Sad watching the end of another small family farm. Growing up on a small family farm in upper Michigan, this video took me back to the great memories that were made playing and working with family. I especially love the craftsmanship of the old barns. If those buildings could talk. Thank you for sharing.
Our barn is about 130 years old. Saving up for a roof now. Still has wooden shingles! Old old pics show additions over the years. They put a hill up to drive into the mow…now that hill and a bad contractor left it with a partially caved stone wall. A storm that leveled other barns shook her to the core, cracked a rafter/ beam. Got it temporarily repaired until we can find people who know what they’re doing! This barn could fit 3 stories in the hay mow, she is magnificent. NW WI
Nice! I hope you get it repaired. Unfortunately this one is now gone to progress… Are there any Amish contractors around? Maybe a good choice for that kind of work.
I grew up on a dairy farm in Utah. Five years ago a developer purchased the old farmstead and began demolition work on the barn and out buildings and my grandparents old home. It broke my heart and I couldn’t bear it so I moved away. Every year we lose a few more old barns and soon there won’t be anything left. I moved to a small town that still has some of its old barns standing in a valley that was once covered with dairy farms. Only one remains in operation where there were once many small family dairy farms. Thanks for sharing your memories.
This whole area is being developed rapidly. In the last 3 years, 4 old barns have been tore down (including this one) within a few mile area. Old territory roads littered with roundabouts, wall to wall high density housing erases century old land marks.
As wonderful as these old barns are, they are very high maintenance on the exterior. Great historical value in this video. Reminds me a lot of the old dairy barn back home.
Epic story . I’m redoing a 40 yr old barn RN and this one blows my small barn away . Always good to see how it should be done and not with modern methods. I want to build now thanks for the ideas
Thanks for the tour of your barn. I love old barns and feel it's an absolute shame that this one is going to be torn down, with all it's memories. At least you have this video documentation of what it was like. It's a very cool barn and I thank you for sharing this before it's gone. Makes me appreciate our barn even more. I'll need to do a video on it.
They are disappearing rapidly from the landscape. I would have loved to save it but it wasn’t in the cards. We salvaged a lot of tin and wood from it. This video was shot over the last year at different times. Farmstead was leveled in June and if you were unfamiliar with the area you would have never known it existed. Looking forward to your barn video 👍
Used to be a lot of old barns like that, built, remodel, remodel...... Used to be quiet a few actually built for milking too.. most are gone now😪 Thank you for the tour and stories!!
I love your channel but I can only watch in small doses makes me a little sad. Good for you for having the presence to document all this for your family's history.
Thanks Dave for a tour of the barn and history of the barn. Sounds like the milking was a pretty big thing going on on the farm at one time. Years ago when I was a kid growing up we had milk cows we did not have quite a big operation of milk cows and The Barn at one time and we didn't have grade A milk. Thanks Michael
Love the brick silo! Our neighbors had wood silos, 1x6 with stays around them. There were 2, side by side, probably 35-40 feet tall. Had a roof over them, added on the old part of barn. Really wish I could have gotten some pictures and videos!! But like most everything else... It's all bee torn down...
Plz preserve this beautiful masterpiece barn,. There's slowly disappearing on the country side here as well in Northwest ohio,. Great video,. Imagine the price today to build one with solid beams , Wood,. They probably didn't have $500 in building it back then.... Time machine take me back to the simpler times..
I agree they are masterpieces and we lost 3 of them but in a few mile radius in the last year alone. Unfortunately there is a road where it used to stand. We salvaged what we could from it, the story is in the other videos.
Lotsa those old barns are way usable, as many do. Still a great place to store hay/straw outta the weather. Lofts are usually so high, there is enough heighth for a 3rd level. A room in a room, with a ceiling/sealed floor on top.
@@kevinhall3449 I have been in a lot of repurposed old barns, from wedding venues to restaurants. Basket ball courts to ones that had skateboard ramps. Sadly this one has been gone for 2 years now.
Awesome! I would love to find a place with one, but it’s tough to find a good location with a descent house. We salvaged a bunch of wood, so at least that will live on in some capacity.
Like most small farms back in my youth, we had a dairy herd, shipped milk and fed out feeder pigs. We made a living. I've kept our barn in good shape, new roof, etc. Use it now for an extra big "man cave". Keep much of my antique tractor and equipment inside. Not many of those big barns left anymore, some folks have converted them into indoor living and recreation space. Better than destroying them and then having to build new for similar use. If you intend to save yours, you had better get busy and re shingle it before it's too late! As long as the roof keeps the inside dry, these barns will last indefinitely, let it leak,and in a very few years it will be laying on the ground!
Been in California all my life. Different out here since cows can go out in winter. Oldest barn on dairy was from 1910. Did see an old milk house with a can cooler sink. I could tell sincere e the rim of the sink had a pipe cast into it.
I've made some similar videos (not posted) of the barn on the farm I grew up on. Its still standing but is deteriorating pretty fast now and will need to come down. I stripped out anything useful or with some nostalgia. I am so glad I do have some 1990s video of the inside when there were still calves in there. I wish I had at least photos of Dad milking but it never happened. The milking machine and other stuff still exists though in another shed. My maternal grandparents place was finally leveled in 2010 when only the house was still there and about 1/2 the grove. Now, unless you know where it was, there is no evidence. I did a napkin calculation at the time, and the owners of the property were likely to get more $ raising corn on the building site than any rent income from the house (and no drama from renters).
I farm a farm that has a barn built in 1809 (date etched on corner stone).Large bank barn, stone construction, very good shape. Amazing how they built it with out any power equipment over 200 years ago.
@@crazydave4455 Yes. Harpers Ferry Jefferson County WV. Lots of antebellum houses and buildings some dating to the 1700s here. Stone house where the barn I mentioned is 1790s. Oldest barn I know of circa 1750s
My grandfather had a sawmill and had the new barn build in the summer of 1929 and in the fall it burned down so they had to build it again. Dad was 28 at the time. They are after me about the history. Because they are talking about moving it to the pioneer grounds about 6 miles away.
@@crazydave4455 Its only 3 or 4 hundred feet from road. The pioneer grounds by Perham MN another barn just like was built on Dads farm about 10 years later the barns had drive in hay lofts.
@@40yeartrucker25 was curious if it was a show I knew, been to Dalton and Rollag but not Perham. Well you could do a walk and talk with history, if I can do you can. 👍 maybe easier than typing it 😁
@@crazydave4455 I do have pictures of both of the barns but don't know how to put them is comments. Pioneer grounds have about a week in July but it is used for other gettogethers also.
Ceramic silo with an unloader in it? Wow. Those things are dangerous after this many years. Silage eats them from the inside, weather attacks the outside.
The original block was actually holding up pretty well, the later addition (upper ring) was starting fall apart on the outside. It’s gone now, road goes through where it once stood.
Is the roof going to be repaired as it wont take long to loose that barn. I have a similar issue with my family dairy barn as a new roof is very expensive. In some states there are some programs available to help offset the price.
Unfortunately there is now a road where this barn once stood. Some of it was salvaged and lives on. The story and salvage efforts are in other videos on this channel.
@@crazydave4455 I did find a few of your videos about that after I asked, very sad to see all that history being cut up. I did notice all the housing built right up to the fields.
You showed the silo and the extension, the red/white pattern at the top, was that something your family came up with or is that a company trade mark? I've been told that silo builders have "signatures" at the tops of the silos. Thanks :)
