As you drive through the country do you often wonder what might be inside the old barns or farm buildings that you pass?
First you must remember that a barn has many functions.
One of those functions is being the farmer’s workshop.
The farmer will usually have a lot of different tools, and they may be in many different sizes. Here is a good example of different sized clamps that a farmer may use. The farmer will often need to be a carpenter along with the many other jobs he must perform.
The farmer must also be a mechanic to keep all of his equipment up and running. This old open end wrench wedged between a couple of boards looks like it may have been accidentally left after completing a job.
Today a farmer may also need to be an electrician. There are more things on a farm that require electricity than you may think. He may need to fix wiring on an irrigation system or perhaps run an electric line to a new pump or separator.
Or, maybe just fix the old wiring that is in his barn. I really love these old ceramic insulators. They bring back memories of helping my dad rewire some old homes in Ottumwa.
It is interesting to see this BT Type Halogen bulb in a very old light socket. I well remember these old ceramic sockets. We had some of them in our basement when I was a kid.
Of course barns are mostly used for storage. The large amount of wall space can be used to hang your galvanized tubs so they are ready to be used. Or maybe just to look cool.
Galvanized tubs hanging on a barn wall can be so beautiful. I remember the many uses we had for galvanized tubs and we didn’t even live on a farm. They can really come in handy, like when you are picking and drying Apricots.
I really like this picture. This was taken on a bright sunny winter day. The sun is lighting up the end of the barn and shining through the slits between the boards. It looks like there are large spaces between the boards, but this is just an illusion. The sun is being diffracted by the slits and they appear much larger. They are actually very tightly spaced and you cannot see between them from the outside.
I hope that you enjoyed this look inside an old barn.
Steven
Braman's Wanderings 
I grew up in suburb BHM (near the airport), but visited relatives (poor dirt farmers) in rural north Alabama near Cullman. I remember exploring their barns. My grandmother had two old maid sisters, who kept their black Model T Ford in their barn. It didn’t have a heater, so they would heat a brick in their pot-bellied stove and wrap it in rags and put it on the floor board. The adjacent farm, where my 2nd cousins lived, was used to store hay in the loft. Both barns were where cows were milked twice a day. My cousins had a truck for hauling stuff; it was parked next to their house. In their barn, a huge horse had its stall; it was their tractor. (I liked to ride it bareback.)
Thanks for reminding me of old barns, which can still be seen with their roof drooping and their sides weathered by neglect, since their former owners died and their children worked and lived many miles away in citities. (As a teenager, I thanked my mother for leaving the farm before she had me. She laughed and told me she did for herself!)
What a delightful set of photographs.