74 vintage Louden Barn Farm house architectural plans

Item Description This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM edition of  a circa 1915 Barn Design Catalogue.   CD ROM title : Barn Designs, 1915. 74 widely used American Barn Designs for Cows, Hogs and Horses.

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Sample images from this CD

This CD ROM contains scanned images of the 1915 Louden Barn Plans Catalogue by Louden Machinery Company.

Presented in easy to view PDF file format.

Allows Zoom-in up to 300% to enlarge sections of the pages for easy reading.

Allows Printing of pages on your own printer.

Allows Copy and paste page image to other applications like a word processor or image editors.

 (PDF files require PDF file reader to open and view. PDF file reader software can be downloaded for free at www. adobe. com)

 Contains 112 pages with illustrations.

Topics included in this catalogue:

Foreword

Modern Barn Requirements

Make the cows comfortable

Good Ideas from practical men

Construction

Use plenty of windows

Save Labor

General instructions for barn construction

Concrete: Materials, Cement, Sand, stone and gravel, proportions, mixing concrete, bill of lumber

Workmanship and quality

Foundation Walls

Concrete floors

Cost

Locating the Floor Levels

Drainage Grades, Variations in measurements.

Material for concrete floors per stall

Amounts of cement, sand and gravel required for floor construction

The Superstructure

Detail of Floor Construction diagram

Construction of Plank Trusses, Isometric details of truss construction diagram

Frame Construction, Doors.

Detail diagram of sliding doors

Comfort and Air

Detail diagram of ventilating barn windows

Tables of Strength of Materials, Safe load in pounds for gas-pipe columns.

Safe load in punds uniformly distributed for yellow pine beams supported at both ends.

Some of the fundamentals of ventilation

The King system

Table of fresh air supply and ventilation

Table of area and size for vent flues

Another good system of ventilation with diagram

About Barn Roofs

Table for approximate capacity of Round Silos, in Tons.

A Louden Equipped Government Barn

Diagram showing correct construction for basement barns

Modern Sanitary Bank Barns

74 Barn Designs with illustrations of the Barns and their floor plans, with barns for Cows, Hogs, as well as Horses.

This 1915 Louden Machinery Company Catalogue on CD ROM is a great way to learn about the history of rural farming and agriculture in America!  

Louden Machinery Company was established in 1867 by William Louden in Fairfield , Iowa. Louden Barn Designs are well-known worldwide, with close to 25,000 barns built to their designs, from large scale hog facilities to family farm barns.

User friendly PDF file format, the CD is Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible.

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