What's he doing?

If you think land out there is expensive, check around! I just bought 9 acres here in WA and paid $10,000 more than what my 120 acres of farmland in SD is assessed at (and I can't find a buyer at that price)! I've lived in Michigan, Utah, Oregon and WA but SD is still the cheapest by far....ND and WY might be a little cheaper. Sure wish somebody would invent a way to move land....

On the other hand, there are some areas of Washington that are still very reasonably priced, even some West of the Cascades.

I have family all over North and South Dakota and Montana. My family moved here just after WW2 and I was born in Washington. But we have gone to those other states so much to visit, I feel completely at home there. I have thought about moving to NE Montana, where my cousins would let me live in the very good house at the old family homestead for nothing but utilities. Nobody has lived in the house continuously for many years, but they have kept it heated to keep it in good condition. But since most of my kids are here, I will probably stay here to be close to them.

This is also how we did it in nothern North Dakota, when I was growing up.

http://www.unchainedwriters.com/readstory.php?storyid=205

Yep, everyone in this country bucked hay also years ago. I think they still use 'em in places down in the sandhills here NE. I know I've seen a lot of stationary stackers still working.

Remember that swinging gate with the two legs hanging down to pull the load back off the sweep when ya backed up?

Wish we had a picture so we knew what he was talking about.

This brings to mind the time we had to cut a haystack in half (My dad was known for building some huge stacks.

Anyway, he took two tractors, one on either side of the stack, drapped a long length of barbed wire over the stack and hooked each end to a tractor drawbar. Then he and the neighbor used those two tractors to cut the stack in two, much like a two-man lumber saw. Cut that stack in two like a knife thru butter.

Allan

--->Paul