Exploring A Pre Civil War Era Bank Barn With Surprising Discoveries

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2 жыл бұрын

Today we explore an old pre Civil War era limestone bank barn not far from the waters of the Potomac River in Maryland. It's a huge barn with a lot of history, a good solid roof, and huge wooden beams. This barn also has a VERY unique wood silage silo with the wooden planks wrapped around the inside and outside of the structure. I explain how silos work and also explore the entire stone and wood barn. There is a really creepy discovery on the bottom level, but that will have to wait for a separate video.
Video of strange room located beneath the wood silo: • Barn Door Leads To Cre...
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@Snarkapotamus 2 жыл бұрын

This really takes me back. My parents bought a farm in the mid-60s in upstate NY that had a barn every bit as big as this one. Actually, it was in the shape of an L and banked on 3 sides. The house was built in 1842 and the barn a few years later. It still had the hay hooks, pulleys, tracks and the 2" hemp ropes used to pull the hay across the barn. All pegged (and probably Chestnut) and so absolutely cool for a 10-year old kid to climb around in/on. And that incredibly sweet smell of freshly cut hay will never leave me as long as I live...

@nobaloneymahoney7940 2 жыл бұрын

That would have been my dream. I was almost swinging on those strong ropea that don't rot and felt 10 again. This is a great channel and only $5 for Patreon.

@delphinabunter1469 2 жыл бұрын

It is a smell hard to describe but oh so sweet. Hated the hard work of hay carting and stacking. Blister’s on my hand’s, my back and shoulder’s so sore I just wanted to lay down and die. I still have problem’s with my back to this very day.

@Snarkapotamus 2 жыл бұрын

@@delphinabunter1469 - We'd put in 1000's of bales of hay each summer and for me, it was my forearms. They'd get scratched up and itchy. That and being on the receiving end of the elevator in the top of the hay mow on super hot days...

@three6ohchris 2 жыл бұрын

A comment/addition about the silo (or silos in general, I suppose): The reason they unload it from top to bottom isn't just because it's technically easier for them... It's also done that way because they want to keep the grain, or corn, or haylage, or silage (whatever is in there), packed down so oxygen doesn't get to it. When oxygen eventually gets to the material, it starts becoming moldy and inedible for the animals. So the idea is that if they are able to time it just right, they're able to feed it out to the animals with the materials on top that have been exposed to the oxygen fast enough that it doesn't get moldy or ruined before they can use it in their feed mix.

@jessechristian8665 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@martinsimon4025 2 жыл бұрын

In Norway,when silos where introduced to the farmers,it was used to ensilage hey with addition of formic acid.Its a way of storing hey in a smaller space.When they had filled the silo and sprayed the acid over it they had a tarpauling over it and up the sides a little.That "basin" would then be filled with water to press it all together to create more space.This had to be done and the silo had to be filled and ready by autumn before the frost set in.During winter they had a hell of hard work to hack out the hard compressed ensilated hey to feed the animals.

@zekesgirl100 2 жыл бұрын

I’d give almost anything to have big barn like that again. It hurts to see them in disrepair.

@daveparnell3886 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Chig,I've really been enjoying these barn walk through videos that you've been doing lately im on the west coast and we just don't have barns like these. We do have big barns just nothing this old. Thanks again for all the work you put in to produce these videos ! 😊

@rikspector 2 жыл бұрын

Chigg, When I was a kid back in New Jersey , my neighbor had 165 acres and a big Barn and barn like garage. I helped bail and store hay a few times and it was back breaking work. Today they don't make those rectangular bales , roll and warp them in some rain proof material and they sit in the fields drying before their collected. The workmanship and solidity of those old Lancaster, Pa type barns is amazing and is the size of the lumber and the cut marks across all the wood including that wonderful wood silo! Great place, you give a lot of tribute to it! Cheers, Rik Spector

@three6ohchris 2 жыл бұрын

I imagine that anybody who grew up in an agricultural area, grew up on a farm, or just worked on or around farms as a kid is more than familiar with the smells that you were talking about. It brings back so many memories when I drive past a farm I can get a big ol' whiff of all the different smells that come from it. I know this might be weird to some people, but one of my favorite smells on a farm is the smell of silage. When it's that good high quality stuff, it's great. Talk about a flood of memories rushing back into my mind when I smell it. I also tend to love the smell of a burning field (which, thanks to stupid regulations, they've made it harder and harder to find an area where they're able to burn their field), or when they burn the big piles of leaves in the fall. It's amazing how a scent can bring back so many emotions and memories.

@AdamosDad 2 жыл бұрын

In Decatur County, Indiana there is a restored totally round barn. The family uses it for parties and a just a fun place, filled with antiques. Thank you Chigg for the tour of this historic barn.

@aquachigger 2 жыл бұрын

This was a fun barn explore! Any questions about what you see? Special thanks to all of my supporters over on Patreon! Follow Chigg’s Army! My Patreon: www.patreon.com/aquachigger Instagram: instagram.com/aquachigger/ Facebook: facebook.com/chiggsarmy/ Twitter: twitter.com/BeauOuimette T-Shirts: www.bonfire.com/store/aquachigger/ Thanks for watching…. The Chigg

@r8kff853 2 жыл бұрын

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@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756 2 жыл бұрын

I'm in Ohio and there's plenty of Amish built bank barns. if there's a pond or a fair sized depression near the barn that may be where they soaked the boards to build the silo. steam bending them took too long so cutting the planks then stacking them in water would prep them for bending. and that still was some kind of job. once you got past the half way point you had to use a pulley to hold the boards in place for nailing. I was hoping you'd go down in the sump. if I were going to stash something I didn't want found it would be under 100 tons of feed. love doing barn explores there's not only relics but the craftsmanship is Amazing! Thanks Beau! great tour👍🇺🇸

@ranmarch6768 2 жыл бұрын

And the boards were tongue and grooved to make the silo more weather proof.

@tysonkilroy5042 2 жыл бұрын

Those “scratch marks” on the sides of the silo are most likely from pitch forks when they would have to scrape old stuck on silage off the sides of the silo.

@nancyanneberg403 Жыл бұрын

The music at the end! What is i??! Thank you for the best barn tours ever.

@harrisonmantooth3647 2 жыл бұрын

Howdy, from North Idaho Beau. I've enjoyed watching these barn tours Beau. With me living in the Western part of the country, this series has shown me things I've missed in real life. My father used to work part time at a couple of dairies when I was young. With 6 children in the family, the extra money sure helped out. Like you, I have a strong memory of the Alfalfa smell. At our local hardware store, they have bales of hay/alfalfa out front. I've often stopped to smell that Timothy Alfalfa. It brings back memories for me when I'd go with dad to feed the cows. Thanks again Beau. Stan in North Idaho

@Simon_de_Cornouailles 2 жыл бұрын

I want to know more about that 'barn octopus'..

@willyoung4512 2 жыл бұрын

It's just all the baling twine that is cut from the square bales before feeding the bales to the cattle.

@bleirdo_dude 2 жыл бұрын

They are on the endangered species list.

@keithmaxwell2169 2 жыл бұрын

Back in the day they built this Barn They Built Everything to last, That's why so many are still Around, The Way Things are Built Now it Will Never Last as long as that has, Thanks for the Tour Chigg

@a_zombie_killaonpsn1572 2 жыл бұрын

Greetings from north west central earth

@Objective-Observer 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, for all the archetcture and historic buildings you share with us. The scratches on the wood silo, that's just rats and mice. I've watched them scale walls with ese.

@farmerbill6855 2 жыл бұрын

That, or more likely a mechanical silo unloader.

@Objective-Observer 2 жыл бұрын

@@farmerbill6855 Another possiblity.

@at7045 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking they were from cleaning off dried buildup with some type of tool.

@slimwantedman6694 2 жыл бұрын

Good evening from Southeast South Dakota

@christybeene9232 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the tour of the barn. I love old barns. When I was a kid I would stay with my grandparents in the country and spent a lot of time in their barns and hope on horses bare back and take off through the woods to the creek to go swimming. My cousins still have the land that is shared by us all . Barns aren’t in good condition anymore and the house got burned down but we do still have the land and the creek ( it’s called The Bap Hole because people would get baptized in it long ago). Thanks for the tour and I can’t wait until the mystery room you will show in another video! 😀✌️

@theanxious Жыл бұрын

Those cat prints in the concrete were AWESOME! One of my favorite finds EVER is an early 1800s style brick with a very light and small human hand print on one side. I suspect it was a child, possibly even an enslaved person. I found it in a creek next to an old millsite from the early 1800s, so I reckon thats what it came from. Ive found lots of other bricks there, but none with any prints. I really enjoyed this look at this old barn too!

@mwindanji6714 2 жыл бұрын

You forgot one important part of that silo ... putting a few unglazed jugs in before the silage goes in. Lol @ trying to describe the smell of hay :::sneeze::: :::sneeze::: Not so many chestnut trees these days 😪. Wall niches usually for curry combs n brushes ... syringes .... band stretchers. And a bottle or two of something to sterilize. I grew up with a bank barn. Can still smell the memories. Thanks, Chig, for the upload and the warm fuzzy memories of sore muscles, bruises, chopping ice, nipple buckets and the smell of warm milk replacer.

@beverlyhanlon8376 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour. Enjoyed it.

@atthatmomentinthelandbetwe4483 2 жыл бұрын

love these old barns. ours here in Ontario Canada were built similarly, our silo was a square one. then we dug out a bank and made silage there. you could drive the tractor on it to pack it tight. the curved corner may have been for steering the cows out of the door. also protecting the corner stones from constant nudging from a heavy animal

@EZDiggin 2 жыл бұрын

Old barns are so beautiful. Thanks for the tour Chigg.

@bettyboop4263 2 жыл бұрын

Great information. I could smell the hey from here🌸👍👍

@alabamadixiediggers4714 2 жыл бұрын

Totally awesome wooden silo. Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE

@dalepeirce5932 2 жыл бұрын

That's a really neat barn. Thanks Chig for that video. Can't wait to see the creepy room.

@chrysanthepaxinos2839 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! That reminds me of a farm on Darnstown(?) Rd near Gaithersburg MD where I lived a couple of years 2011-2013. Ya gave me a start there! Beautiful old barns built so well they are still standing. It was a marker for me on that route. Thanks for the informative vid.

@frankforrest1597 2 жыл бұрын

Great explore Chigg. So many memories of my youth, summers spent on my uncles farm. Nothing like pitching hay; soaked in sweat and all the chaff sticking to ya, the smell of the freshly bailed alfalfa/ timothy, and the gallons of ice tea or lemon aid afterwards. Thanks Beau 👍

@janetdoten9908 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Great that it's been kept up! Thanks for sharing

@richardwarnock2789 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up on a farm great memories after the chores were done thanks Beau !!

@jims.2572 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour and your knowledge.

@4speed3pedals 2 жыл бұрын

Than you for the barn tour. Adding your experience to the video was very informative. My thought on the curved wall in the corner is that it was done for greater structural integrity. The curve would keep the corners from splitting as it receives shear forces from mainly 2 directions.

@michaelmotorcycle1789 2 жыл бұрын

Thats wild! Very cool!

@jerryhuntjj2885 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome barn and silo. Thanks for the tour

@casachezdoom2588 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! Brings back memories of playing around the farm when visiting my grandparents

@calliecooke1817 2 жыл бұрын

That is one cool barn. Never seen a round wooden silo with horizontal planks. It's not really hard to bend them, but goodnight, it's time consuming. There's no doubt, putting up square bales in the loft, in Virginia, in summer, is the most miserable job I've ever done. Hot, sweaty, dusty. Spitting black for two days. Plus, green hay bales ain't quail eggs. I put on tin roofs in Maryland/D.C. I think I prefer a July day on a tin roof to a July day in a hay loft. LOL. Thanks.

@DOLLYDAGGER321 2 жыл бұрын

Another fabulous presentation of a piece of history long gone.

@dropnoelfield295 2 жыл бұрын

The barn you showed previously was the first barn of this type that I have ever seen. This was a wonderful follow-up and I enjoyed the show immensely. Thank you so much.

@loriward5512 2 жыл бұрын

That was awesome! Thanks for sharing

@robertb4969 2 жыл бұрын

It’s so awesome that thing is still around.. In pretty good shape too.. a lot of houses built not even 70 years ago are in worse repair than that 150-170 year old barn..

@HokieJuju 2 жыл бұрын

This was an AWESOME tour of these barns & silos from the days of yesteryear!!!! Thank u Chigg for doing this video & sharing this historical beauty with us!!!! Very very cool!!! I absolutely love old barns!!! Also, I must say u scored even more points (if that’s even possible) in my book with that Hokie stone fireplace u have!!!! U just can’t beat the r look of legit Hokie stone!!!! U r a walking encyclopedia of knowledge & I love watching & learning from your videos!!!!

@FatManChubz 2 жыл бұрын

I love watching your vids Chig!!!

@Lindblomfamily1973 2 жыл бұрын

It makes me sad every time I see one of these old barns fall down. They're getting to be a rarity. We have a few round barns here in Minnesota.

@henrys3629 2 жыл бұрын

You can blame Hugh Mann.

@ferrallderrall6588 2 жыл бұрын

My pa yarded one over with the tractor at one of the older farms in the area,had to go though must have been eaten away,wood silo was old 40 years ago

@ferrallderrall6588 2 жыл бұрын

Was a silo ,not quite the sama as the round barn

@MayaPosch 2 жыл бұрын

While I get why so many of these barns are left to rot - they're essentially obsolete and require a lot of maintenance - it's still extremely sad to see such examples of history just fade away like that. Our own farm and the others in the village (Netherlands) had some older sections as well, but keeping old barns around rarely made much sense, so there were very few around. Let alone any that are as beautiful as these bank barns. Rather wish they were a thing were I grew up. They feel like a child's dream :)

@ferrallderrall6588 2 жыл бұрын

@@MayaPosch I'm with you on that maya ,shame they are obsolete

@seastheday2020 2 жыл бұрын

Love the old wooden silo!

@mikemaxwell2591 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent information and a look at what most will never see. Thanks, and be well.

@WMAJ6 2 жыл бұрын

Great tour! It brings back a lot of memories of hot, humid summer days in central Maryland putting away 100 lb. bales of clover hay in my grandfather's barn. His barn had many of the same features as this one including the fragrant smell of new hay. That stone foundation looks like the type of stacked limestone that one can find along the creek bed of Antietam Creek in Washington county. Can't wait to see what is in that "special" room!

@johnnyphillips9735 2 жыл бұрын

Good video mr chigg thanks for sharing 👍

@rickyb2200 2 жыл бұрын

Another interesting barn. Thanks Chigg

@lindy952 2 жыл бұрын

One of your best! Thks

@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630 2 жыл бұрын

What fun! It truly was an adventure! Thank you Chig for your masterful job of walking us through this beautiful barn! I am so grateful it's been preserved! ...no never have been in s bank barn. Nobody could build craftsmanship barns like the Prnnsylvania Deutsch!

@scottjunge5992 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chigg 😊

@Sigsen 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely old barn, feels like the kind of thing my grandmother would tell me about

@johnjohnson96 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, this brings back memories, I grew up on a farm 50-58 years ago.

@chriscondon6426 2 жыл бұрын

I love your fireplace and the rocks in front of it.

@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm 2 жыл бұрын

What an extraordinary barn. I hope it gets loving care and preservation. We had a barn with the hay lift, in Upstate NY. As kids, we'd climb the ladder, grab the rope and ride the track out as far as we could, then let go and drop into the hay. Thanks for bringing back the memories!

@mattbyrne1822 2 жыл бұрын

Very educational video thank for sharing your knowledge 👍👍

@luke8210 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool. Definitely no big barns like that in southern Arizona. Thanks chigg. I like these kinds of videos.

@patrickhartman6818 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you chigg

@oleradiodudea.m.4735 2 жыл бұрын

Great trip down Memory Lane! Those old barns were build to last. Wow those beams!!!

@rondathiesen9317 2 жыл бұрын

Oh boy that was so neat! Love the old barns and silos! T4S Chigg! Beautiful! God Bless!👍😘

@TheStwat 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting vid. Than you.

@mcspankie2010 2 жыл бұрын

that is one beautiful barn a work of art

@thurin84 2 жыл бұрын

cool old barn! i have many happy memories of playing in barns.

@IratePuffin 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool old barn!

@Bad_Chad 2 жыл бұрын

Good tour.

@Bee_Charming 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome barn!

@stevethetiler4913 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting beautiful old barn , nice one m8

@pappysproductions 2 жыл бұрын

I love these beautiful barns

@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh so evocative I can smell.the hay!! ..I drove silage truck one summer whrn I was a young cowgirl.i loved that job driving alone under a full.moon..we had to drive at night for some reason..I still love the smell of silage too. SILO: VERY unique! And the technology supernb and yet dangerous.

@davemcdade7645 2 жыл бұрын

Great video.. really interesting 👍👍

@shawnresor5565 2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@paulplatt5074 2 жыл бұрын

Thats Cool stuff.

@neillh 2 жыл бұрын

I always love that you take as along on these adventure as a young kid l use to help out on my uncle’s farm that was a very long time ago 👍

@Aquabob1 2 жыл бұрын

Chigg…what was the mystery with the bottom of the silo…..?

@gregsmht40 2 жыл бұрын

Separate video he said

@davidsharpe426 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the bottom of the silo ???

@mikehunt8375 2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful barn! You can always tell a person was raised on a farm. Usually they're good, respectful, people. The world is the way it is because kids today dont have to do anything, they think they deserve everything for nothing. I remember days coming home wanting to die because my arms were so full of scratches and holes from throwing hay around all day. I absolutely hated those days! But I thank god today I went through that and my parents actually raided me right by putting my ass to work.

@phailynrowan7976 2 жыл бұрын

Really cool barn! I grew up in the midwest where all of the old barns were made of wood and mostly falling down.

@smithwesson3771 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing but love chigg all your vids are educated

@bettyfletcher6489 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@budrohammbone2806 2 жыл бұрын

Cool Man !

@AndrexT 2 жыл бұрын

That was really interesting, I love old barns like that. In Cornwall, England, they still build stone walls with that shale rock. I know a few master masons that still do it.

@FireMcgwire 2 жыл бұрын

Bro I’m not even kidding, I was watching a video of yours and you were talking about the smells of the liquor making process, then I went to a different video entirely and it started with you talking about the exact same topic lol. It was trippy.

@downhomedetectorjeffdowns1878 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Thanks for sharing this. I'm from Maryland, and PA, I wonder where this is.

@cyndybutler7330 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool farm

@Christine_J 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful structure!

@andylarner3531 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful chigg

@todhollandsworth4371 2 жыл бұрын

I knew what silo are and what they held but didn't realize what they actually done, very informative video now I understand pretty cool info

@davidraines1380 2 жыл бұрын

Chig when I lived in New Mexico there were grain silos for dry grain that you filled with a scoop. Then I lived in Vermont where the barns were similar but I didn’t see any silos made of stone. I guess they were all gone where I lived. When you fed silage you could not get the smell out of your clothes

@herecomethelankfords1596 Жыл бұрын

Looks very similar to my barn, minus the silo. The owner before me had it taken down. Love watching these barn tours and seeing the craftsmanship of each one.

@aquachigger Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@alanmoffat4454 2 жыл бұрын

THATS JUST AS GOOD AS A CASTLE AND AS BIG .

@barbarafritchie2000 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@thelostdogs2328 2 жыл бұрын

Spent all my high school summers feeding the cows in SullivanCounty, Pa. hard work, but great memories!

@MichaelsExplorations 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting 🤔 cool

@reginaromsey 2 жыл бұрын

The owners seem to have cared for this Barn very well. I have vivid memories of being in the family car and getting behind a truck with Peavine silage being transported. The roads were two way, winding, with no places to pass. Gag!

@intothecalm420 2 жыл бұрын

What an amazing structure! Maybe I missed it but when was it built approximately? Modern folks seem to believe that people of the past were not as intelligent as current day. This is absolutely proof that they were not less intelligent but More than us today. The amount of innovation, blood, sweat, and tears that went into building that is unimaginable today. Thanks again Chig!!

@jamesm.gilbert3543 2 жыл бұрын

I've seen plenty of Barns like this in my day too bro. My uncle had a business to run he had two arcades in Prescott Arizona and one in Chino valley and one in copper city. I was 16 he sent for me to help him out. I ran the one in copper city. I ran it from sun up till sun down about 12 to 13 hrs a day.I got Sundays off. Me and my cousin took the same day off So we could go canoeing down river about a 29 Mile Canoe ride. There was a lot of abandoned buildings Barns old houses and the cowboys place to lodge after work of riding fence all day. Anyways we would stop the canoe at places at this one Particular barn we wanted to go exploring we did. That lasted about 5 minutes. When we got to the barn it had these enormous doors two of them and they were they was about 16 ft tall each door and there was a bunch of Bones nailed to the doors on both sides and then there was a little plaque right next to the barn that it read the following I'll never forget it it said "THESE HERE BONES ARE FROM HORSE WRESTLERS WITH SOME BEEF WRESTLERS ABOUT FOUR THESE HERE ARE THEIR HANDS. WE GAVE THE WRESTLERS A CHOICE THEY CHOSE LIFE. THESE HERE ARE THEIR HANDS THEY HAVE THEIR LIFE." Me and my cuzz counted the hands there was 8 hands on each door so when you do the math there 4 sets on each door 8 people went around life in those days without hand back then from what I hear it was a death sentence back then no hands no work no food no life. Man that my friend is rough. They shouldn't be stealing period. Plus if you left somebody on foot without their horse that too was a death sentence. Just how rough was it way back in the day???LMFAO

@janetdoten9908 2 жыл бұрын

Helped gather the hay on summer in Michigan with my Uncle. Allergies kicked up but it was worth it. Another Uncle in Kentucky had the tobacco barn, that was neat too