BrokeFarmerJohn
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I read about the first 3 or 4 pages of this thread and it was interesting to hear first hand how it was like.
I'm in Generation Y, it was a whole different experience growing up.
On my family farm (I grew up 1.5h away from) they have a old farm house that relatives lived in, I believe they passed on in the 70s and it's sat empty ever since, my cousin started his chicks in the kitchen of that house because they still heat it, mow the grass around it but my great aunt won't let anyone move anything in the house or live in it so it's like a time capsule.
In the kitchen is the only hot water of the house, there's this great big water heater that runs off propane next to the kitchen sink that they got later in there years.
So to drawl a bath upstairs for most of there lives they heated it up on the stove hauled it upstairs and dumped it in the big cast iron tub until they had enough hot water for a bath, I thought to myself what a chore that would have been just to bathe.
Next there was a glass jar looking pot about 2ft tall in the corner of the kitchen which my cousin pointed out and said they used that in the winter when it was too cold outside to use the outhouse.
Walking threw the house there was calendars not yet hung on the wall, furniture, cloths in the closets, even coats hanging on the wall, they pretty much sealed the house after my great aunts parents died.
It was really neat to see the items they had bought as a "luxury" back then and today it's stuff we absolutely take for granted. In fact those things aren't even important enough now to even take for granted lol.
They lived there entire lives with no indoor plumbing, No hot water other than a kettle on the stove, there lives were farming and taking care of the 300 hens they had in the coop near the house, they have a shed that's all brick, walls are over 18in thick and they would store the eggs in there like a cellar, once a week they would take the eggs to town to sell, the old hens got butchered and ate and new chicks started in a brooder house. They had hogs also on top of the corn and wheat they grew in the fields, I don't believe they had cattle.
I already know my generation is spoiled but walking into a house like that, seeing how someone lived in the good old days really is an eye opener.
I grew up wanting something and got it or the kid down the road had it, entertainment was TV or something recreational like fishing. Fishing and hunting was mainly done for sport, it wasn't done because we needed the food, don't take me wrong the meat ended up in the freezer but it's easily replaced on a store shelf actually cheaper than hunting deer yourself.
I never went out to the farm much growing up, I grew up in the suburbs on 3 acres, the biggest tractor I operated until the age of 25 was my dad's 445 lol.
In HS I spent a lot of time at the farm, I would volunteer my time working on the equipment with my cousin, I would drive the grain trucks into town for them and really enjoyed that experience but never got the opportunity to drive one of the combines during harvest or there tractors. I rode along a few times but that's about it.
But I'm thankful I got to experience what I have, most people now a days have only seen big Ag tractors and combines from the highway as they listen to there satellite radio and cruise in there climate controlled vehicles. I had the chance to ride in them and work on them.
I'm in Generation Y, it was a whole different experience growing up.
On my family farm (I grew up 1.5h away from) they have a old farm house that relatives lived in, I believe they passed on in the 70s and it's sat empty ever since, my cousin started his chicks in the kitchen of that house because they still heat it, mow the grass around it but my great aunt won't let anyone move anything in the house or live in it so it's like a time capsule.
In the kitchen is the only hot water of the house, there's this great big water heater that runs off propane next to the kitchen sink that they got later in there years.
So to drawl a bath upstairs for most of there lives they heated it up on the stove hauled it upstairs and dumped it in the big cast iron tub until they had enough hot water for a bath, I thought to myself what a chore that would have been just to bathe.
Next there was a glass jar looking pot about 2ft tall in the corner of the kitchen which my cousin pointed out and said they used that in the winter when it was too cold outside to use the outhouse.
Walking threw the house there was calendars not yet hung on the wall, furniture, cloths in the closets, even coats hanging on the wall, they pretty much sealed the house after my great aunts parents died.
It was really neat to see the items they had bought as a "luxury" back then and today it's stuff we absolutely take for granted. In fact those things aren't even important enough now to even take for granted lol.
They lived there entire lives with no indoor plumbing, No hot water other than a kettle on the stove, there lives were farming and taking care of the 300 hens they had in the coop near the house, they have a shed that's all brick, walls are over 18in thick and they would store the eggs in there like a cellar, once a week they would take the eggs to town to sell, the old hens got butchered and ate and new chicks started in a brooder house. They had hogs also on top of the corn and wheat they grew in the fields, I don't believe they had cattle.
I already know my generation is spoiled but walking into a house like that, seeing how someone lived in the good old days really is an eye opener.
I grew up wanting something and got it or the kid down the road had it, entertainment was TV or something recreational like fishing. Fishing and hunting was mainly done for sport, it wasn't done because we needed the food, don't take me wrong the meat ended up in the freezer but it's easily replaced on a store shelf actually cheaper than hunting deer yourself.
I never went out to the farm much growing up, I grew up in the suburbs on 3 acres, the biggest tractor I operated until the age of 25 was my dad's 445 lol.
In HS I spent a lot of time at the farm, I would volunteer my time working on the equipment with my cousin, I would drive the grain trucks into town for them and really enjoyed that experience but never got the opportunity to drive one of the combines during harvest or there tractors. I rode along a few times but that's about it.
But I'm thankful I got to experience what I have, most people now a days have only seen big Ag tractors and combines from the highway as they listen to there satellite radio and cruise in there climate controlled vehicles. I had the chance to ride in them and work on them.
