#13: Spring Hill Ranch Barn Tour Stop 3: Main Floor
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English - April 20, 2020 04:00 - 59 seconds - 1.13 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNature Science History nature culture tallgrass prairie history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
History and description of Main Floor inside the Spring Hill Ranch Barn at Tallgrass Prairie NPres
Historic Spring Hill Ranch Barn Main Floor
The main floor of the barn, which used to store wagons, plows, harnesses, and other equipment and vehicles useful on the Spring Hill Ranch. In the 1940s the barn was modified to accommodate modern uses. On the barn's western side, a grain dump and auger were installed to move grain and feed, dumped by trucks entering the barn's west side, into four, 1,000 bushel storage bins on the upper floor. On the barn's eastern side, steel I-beams were installed to support the new storage bins. Small augers were installed to move the grain and feed into trucks entering the barn's east side. Finally, the floors on both sides of the barn were strengthened to carry the extra weight of the incoming feed trucks.