my neighbors barn(in NJ)and what he was doing

Istopped in Christmas eve during the day to see one of my neighbors,,, He had his smoker going behind the barn he got a buck during hunting season,and had soaked and injected a back leg of venison to make a ham? It looked good to me! He knows about my obsession with pictures on the tractor site,,,and knew as soon as he saw the camera,he was destine for the site,so I Might as well show a few pictures of his old dairy barn? Were we live in nj,our street is a small developement that was built in the late 50s,It used to be the pasture for this barn.Now I am good friends with the owners of the old barn ,we have lived in our house since 1985/and they were here when we moved in.Just thought you might like to see an old barn that survived a developement,it is kind of rare here in parts of nj,

Always enjoy your post Larry.

You say rare in NJ? Seeing as I was born and raised there until 16 I can say that from personal experience and news feeds over the years that things that are rare in NJ include a lot more than an ole barn!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Rick

You are right about that. I worked for a few different companies as an equipment operator on site development projects throughout NJ, many were huge subdivisions, usually old farms. In Howell, N.J. we demolished a farmhouse, dairy barns, silo's and took up massive quantities of top soil many farmers would be envious about, even if it was half as thick. I've never seen top soil so thick, then under all of it eventually was sand, all kinds of weird colors of sand too. Some jobs were a black sandy top soil, NJ had some unbelievable land for farms from what I have seen, not all, as I have worked in that red clay, one in particular near North Brunswick that I recall, which was a farm too. I remember I would always check out any buildings before demolition. One job west of Morristown in Mendham, N.J. there was an old barn, old house, outbuildings, and this stone ice house with a hip roof, it in itself was really something, we did not demo any of this place, the owner allowed me to strip all these old licenses plates off the barn wall, which I still have, WWI era some of them. I looked this place up on google earth, I can barely even recognize it now, the house, barn and likely the ice house is gone.

Like looking at old barns (and new barns) any time. Keep them
coming.

The barn is AWESOME!!!!!

Yes, worthy of 5 exclamation points.

Yep,that's an old one alright. Built in 1125. lol

Larry that is a great old barn. They are getting rare not only in NJ. They are being torn down here in the Midwest at an alarming rate. As the farms have grew bigger many entire farm steads are being torn out to grow a few more acres of crops.

It just happened to the west of me. Nice set of well maintained buildings on a 250 acre farm. A local BTO bought the farm for $14,000 per acre last year. HE tore out the entire set of buildings including the house. Nothing saved either. Everything pushed into a hole and burnt/buried. HE trashed a 100 year old set of buildings for no good reason.

HE was offered $200K for the buildings and 5 acres of ground. He did not want any neighbors telling him how to do anything on the farm. So his solution was to just tear it all down.

There is funny reaction to this. HE lost over 500 acres of rented ground because of his tearing down the farm stead. It seems the farm he bought had been the Grand Father's farm for two of his landlords. They dumped him as a tenant for tearing the buildings down.

That is a very nice old barn. I bet back in the day (and even now) that was quite a barn. Just think of all the engineering that went into its construction. It is hard to see some of them disappear.

Nice pictures, Larry.


And yes, cured and smoked venison ham is excellent.

Larry new camera? See all those photos you took
painting sheds over the summer. crystal ball see's
red in your future.

I could see that happening around here. There used to be a farmer around here that had real issues in terms of hating competing farmers. He also had the kind of money where he could bulldoze a farmstead and not need the money from selling the house and barns. Makes me sad when I think about some of the guys in the business that have a very poor attitude towards their fellow human beings. Also, it seems these guys never hit a bump in the road.

The same thing has been happening here. Places I
remember are now gone now. We have one BTO that has a crew logging woods, cleaning it up with a
Cat D6 and a large Cat excavator for tillable land.
The financing methods the government encourages a lot of what is happening. If we enter a possible long low price commodity cycle, maybe some of the voodoo financing will go away. Maybe not if another government bailout can be concocted.

What like less then 1% loans on farm land with 40 years to pay. I would love to get this type of loan but you have to have farm for the last 5 years and it has all kinds of other stipulations. It only set up for nepotism.

Must be a rich farmer friend to be able to afford asphalt driveways?.

Nice barns btw