I've often wondered about that framework/contraption in front of the barn-like building to the right of the hotel. (if you look closely you can see numerous guy wires stabilizing it)
detail
If the building is a stable I thought the apparatas might be used to help get hay up into the loft (catapult-style?)
but I don't remember seeing anything like that on a farm.
In this second photograph, taken before the the small shed-like bldg was built, the structure appears to be on sleds so it can be moved around.
As you can see...the guy wires are attached to the sleds.
ultra-close-up
I know that I've pondered this before. I hope I haven't already asked about it on the thread...
and forgot.
If I
did aske about it before...I don't recall the answer.
which reminds me....
I helped '
put up' hay only once in my life and it almost killed me.
You do so by forming something akin to a bucket brigade [but instead of a bucket you have a bale of hay...Duh]
You work your way tossing the bales up into the hay loft. (often using hay wagons, and stacks, of varying heights)
The problem is...as you toil, and become worn out, the job gets more and more difficult.
The initial stack of hay bales, that had almost reach the hayloft door, becomes lower and lower
thus you had to toss harder...and throw farther...ahhhh...it was awful!
[hence the term
'putting up hay'.