Be it ever so humble...

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Beautiful farm

WOW, more reality in this picture than some might realize.

$80,000 fifth wheel, what farmer
is gonna use that much?

Is that an old boxcar body by the barnyard?

We used to have an old boxcar on the yard for storage on the farm we rented. Our boys would climb the end ladders and be up on the roof playing whatever game they were playing that day. Sometimes stored grain in it - what a pain. Mostly used it for bagged feed. Finally tore it down because it was a five star rat hotel!

This post was edited by ADB-Ia on 02/15/2023 at 05:24 am.

Looks like many an old farm around here a few years ago.

That could be in our area, looks like the pole set that is running through our farm.

My brother. He hurries to get his field work done so he can hook up his camper and hit the road. Not my cup of tea but as John T would say, to each their own.

Many years ago, a flood hit part of Kansas and wiped out many a farm and a goodly portion of the AT&SF RR. RR men spent a great deal of time cleaning up and collecting all the wrecked rolling stock and parts of the track that had been swept away. But, despite a diligent search, one boxcar eluded their efforts. They could identify the parts of every other piece of equipment but that one car. This loss made the Accounting Dept, the insurance company, the RR it belonged to, and the ICC all very unhappy, but nothing turned up.

Years later, a RR man was driving down an old farm road not too far from the the long-cleaned-up disaster area. He happened to glance down a side road and, among the barns and sheds of a farmstead, caught a familiar shape out of the corner of his eye: it looked like a peaked roof on a shed that had what looked like a roof walk on it.

Intrigued, he backed up and turned down the side road. As he got closer, he became convinced that there was a boxcar next to a barn with a lean-to built up against it. He stopped to talk with the farmer. Sure enough, back when the big flood had happened, the farmer returned to his devastated farmstead to find all of his buildings wrecked but one "new building" sitting near what was left of his home. Grateful for this unexpected blessing in the midst of destruction, the farmer, who hadn't understood just what the structure was, had used it as the nucleus of his new buildings. It had served as storage, as shelter, as a workshop: all as the farmer needed at various times.

The RR man looked at the frame and verified that, yes: it was the long-lost boxcar. But he didn't even tell the farmer what he had: he was certain that he could go back to the office and put to rest the mystery of the lost car, closing the books for everyone. He reported that he found a piece of iron buried in a field--which was true as far as it went--but left the farmer to enjoy his shed.

I think about every farmer in our area has one of those and a lot more. Including the one who rents our land. Most spend weekends at the lake.

Looks like home without the fifth wheel