the north of the backside of the main barn, covered cattle area, and the chicken coop.

This frame shows where the main barn and the cow shed join. The stone foundation that supports the barn is also visible.