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my nephew sent me an e mail of two good you tube documentarys of a farm we all knew real well in the town I grew up in. Never knew it,,but my dad is in one of them. Three brothers lived on this farm,two were almost blind . I hope someone can look it up for me and make it accessable with the poke here method. If you plug in Duderstadt Farm New jersey,,you might find a you tube clip called a dying breed..Then on the side it might say LB Woods at the farm,,my dad is in that one he gave two pigs to the farmer.Im hoping someone can set both of them up, I dont know how to do it.

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thank you so much,,did you watch them? The pigs were in my dads ford truck,he raised them and gave them to the old farmer,,Hugo It was not much longer after that my dad passed away,Everyone of the men in the clips are gone now,except the two guys in the back,They may still be with us. i drove the old gmc flatbed when I was 16,,they couldnt drive,,so when I got my farm permit licence I drove quite often for them,I drove the one brown ford pickup too.The one brother let me mow hay with the d 14 a/c.He taught me by listening to the mower,telling me what to do.

Larry is your Dad Charles?? Is he the one closing the topper door?? When would this video have been made?

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Sort of watched them, didn't turn the speaker on so wasn't much to watch. Might watch with sound latter.

Great videos of some great ol' guys.

Would have been a fun place to wander around with a camera in the spring... when the plants are just leafing-out a bit - but don't yet hide the rust.

Thanks for sharing.

my dad is Charles,,that would have been in the early 90s right before he died of heart failure,,,,there were three brothers,all legally blind,,never took any assisatance or welfare,,Hugo was strong in his day,,His brother Henry got to close to the stream with a tractor,it flipped over and pinned him,,Hugo lifted the tractor off of him.Hugo worked in a plastic factory at night and farmed days,No one in the factory could keep up with him working.He worked till his 70s the factory didnt want him to leave.

he left the farm to the town,the house and barns are still there,,,there is a soccer field in the hayfields

he was holding the front of the pig,someone else closed the topper door

Corey,
Looked like the sequel to Tobacco Road.LOFLMAO.
LOU

I don't understand living in abject poverty like that. You have land, a house, no debts, thousands of dollars of scrap irons and vintage items. And yet the place is just a total pigsty. Larry, where did you get your work ethic from? Certainly not these folks.

you really had to know them,,,the three brothers wer almost blind,,never to any welfare,,you really had to know them

My father did bring him two nice pigs dint he? He liked to raise the white pigs and was good at it.That was in the Lb woods video

Thanks for posting Larry.I wish there was something like that of some of the characters around here. I worked around several as I was growing up. Thats how I became somewhat nonjudgemental. If a person worked hard I respected them. Their lifestyle was their business and as long as they supported themselves how they lived was their business. I really enjoyed the clips. Lee

Great videos Larry Looks like Hugo had a good setup and was happy. Glad you got a video of you
Dad. I wish I had gotten some of my Dad.

Looks like your Dad raised some good looking Yorkshires or maybe Landrace? Landrace aren't found
too much in this part of the country.


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GordoSD- Your post was RUDE, uncalled for and in poor form.

(quoted from post at 22:30:09 12/15/15) GordoSD- Your post was RUDE, uncalled for and in poor form.

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Boy, I agree with that sentence.

(quoted from post at 19:19:07 12/15/15) I don't understand living in abject poverty like that. You have land, a house, no debts, thousands of dollars of scrap irons and vintage items. And yet the place is just a total pigsty. Larry, where did you get your work ethic from? Certainly not these folks.

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(quoted from post at 20:19:07 12/15/15) I don't understand living in abject poverty like that.

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Thats because you have no clue what "abject poverty" means.... and you should be thankful for that.

Look at the vids again and concentrate on the land, the equipment, the maintenance and the care of the lawns and driveways. Look at the maze to get the pigs in the "pen". Doesn't set the bar very high. Perhaps a "wonderful fellow" but a man to be revered? I wouldn't want my grandsons to visit that place. I'm sure it is in an unzoned county.

............... and just why wouldn't you want your Grandsons to visit that place?
I think they would learn something.

Not everyone in this world "has it all", or grew up on "easy street"!
These poor fellows had eyesight problems also.

I can certainly relate to that way of life.

My town had the Nehls brothers. Spelled so,etching like that. They were both in their 80s for a long time, lived up on the hill where the rich folk were building ever closer. They had maybe 5 acres. Grew vegetable shoots and sold them in spring. Probably had some eggs for sale.

When they died the city took over the land, made a park of ot with their name on it. Had an auction to clean the place out. The house never had paint inside it, the soot was a 1/4 inch deep instead. They never had indoor plumbing. They. Owed lawn with a belly mount mower on their offset small IHC tractor. A or b or whichever those little offsets are. The mower was homemade by them. It was a road grader blade on a shaft, spun by a belt drive off the pulley. There was no guard or sheet metal, you just sat on the tractor with your feet pretty much over the top,of that spinning blade.....

And so on and so forth, the 2 brothers just lived like that their whole life. The auction musta maybe been in the early 90s, wasn't way back on the old days or anything.....

Interesting folk, yours and these.

Paul

thanks for all the replys,,I can understand all of them and cant dissagree with anyone,,I just want to say,,I knew there would be mixed feelings,and I totslly understand. I showed the videos anyway,because I was proud to know those three almost blind brothers.And my father delivering two hogs was not too long before he died. The town was appauled by the messy place too,but,,he died and left it to the town to make a park for young people.The town took the place,,made many soccer fields.They had good ground there,grew some nice vegetables,,,,the town could have made some community gardens too instead of all soccer fields? I wonder if the rich people that were disgusted by these brothers let there kids play soccer there?And finally,,if any of you ever met these guys,,,,you would like them,, I guarentee it.I wasnt afraid to post it,,and I wish they were still there.

I dont think they wee pure bred,,but he always liked the white ones

they did bales a lot of hay,, I drove their truck some to deliver it,,,one brother taught me to tie knots and rope the hay down,and many many other thing.They were very close to being blind,and never took welfare of any kind,paid taxes and bought trucks so they werent all bad,sloppy,,,yes,,,bad,,,no

Its wasnt unzoned,the town hated the place,till he left it to them,,now there is a picture painting of the old barn at the town hall and soccer fields in all the fields

I wish they were still there,and I Would take my daughter there again even though shes 23 now.

thanks!I did know some would not like it,but I really wanted to post it,,you really had to meet theae brothers to know them,it is something Iam not sfraid to post

Lord, Larry you did it again. What a fantastic post! No. 1 in my book. And you are very very fortunate to have that video of your Dad. Videos were not around when my Dad passed.
Now I can relate to similar old farms and old timers like that. here in West PA. guys like John Boggs (he would tell me stories how he drove team of horses across the Ohio River in the summer), Bud Gray and others.
H*ll I could find an old place like that here right now.
Will share you post with my friends.

Larry it sure tells a story, one that is similar all around the U.S. We had a farm, close by on a town road, they were getting old, but not blind yet or anything and their place was in similar shape, chickens and livestock were free to roam inside their house!

People get old, place gets away from them, I am sure it did not always look like it was shown, would have been great to get a gang in there, help get the place cleaned up and organized, old equipment and all. I've worked on a few old farms in NJ that were demolished for new housing developments, and you are not kidding about good ground, I've never seen such rich soils as I have encountered on some of these farms, one job, I loaded up some buckets and grew tomatoes, because its been a tradition to grow them, even though technically I was out of town. They did grow quite well too.

Pa to you, is what NY was to me back in those days, still having our farm land intact, barn and house was still there as well. Only trouble was it was almost 200 miles away and you could only enjoy it when there was time and that was hard when you worked 6 days a week. I should have looked in PA, like you, at leas thats just an hour or so.

If he did not donate it, you know darned well they would have condemned it, taken it by eminent domain or some way similar. I lived in the neighborhood to the west, off Mt Airy road, just down the road a piece. Funny, back then I drove an old rusty K10 chevy, and one evening after work and after playing a game in a soft ball league, I rounded the corner where Mt Airy road met the road to the entrance of the condo development I lived in, (all really nice former farm land). I got pulled over for looking suspicious, as no one in that neighborhood, drove anything like that, to them it was a rolling eyesore. It did not help when the door swung open, (it had issues) and I slammed it shut, waking up the cop behind the wheel of the patrol car parked in a dark place overlooking the intersection, he made mention of that to me! I parked it there at these condos a good while too, finally got something a bit newer. Even when I went to drive it out of there, to its retirement where it still is now, I got pulled over again. Funny too because it was completely off the road, I mean completely and I drove it the 176 miles to here regardless to get it done. I was imaginative with my explanation to the patrolman, back when you could still do these kinds of things, and no I don't condone such things, but when you are young, funds are tight.... lets just say it was not the first time and that I am glad those days are over, well except for being young LOL !

It was sad, as an equipment operator, to be part of a massive gang of earthmoving equipment that destroyed many of these kinds of farms in NJ, their fields now in massive piles left by the pans or scrapers. These developers made a fortune off every one of these places.

Regardless, glad you posted the videos anyways!

My Mothers family was so poor, (her Dad was a circuit rider preacher who was sometimes paid in potatoes and chickens) that during the depression, she and her sister would beg food from the Indians who were the poorest people in the county. I guess that's when Mom made stew or soup she would laughingly say, "Dig deep. puppy in the bottom"? All her clothes even in high school came from "first dibs" at the boxes of donations for the missionaries. Dad was trying to earn a living selling Bibles and nylon stockings door to door. He hoboed his way to Oregon, but came back fairly soon.
Not a very easy street for them.