1800's barn demo with the super stick on the Volvo excavator  

This barn no longer had a use in modern ag, we have had several people look at it for the lumber and beams and all passed on it. We needed it gone for several reasons, feedlot expansion which you seen beside old barn, tax burden, and insurance would not let us put coverage on it so it was becoming a liability hazard. We did save a few beams out of it for new shop/office decor.

Time for smores. Thanks Mike and Farmer Chris. God Bless.

Chris is a smart farmer who put pencil to paper adding up the costs of keeping an old barn he can't use for modern-day farming. The taxes alone justify the demo. He tried to sell it with no takers so he did what was in his farms best interest. And hired the right guy for the job

Two of my favorite things, knocking things down and a big fire. Happy days.

There is nothing like watching Dirt Perfect in the morning with a cup of coffee.

There isn't many of us left in this country that has been around milking by hand and the milk man picking up the milk in cans and putting up loose hay in the barn with horses. When we put hay up around our area in Minnesota back in the day it wasn't each farm did their own but the neighbors all helped one another and that was our social media. The women all got together and cooked and the men would all get the hay put up. We actually knew what our neighbors looked like. Now you just know what kind of car they drive when they go by.

Yessir, liability, liability, liability..., that is the only thing that needs to be said. Chris is on the right path here, it is probably best that he did not allow a salvage crew on the property without hard paper proof of their liability insurance, and even then his homeowners insurance probably wouldn't knowingly allow it to take place. I too have a great appreciation for these old barns, but this one, as was already mentioned, has served its purpose... Clear all the foot traffic out to a 200ft radius, and let the demo begin... Great video Mike, pay no mind to the trolls behind the curtain. Thank you sir.

A barn burning party for sure! Glad no one got hurt.

How did I miss this, but it's cool going back in time.

That was one epic agrarian conflagration. Thank goodness you had Cap’n K on speed dial! We are so used to seeing houses and buildings with 8’ or better walls.. we really notice low ceilings. In an old barn like that... the livestock needed shelter. The equipment they pulled needed storage. None of it was over 6’ tall. The important thing was storing enough hay to make it through the winter. Hence a loft. Now, why would it take so much room for haying 8 cows, their calves, a few sheep, a couple of goats and the three or four horses that they had? Two things... 1. the hay was loose. There were no balers. 2. The hay had low protein/nutrient values. Hybrid seed was expensive and rarely used on small farms. In its day... that barn was the pride of the neighborhood. Thanks for putting it down gracefully!

Sad to see, but I understand your situation Chris.

Sat here watching super stick in action drinking a pepsi what more could you ask for?? Thanks Mr dp for the entertainment and farmer chris 👍

I done prepares on a barn like that last summer. That's the way I grew up. We still have ours.

Wow those beams here in UK would be worth an absolute fortune, I understand there’s quite a market for antique wood beams. As it goes they don’t make em like that anymore well not in UK. Great video as always.

Beautiful old barn, and all the wood it took to build.

Hello there. A lot of our old barn's are not practical. So we are not so bad in that ours are built with stone. So people convert them into Houses. So they finish up with a extra house for there son's. Some are fantastic, they leave all the old beams exposed on the inside. I have worked on a few of them myself. Henry Wilson from Clitheroe Lancashire England. Say Hi to the farmer for me, it's so interesting to hear about that little bit of History.

Loved watching ,thanks again

Hate to see history go away like that but from Chris's standpoint it is understandable. He has to look at it from a business standpoint and do what is best for the farm. That is what I would call a barn smashing good time...

Awesome work!!!!! That old barn was gonna collapse in the next 10 years. I’m glad you helped that farmer with demolishing that barn because demolition is a very difficult task. Burning it on the spot was a perfect idea! There was an enormous amount of lumber so you definitely saved about 100 trips with and blowing through all of that fuel to do it. All of that old straw and dried out wood certainly went up quick! Work smarter, not harder. Awesome video!

Well done! Don't think most people realize how dangerous doing something like that can be... Most job site injuries I have seen have come from Demo... Got a lil nervous when the big roof started to fall!

That super stick was cool to watch and the fire was big 😀

I’ve seen enough Barnwood Builders to know there wasn’t much worth saving in that barn. Came down like matchwood. Good job!

That old barn was sturdier than she looked. I was shocked it took that many supersmacks before she fell. Great vidja and fire. Cheers DP!

Kleeman didnt have to come rescue you guys from the fire! I'm impressed!

I remember that exact milk filter, grew up on my grandfathers dairy farm 40 head in the middle 50’s and 60’s .

I was hoping Farmer Chris would take the first swing with the Super Stick. Seems like he earned the honor.

“Out with the old, in with the new “! Think I will use that as a inscription on my tombstone!🥺 Thank you Farmer Chris for sharing this with us!

I'm still carrying down buildings satisfying

At 72, I am not old! As a teenager I milked cows by hand. We did not have electricity and churned cream and made butter to sell as well as sold milk in glass gallon jars and sold eggs too. We raised a few hogs and cows. The beef cows were sold to pay land taxes not to eat.

Awesome Job!!

Amazing how quickly that barn came down. Mike, you really did know how to take that building down safely!

WOW looks great

Great job DP !

That looked like so much fun to take down and you saved the old hay hook too !

I remember when we shortened a barn, this should have been in the summer of 1970. The whole barn was sawn off, except the ridge. When they sawed off the log that was in the ridge, the barn collapsed like a house of cards.

Great video, what a job. Taking your time and staying safe makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

Boy, you had fun on this one 😁

Watching this video reminded me of a time back in the '70s when a guy I knew took over a grass seed farm in Oregon after his father died suddenly. The state just had prohibited burning off the fields claiming the need to protect air quality. So the young guy decided to burn the fields at night so that no one would see what he was up to. The neighbors called the fire department, thinking that the farm buildings were burning. A pumper truck got stuck in the field and was damaged by the fire. Tough lesson for the the young guy to learn. #captainkleeman

That sure looks like fun !!

Interesting video Mike. Thank you!

Love the drone shots at the end!

Good vedio I like the history of these old barns good job as usual

This is one of those videos you can tell a lot of people didn't pay any attention to when you and Chris were talking at the start. If no one shows up to buy the beams or wood, its worthless, so just get rid of it. The old barn held up pretty well considering the age and a tornado. I had half expected it to collapse with one or two good shoves. I think by now the super stick has paid for its purchase and modification.

Fantastic video. I came for the destruction but it was worth seeing the inside and hearing the backstory

Good job👍

Great video y'all have a great week and stay safe 👍

a bunch of us went after barnwood several years ago. We would hang one or two forcite stumping powder sticks in the rough geographical center of the old barn and set them off. it would "bump"all the wood and either blow it clean off or loosen it enough to pull it free .No hammer marks or pry bar marks.

That was a good one. Thanks

Wow, very well done!

Better than one of LetsDigs fires, with no Karens calling the fire department.

I enjoyed the video. The thought process and execution. I like it when a plan comes together.

Great history lesson, times have changed. They knew how to do it back in the day!!👍🇺🇸

Great job 👍👌

Another Great Video

Hey that barn was built for me!!! 😂😂😂😂

Very nice Thank you!

Awesome video Mike

Lots of history in that old barn glad it came down safely good job

I kept expecting to see Man Behind the Scene pop up with a camera at the last minute.

Thanks for sharing

Well you said The Barn at outlived its lifetime and it's usefulness but it sure wasn't as ready to fall down as you would have thought.

Hey Mike could feel the heat here in Central Scotland. Awesome vidja again. Super stick and a super operator. Keep up the great work.

What a great old barn. That was a good video and nice job keeping it contained. Stay safe

that's an adventure playground I hope you took all the pictures and video you can from every angle. the kids will someday want to remember.

Nice video. Really enjoyed it. Take care, ASH

the barn could tell some stories like the super stick first time seeing it in action

Great job Mike, Hate to see the old barns go but, safe hazard. Surprised no one wanted the wood!!!

Great job

Liked it Mike.

Nice video Mike. Always cool to see other odd jobs like this. The very end answered my question about scrapping the tin from the roof, seemed to be quite a bit, figured it’d be worth something.

Good job guys - well done. Looked nice and safe - and fun :)

that had to be a hell of a barn in it day, somebody family had to be proud of it.

Groetjes uit Holland👋🏼 TOP gedaan ✅👌👍

Hi Mike, I really enjoyed your last video, It was a shame some of the wood couldn't be saved.

I am amazed @18:30 in the video that the barn is still stading. Shows how well build they where.

This reminds me of the dairy barn where I grew up on our family farm back in the 1940's. That barn also had manually operated hay forks on a pulley system. We kept fixing that barn until we also had to take it down... sad to see it go.

Mike thank you so much . Tell farmer Chris thank you very much as well. It is so great to see the real America. We get the usual diet of the extremes of America in both properties and people. This is what makes America tick. I find this extremely interesting. This shows the hardwork and ingenuity of the past and it’s good to have a record of these things. Chris can show his grandchildren what was there and what it looked like and this links the generations. Good work.

Looked good.

it was its time to go.. but boy.. .that was still a tough building.. they built them strong back then

Amazing

I just started watching Dirt Perfect a couple days ago. Really nicely done video! I always love flying drone clips that help tell the story. You showed what it was like before demolition, had Farmer Chris give a lot of its history and why it had to come down. There are barn dismantlers up my way, but the distance to transport even just pieces of it is prohibitively costly. I suppose FC could have made a bit more $$ salvaging the big beams from the knocked down building, but that probably wasn't cost effective either.

Hogs were our garbage disposals. We milked six cows. It was our milk money. It covered daily expenses. The crops were for annual expenses and profits.

All that old barn wood, my wife is going nuts right now thinking about her arts & crafts she could have made with all that! I wonder if the whole community came there to help build that barn like they do with the Amish. I have relatives in PA that are Quakers and they do that.

31:25 LOVELY TIMELAPSE

Good job glad you saved the fork out of barn

Good job. Amd you are a good operator nk matter what kleenan says about your skills Be safe and god bless

The perfect music for demo day

Good job Mike. Take care and have a blessed Thanksgiving week.

If it was Captain on the job I'd be saying..... But Captain, Chris only wanted a pond at the side 😂😂😂 (Sorry Captain, couldn't resist) As a bonus, no mirrors were damaged during the making of this video 😂😂😂 I'm impressed with the worklights on the Volvo, they certainly put alot of light out compared to some machines I've worked with (It's one of my pet hates, poor lighting) 👍

That Barn was ready to fall Down

Back in mid 70's we got the experience of a lifetime , we went to visit our great grandparents in oklahoma they lived in a single wide trailer on a hog farm I think he worked at the hog farm , I can still smell the experience 🤣

Merry Christmas!!!!

Good job, hate to see an old barn go, but that one had out lived it usefulness.

Great Job , Great Video , Hard to see it come down , but was of no use the way it was. I'm in the same shape with my old barn but must first dispose of the asphalt shingles . (most) everyone who follows your work KNOWS you are TOP NOTCH , and those who would insinuate otherwise should watch a different channel. I enjoy watching you because you're the best.

The super stick worked fine for that barn!!!!!!!! In Mass you would have to get a permit, have a detail fire truck on site as long as the fire was burning!

Believe connecting the posts to the beams were wooden pins. If true wish you would have pointed that out. Shame the bldg was next to worthless but would not deny it. Bldg probably should have gone away in '74! The good news, it was here for you to remove with great video, thanks.

This may have been mentioned already, but I'm not scrolling through 400+ comments to see. There is a documentary type video of an Amish (I believe) family. It shows the whole hay process. From cutting to stacking in the barn. All with mules. It's fairly detailed on how the rope and fork works for stacking in the barn.

Dang that looked like a fun job.

man that super stick is freaking epic. never seen it til that other big demo. I wish I had it even though I don't need it lol

Sure made for great viewing bro, be interesting to see how the stik goes on the 210 if ever needed. Safe travels