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Serial #0121

 Loft Door Cabinet

The only remaining red paint on Grandpa Bucher’s old barn could be found on the eave and rake boards, and some of the siding boards high on the gable ends. The short eaves had given the lumber some extra protection from the hard Panhandle weather. Parts of those red boards form the case of the Loft Door Cabinet.

On a cold February day salvaging began on the south gable end of the barn. Winter salvaging on a barn roof makes for some spectacular views of the surrounding country and the extra clothing provides added padding when sitting astraddle the ridge. The disadvantages are nearly frozen extremities and all the extra, bulky clothing. But, as the recycling continued down the gable to the old loft door, the sight of the dried and curled harness leather hinge--and the worn arch where the hasp had swung back and forth for years--brought visions of all the early morning trips Grandpa Bucher made through that door.

Door and side panels are cut from a sheet of Tennessee V-drain roof tin. Baling wire binds the welded frame.