This old house

samn40 · Sep 29, 2013

I have been doing my hedgecutting business for 30 years now and this week I was back in the area where I first started. Johnny D saw me cutting on my own farm with a nice shiny new yellow hedge cutter and asked me if I would cut his farm. I ended up cutting 6 farms in that area that week,
The smallest farm was a real old time Northern Irish farm belonging to a wee Mrs Irwin. Although Johnny had bought the farm he still let the old girl live in the house. Mrs I died that year and Johnny died about 1994. His son got the small farm, but he doesn't farm and decided it was a good idea to let the hedges grow for the last 3 years(economic depression!)
The state of the old homestead brought home to me how time waits for no man and reinforces how long I have been cutting. It seems like yesterday when I first visited this home
See next post....sorry I don't know what I did wrong!!!!
not used to this 'modern view!'....Sam

samn40 · Sep 29, 2013

(quoted from post at 21:53:34 09/29/13) I have been doing my hedgecutting business for 30 years now and this week I was back in the area where I first started. Johnny D saw me cutting on my own farm with a nice shiny new yellow hedge cutter and asked me if I would cut his farm. I ended up cutting 6 farms in that area that week,
The smallest farm was a real old time Northern Irish farm belonging to a wee Mrs Irwin. Although Johnny had bought the farm he still let the old girl live in the house. Mrs I died that year and Johnny died about 1994. His son got the small farm, but he doesn't farm and decided it was a good idea to let the hedges grow for the last 3 years(economic depression!)
The state of the old homestead brought home to me how time waits for no man and reinforces how long I have been cutting. It seems like yesterday when I first visited this home

The farmer who grazes the ground just does not care and has let the cattle wreck everything! The bedrooms once occupied this space....

I remember drinking tea in this room in front of the open hearth...

And the fireplace in the 'good' room...

The pig pens....

I used to have to make sure to close these gates that led from the yard to the fields!

The old front door has seen better days....

The hedges had nearly gotten out of control...Not what Johnny or Mrs Irwin liked! The electricity still runs to the pole beside the old house....

I finally got the hedges of this old time farm back to the way the old people liked it!

The farm is 12 acres in 5 small fields....real old time Ulster!....A step back in time!
Sam

Tony in Mass. · Sep 29, 2013

The people who don't let livestock graze, need a mower. Those that don't mow, need a bushog. Those that don't bushhog need a bulldozer... those that don't get a dozer, need to hire a logger...
I invented this ol saying all by meself... all depends on local weather of course, but yeah, 20 or 30 years just flies by.... time and vegetation waits for no one....
(;{)....

oj · Sep 29, 2013

Sam, i used to work for a big spud farmer and he
rented a farm with a huge old house and buildings
that were falling apart slowly, these photos
reminded me of that place. It was close to Monmouth,
south Wales...

Anonymous-0 · Sep 29, 2013

here's how we trim hedges
over here

This old house

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