BARN FROM DO POTOKA

It is a wooden building situated in an uneven terrain with stone underpinning. There is an arched cellar with a natural spring taking up the room under the whole bin. The barn consists of a threshing floor, bin and partition. In winter, agricultural tools, fodder as well as corn were stored here, while in summer, it was mostly used for grain threshing. Two evolutionary different types of threshing tools are presented here - flail and threshing machine powered by man or horses, and fukar for the chaff removal.The grain used to be stored in so-called štrichy and kadluby that were put together by withes made out of branches of fir or pine.