Our farm is featured on National Geographic!! (PICS)

Hey guys, I got so busy I forgot to tell you all that our farm was featured on the premier episode of "Building Wild" on The National Geographic channel last week (but it's on again tomorrow)!! They approached us last April, looking to build a hunting camp on some local property. We needed a new camp and pursued it further. While at Red Power Round-Up they called and confirmed they were going ahead with the build and in August they showed up and built it! It features our 300 acre dairy farm, an old 120+ year old barn, and the "Dirty Dozen" (The twelve guys that hunt the farm's land). If you have time check us out on the National Geographic channel Tuesday January 21 at 8pm Eastern standard time, for you guys out west and in the mid-west check when it's on in your area I'm not sure the times for you guys, the episode is called "The Dirty Dozen Deer Lodge." The pictures are of the Dirty Dozen (I am the big guy with the beard leaning up against the front tire). If you watch, "Mike" is my wife's uncle and owns the farm with my wife and her brother who is the guy in the beginning feeding the pigs. thanks for watching, it was quite the experience!! ~Anthony

I watched that, and if I heard wright you are in upstate NY? If so what reigon.
What did you end up doing with the old cabin and the matress, burn them? It looked like the skidder operator wasn't showing any signs of stopping for obstructions.
The YearRound cab/restroom, on the trolly track was kinda neet. Did it actually run off the end of the track? How does the barbacue/smooker work?
Looks like the orginizers of the show did a good job of salvaging and repurposeing your old barn.
Loren, the Acg.

Neat! Seems like everybody's getting on TV these days. I just saw our old vet on Doc Talk on RFD TV. Guess he must have had to have his moment since Dr Pol has his own show.

Had a friend that went elk hunting with a group like that. The guys stayed up real late drinking booze the first night, while he slept in his bunk in the crowded cabin.

He got up early, looked out the window and the elk were right outside the cabin. He grabbed his high powered rifle, opened the door just enough to stick the end of the barrel out a ways and shot his elk.

When that rifle went off inside the cabin, guys started falling out of their bunks (hungover, of course). He loaded up his elk, packed his gear and went home.

Sounds like something my brother in law did. Danged dummy was laying in bed one night in the hunting cabin playing around with a pistol. One of the guys said dammit Sonny,put that thing away before you shoot yourself! He waited a minute,stuck the barrel out the window and pulled the trigger.

Saw that a few days ago.

Loren, We are next to Greenwich, just outside of Saratoga Springs in Washington County. When we took the cabin down everything went well until it got hung up on that first stump, it was more than salvageable until the last leg when it hung up on another stump and it really began to break apart, you saw that part on tv. The skidder loader is a friend of ours and was real good about taking it easy but once it started breaking up we told him to put the hammer down and make some good tv lol. We wanted to use it for a chicken coup or maybe a pen for our pigs but we just ended up burning it. The tractor cab did jump off the track and that was not staged, we really had no clue there was no stop at the end. Once we found that out we put the cab back on the tracks and really took it for a ride and we got it to jump almost 4 feet off the end lol. I'll tell you, that barn should have collapsed years ago under many bad winters, there was a reason it didn't and they did a great job saving it for us ! ~Anthony

HAD A GUY SHOW UP HERE ONE SPRING MORNING WHEN THE WIFE AND I WERE GETTING THE CORN PLANTER READY. HE WAS WEARING SOME REAL TREE CAMEO THAT LOOKED LIKE IT HAD BEEN PRESSED. I got a wiff of him as he approached and he smelled like he had bathed in perfume.
He struts right up to us and introduces himself as a TV personality who has his own hunting show. Say, I see a lot of wild turkeys on the fields around here and I am looking for the landowner. Do you know who they may be? The wife says "I do and no you can't hunt on our farm.
He goes right on talking, telling us that he will be giving us credits when his show airs and he will not harm our farm. Will just be a show about turkey hunting with me [him] and my guest hunters.

By now the wife has had enough of him and responds with" what part of no don't you understand"? He keeps right on talking so I start the tractor and pull away and the wife goes into the house leaving him there alone.

When I asked her what else was said after I left she said that she told him if he wanted to hunt there she would sell him the farm but she is not sure he heard her because he never stopped talking.

Yes we have a large turkey and deer population here but we are the ones who grow the crops that feed them and we pay the taxes and costs of owning the farm. We have lots of family and friends that hunt our properties and we do not needs some tv dude who wants to make money from our hard work. Let him buy his own hunting property and make all of the hunting vieos he wants.

She really knows how to get the volunteers to gather around.

I saw it the other night, pretty cool! Looks like ya had fun doing it. I know first hand alot of good memories will come from that cabin... John

I got it set to record tonight.

just saw this, it it on tonight? id like to watch it

Yeah Eric, it's on tonight the hour before the new episode. Here in the East its on at 8pm, not sure when it's on in your neck of the woods. ~Anthony

Pretty cool. Don't have access to cable and no satellite TV (spending our $$ on satellite internet) so can't watch this.

Reminds me of when I was in the pilot for a new Animal Planet show. The host (Bert Kreicher) was part of our Ohio State Fair Llama Show. They had two crews filming him showing and getting the llamas ready to show, etc. and other things going on at the show. I was the show announcer so they did several shots of me announcing results and general announcements. Unfortunately the finished pilot didn't score well with their test audiences and it never aired. They never would send us a DVD of it either, I guess they were afraid it would get out where they didn't want it to be seen. It was lots of fun however, seeing the behind the scenes stuff that goes into making a reality show. The Animal Plantet people were great. I understand Bert has done several shows that did air after this.

I watched the program also . Never could tell what model international tractor you had.

I watched the episode last night ,very interesting. It was nice the way you got to use the old barn.That is an example of farmer recycling.