Dad's farm changes 1973, 2001, 2005

First picture is the farm in 1973:



The single-wide trailer is Mom and Dad's house, the stick-built still had Grandma and Great Grandma living in it at the time (we moved to that house in about '86 with a remodel and new addition). Next to the grain bins you can see Dad's 42 Farmall H that he sold to a relative around '74 and I bought back a couple years ago.

This picture is around 2001, Mom and Dad bought a new double-wide to get out of the old stick built in need of major renovations in the older basement and a new roof as well (renovations would have cost more than the new house).



And finally, a picture in 2005 after my brother moved a single-wide out to the farm to live in while he works in town.



It's interesting to sit down with Dad and talk about all the changes that have happened on that farm and the different years that things were done... When he had the quonset built (40x80) he wondered why it was so darn big when all he had was an A Gleaner combine and a '51 Ford truck to put in it along with an 806 International and a D15 Allis Chalmers. Now he wonders why he didn't build it twice as big while it was cheap!

Just a lazy Sunday afternoon and I thought I would share... by the way, the farm is located in SW ND:

Hey, nice pictures of the farm. I see the big barn is still standing yet, most of those up this way have been torn down. The neighbor had a big T-shaped one and with all the fixing it needed he built a new steel one cheaper and knocked down the old one.

(quoted from post at 19:04:27 06/01/08) Hey, nice pictures of the farm. I see the big barn is still standing yet, most of those up this way have been torn down. The neighbor had a big T-shaped one and with all the fixing it needed he built a new steel one cheaper and knocked down the old one.

Click to expand...

The old barn is still in good shape! We have started to tin the sides, the North and East sides are done. South and West sides were just painted a couple years ago. Some rot around the hinges for the big hay mow door... hopefully get that fixed up before it's too late. The barn that was there first was higher, longer, and wider! It came down in the late 50's or early 60's when a tornado went through. Dad says the hail was so bad that one side of the fence posts looked like new from it just chewing the wood right off. Blew all the windows out of the house and garages, too. Wish I could find some pictures of the old barn...

Thanks for the compliment on the pictures, usually someone comes around each year selling the aerial shots. We try to buy every couple years or so these days...

Nice pics. I think it is a good idea getting pictures taken every few years.

Thanks for Sharing.

Round here they send out a card that says "WE WANT TO SHOOT YOU!" and declares that they'll be taking aerial pictures. Nobody preorders so they still send out a door-to-door salesman. He'll gouge you for $75 for the shot if you let him. Or you can haggle him down to about $35 but he'll really try to keep it above $50.

Nice pics. Took me a bit to wrap around the different perspectives in the first two, but they did that on ours too. Used to photo from the SW, now they come in from the SE, about looks like they did that on yours too.

Hey everybody, party at Steve's! He's even got the pullin' track all built!

Now this was interesting to see the changes with pictures to prove it. *S Was going to make a joke about you having a real tall tractor to shot them photo's with.. lol lol

Nice, well kept farm, glad you are able to keep the old barn standing and functional. Seems to be fewer and fewer all the time. Ours was not as big but it went down in a wind storm in 83.

Several years ago, my sister and I recieved a Pioneer Family award from the State of Nebraska because our farm has been in the same family over 100 years.

That gave me reason to ponder how the place was when I was a kid, compared to now. Quite a difference.

My brother was had just that way. A gentleman stopped by our house asking if we wnated to buy an aerial picture of our farm. At the time the picture was taken the barn needed to be painted really bad and behind the barn it looked pretty bad too. Not an atractive picture at all.

He went all the way down to $25 and mom told him to get packing, so then he went 2 houses over to my brother who bought it for $75. Mom was talking about it later when he chimed in he got that picture for $75. Mom laughed and said she refused it at $25. He got real quiet for a couple days....

Donovan from Wisconsin

i love stuff like this! Family farmers are my heroes!