About Our Storage Situation for Yard Equipment, the Barn

July 29, 2025

A nice-sized barn was already on the property when we bought Blackberry Homestead.

It is a three-bay barn. Each barndoor is 1/3 of the length of the barn and fully opens to reveal the bay. Each bay is large enough to hold actual farm equipment, such as a mid-size tractor, bushhog, or plow.

We use the first bay to store the mower and mower accessories.

The chipper and cart fit in behind the mower. You can just see the orange chipper behind the mower. The mower leaf rake is against the back wall.

In the second bay, we have a few items that were in the barn when we bought Blackberry Homestead. We also have some of my garden supplies along the back wall.

We haven’t bothered getting the second bay door open yet. We have a lot of open space we can use for something in the second bay.

Bruce keeps his motorcycle in the third bay. He installed a handle on the third barndoor to make it easy to open and close. He put a latch on the barndoor to keep it closed. There is a lot of room in front of the motorcycle. The post on the left, next to the edge of the picture, is the halfway point for the width of the barn.

There are many things stored in the rafters of the barn by previous owners. We haven’t really looked at them.

The barn and shed are wired for power and light, but the power is off. Why the power isn’t working is something Bruce will have to figure out sometime.

We do clean-up projects in the barn once in a while.