The Farm Where I Grew Up 

600/1200!!!! That is Huge!!! A couple Million for sure!!! Wow!!!!

Great history about your families farm, sad but understandable. Nice to hear some of your farming past and present both and future plans that we have already seen some if not all of. Thanks for sharing it with us, I hope you have a great day!

Kevin and the boys are pretty resourceful.

Hard to see the homestead go but the only thing constant is change, nice to see someone put hard work into salvaging and recycling, best of luck on your new projects, thanks for posting

Thankyou for sharing Rhonda. It is sad to see your homestead go where you grew up.

No way to explain the sad thoughts of watching the changes. Also the fond memories of the home place. 🙏🙏🙏 Prayers for your family.

Cool, family working together . Thx for Sharing

We are currently taking down our old freestall barn that was built in 1977 to make room for a new grain bin. We sold our cows in Aug. 2003, my Martin Luther King Day. Free at last. We saved most of the metal and lumber. We are going to build a leanto onto another barn. This was all nailed. It will take over 2 weeks.

Safety! Those that live in glass houses do not throw stones. My days doing that type work there were no telescoping forklift. I left a post on a Facebook page and everyone hammered me for the safety. They spoke before thinking. That is cool work with that project.

I would've liked to see the legacy continue, but i understand the kids not being into it. I hope the family can start a new legacy that can be handed down for another 100 years.

That's great to see getting everything to build your barn for free. Good job on everyone pitching in.

Rhonda, your beautiful silver gray roots are begining to show !

Rhonda, safety is always important being safe is more important. You and your family work everyday watching out for each other. Trust in your and Kevin’s judgment your family is safe, happy and care about each.

Sad to see your home place beiing sold , but at least you will have on your homestead and have fond memories of you childhood every time you going into the shed , big job taken it down and putting it backup again .

Boy oh boy! All of that material for taking will be a nice savings on the old pocket book! And with that much material, everyone could have there own personal work shop and probably have some left over. As we all get older, things do change. You are all definitely had working people and only time will tell if your kids will want to carry on with your farm. But thinking a little far ahead. We all have good and bad memories of the past, but its the past! Leave it there and create and open up new possibilities for the presence and into the future......God Bless You All ❤ 🙏

I will be watching everything over again. Some how I lost everything again so started over again.

Sad to see it leave the family, however at least it's not going to be houses and going to be a farm in the future. You can create new memories with the resources you are aquiring from the farm you grew up on.

I sold our farm in wa. State,I never looked back! It was fun for awhile,and I went another direction.

So hard to see it go. So many memories 🙁🙁🙁

Its sad to see family childhood homes disappear. The bright side is with todays cost of lumber and materials you have received a nice benefit for yourselves 👍

I suppose some tears have been shed as you see the family homestead go to another farm family. Praise the Lord you had a wonderful start to life there and your bringing some of it to your farm. May your parents have a great healthy retirement. God bless all of you as you expand for the future.

ALL Great things come to an End. It’s Difficult for a Family Business to Continue from Generations 4-6 and to be honest, Extremely Rare to Find a Family Business between 4-6 Generations of the same Family. Your Dad sounds like a Smart Man and he made the difficult choice to Enjoy Retirement. GOD Bless! 🙏👍

Your family gets things done. It would have been a shame to just wreck those buildings. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

Farming is a business and one must do what one thinks is right.

Congratulations to you for your acquisition of all the materials, so happy to see the structural components of the buildings being re-purposed, too many good materials end up in either a landfill, or buried, or even burned,right on the farm.Awesome work by your family!

Thanks so much for sharing your story with us always enjoy your videos

Thank You Rhonda for sharing some family history of yours to your subscribers. You and Kevin should be very proud of yourself and your family. I grew up on a small farm outside of Lansing MI. So I know that the work can be very hard at times. I can't say that I have ever seen a family such as yours work so hard. Congrats to all of you. Keep up the good work. I really enjoyed your garden tour of last year. That was the most beautiful garden I have ever seen. Keep on sending us your great videos. I enjoy them very much.

Its great to hear that the materials will be repurposed, and also another farmer was able to purchase your family's farm. I have been through it myself, its lousy to see your childhood farm sold, but it continuing to be a farm and not a housing development is great news! Excellent footage and explanations Ronda. Take it easy

Sad to have to see the family farm go, but you scored big time on getting the building material. Take as much as you can of EVERYTHING. You'll find use for it some day. By the way, how you worked looked safe enough to me.

Congratulations to your dad on his retirement. Great score on all that material. I can wait to see what y’all do with it. I believe it to be sad to see the family farm go away. Kevin and you are building your own heritage on your farm. Thank you for sharing with us.

Where i live and farm in newyork state 250 milkers is a big farm!I am glad you got to re use the barns that will be a big help and cost savings .With the cost of building materials and things in general we are just holding out for better times to do any expansion!Cant waite to see what you do with the materials!

Thanks for sharing this situation--understand it better than I would like to!

Made the best of what he had . Moving forward ,Still sad But in the end for the best . Great video.

That awesome you can really you older building. But hard to see your home family sold.

wow! that is great that you're able to get all that material. Can't wait to see what you all do with it.

It's great that y'all can take the Barns apart and use the material on your Farm. And it also helps Y'all save a lot of money on materials. Y'all have a great Safe Blessed Day 🤗. Be careful 😉

Great to have a piece of your past at your current farm.

Thats great that are salvaging the buildings instead of just tearing them down and burning them! Great work!! To many wasteful throw away people nowadays.

Lots to come 👏👏👏. Safety favors the prepared so no worries

I don’t see nothing wrong ha ha you’re taking anything down but I do like knowing or seeing that you’re getting some from your old family farm to help your farm Grow and now you have history from your parents farm and your guises farm congrats it’s nicer seeing it getting used and not used to keep up the good work

Wow that's a lot of work good luck busy busy

Excellent video Ronda with good explanation! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Rhonda 👋 Seen a lot of changes take place over the years. Time - you can't stop it. Just gotta roll with the punches. All the best to you all!

The old dodge cleans up pretty good.

Could be worse go someplace warm go fishing! Hopefully they made some Bank!!

Very cool on the history, and awesome that Kevin got the stuff to repurpose. Hats of to your dad or the new owners that donated the buildings also. I know Kevin and the boys will put everything to great use eventually.🇺🇸🐄☝️

Time marches on sadly....❤️👍🇨🇦

Thanks for sharing your story. It's a lot of work to take a building down and put it up again but you have a very strong family to do the task. Have a blessed day

Bravo Rhonda Kevin Acres of Clay always great content and viewing impressive dismantling of buildings blessings always from NZ❤

I THINK YOU DID A VERY GOOD JOB TAKE CARE MAY GOD YOUR FAMILY

Good Sunday morning Rhonda. From Missouri

Great video.. always sad to see a farm like that sell as lot of them go out of use. Glad you are getting the building materials..

I am glad to see that someone is repurposing all those materials. Most of the time they would either burn or land up in a landfill.

You will always have a part of the farm by you Ronda, that is a big undertaking for your family but if anybody can do it, this family can. Talk about a group of hard working people. I so admire this family.

It’s sad when family farms . I know it’s very hard in world of farming low rates derv machines & labour not enough money coming in I wish u all the best in future reagards Les from north wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 uk 🇬🇧👍🇺🇸

Nice Barns, There Well Worth Saving

Hate to see the farm sold, but having several relatives that have had dairy farms, I can kinda understand why they might not want to continue it is not the easiest life that is for sure. Glad you were able to get the materials for yourselves.

Enjoy hearing the history. All the best to your folks and brothers and there families.

I would have love to take over my family's farm but dad got tired or milking and farming so we sold it but I would love to have my own farm one day soon

Good salvage, savings and exercise.

Sorry for all the flak about safety. Unfortunately there will always be busy bodies and know it all’s. I also was raised that you did what you had to and as careful as you could. Some people don’t understand that when they don’t know that type of life. It does seem for the last couple of months you haven’t seemed as cheerful as usual. Hope things are good for you all and wish nothing but the very best.

Oh that makes my whole body ache!!! Great to get the materials though!!

Good to see y'all again good video

to bad to see the family farm pass on to someone else but things happen great score for you guys to build on your farm happy for you

Great Video. Have a blessed night

Life goes on and change is constant. Here in East TN, land is selling like hot cakes. People are paying way over asking price just to get a place. 😬

We sold our dairy farm a couple of years ago. It was a hard decision, no children wanted to take it on. Good to see your children keen to work on the farm.

Milking cows has been in your family for a long time. The help you have with your boys really goes fast taking down the buildings. Good luck and be safe.

Glad to see all the material from that barn will be salvaged and not just knocked down and hauled off.

Going to be exciting to see all the new projects that will be happening on the farm coming up soon. That is one big barn and I am happy to see that you all got to take it down and put it to good use.

God Bless you all. 🇦🇺

Very interesting video thanks for your time to do the video about your families farm

Nice to see you guys getting all that building material from your parents old farm. I like seeing that happen rather then it going to scrap.

I disassembled several buildings with nailed down steel. Its not that hard to remove . I used flat siding bar , pounded it under the nail head , then laid the hammer handle in the valley for the siding bar to pry against and pull the nail . Not as easy as screws but worth the effort for good steel.

We think yous are doing a good job. You can only do what you can and I don't think it's up to other people to criticize with all the hard work that you put in to what you do for a living. I say good on yous. Live and let live.

Thx 4 the video share 2day Ms.Ronda! That looks like a huge project... so nice to see all of Ur family working together on it. Proves there is not much a farm family cant do. God Bless!

I'm daddy for you. But on the up side of things. Ur bring sum of you past farm life home wht you. Bless u folks. Prayers 🙏 prayers always.peace.

at least your able to take a little of your family's farm with you and with it comes history and memories that you can pass on

WOW WHAT A GOOD SCORE GONNA SAVE YOU A LOT OF MONEY

Thank you for letting us know that you are being safe and I hope you make more videos of y’all taking the barn down

To me that is so heartbreaking. I know if I could, and maybe other sub. would love to help. Instead of the old barn raising we could have a community barn tear down That would be AWESOME!!! A really nice video

wow lots of building material lucky you have boys to help

Dang you guys get it done! Good job and keep up the awesome content😜

Sold our dairy cows last fall, change is hard. Can relate

At least it will still be a farm an not turned into something else. An those barns look more or less bran new So it is good you are making use of the wood and steel. Have an amazing an blessed day and have a blessed an good week to. 🙂🌞

nice to hire from you lots of good stuff to youse

Sad to see your childhood family farm get sold. Good to see your family salvage all the parts possible. Good to see you get to use the materials on your farm. Your old farm lives on !! Thank you for sharing your life story.

Somewhat of a happy ending, dads able to retire, brothers have other interests. Best of all a huge boost for your family to build a hay barn economically.

I grew up on a farm in Ionia county near Palo. I love going out there and looking at the changes. And now it really is not being farmed. But the memories are priceless. In God's speed Amen.

Thanks for the video Rhonda! I think the farming business is always changing and it's great to have good memories and move forward... 😀

Great video. That's a big project.

Always sad to see a farm go but glad you are getting all that material. That's a crazy amount of work, and more ahead!

Your family is so ingenious on recycling. You did a great job describing the process, as well as giving us your family history on the farm. One thing is the buildings may be gone, but u will always have the memories.

Wow, it is sad that your parents farm had to be sold but it is great that you are salvaging a lot of steel and wood. It is always good to see you and you did a nice job on the video!!!!

Woooww. Lot of stuff ! How nice, to get all that steel. Stack it and sell it, too...my goodness. Love your ariel view ! Soooo saaad ! Hope you are ok, Rhonda. 💕💙💔💖💕 Bet your Mom and Dad are thankful ! That's the good part 🤗 It's finally their time to love again, and enjoy each other again. 👏🖒🤗 Send them our lot's of Love and Good joy prayers ! They deserve the Best life now !!!💓

Hi nice video wondering if you can show more of the farm next time you there specially the milking parlour thanks

changes are hard but necessaire this is why we have memory's them last a lifetime I'm shore dad is looking for word for some rest thanks for sharing

So sorry to hear that your parents sold such a Historic Century Farm. Our farm also is a century farm in N.J. and I know the pride that comes with that title. Just a little surprised that it couldn't be saved for a family member like Sidney, Ethan or McKenzie. At their age, soon they will be moving on and all 3 seem to be enjoying farm life

It is sad to see any family business sold. The old time saying " how you gonna keep em down on the farm"?, holds true even more so today. My uncle had a small farm years ago, it's not an easy way of life. Hope you guys stay safe tearing all this apart.

Doing a great job! Family working together is truly amazing! Keeping me entertained! Loved working on a farm in CT in the late 80’s.