Mr. Goodpliers heads to Jewell County Kansas to check out a 100 year old abandoned farmstead! This site was full of old Chevrolet, Plymouth, and Ford cars, trucks, plus John Deere and Farmall tractors!
Loved being at the auction and watching how people bid and wondered if any of those old tractors will see new life. Glad you showed the inside of the house and gave respect to the past owner, makes us realize how soon our life passes before we realize that it is gone, I bet he always figured to do something with every thing he horded. God Bless You for showing his life.
You are so spot on, I basically left him the same reply, Just so glad he does this, his channel is outstanding, I've never seen a negative comment,, And I'm glad he keeps going and striving to get better
I'm your dad's age, but as a kid I would go to auction with my grandpa in the area of southeast Nebraska. Thanks for letting us relive those still important memories.
Seeing someone live that way, by choice or not saddens me deeply. 😢 I thank him for his service and I hope that he's in a far better place now 😇 And commenters PLEASE be respectful about his living conditions, not everyone follows the flock.
The saddest part was, the land alone sold for a million dollars. That amount would have given him a comfortable retirement, but it was just never on his radar screen. There just was no awareness or desire there. This was the place he grew up, and he never knew anything different.
Happy Holidays to you thank you for posting all the auctions all year long you are lucky to live in kansas and have enjoyment in attending auctions and enjoy collecting old cars and trucks
At the 16:35 to 16:40 marks that old plow! I spent an hour at an auction once cutting out a Syracuse horse-drawn for a customer....then carefully burning the remaining wood off...then custom painting the plowshare and re-lettering it. Came out nice and the $300 he gave me for it was equally nice!
Sure enjoy the history you bring to all of the places you go. The cars, trucks, and tractors/implements. It would help an old guy if you would tell where you are at a little more through the tours.
Was this the same auction, cause it sure seemed different to me. Guess its from watching them on two different days, but the vehicles seemed different and even the auctioneers seemed slower or something in Mr. Goodpliers video compared to Silas' video.
Old house places in this condition are more common than people think. I worked for a funeral home for a few years after I retired and when we would go pick up a body from an old "loner," the houses looked like this, some a bit better and some like this. It is sad to know that people exist that have no family or friends to check on them and some have mental illnesses that don't want anyone around. Just a side note, I don't know how many acres these 2 tracts are, but I remember watching "Field of Dreams" and Kevin Cosner's character mentioned that his Iowa farmland was worth $2,000 an acre. I think that movie was in the late '80s. Times have changed.
cool to listen to the wind blow through the grass and trees and get louder as the afternoon went on at that kansas prairie farmstead much simple pleasure thank you could feel the summer heat
That red Fairmont would be a 1978 model which was the first year for the Fairmont. It had white turn signal lights in 78, then switched to orange lights in 1979.
In 1981 as a dog handler for us gov. I was assigned a Fairmont wagon with 302 v-8 3:73 posi-trac rear ratio. Being so light that car flew up highway and still gave 24 mpg. And it could dig in the snow and mud when other patrol cars couldn't. Robin egg blue. Got transferred but motor pool would not let go of that car. Was sold to shop mechanic.
Between 2004-2009, I had a '74 F100 longbed. All orange. It's original owner was the state of Kansas DOT (Saline county). Had a 360 V8 and automatic transmission. Power steering and brakes. It originally had A/C, but by the time I bought it, it no longer worked. And I didn't bother to fix it.
I have always liked the Chevy 41/46 pickups definitely going to get one before to long put it on a later chassis engine running also Ford cab over c class
20:45 Allis Chalmers RotoBaler - the 1st of the round balers. Made 18" +/- dia round bale. Started late 1940's (1947?) & finished late 60's/early 70's w/ a 'white top' model.
AC "harvester" is an early round baler Model was called Roto Baler. Made bales about 20"diameter by 36"or so inches. Bales did not stack as tight in the mow as square bales.AL B.
The vise grip garage would like those old tractors and his freind the Oliver man tractor guy or Hamilton Ville Farms , they all do old tractors vlogs and farming/ cow deal , thanks BigAl California praise Jesus Christ grace amen 🙏
I know the old Johnny poppers aren't worth too much even restored in most cases. That is compared to specially to what cost to get them there. But some of those seats are worth half or twice what they paid for the whole tractor. Or at least he used to be. And I could use one for John Deere B that I have. The woodwork in the house has great potential on resale. First thought was too bad nobody helped a man out. But then he probably wouldn't want it anyway. I owned and drove a Ford Fairmont future with a in line 6 cylinder. It was a 200 CID somebody else can correct me but the old 1964 falcon which I had one of them was like a 160 CID. There were a couple of other sizes that they used for the inline 6 as well that was under 200 CID. A warrant officer that I served with had a 302 and his two-door version of that four-door you saw. I think it was about 8 hours and he slept the whole way. We going from one duty post to another to make the story short 85 90 miles an hour the whole trip. I stopped at a couple of gas stations and visited mother nature while the car is getting gas. Of course only where it's legal to do those kind of speeds. A lot younger than. As far as cruising at 3:02 and Fairmont did you find and still got something like 25 miles to the gallon I think. Approximately 1940 Chevy with a sizeable tree growing through it made great pictures. Something you could probably sell as photo art with the right quality pictures.
@@mr.goodpliers6988 I knew a man that died at approximately 85 years of age. Been number years ago. He is actually born in the front room of that house. His father was killed in a farming accident. His mother and him continue to farm and cattle. Nice as old boy a person could ever hope to meet. His mother passed away and her 30 or 40 years after that he lived in the house until he passed away. Now the inside of his house wasn't messy it was in need of organization he live a very Spartan life. He also had one of the biggest bank accounts around I guess. He never married never had children. That farm was his life. Sounds like a gentleman who own that farm where are you attended the auction, his life was at Farm as well. I thought you was very respectful of the man and stepping out there and saying don't be judgmental the way his house looked. That was very kind of you and of course the right thing.
That old Chevy pickup... turn-down outer door handles, no vent/wing windows in the doors, and the fuel tank behind the seat...those things all mark it as being either a 1949 or 1950. (Just for future reference.)
@@ernielaw the '47 gas filler was on the passenger side of the bed, with the fuel tank under the bed. Hood side emblems read "Chevrolet", with "Thriftmaster" or "Loadmaster" underneath. Serial numbers were EP for 1/2 ton; ER for 3/4 ton; and ES for 1 ton. The only difference that I know of between the '47 and '48, is that the serial numbers for '48 changed to FP; FR; and FS. Early '49 serial numbers were changed to GP; GR; and GS. In late '49, the hood side emblems dropped the "Thriftmaster" and "Loadmaster". Changed to Chevrolet, with 3100, 3600, or 3800 underneath. There may (probably) be more differences. But these are the ones that readily come to my old mind. I don't claim to be any sort of expert. Just someone who did a lot of research a few decades ago, when I was doing a frame-off rebuild of a '54 that I once had.😁
So once everything has been picked over, vehicles collected, etc, what's going to happen to the homestead? Curious and thanks for getting along to these auctions
All trees and structures will be dozed into a pile, and the ground put to crop land. I know a lot of people would like to move to the country, but the two tracts sold for $400k and $600k (combined million dollars). A steep buy-in for property way out in the middle of nowhere
You had a video of a blue 46 chevy truck in Kansas at auction , it was my dad's from ky , trying to find the video to show my dad I remember their was a yellow crane after showing the truck, love your content, can you please help me find this video.. thank you so much
Was it the unfinished rat rod build? Title of that video is "HUGE Car & Truck collection: Part Two - Auction Action! 1957 Chevy, Model A, C10 pickups, Jeeps!"
I don't mean to be rude. But, why would you buy the contents of the shed... take only a couple of items (which is what you obviously wanted)... and leave the rest for the family or new owner of the property, to have to haul to the landfill or wherever?
@@willhorting5317 value, most of what is visible is just scrap metal. Post leg vises are popular with blacksmiths and depending on brand can bring hundreds of dollars. Post drills not so much. A nice Columbiana might bring $80. There may be treasures hidden in there, but those 2 are obvious value
@@willhorting5317 also you're buying picking rights, not entire contents. Place like that will probably have a lot left to be bulldozed and burnt or hauled away
@@drskull9 oh ok. It's been years since I went to a farm auction, of any kind... even though I went to MANY over the decades. But I wasn't a "picker", or someone who bid on picking rights. So I had no idea. Thanks for the explanation.
Auctioneers know when they sell the contents of a building or picking rights that what is left will go into the dumpster. Tim knows the good stuff is always at the bottom of the pile or hanging on a nail and nobody knows what the part goes to but he usually does.AL B.
@@my2cents945 back in the 70's those were girl getters. Go to the drive in theaters, park backwards, lawn chairs and a cooler. Rock and Roll, High times
What happened to these farms you are going to did they pass away and family does not want them. We are sure losing alot of them thanks for the videos happy new year.
I'd probably give $50 for that truck in the thumbnail, if it's got it's original oil and original tires. I'm not paying extra though for the rat sh1t under the seat springs or the bird's nest in the engine block
Don't you agree that the word ABANDONED is over used ? Somebody owns these things, even if it the bank. Because if it was really abandoned they're would be nothing left. It would have been picked clean and vandalized. Sad 2 at the same time. Places like this will simply disappear. You do a terrific job on the videos.
Yeah...often I see about some video about a old house or car as "abandoned" eventhough it has owner or if he's gone his family is owns it. You can actualy get in trouble with the law if you break in or try to take it.
I have delusions of working on vehicles but the lion's share of time goes to customer stuff. At the end of 2022 I put up a couple videos of my first car, a 1963 Fairlane, and a few of my dad's 1940s & 50s cars. A goal for next year is to get a few things cleaned up and finished up with buildings, and make work space & time to get on a few projects!
I know the title says abandoned homestead but is it or does someone own it now banks ECT or maybe family still does but doesn't work it I'm looking for some land to move over this next year maybe owner financed type of th ing looking at about 10 acres of so keep designed but no info on them any ideas would be greatly appreciated
@@mr.goodpliers6988 🤯🤯 A million dollars? Granted, it's been YEARS since I knew what the going price per acre was. But wow!!! Do you know how many total acres the property is/was?
@@mr.goodpliers6988 sir do you know by chance who was the buyer l hear alot about gates buying up most farm land in the country. I have not looked into this yet.
I have to wonder just how much these farmers got govt help. They aii seem to have dozens of cars and trucks..tractors of all kinds farm implements and equipment scattered all over the place. If one stopped running they just went and got another one. They squandered what they received. No one could possibly have all these vehicles if they had to pay for it all.
I'm a farmer myself and I 100% agree with you. The department of agriculture is the worst thing to happen to this country. It promotes poor management practices. Again I am a full time farmer and didn't get it by inheritance or family assistance.
He never married and had no children. The estate brought a little over a million dollars. There were nearly 100 descendants, all down the line - nephews, nieces, children of cousins, etc, who the estate was split among. Many of them probably never having met him, or not seen him for decades, and one day the news comes he passed on and they get a check for $10,000 each, give or take after auctioneer's commission
@@mr.goodpliers6988 , I think a lot of us that follow you are glad you do this, at least if someone does want to buy some things they can follow your link on your channel and buy Thank you very much for all you've done to help people, and to promote your channel, your work is impeccable, you have great following with people and I've never seen a negative comment on any of your channel
