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The company designed everything from major hog facilities to small farm barns. This DVD is a complete history of the Louden company, featuring a selection of 6 (six) Louden Machinery and Barn Catalogs showing a wide variety of farm building and barn designs. Easily print out a hard copy of these catalogs right from your computer for only a fraction of the cost of the original.
Catalogs Include:
~ 1915 Louden Barn Plans Catalog. 111 pages. 74 plus barn designs of all shapes, sizes and uses.
~ 1916 Louden Barn and Farm Equipment catalog. 246 heavily illustrated pages showing most everything imaginable to run and equip a barn during the early 1900's.
~ 1919 Louden Farm Barn Machinery of Canada. About 50 pages of farm and barn machinery and equipment from the Canadian Louden distribution center in Guelp, Ontario. Catalog covers most anything for the barn - hay loading tools, dairy barn equipment, horse stable equipment, hog house equipment, litter and feed carriers, sliding door hangers, ventilating systems, general barn and garage hardware.
~ 1923 Louden Farm Barn Machinery Equipment Catalog. 240 pages of barn and farm equipment.
~ 1934 Louden Farm Barn Machinery Equipment Catalog. Almost 200 pages of barn and farm equipment.
~ Louden Barn Plan Catalog. 34 pages. Circa 1930's?
On September 24, 1867 William Louden received his first patent for a device which helped farmers stack hay efficiently. The Louden Machinery Company continued to develop and manufacture a variety of hay tools that allowed a farmer to easily and efficiently move and store hay. Besides easing the backbreaking labor of 19th century farms, these new inventions meant that barns could be bigger and taller, enabling farms to be larger and more efficient.
Among many innovations, a flexible barn door hanger was introduced in 1895, the forerunner of practically every barn door hanger still used today. Louden developed more and more laborsaving devices, such as individual easy-to-clean metal cattle-watering drinking cups, which had the advantage of preventing the spread of disease between cows.
In 1907 a free barn planning service was begun to help farmers erect more efficient barns (designed to use Louden barn equipment, of course). By 1939 over 25,000 original Louden barn plans had been distributed all around the world. Tens of thousands of additional barns were equipped or retrofitted with Louden products.
Although the company has changed hands many times since 1953 (when the Louden family sold the company), the Louden name is still used on material handing equipment produced in Fairfield and other locations, reflecting Louden's sterling reputation.
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