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 Drawbar
Location: Maine
Gender: Male
 |  | Re: Barns: American Heritage Being Lost at an Alarming Rate
<Reply # 20 on 1/9/2012 10:52 PM >
|  | | | Big Blue works quite well at producing heirs to the farm since it has every luxury I have at home including its $270,000 dollar price tag. Unfortunately the disc harrow it is pulling is not included in the price, so throw in another $50,000 for that.
Its a hard decision really...make love in a $320,000 dollar tractor, or in a derelict barn worth $500 bucks :-)
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Liska
 
Location: Western Massachusetts
Gender: Female
| | Re: Barns: American Heritage Being Lost at an Alarming Rate
<Reply # 21 on 1/9/2012 10:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by wannabeotaku
I want to buy an old farm with an old barn and sell off or lease the land for farmers to work. I've never been in an old barn that I didn't love.
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I wish I had the money to buy our family farm from my uncle and get some cows back on the property, along with corn, etc. in the ground!
Alas, i can only dream. That's money i just don't have.
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heinrick
  
Location: Cascadia
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Barns: American Heritage Being Lost at an Alarming Rate
<Reply # 23 on 1/12/2012 7:10 AM >
| | | | These pictures are making me so excited for Spring. You have no idea.
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bandi
     
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| |  | Re: Barns: American Heritage Being Lost at an Alarming Rate
<Reply # 24 on 1/17/2012 2:34 AM >
| | | | Probably about 20 nice old barns have been leveled in the past 2 years in my area. Makes me sad, I love barns.
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Drawbar
Location: Maine
Gender: Male
| | Re: Barns: American Heritage Being Lost at an Alarming Rate
<Reply # 25 on 1/18/2012 5:12 PM >
| | | | Nice tractors Neptune, and nice pictures of said tractors!
I got some old farm equipment that the scrappers are always asking for. A few weeks ago one asked if they could scrap a trailer I had sitting out by my Grandmother's house. "No, I need to use that to get some hay tomorrow."
The dairy farm has some really nice equipment, but my little ole sheep farm gets by on what most people would call junk.
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Drawbar
Location: Maine
Gender: Male
| | Re: Barns: American Heritage Being Lost at an Alarming Rate
<Reply # 26 on 1/18/2012 5:25 PM >
| | | | Funny family farm story here...
In the 1930's my Great-Grandfather was out haying with one of his ole Farmall's when it got stuck pulling the mower in the mud of one of his fields. As it happened the John Deere guy came by and was forever trying to get my Great Grandfather to buy a John Deere, but he was a Farmall man through and through. Anyway the John Deere guy said that a John Deere would not have gotten stuck if it had been pulling the mower. My Great Grandfather, a man of VERY short temper, told him that if it could pull the mower through that thick mud, he would buy the stupid tractor. Well the salesman brought it over and sure enough by sheer luck the new John Deere pulled the mower through the mud. Being a man of his word, my Great Grandfather bought the tractor...
But that did not mean he liked it.
Well the John Deere dealer knew my Great Grandfather had the largest potato farms in the county and knew he had lots of influence. They kept trying to get him to talk about how great the John Deere was at the Potato Boards annual meeting...a powerful group both then and now.
He kept trying to talk them out of it, but they would not listen, so far as to come down to his home just to pick him up and drive him up to the meeting. Well they got there, went up on on the stage and introduced him. They said he raised 400 acres of potatoes, was the biggest potato farmer in the county and that he had 17 teams of horses and 5 tractors and one was a John Deere.
Now able to get revenge, he addressed the crowd..."Boys", he said, "I think you are a little confused there. You see I have four tractors and one John Deere."
Later re said it was a VERY quiet ride home.
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tron_2.0
Location: Ohio
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Barns: American Heritage Being Lost at an Alarming Rate
<Reply # 28 on 1/19/2012 2:11 PM >
| | | | My grandparents lost two jersey barns last year on their farm. Both were over 100 years old 
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I find your lack of coziness.... disturbing.
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Asher0719
Location: MSP
Gender: Female
The World Abandoned
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<Reply # 29 on 2/3/2012 2:34 AM >
| | | | I live in Minnesota and there are abandoned farms everywhere if you look hard enough. It's a lot of fun to explore them, especially the barns, which I never expected. Here's a shot of the interior of an abandoned barn I just visited (please excuse the blurry shot, the light was terrible):
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