Today's farmers now have combines with different heads on them for picking corn to combining oats, wheat and soy beans however back in the days of the not so modern farmer they had to have sheds and or cribs to store things and a corn crib was erected to store ears of corn on the cob so they could be later ground up to mix into the feed or just toss a couple of ears into the hog pen and let the hogs have a feast.

Now in the construction of such a crib would be made in a convenient…

Once you have a barn closed in and under roof one would want to include windows, (if needed) such as in horse stalls or cattle loafing areas so they can be slid open for cross ventilation. Installing windows is an easy thing to do for you can make up the windows with as many sections of glass as needed for the effect of allowing an certain amount of light in the stalls or loafing areas. A sill would be installed so the window can rest on it with window stops surrounding the windows and which…

Once the perlings are installed the next thing is the placing ot the vertical siding on the structure especially if it is a barn.

With the perlings set on 2' on center layout the boards are of random widths and lengths and when two boards are used to make a length the joint where one over laps the one below it will be cut on a 45º angle as well as the top of the one below the joint so rain water will flow past the joint rather than into the joint which would cause rot within the…

After all of the vertical posts were set in the construction of the barn, shed or any other of a post and beam structure there would be horizontal boards called perlings would be installed every 2' on center so one would have a nailing surface to secure the vertical siding with random width boards and the joints of the boards would then be covered by thin strips of wood called Batten strips. These strips were usually 1 1/2" in width and if not long enough to reach all the way to the top of…