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Crops are seasonal because of the climate and therefore different work implements are needed depending on the season. Those that are not being used, when they are not needed, are kept in different outbuildings of the farmstead and those that have to be on hand in others. The people surveyed also described the outbuildings or rooms in the house where the animal feed and straw and hay for the barns were kept.
=== Porch and carriage porch. Atariko tresneria ===
In several places in Álava, people reported there would be granaries in the porches. That was the case in Abezia (A), where it was usual to have large granaries, known as ''comportos'', which reached the roof and had a small trapdoor at the bottom to collect the grain. Some had trapdoors in the roof to pour the grain in, while in other cases some of the boards of the granary acted as covers that were removed and replaced as necessary. There was the slaughter bench and the door to the ''cuartico, n''ext to the ''comporto.'' There would be food troughs for the pigs in some porches.
In Allo (N), small houses used the entrance as makeshift storage for animal feed or kept some gear, such as saddlebags, saddles, hoes, ''laia ''(a two-pronged foot plough), etc. there. The entrances to larger houses had a fired brick or pebble floor and there was usually a chair or even a three-piece suite. They were usually strongly-built furniture, with a curved back and straw seat. There was sometime a drop-leaf table, against the wall to take up as little space as possible.
=== Loft or attic, ganbara ===
In general, the attics were places where the grain was stored. There were also used to store and dry produce from the vegetable gardens and fruit. The meat from slaughtering the pig and other animals were also hung there to cure. In some houses, the hay and straw were stored in part of the loft, even though they were stored in another outbuilding, the haystack. Farming tools and implements that were rarely used were kept in the loft or when they were not needed. The loft is still often used as the place to leave useless or old clutter. It was reported in the some of the places surveyed that the loft has sometimes been used as a bedroom.
=== Stable, korta, ikuilua ===
The stable was generally part of the main building of the farmstead and the cows, horses, sheep, pig and hens would be kept there in separate sections. There were traditionally dirt floors on which dry grass or fern would be laid as a bed for the livestock. The bedding has to be periodically renewed and was then used as a fertiliser and was piled up in a corner of the barn.
== Outbuildings ==
=== General Points points ===
In many cases, there were stalls dividing up the barn to keep the different breeds of animals separate and in their own space. Something similar happened with the dunghill and the tools and implements needed to work with animals. Outbuildings began to be built around the farmstead due to lack of space, for hygiene reasons, the need to have better organised and independent enclosures, and the growth or drop in the farming or livestock activity. There were sometimes adjoining and sometimes separate but always near to the house and, sometimes, were both. There are also examples where those outbuildings formed an integral part of the homestead right from the start.