Lately I've seen more and more doors that lead outside in

>>35286692
>What do they mean?

That we live in the matrix

>>35286692
Bump because I've been curious about this since elementary school

>>35286692
>What do they mean?
They're fire escapes

>>35286692
i think they would use like, ropes and wooden cranes to pull bales of hay and shit up to the second floor for storage or whatever with these doors, pretty sure that's what they're for

What?

The door in the pic is to load shit into the upstairs.

In barns its to put hay in the hayloft.

>>35286692
Its probably easier to get heavy things off of the second floor that way.

For example, maybe bales of hay are stored on the second floor, and instead of rolling them downstairs they just chuck them onto the wagon or whatever waiting outside from the second floor.

>>35286692
based on my reading of old-timey fiction, aren't those where they store the hay?

from looking around, i think it was used to bring the hay up to the hayloft area. look up "hayloft" and "hay elevator."

>>35286755
Exactly what they're for, good job

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>>35286755
This. the door/window would open up and a wooden beam with block and tackle (this is a pulley system would extend out a bit. This allowed the household or vendor below to have barrels or crates of goods to be delivered to their doorstep and easily loaded into the second floor. If you don't have a basement, that's where you'd put your surplus goods.

That looks like a bakery or cooking school. They'd purchase 500lb barrels of flour often enough to need a location with a 2nd floor swing arm crane and block and tackle. The block and tackle would allow just one average man to pull up a 500lb barrel with ease.