Life on the farm

[ovrszd]

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.

Yep. Done things similar. Sleeping under so many blankets you could hardly move. Great times. Feel sorry for youth today that don't get to experience that.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Any plans to save it?

Not really. But the roof runoff is what goes into the dug well for water in the house (except drinking water), so if it falls, no well water.

 

[ovrszd]

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.

Great stuff!!!! My Dad was a very strong willed man. Tough as a boot. No where near as tough as my Mom.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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

Dad said it was moved, but I suspect torn down and the lumber reused to build this house. He said he had heard at one time there were about 12 oil well houses up on my GG grandfathers farm next door. The back half of the house had a dug, stone walled root cellar underneath. We filled it in with dirt after tearing the old house down. I remember going down into the cellar.

Here’s a picture of oil dereks along the Ohio river during the late 1800 oil boom.

 

[ultrarunner]

The farmhouse of my Grandparents dates back to the 1700's.

The only heat was in the kitchen/dining and wood fired.

Ice inside the bedrooms all winter and toilet was outhouse.... my have things changed... all the farm animals long gone but the farm house is a totally modern with historic charm... triple pane windows, radiant heat, etc...

I'm old enough to rember no phone, no refrigerator, no TV... Grandpa's prized processions his huge AM radio listening to world news and farm report....

Down comforters from Grandma's ducks...

 

[two_bit_score]

Yep. Done things similar. Sleeping under so many blankets you could hardly move. Great times. Feel sorry for youth today that don't get to experience that.

We moved to the farm in 1964. There was plumbing in the house but there was an old outhouse out behind the dwelling house. My dad thought we needed to experience having to use an outhouse so he straightened up the building and made my brother and me use it for a couple months. It wasn’t fun at the time. But it did teach me to appreciate some things we had.


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[riptides]

I tore down our places outhouse and chicken coup about three years ago. The outhouse cement block is over by my koi-less pond. The chicken house salvage consisted of tin only. Makes for great bird house roofs.

On barn wood, I reclaimed some siding from other various outbuildings over the years. They make for great piles, LOL. I have used some of the wood for floors in my new run-ins where the people areas are. My other plans are for using as wall and floors in the dairy barn rooms. I have one more original run in that can give up the lumber. I'll rebuild it with T1-11 as I use it for my mower store. The tin roof is still good.

Our place is 1920.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

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.

Is that what you meant to say? We don't get much snow here, but it melted off much faster before I had eight inches of insulation put in my attic; I assume because the lack of insulation allowed the air in the attic to warm up from the heat in the house.

 

[ovrszd]

Is that what you meant to say? We don't get much snow here, but it melted off much faster before I had eight inches of insulation put in my attic; I assume because the lack of insulation allowed the air in the attic to warm up from the heat in the house.

It was an assumption on my part that the house wasn't generating enough heat to melt the snow.

With modern construction, snow on the roof is a good sign that it's properly insulated. But then, modern houses are 70F inside. That old house was not.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Yesterday a pickup entered through a normally locked gate that was open for a delivery...

Truck drove back to the far corner of the farm so farm hand went to investigate.

Person said he was county building inspector and was here to inspect open sided 20x60 shade structure on the back 40 acres...

Said no permit on file to cover this structure with the response this is AG to which inspector said all structures require a permit since 2016..

There is an exception for canvas or tarp roof but after replacing the expensive tarps every two years the decision this year was to go tin... which now requires submital of full set of plans in triplicate a with engineering calcs for evaluation...

Of course a submittal will be made.

Life on the farm...

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