ohio barns

[Brett Hartwig]

While traveling through western Ohio we saw several long barns side by side with awalkway in between. What are these used for?

 

[Gary DiPietroSr]

Tobacco barn maybe?

 

[Jackson Ellis]

Commercial Chicken houses? If they smelled all to be damned, probably chickens.



Example



http://www.stonehill4va.com/portals/1/PoultryHouse_500x300.jpg

 

[Bob McDonald]

Without knowing what the barns were used for, it would only be speculation. But, my take is that whatever it is, they have to do repetitive things in the upper portions of the barn and it was cheap enough to add the walkways between them to save the time needed to have to climb down from one and then climb back up to the next to continue working.