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Really stoked, it is looking pretty plausable that I may some day own me an acreage. It is actually a tad 10 acres, about 4 or 5 are farmable (and tiled/terraced) That is going to be the funnest part, I have everything to do it aside from the planter and combine. Dad has a spare planter I can borrow and I know guys in the area that I could get to pick it.
My great-uncle (the executor of the estate the acreage is currently in) has a neat little tracked Gehl skid loader on sight and is really big into helping clean the place up. I am not really sure why he is so big into helping but I think he really enjoys pushing buildings and trees over... maybe a tad too much. We got a lot done today.
Nice little house, inside is stuck in the 70's, sewer needs updated and I think while the yard is a mess I might go ahead and hook it up to rural water as well. Kind of a bummer. The big shaggy bushes, scruffy tire planter are gone and the wishing well thing is gone tomorrow.
Right off the highway, not much gravel, 8 miles from work... perfect.
The doghouse, rabbit hutch and dangerously split mullberry tree are gone.
Really cool old barn, tinned on one side and half the roof. The original plan was to tin the whole thing but my great-uncle (different one) ran into health problem after health problem and never got to finish it.
I want to fix the white top board around the fence and the defuct pickup loading ramp (nobody hauls livestock in the back of a pickup anymore) I think it looks cool and is a throwback to the Ertl farm sets we had as kids.
The main supports for the barn, pretty old school and pretty darn cool. I would love to know when this thing was built. (the house sidewalk has 1917 scratched in it, and back then I doubt a house sidewalk was real high on their priority list vs a barn)
No hay mow but all the gear is there to open the door and bring in the bales.
Can't really get decent pictures but it is set up for milking on one side (probably six stalls) farrowing hogs on the far side (farrowing crates are worth scrap) with a couple large pens in the center. Probably the coolest thing on the place.
My great grandfather's pet turkey tracks, I know it is pets because they were all but extict when they would have been pouring pads for hogs. He loved birds, there were always various kind of chickens, ducks, geese an guinias roaming around the place when I was younger.
This shed is no more, stood for a very probable 100 years with just 6x6's sitting on dirt for a foundation. It fought pretty hard before it came down too.
This shed is also down, had a concrete floor in it. I am going to try to save the tin off the roof of this one and another one to build a pole building to store a tractor and my F-150 in.
Sure wish the Canadians would come and get their thistles... the place is full of the blessed things.
Bonus points if you know what this is.
The Rangers hopefull nest, concrete floor, electricity and opening windows... going to be very nice wrenching in there as opposed the dark dirt floored sauna it is in now.
The big machine shed, too bad it is this far gone it would have been nice to keep. A bunch of intact (so far) tin on it, we are still working out how to get the equipment out of the inside. The H rolled out (and with a set of points and plugs ran) and with a little work we got the manure spreader out. Still working out how to get the two nice wood box wagons and two row checkrow planter out of the back.
She's pretty well sprung...
My current tractor shed, it is an old corncrib that fell down before my time, not my tractor BTW. The roof is meh, I think (and hope) it has a couple more years in it until I get the pole building up. The sides are pretty weak but it is braced well along the center.
The "Killing Field" I am thinking about a food plot once I get he equipment out and a tree stand in one of the trees in the fencerow.
I did kick up a big doe out there but didn't get a pic, she was down in the grass when it took.
My great-uncle (the executor of the estate the acreage is currently in) has a neat little tracked Gehl skid loader on sight and is really big into helping clean the place up. I am not really sure why he is so big into helping but I think he really enjoys pushing buildings and trees over... maybe a tad too much. We got a lot done today.
Nice little house, inside is stuck in the 70's, sewer needs updated and I think while the yard is a mess I might go ahead and hook it up to rural water as well. Kind of a bummer. The big shaggy bushes, scruffy tire planter are gone and the wishing well thing is gone tomorrow.

Right off the highway, not much gravel, 8 miles from work... perfect.


The doghouse, rabbit hutch and dangerously split mullberry tree are gone.

Really cool old barn, tinned on one side and half the roof. The original plan was to tin the whole thing but my great-uncle (different one) ran into health problem after health problem and never got to finish it.

I want to fix the white top board around the fence and the defuct pickup loading ramp (nobody hauls livestock in the back of a pickup anymore) I think it looks cool and is a throwback to the Ertl farm sets we had as kids.



The main supports for the barn, pretty old school and pretty darn cool. I would love to know when this thing was built. (the house sidewalk has 1917 scratched in it, and back then I doubt a house sidewalk was real high on their priority list vs a barn)


No hay mow but all the gear is there to open the door and bring in the bales.

Can't really get decent pictures but it is set up for milking on one side (probably six stalls) farrowing hogs on the far side (farrowing crates are worth scrap) with a couple large pens in the center. Probably the coolest thing on the place.
My great grandfather's pet turkey tracks, I know it is pets because they were all but extict when they would have been pouring pads for hogs. He loved birds, there were always various kind of chickens, ducks, geese an guinias roaming around the place when I was younger.

This shed is no more, stood for a very probable 100 years with just 6x6's sitting on dirt for a foundation. It fought pretty hard before it came down too.

This shed is also down, had a concrete floor in it. I am going to try to save the tin off the roof of this one and another one to build a pole building to store a tractor and my F-150 in.

Sure wish the Canadians would come and get their thistles... the place is full of the blessed things.


Bonus points if you know what this is.


The Rangers hopefull nest, concrete floor, electricity and opening windows... going to be very nice wrenching in there as opposed the dark dirt floored sauna it is in now.

The big machine shed, too bad it is this far gone it would have been nice to keep. A bunch of intact (so far) tin on it, we are still working out how to get the equipment out of the inside. The H rolled out (and with a set of points and plugs ran) and with a little work we got the manure spreader out. Still working out how to get the two nice wood box wagons and two row checkrow planter out of the back.

She's pretty well sprung...

My current tractor shed, it is an old corncrib that fell down before my time, not my tractor BTW. The roof is meh, I think (and hope) it has a couple more years in it until I get the pole building up. The sides are pretty weak but it is braced well along the center.

The "Killing Field" I am thinking about a food plot once I get he equipment out and a tree stand in one of the trees in the fencerow.


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