Thanks for reminding the rest of the country that NY State isn't anything like NY City; you've got a beautiful farm up there and looks like you run a great Dairy operation!! From Orange County, NY!!
Your video shows how much dairy has changed in the last 65 years, my life. My grand uncle Arthur Crose of Kerkonkson New York was old school dairy. Taxes and old age ended his career and his son Jigs Art jr was not the same as his dad
Your fore Fathers and your Children should be so very proud to have people of your calabar as family members and need to be very proud of their Family today.
The old barns are coming down around here in Michigan also! It kind of sucks but they won't last forever! Just think of how much time a farmer had into building a barn! Cut the trees out of the woods, bring them up cut them up with an axe and notch them, Then crane the beams up into position!!!! Then cover the barn most of time while farming and working fields! Those guys back then were workers like we'll never see again!!!!!!!!!!!
We will be tearing are old barn down and couple of silos next to it in a few months to be put a calf barn in it’s place and I know when that day comes you just have to sit back and thank that barn for everything it’s done because that is where i grew up, my dad started farming and a life long memories that were made, it’s a simple building that got us to where we are today with modern facilities and a great life for a family and it all started with that old barn, god bless
Very nice video. Music was perfect backdrop to the demolition. It felt really sad to me. I'm sure you had mixed emotions about it since the barn was in your family that long.
I'm really glad you take the time to do these videos. I grew up on a dairy in Ohio. This really brings me back it wasn't anything like the kind of operation you're running but there are definitely some similarities.
Just ran across this video, the farm has grow alot over the years, sad to see the old to go but the new is always nice too. Does the farm have a buyer for all of the bull calves that are born ?
Sad see the old barn go,but new addition does look good! Calves are content. Know of several amish and mennonites that would have taken the old barn down in trade for the materials.
Should have called Norm from This Old House to repurpose the lumber I imagine in California you probably would have had a constant spray of water to minimize dust and a collection system to prevent ground water contamination I saw some long boards on the side it’s a shame but I know newer building will be better easier to clean and maintain
In India or China they would have taken it down piece by piece and pulled all the nails. Sad to see the waste in America, no matter the economics of the project. Had a better roof than most houses.
It seems a pity you had to do that, I'd be concerned in a practical sense, that by distroying the farm's physical history you could undermine the psychological foundation on which it is built. I think it's important for up and coming generations to be able to see that history to appreciate the work that has been put in by previous generations and value what they've got and how they got there. Puts things in to perspective and helps gives meaning and purpose. Just my way of thinking, which you may well think is unnecessary nonsense.
@Malcolm Chapman - Even the most run down barn looks good from 100 feet away. You have to ask yourself whether you could spend a night sleeping in it, and whether you would feel like you wanted someone to pressure wash you with rubbing alcohol in the morning. i live in a converted 600 square foot chicken coup from the 50's, that got converted into a decent but crude workshop in the 80's, and i slept in it a few nights before i rebuilt it in 2010 and it was no fun. It felt "dirty". And i can tell you a funny story about fixing an old chicken coup. By the time i was done, the only thing original was the "foundations", the shape, the crumbly concrete floor that got buried under the wood floors and the roof rafters and the tongue and groove that covered the roof. And all the rafters got sistered with 2x6's and the tongue and groove got another coat of plywood. So essentially nothing. Sometimes, when you decide to repair a barn or a coop, by the time you are done you spent too much money and you end up replacing everything, so by rights it is not even the same barn. So why bother? You are correct. It is sad, but sentimentality has to be properly gauged against practicality.
@@malcolmchapman3032 - i wasn't trying to be. tearing down old barns is sad. someone else posted that companies would have paid to dissasemble the barn, and avoided the owners the cost, while saving the lumber from the scrap heap. that is more sad.
Did that barn have the hand hewed beams? If it did I know of several people who would have torn it down, cleaned it all up and paid you for the privilege of doing it
@@kayak_1 While I can't comment on your specific situation, repurposed barn lumber and hand hewed beams are in big demand. A friend hired them to take down a barn for him. They came in with a 10 man crew, telehandlers, loaders and air de-nailers and made a 40 by 160 foot barn disappear in 4 days. They then cleaned up the site and wrote my friend a check big enough to by 2 new quads for his kids.
@@bobanderegg3817 Our town has a house in the middle of our new nature preserve that the FD was going to burn down to remove the attractive nuisance. We had a company talk with the selectmen about dismantling it and moving it. Two years later we now just have an open structure and they guys will show up from time to time with the pickup truck to take a couple of parts. We have more of a hazard and nothing happening quickly.
@@kayak_1A house I can understand, But a barn is different. there is a big demand for hand hewed beams and GOOD hardwood barn lumber. This local company has someone going door to door looking for people willing to let them take their barns down. they go all over the Midwest taking barns down
I live in Michigan around farm country. I always find it sad to see old farm buildings that I have seen sense a kid come down. Or when farmland turned into homes.
Would you be able to do a video of the milking parlor sometime? I used to help the neighbors milk 50 to 60 cows but we quit in the summer of 2016 and I miss milking them.
I felt a little sad seeing the history of that old barn through the years and then torn down. Then when I saw the new barn I can clearly see why it was rebuilt. New barn is so bright and efficient in space and energy. Great vid. thanks
wow save you the story I was very happy to be back on the farm when I hit rock bottom 18 months of hull they said I when thought I do not remember that part just wanted to be here on the farm again I was very interested in a trailer to live here, just to bad the old barn was not in good shape for me to restore to live in I told my step-parent they did refuse me the trailer anyways but the barn idea was a go-ahead first thing had to draw the plans out all of the plans was rejected by them too did not know why I did not what a big place but they did land up with an 80 x 160 barn house the old barn had buggies and a wagons area build on the bottom of the barm that was the 3 barn on the homestead, my stepfamily, was doctors the buggies had a big area can hold 10 buggies for repairs too and the 10, my family owns most of the family live at the farm and doctors too the livestock was on the main floor too it sits on a stones the build for the carriages they had the barn was on top of it three lofts over the top of it all they were well off too and we are still after the 2 world war, my step parents retrun back for the war the did want to be a doctor or a surgery personal resons it was with the canada goverment when they were held as priosener they never practice it after they retruned to canada but i did have stickes from him i was the own one had them fro him the barn was built the same way as the other was just larger size 5 floor all to the basement upper basement main floor the train layout floor one larger train fan my stepfather is the top floor was the hobble floor and the sewing floor too the old barn we burn down and this one we did too august had a couple of bad storms the did a lot of damages to the farm lose the house in the storms just happy we cam rebuild this time it the way my step-parent wanted the home to look like yes it will bee 2021 be finished a lot of fine craftsmanship needs to be done by hand I am busy with ofter thing for 4 our of the day 2 of them are with the hives I have in town honey bees 25 hives have in a warehouse check-up and water all the plants and feed the bees to takes time they have to go and spend time with my other animals to them I return here with my step-parents to the farm they are helping me with some of the projects here can not wait to have them spoiled animal back here spring they will be here fall they place will be all done and they have a new barn to play in too especially winter wnt it cold out there too
This video got me thinking, it would be really neat if you would do like a video explaining some farm history and showing some pictures of it through the years!
