Level 2 - Second Floor

The middle floor was used to store farm equipment and hay. The entrances to this level are directly to the inside of the ramps that lead to the third floor. In the photo above you can see the northwest door partially open to the left of the right ramp. The two ramps lead from the ground to the top floor of the barn. The barn is so large that a person could drive a team of horses up the ramp with a wagon full of harvest, then turn the team and wagon around in the barn without difficulty. This barn measures 110 by 60 feet.

View to the northeast.	East end of the barn now houses the buggy. Originally the buggy was stored in the carriage house.
This is a fly for a horse. Its purpose was to assist in keeping the flys off the horse when it was in the field. It is now on display in the barns middle floor.
Also on display is a row of collars used for the horses and mules.	This is a rock cart thought to be used in the construction of the barn.
South view of the west end of the middle floor of the barn. Inside the middle floor are several exhibits on geology, farming, and rock wall building.	The west door of the middle floor. A nice southwest breeze blows through the doors during the summer months, allowing for good air circulation.

Barbed-wire ball exhibit.	Horse-drawn Van Brunt planter. Note the grain dump behind the planter (metal bars).	Horse-drawn Van Brunt planter.

On the west end of the middle floor, a grain dump was added in the 1940s. The floors were reinforced so that a grain truck could drive into the barn and empty its grain. The grain fell down to the 1st floor where a conveyor transported the harvest up to the 3rd floor for storage. There is a green conveyor to the east of the grain dump. When the ranch managers were ready to remove grain for planting or selling, a grain truck could pull into the barn through the east doors under one of the three boxes. The grain fell down through a chute. An auger moved it to the boxes where it filled the truck from above.