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Paperwork got signed, and a down payment made at the lawyers office today, I am now the proud owner of a monthly payment and the 125 acres that go with it. I was already taking hay off of the place, now it gives me a home farm to work out of, and the 86 year old I bought it from is tickled pink that her ground is going to be farmed. I`m pretty giddy about finally having some ground of my own, only working leases puts a lot of restrictions on what can be done.

A sincere congratulations to you!!!

sixtyninegmc,

Congratulations! It's a pretty good feeling to get your name on a hunk of earth.

Put up a landmark or address if you don't mind so that we can check it out on google earth.

congrats

congratulations on your new place,and i really like that your going to farm it, not throw up cheap housing for big bucks on it, "once the land is gone and we cant farm it, what will we eat?"

Congratulations on the purchase. Working on your own place brings a satisfaction that far surpasses what you feel working on leased property.

Sold my 40 to move to TN I don't regret it but I miss it. May buy something here someday

good going, my big land/property consists of 100x300, with two houses and garage, back yard/lot of100x200 to have fun riding tractors and mower around,lol, some day i like to own more,, probably not...

Congrats are in order. Hope the ground is very productive!

Congratulations. You took a big step that many don't have the guts to do. Many years from now you'll look back on this and be glad you did it. Jim

Happy for you! I only have three acres, but thirty five years ago there were no small parcels of about twenty acres available around here, and that's really what I wanted. Now when an old farm becomes available, it is frequently cut up into about ten acre tracts. But now you have something that no one else has! And that is a good feeling.

Congratulations. Land is the one thing that you can't go wrong on. What types of crops are you able to grow up there?

HAVE FUN BE SAFE, best money I've ever spent was for 40 acres that I can get away from the wife. Usually have a dog or grandson with me.

It's a great feeling, Isn't it? I bought my first farm this year, 49 acres, with about 23 tillable. The guy I bought it from is a family friend, and was glad to sell it to me. It's the only way I could have bought a farm.

From one new Land owner to another, Congratulations! -Andy

Glad things worked out for you. Now you will just have to pay taxes for the rest of your life!

A friend always said he had all of his money tied up in lots and houses! Lots of whiskey and wh---houses!

Here is a google shot with the property lines on it, and the coordinates at the bottom, or just look up Delta Junction, Alaska and go 10 miles due east.

A few details, it is 125 acres total, approx. 65 acres in trees including treelines and the spring and bog, 40-45 hayable and the balance in the homesite, junk, and some fields that can be reclaimed fairly easily through junk cleanup and brush-hogging. Most of the timber is spruce, but a decent amount of it is big enough for mill logs, and a good friend of mine has a band mill and is willing to mill lumber for 50% of the finished product, so that will help things along quite a bit. Very few of the buildings are worth much, including the previous owners house, which she gets to live in until she is unable (she is 86 and in failing health, it will not be long, sadly). The spring just north of the house is open year round, 34 degrees water temperature. It has a fairly high rate of flow, in the middle it is a fast flowing stream 4-8 inches deep and 36 inches wide or so. I have seen fry grayling about 4 inches long in it, and would not be surprised if there are larger ones in it. There is a lot of cleanup to be done, but all in all I am very happy with the place so far and what there is to work with.

We are able to grow grass hay, some legumes though they are hard to dry down for hay they make great silage and pasture, oats, barley, spring wheat, canola, taters do excellent, as do most other vegetables that do well in cooler climates. The area I am in is mostly beef cattle and hay for resale to other beef folks and square bales for horses, with a few dairys, some vegetable growers, little horsey "farms", and a fair bit of grain all thrown in. One guy bought a flour mill, and is milling wheat and barley for flour for human consumption.

Right now I am just doing square bales for the horse market, $420 a ton makes it profitable enough to make a decent living, even with high fertilizer and fuel. My grand scheme eventually is to diversify, build a small herd of cattle to consume any lower-quality hay that gets baled, and rotate the land through hay, legume mix pasture or silage, and enough grain for my own use, and for the bedding that comes with it.

Oh, and one more fun tidbit, it is not in an incorporated borough, our version of a county, so there is no property taxes at all.

looks like some very nice ground. It will be a good destination for a snowmobile trip that some friends and I are planning for next winter. From NH to AK, we will come and visit!

Sounds great, would love to show you around a bit! Met some folks from NH up here riding at Maclaren River this winter, Monadnock Trail Breakers? Pretty decent folks, they fly up here every spring to ride, some beautiful riding up here.
Couple pics from this winter, getting my dad back into riding now that he is retired, his last machine was a `73 pantera 340, he is pretty inpressed with a polaris 700 and a paddle track!

(quoted from post at 13:26:23 05/03/13) Sounds great, would love to show you around a bit! Met some folks from NH up here riding at Maclaren River this winter, Monadnock Trail Breakers? Pretty decent folks, they fly up here every spring to ride, some beautiful riding up here.
Couple pics from this winter, getting my dad back into riding now that he is retired, his last machine was a `73 pantera 340, he is pretty inpressed with a polaris 700 and a paddle track!

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My fathers last sled was a '74 440 Pantera, I still have it. He has been gone thirty years now. I guy that I used to ride with went to Alaska once for something that they called I think the Iron Man competition. He used to wear a jacket that he got there.

These are my two buddies. I was on the Arctic cat in the picture that day which belongs to the guy on the right. I had bent mine the day before and it wasn't rideable. I wrecked mine this last winter. The ins. Co. totaled it but I bought it back and am going to fix it. It is an "05 F7. That looks like some great riding that you have there.