Green Acres is the place to be...

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Buying a house is such a pain in the butt.

Amen. The loan department at our bank had 3 more anal cavities, two new vaginas, and one less female employee by the time our mortgage was finalized, on the morning we closed. That actually held up our closing by an hour.

 

[1990ranger4x4]

Looks like one of those houses that you would see in a horror movie... Nice looking property too.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Congratulations! It's a fine looking homestead, with potential. And nice JDeere model B which looks like an oldie from 1930's (no box under seat). Those JD's go forever! I wish our 1948 model M had a fancy yellow parasol like yours. Be kind to the (fuzzy) deer.

They went to that style in '39 and stayed with it until '46 (mine is a '46) It is semi-uncommon for that style to have electric start because the war took a lot of those goodies. The sunshade is a godsend, it makes all the difference in the world when it is hot out.

I will be very kind to the fuzzy deer until mid to late december when muzzleloader season opens.

Don't be surprised if you have to get proof from the first lady that you aren't getting a loan through her. I've been through this before.

Buying a house is such a pain in the butt.

I wouldn't doubt it, getting my truck loan was like getting candy from the grandparents compared to this.

Looks like one of those houses that you would see in a horror movie... Nice looking property too.

Actually, while I was checking my game camera in the dark of the night I kept hearing voices, it was freaking me out I just signed the purchase agreement and the place was haunted (never really been outside there in the dark before) I couldn't really make out what was being said but I could tell it was someone talking.

I walk over to my truck in the driveway and I see a glow off to the southeast... ah yeah homegame on Friday night (pic of the town from my barnlot is in the first set of pictures).

My great-grandparents moved there in '78, a good friend of mine's parents moved there in '72 and he lived there awhile after they moved out until they sold it to my great grandparents so I know more about the history of the place than most people do of their new homes... granted it was 100 years old in 1972 but still, they seemed to get along ok. I have a pic of my great-grandfather holding me at about age 3 or 4 and you can see the garage and pen oak tree in the background.

 

[Beef52751]

I don't know how i missed this thread for so long, congrats on buying the place!!! looks like you've already done a ton of work!!!

 

[shane96ranger]

My great-grandparents moved there in '78....... I know more about the history of the place than most people do of their new homes...

I would have loved to buy my Grandparents old house. It was pretty big for the standards around here in 1952 when it was built. It is approximately 2500 square feet, and my house is about 1900. It also has a huge garage that wrapped around the back of the house. They (My Dad and my Aunt) sold it about 2 years ago, and there was no way I could have sold my house (probably still can't) for what some of them are going for around here.

Plus.... it is wired with stranded aluminum. Not a project I want to take on with plaster walls.

 

[koda6966]

I only knew that was a hog oiler from Pawn Stars.

I love that show, haha.

 

[Beef52751]

I noticed this place has a large number of ticks... which irritates me. I was looking up how to pull off an attached one and noticed they mentined guineas were good at getting rid of them, like two birds can clear a couple acres of ticks in a year... so that is maybe why they always had a herd of them on patrol.

So i bought a place similar to this on the opposite side of the state and the above comment got me thinking.... I have noticed a huge number of ticks around my pace as well. I have never raised any type of bird before but im thinking about giving guineas a try. after reading your thread i googled guineas and did some research and i think im going to go pick a couple up this week.
any advice on raising them??? LOL

 

[Snoranger]

So i bought a place similar to this on the opposite side of the state and the above comment got me thinking.... I have noticed a huge number of ticks around my pace as well. I have never raised any type of bird before but im thinking about giving guineas a try. after reading your thread i googled guineas and did some research and i think im going to go pick a couple up this week.
any advice on raising them??? LOL

Watch out for chicken hawks. My neighbor lost 4 guineas to a local chicken hawk in a short time.

 

[pillen140]

my grandpa has a case just like that one... a homely lookin thing, but pretty much unstoppable.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

So i bought a place similar to this on the opposite side of the state and the above comment got me thinking.... I have noticed a huge number of ticks around my pace as well. I have never raised any type of bird before but im thinking about giving guineas a try. after reading your thread i googled guineas and did some research and i think im going to go pick a couple up this week.
any advice on raising them??? LOL

I would wait until things start warming up next spring. The ticks will be dying before too long and trying to raise and keep birds in colder weather isn't all that easy.

Otherwise you will need a place to raise them inside unless you don't mind the smell of their poo in the house (gagging to me) and a place to put them at night to keep critters from carrying them off (foxes and racoons love birds)

my grandpa has a case just like that one... a homely lookin thing, but pretty much unstoppable.

I like my little A-C's and JD's but if I was to get a bigger horse it would be a Case. They are not as plush but are simpler to work on than say a 190XT or 4010/20 and still nice enough to operate they don't beat you to death. Since they are neither red or green they are usually quite a bit cheaper as well.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I was out thumpin around on the B and the neighbor kid had to show off his toys...

He had the big new(er) combine, truck and a big grain cart and a big tractor on it that I could see.

 

[509lifted]

man i gotta say this right here is what i was talking about in my thread, i want a place just like this. I love it, ur out in the country but not to far from town so if u need somethin you dont have to drive 2 hours just to get it, and it's spacious. i hope one day when i get back up on my feet and dust my pants off i can own my little slice of paradise like you have there.

 

[wildbill23c]

Looks like a very nice area to live. Yeah the house may need work but when you get everything done the way you want it to be, you will really appreciate it that much more. Its great to see and hear of people buying property like this and cleaning it up and trying to keep some of the original buildings.

 

[88_Eddie]

so what was this?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

man i gotta say this right here is what i was talking about in my thread, i want a place just like this. I love it, ur out in the country but not to far from town so if u need somethin you dont have to drive 2 hours just to get it, and it's spacious. i hope one day when i get back up on my feet and dust my pants off i can own my little slice of paradise like you have there.

I hope you can too.

Looks like a very nice area to live. Yeah the house may need work but when you get everything done the way you want it to be, you will really appreciate it that much more. Its great to see and hear of people buying property like this and cleaning it up and trying to keep some of the original buildings.

I am kind of glad it needs work so I can make it more my house rather than living in my grandparents house (which would be weird)

The rest family was wanting to push in all the buildings (house included) and sell it as farmground, a common fate for older acreages in my area.

so what was this?

Koda got it.

I only knew that was a hog oiler from Pawn Stars.

They would fill the bottom part with some sort of oil (dunno if it was old engine oil or some special hog oil) and the hogs would rub on the rollers and rotate them. The oil would repell bugs.

The painting on the lower level of the house is pretty much done BTW, the drywall guy is about done with my bedroom (the plaster on lathe was crumbling on two walls under the wallpaper) and we picked up the laminate kitchen flooring tonight. Get the bedroom painted, lay the kitchen floor, have the carpet people lay the carpet and then it is done.

I had a guy with a FWA tractor lined up to drag dead trees out of the windbreak to seperate the burn pile from the windbreak but he had some severe health problems. I would love to get rid of the trees so I can farm that ground next year.

And I have a ton of fencing to do when it warms up too...