whats left of old dairy farm

rick1 · Feb 7, 2014

Here is three pics of a old 1950s era dairy farm the first pic is the milk house there is a little sign in the upper center that says McCormick dairy products.the barn was burnt by kids a couple years back the silo is burnt also but still stands and the house well it speaks for itself.that's my t4020 Newholland tractor hauling round bales .
Rick

Anonymous-0 · Feb 7, 2014

That is sad.

VicS · Feb 7, 2014

Neat pictures, love those old farmsteads. There is a old barn near me, that has the neatest stall door latches and feed tubes, made out of 1X6. and hay racks you fill from the loft. Also rope winches to change wagon beds or something? If you were buying another tractor would you get front wheel assist? Seens like we run our front wheels in all the time except highway.

rick1 · Feb 7, 2014

that tractor is a 2008 model i bought it from the large construction co. i work for. been there 37 years so far.it was a broom tractor on a paving crew .the company bought several of these tractors but the union operators used the clutch pedals for a foot rest everyone of the tractors lost the clutch.so they sold them all and bought hydrostatic transmission tractors.they replaced all the clutches and sold them all to who ever wanted to buy them.some sold on craigslist.i got it for a price i couldnt turn down.i usede it last spring pulling a 8 ft drag disc and did all the haying chores thru the summer pulling a ih 990 haybine/running a nh 850 round baler and a nh310 square baler with no issues at all.but i keep my fingers crossed.
RICK

The Dukester · Feb 7, 2014

Certainly not your fault, but I just want to heave up when I see old run down places like that....and God knows there are plenty of them everywhere. I 'm just a melancholy old man I suppose, but I can remember when places like that were thriving homes and enterprises that their owners busted their butts on, but were proud and happy citizens. Why can't places like that just quietly be demolished and thereby forgotten if no one cares about them anymore?

ohiojim · Feb 7, 2014

here's one I visited yesterday....

Steve@Advance · Feb 7, 2014

Used to do some work for a couple that owned a dairy. They lived in an old 2 story house, handed down from his side of the family.

That was the neatest old house, had varnished cedar paneling and cabinets, peeled and varnished support posts inside and out, porches all around.

She hated it, just an old house to her.
He finally caved to her demands to move, ended up in a brand new... Doublewide.

The house was abandoned to ruin.

John B. · Feb 7, 2014

I love the pictures.

My parents live in an old 10 room two story farm house that was built in 1872. They only use 3 rooms during the winter and maybe 5 in the summer. Been in our family since 1926. Dad was born and raised there. We would like for them to move into assisted living now that we found out that is a medical expense and his veterans' benefits would pay up to $2000 a month on it.
The old house is in need of repair and my two brothers and I talk that it needs to be torn down after no one lives there any more. We just don't want to stick the money it would take to fix it up. That's all my mom and dad did with it thru all my years is fix it up. Maybe that's why some of these old houses are left to deteriorate.

Brent Zappe · Feb 7, 2014

Thanks for this letter about these nice old houses. I live in in the last house of the Swiss Dairy that had started up here in Riverside Ca back in 1914. My house is all redwood frame and built very nice.

Spook · Feb 7, 2014

I looked at buying a old farmstead years back. The house needed about 100K worth of work, back in the 80's. The owner's wanted 130K for the house and 10 acres. I had bought a 1974 house, about the same size, with 10 acres, for 62K, the previous year. They never did sell the place, the owners had moved south, and died a few years later. The house fell down, and was burned by the vfd for practice a few years later. The property sold for 22K, without the house on it. These folks had inherited the place, and wanted much more than it was worth, eventually, the value went to near nothing.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 7, 2014

It is sad to see old places abandoned, each with their own story to tell, actually a little piece of history. I used to wonder why someone didn't fix them up. Then I found one main reason, EXPENSE!
In 1977 we bought a small house on three acres, the house had been built in 1948, and is still basically solid. But, when we began figuring the cost to remodel and upgrade in 2000, OUCH! It needed complete kitchen and bath redo. Upgrade wiring, new plumbing, windows and heating system. (It never had a heating system, and it was getting hard to find and cut wood). Add in the fact that it is almost impossible to live in a house during a remodel of this magnitude. We bought a new, total electric doublewide, with half again more floor space, for less than it would have cost to remodel the old house.
Plans were to remove the old house, but at present it is still being used for storage.

farmerwithmutt · Feb 7, 2014

my house is on that point do i fix up or rebuild if i rebuild i would still have a large house to heat not built for handicap (showers doors steps) garage is in basement and sadly my dad spent as little money as posible ceiling in one room is tacked on 1x2 all warped ceiling going now list goes on.if i got 20 or 30 years what do i do

nybadlybent · Feb 7, 2014

My old house was built around 1860. It is still a comfortable place to live. Real estate people have been in it several times and said they could get me some good money for the house and farm. Decided long ago that I had to live somewhere and that this place was good enough for me and my wife likes it here so lets hope it lasts a bit longer.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 7, 2014

nice pictures,I took some of some barns today too

SweetFeet · Feb 7, 2014

Thanks for posting...really neat.

Would love to walk around there with my camera!

JD Seller · Feb 7, 2014

Well I must be getting blind. I only see two pictures. The Old house and the milk house. Nothing about any tractor.

rick1 · Feb 8, 2014

i kinda left the tractor out by mistake.but click on the post above and you will see it.
RICK

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