Life on the farm

[riptides]

My folks bought this 80 acres from the original homesteader in '38. Dad had always planned on retiring here. He never made it to retirement age. Wife and I moved down from Alaska in '82. None of the old homestead buildings were still here then. I can remember them because as a kid we visited the old folks here often. He had a large garden and raised sheep and chickens.

This is a painting of one of the old homestead buildings.
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That's a fascinating history and actually quite good art work.

 

[Straightgrain3016]

Thanks for sharing

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have a cell camera at the farm. Yesterday dad waved to me as he went by. He went to pull out a tree that fell in a field.

 

[5030]

Life on the farm if you grown anything is gonna be tough this year, real tough. Inputs are through the roof as are fuel costs and new equipment as well. I suspect a lot of smaller operations that are leveraged will fold.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Uploaded video of dad feeding cows in 1992.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Grandfathers farm getting overgrown.

Someone mows around Great grandfathers place.

 

[kenmbz]

Thanks for sharing,
Too bad we don't have pictures of our neighbors and their farms from when I was a kid.
Mostly small 100 acre or so for pickling and food since many were loggers or worked in the wood pulp/mills that were prevalent.
Someone bought a shoe manufacturer up the road and made it into a house. Right in the middle of a potato field. Built mid to late 1800's. Still in great shape.
So many potato fields were left after the gov started paying farmers to not grow them.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Grandfathers farm getting overgrown.
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Someone mows around Great grandfathers place.
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Once upon a time that was considered a large house. My parents raised three kids in 1500 sq. ft. and I think it was the largest house around. Of course, we had a large barn and shop, so the boys got banished to the shop and haymow except in cold weather. Being indoors was for after dark.

 

[bindian]

Grandfathers farm getting overgrown.
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Someone mows around Great grandfathers place.

These photos make me wonder if a log house is under that siding. Absolutely stunning.
hugs, Brandi

 

[buckeyefarmer]

These photos make me wonder if a log house is under that siding. Absolutely stunning.
hugs, Brandi

Grandfathers house 2 story part is log house, with back added on.

His barn is a log barn also.
Probably built before 1850

My 4G grandfather settled in Ohio in 1816, born in Bucks PA in 1778 during the revolutionary war.

 

[bindian]

Yep, knew it from studying the siding and trim. Additions always came later, as the family grew.
hugs, Brandi

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yep, knew it from studying the siding and trim. Additions always came later, as the family grew.
hugs, Brandi

Main log structure has 2 rooms down, 2 rooms up.
The back addition was living room and kitchen.
I’ll try to find some pics.
This taken yesterday, thru broken window. Sink on right with hand pump, wood cook stove on left. Some coffee cups still hanging in cupboard. Door to right was entrance from side porch.

 

[bindian]

That photo shows a few things salvage people will pay you for to resell. Pump, wood stove, and Table are just 3. How many more items in that house can be salvaged before log people want to get the logs?
hugs, Brandi

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That photo shows a few things salvage people will pay you for to resell. Pump, wood stove, and Table are just 3. How many more items in that house can be salvaged before log people want to get the logs?
hugs, Brandi

Roof is slate.

 

[bindian]

It would be great if Y'all could restore it.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Straightgrain3016]

Life on the farm if you grown anything is gonna be tough this year, real tough. Inputs are through the roof as are fuel costs and new equipment as well. I suspect a lot of smaller operations that are leveraged will fold.

I can barely pencil out working in my 6K tree woodlot...

De-limbing by hand & processing firewood is what we do; cutting the "basement dwellers" up to 35 feet seems to "push" the trees skyward, and firewood keeps our electric bill in the $60.00 range.

Logging costs gobble up too much of the gross profit.

 

[sixdogs]

Grandfathers farm getting overgrown.
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Someone mows around Great grandfathers place.
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If only those buildings could talk.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

So my grandparents lived across the hollow from great grandparents, farms join. The one room school my dad attended is next to great grandparents. So dad literally walked up hills both ways, down the hill and up the other side to attend school. Dad is in the back. Almost everyone is a relative.

Dad next to his dads house.

The hill to school.

 

[ovrszd]

We are so spoiled......

 

[buckeyefarmer]

When the pine trees were planted on the hillside right after WW 2.

Mom when they were dating after the war.
Notice electric cable on house wall, that’s when grandparents got electric power.

My grandfather showing us his accordion. Don’t know who got it.