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Show HAY DOOR EASY TO HANDLE One Shown in Illustration May Be operated by Boy Pulling at One of Ropes. We built a barn last fall, 50 by 48 feet, using two by sixes for studding on each side of the opening left for the hay door, writes Ernest Siler of Wells, Kan., in the Farmers' Mail and Breeze. We made the door of cypress flooring and if is cut to fit the gable of the roof. The track and rollers are known as the "Big Four" kind, the track being twice the length of the ? Latest In Hay Doors. opening left so the door will slide down out of the way. . Two rollers are used on each side of the door. The door s raised and lowered by means of a rope passed over a well pulley on either side with a sand bucket attached attach-ed to the lower end. The sand buckets work, up and down inside the barn, the ropes passing through holes cut in the mow floor. Such a door looks neat when up or down and a boy can easily handle it by pulling at one of the ropes from the mow floor. |