Life on the farm

[ultrarunner]

A few shots while driving around the farm today.
View attachment 676119
The back side of barn is loosing its siding.
View attachment 676120
View attachment 676121

Have a similar barn dating from 1850's.

Decided to rebuild because replacing not an option... more work to repair/restore.

 

[grsthegreat]

Code changes...

The option is to remove the tin roof and replace with canvas or go through the permit process with the goal of keeping the tin...

Engineering fees will add 2k to the cost of the permit... guessing total out of pocket will be 3k +/- to keep the tin roof.

holy cra*.

 

[ultrarunner]

Sometimes just have to bite the bullet...

The commercial tarps last about two years then on borrowed time pending a wind "Event"

A used metal roof is basically scrap...

In my county, huge AG structures no problem...

Hope it all goes well. Oh

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Lots of great memories in that barn.

The original barn was on the farm when dad bought it. Dad extended the barn, and added the shed (flatter roof part)on the side in the 40s or 50s.

 

[ultrarunner]

Lots of great memories in that barn.

The original barn was on the farm when dad bought it. Dad extended the barn, and added the shed (flatter roof part)on the side in the 40s or 50s.

View attachment 676131

Any plans to save it?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

This was the house that was on the farm when dad bought it. I lived in this house until I was 3.


Today I found out that this house was originally located up the road as an oil field house, and was moved by the previous owner of the farm.
There was a large oil field in the late 1800s, and there are several old abandoned wells on the farm.

 

[ultrarunner]

It was always a site seeing homes moved... don't see it much anymore.

 

[ovrszd]

We, as humans, were much tougher then. There's no one reading this thread today that would live in that house. There's not snow on the roof because it's insulated well. The farm house I grew up in was two story and horribly inefficient. But it was what we had. No indoor plumbing. Wood heat. I don't remember it as horrible. Just required more manual labor to be livable.

 

[LouNY]

I can recall ice on the inside of the windows in my bed room,
sleeping with my long handles on.
Rushing down to the cellar to throw wood on the furnace and stir the coals up.
Then back to the main floor to get dressed over the grate in the living room.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We, as humans, were much tougher then. There's no one reading this thread today that would live in that house. There's not snow on the roof because it's insulated well. The farm house I grew up in was two story and horribly inefficient. But it was what we had. No indoor plumbing. Wood heat. I don't remember it as horrible. Just required more manual labor to be livable.

Btw , that is mom in the house picture. This was taken either right before they were married or the year after. How many brides today would move into a house with no indoor plumbing?

The old fuse box from that house is still in use in the chicken house.