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Post by SWMan on Aug 22, 2020 22:00:32 GMT -6
I have an old shed starting to fall down from foundation giving way, guessing the thing was built probably 80 years ago maybe more. Foggy this morning so couldn't combine, so figured we better get it cleaned out. Rescued the old Ford 8N and a bunch of other antiquish items including an old cook stove and some wagon axles. Also ran across some old fertilizer bags and thought you guys would get a kick out of them. Maybe if you are old enough you might remember carrying these bags by hand to the fertilizer attachment on the box drill. These ones show 50#, but I believe there was bigger ones too.  Note the highest rate on the chart gives a total of 23#/acre of actual nitrogen, that's not even 10% of today's rates!  I have a 30' flatdeck of other stuff, no pictures though. Lots of history in there, boys had a blast going through it with tons of questions. Building was framed with tree trunks(spruce is my guess) and we did find some long chunks of bamboo in there as well! Not sure what the bamboo was for, but interesting to find. |
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Post by Beerwiser on Aug 22, 2020 22:52:20 GMT -6
Well as cool as it is to see the old bags, it does not bring back fond memories lol. Still have some old 46-0-0 coop bags at my brothers old barn(Dads home place). First year my dad decided to put fertilizer on a hay field he made at least 6 trips with the old 3/4 ton international truck and piled it high and heavy. He didn't want to run the tractor 10 miles back and forth to get the spreader filled by bulk. I think it was a 3 ton spreader that was 6 inches higher than I could reach to dump the bags in off the truck. So much fun! At least the year after he let me drive the tractor to get filled up with bulk.
I always love to see old yard sites and anytime I get permission I go look around. When I am done owners as me if there is anything I am interested in. My reply is "No, have enough of my own old stuff" I am more interested in how different groups of immigrants built and set up the farm. I am primarily in Ukrainian territory, but my one uncle was German living across the road from my dads home quarter. I always enjoyed going over to help my aunt out after he passed to see the difference in style. I have had the pleasure of seeing old Russian and Polish sites too. Always neat to see. So get some pictures!!
And a quick question, where the hell did they find bamboo?
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Post by bobofthenorth on Aug 23, 2020 4:25:12 GMT -6
We didn't shed any tears for bags at the dealership. Farmers generally only handled the miserable things once. For us they arrived by railcar and had to be dragged out, loaded on a truck, moved across the yard and carried into the bag shed. Then they had to be lugged out of the bag shed onto a farm truck. At least half of you guys figured out that sending your wife meant we had to handle them entirely ourselves.
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Post by garyfunk on Aug 23, 2020 7:34:38 GMT -6
The bamboo could be buggy whips?
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Post by cptusa on Aug 23, 2020 8:26:00 GMT -6
I get caught up in old farmsteads too, particularly old corn cribs and barns. Loaded up a couple of bulls from a pasture I rent a few days ago, ran them up through the old barn to get loaded. Afterwards when I was locking everything back up I noticed an old open cabinet with meds in it. Old bottles labeled in various things, some typed labels, some hand written, some printed. Not what we're used to today with a trade name, treatment dosage, withdrawal, etc in a fancy label bottle. They were simply labeled "scour medicine" or "flea treatment". I thought jeez, these have to be 30 years old and have just sat untouched for a long time. Then I realized this is 2020 and 30 years doesn't get a far back as it used to.
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Post by SWMan on Aug 23, 2020 9:06:28 GMT -6
I got a picture of the inside of the shed with what's left in there, probably destined for the hole. Doubt that old grain cleaner has any value. Tin I will be saving. That roof is probably as strong as the day it was built, just the footings have tipped out and the tin roof that was installed over the cedar shakes is coming off in the wind.  Gary the buggy whip might be a pretty good guess, there was all sorts of horse team harnesses in there and buggy/wagon parts. My Grandpa was a big horse guy so possible that is what it's for, the one is about 15' long. Probably the only thing made in China from the vintage of this building... Also some interesting scissors, found our original homemade grain loss pan from the 80's and general useful stuff when doing projects.  |
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Post by Beerwiser on Aug 23, 2020 10:03:47 GMT -6
Those old cleaners bring a 100 bucks or so at an auction here. I would save the kohler? engine sitting on the top plate, the crow foot packer wheel and it looks like horse blinders in the left side of the picture. What is hanging on the top plate barely in the left side of the first picture? Sort of looks like a hacksaw.
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Post by garyfunk on Aug 23, 2020 12:52:30 GMT -6
Those "scissors" are sheep shears.
The barn swallows are going to be sad when they come back next spring, lol.
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Post by SWMan on Aug 23, 2020 14:42:47 GMT -6
Looks like I should have you guys over to screen this stuff before it's too late! Here is the item from the top left of picture. Seems to have paint on it and it is a sliding brass pump of some sort.  Kevlar you want a stove for your cabin???  And the barn swallows have several other buildings to reside in if this one were to not be here next spring.  |
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Post by cptusa on Aug 23, 2020 15:21:37 GMT -6
If it were me I'd pull that Ashland scraper out...
I know, I know, it's not even in the same shed.
I wouldn't throw any of the crap away without trying to sell it. It would surprise you what people like my wife would pay for junk I buried years ago.
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Post by kevlar on Aug 23, 2020 20:55:09 GMT -6
I was thinking the same thing about the scraper!!! lol Neat to see how some of those old buildings were built and have stood up so well. We have one on dads place similar to SWMan's with rafters just made from poplar trees likely cut from the back 40 somewhere, and still as straight as an arrow. Funny how some of these old buildings have stood the test of time without the thousand dollar engineering blueprints and building permits!
That stove looks in good shape! Dad has one almost identical to that in his cabin but without the warming oven on top, his just has the shelf. Yours has the water reservoir on the right hand side it looks like. If I had my cabin started, I would likely be all over that!
It's fun to look back through years of "hoarding" things. I imagine someday my kids will be going through some of the junk around here and wonder what the heck we were keeping some of this stuff for. Until maybe 5 years ago, dad had some old filters for a Massey combine he had........ we haven't had a Massey combine here for 30 years! We had to throw them out when he wasn't around. Also seeing some of that old stuff makes a guy appreciate how good we have it now.
I never had to do fertilizer bags, before my day, but heard about it. After tossing canola bags around each spring, I couldn't imagine doing that with fertilizer. Mind you they didn't put much on, and only covered a fraction of the acres a day.
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Post by Beerwiser on Aug 23, 2020 21:35:44 GMT -6
That almost looks like a pail pump, although I have never seen one loke that. Neat.
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Post by SWMan on Aug 23, 2020 23:26:51 GMT -6
There is still three other buildings at least, one with exponentially more stuff than this one. Don't really have time to sell it all, had a picker over twice already who took a couple loads, maybe call him one more time.
Scraper stays but rarely sees action in recent years, hoping with no corn to get some done this fall.
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Post by Albertabuck on Aug 24, 2020 21:09:28 GMT -6
Oh if only you guys ever saw all what I have stashed away lol, there is a reason everyone sends those travelling junk dealers to my place all the time, then they get pissed because I tell them not interested. As I have said before, around here we count it by the acre lol. One day local Hut preacher was here for something, and since they always call me by my last name, he says my name, if you aint got one and we don't have it, it was never built...we both had a good laugh because its pretty much true. Reality of it though I suppose when my time done owning it, much of it will simply go for scrap or worse, but I won't be here to see it happen at least and I sure as hell can't take it with me either. As Beer mentioned, that fannning mill should be an easy 100 bucks, even more if its a five roller or a real early one. Post better pics and I can help figure that out. Stove about the same, depends on how good the bricks and grates are inside, many of them old cook stoves one or the other is buggered and all they are is decoration. Gary got the sheep shears, but for that funky pump, if that is what I think it is, hmmmmm maybe a down payment on some Massey baler parts in play here  I actually think that is a large animal drench pump, and if that thing is still in somewhat working order other than pump leathers, me been wanting one of them, new they are over 600 for the set, pump and armoured throat tube. I think most you guys would hate going to auctions with me, there is a reason I always want to take my own truck and I do buy the hamburgers too but usually by the end of the day there is a workout in progress lol. I was broke for too many years when I was young and combined with my father sort of training me to be a pack rat and see value in just about anything, well it makes for a lot of stuff, often so much, I can remember I have something, but good luck at times finding it. And for the old fertilizer bags, I have some Negro ones here paper and plastic, now one will need to have used those to know thats not the actual name on them but is the letters lol. Some of my favs are old oil and chemical pails, have some old 2,4-D pails from the 50s and 60s and one that gets a lot of comments in an old Gulf Carbyne pail with the bottom rotted out, pretty much anyone born after 1970 has never seen one of those lol |
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Post by kevlar on Aug 24, 2020 22:52:16 GMT -6
I'm tempted to buy that stove off you, if for no other reason than to come down and snoop around at your operation!!!! Check out your new combine, nice dryer set up........ all the stuff you have that I can only dream of!!
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I actually think that is a large animal drench pump, and if that thing is still in somewhat working order other than pump leathers, me been wanting one of them, new they are over 600 for the set, pump and armoured throat tube.