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The very large pole barn

More Stable Tales: The Mess Inside

Posted on October 27, 2016March 11, 2025 By stega

We’ve mentioned on occasion our very large pole barn (pic 1 below) that dates to around 1969, and the amount of junk left in it by the previous owners. Last week we wrote about the roof work we had done. Now, for your viewing pleasure, are photos of all the stuff that was inside the left side stalls, and some post-op images after they were cleaned out.

Inside the left front stall we had a collection of saws and random broken things, and a bunch of random sheets of wood piled up on one side. Then a shot from last April before we made an offer on the place. Everything you see in the pic was left here, but since taking possession we slowly picked through this stall.

The metal mess is great for the house yard fence–we’ve used some of what was left in the stall and store the rest elsewhere. Here are some shots of what was underneath that mess. The table saws can be cleaned up and used, but just about everything else went into a dumpster.

The very large pole barn
The very large pole barn
Random barn clutter
Random barn clutter
Random barn clutter
Random barn clutter
More barn clutter
More barn clutter

Here are before and after pics.

Before decluttering
Before decluttering
One corner cleaned
One corner cleaned

The second stall on that side of the building housed a collection of doors, signs, and many large garbage cans full of off-cuts of random types of wood. It was quite a mess.

I spent half a day last November cleaning some of the mess out, but soon realized I was going to need reinforcements to get the job done. Then during the barn reproofing project, we found some young and hungry helpers who were more than happy to help us deal with issues like this for a nominal sum of money. So over the course of two mornings, I and two such helpers managed to empty out everything.

One of the highlights of cleaning out this stall was finding many doors that were in the house when it was first built and later removed (most likely due to age). We found the old pocket doors, what were probably the kitchen and north entrance doors, and the two doors pictured below (second and third pics). They were the original furnace closet doors; note that they have proper vents in them. This sort of sanity check is missing from the current doors as they are solid and, of course, mirrored. (Almost every closet in this house came with mirrored doors.)

Unfortunately there is no sign of the original front doors, but we did find the utility closet door. Unlike its replacement, it was actually meant to be on the exterior of a building. As regular readers of this site know, we had that awful hack job replaced this past spring with a whole new frame and door. Both are able to withstand the elements and will not rot out like their predecessor.

We also found some oddities like this random piece of wood (fourth pic) that was water damaged into almost art. Sadly, the coating of grime, spider webs and bird poop made rescuing it impossible.

And how about this random sign for a hunting preserve (fifth pic)? No clue if Purgatory was once said preserve or if the sign came from somewhere else, but we did find six boxes of clay pigeons in the old tack room (more on that later).

Wood and real estate junk
Wood and real estate junk
Furnace closet doors
Furnace closet doors
Furnace closet doors
Furnace closet doors
Unintentional abstract art
Unintentional abstract art
Bean Hollow Hunting Preserve
Bean Hollow Hunting Preserve

Finally, some before and after shots of the stall.

Stall before decluttering
Stall before decluttering
Stall after decluttering
Stall after decluttering

Next up: the back two left stalls!

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