Our Family Farm over the years

[chargerman69]

Anyone else have pictures of there place over years, this is some new ones we just got couple weeks ago of our farm. We have bin lucky its bin in the family since the late 1910's. The house is around 90 years old alone. Was a dairy farm then beef cows for around 65 years still we sold the cows in 83. Farm was 50 acres till the early 80's when my father made a deal for the 50 acres be hide us. from selling off the house on it and his old house on the front farm its 98 acres. Only 3 owners in the last 90+ years My late great grandfather, My grandfather late pissed away last aug 29 and my father that owns it for the last 7 years. In the frist picture it may look like there's no cows but there is just a few beef cows be hide the barn.

[chargerman69]

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[bull]

Cool. Were those taken from an airplane?

[chargerman69]

Yes they were taken from a small plane. they come around once a year to show you your new picture.

our shop is on the left and what will be our new shop is on the right it will be just less then half of the barn, wiring for everything was done last week for the whole barn and the roll up door.   

[chargerman69]

I was painting hay wagons when they did the 2009 picture.  beside our shop

[tan top]

   that's good !! nice to have historical stuff for the family   thanks for sharing the pictures 

wow !! whos Daytona was, is  that !!  can see the front fender , hood & nosecone poking out from behind the barn in the 1972 picture

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 just kidding !!  

[Mopar440+6]

That's absolutely awesome. I wish I had some more pictures of the farm I grew up on, especially now that Dad is gone...

[TUFCAT]

Very nice looking homestead you've got there. 

[F8-4life]

You are one lucky guy

[70 sublime]

A picture from about 1985 that a friend that flys gave us

We have some of the bigger ones that the plane guys come around to sell I will have to take a picture of to load them into the computer

We are also a dairy farm

You can see a red and white 57 Chev 2 dr htp that dad had back then (he has a 57 conv now)

Since this picture I have built a house in the field just to the left of the main house

The original farm house was built in 1824 and had 8 fireplaces to keep warm

There have only been 3 different family names on this property
The first owned it till 1860 then the second had it till 1920 when my grandfather bought it

[chargerman69]

Thanks Tufcat and f8-4life i anyways think when am at the farm how luckly i am to have it in the family a place were we all meet up fpr bonfires and hard day of baleing hay in the summer times. 70 sublime you get nice looking farm there to and being in family for along time. Our uncles farm two farms over has bin in the family close to 115 years, papers in town and a old map show it was 150 acres in the 1910's thats crazy to have that mach land back then the farm is 200 acres now + two 50 acre farms that were part of it that was giving to the two brothers cause the oldest taken over the main one back when the father passed away 30 years ago,  Back in the early 80's parked half way back the farm near the side road was a 70 r/t plum crazy challenger it sit for around 8-10 years till the owner picked it up cause our uncle was going sell on him. He got tired of people asking if he wood sell it

[hemi68charger]

Is the farm your bread-n-butter or do you and your father have other sources of income? The reason I ask is I wonder how viable farms of any sort provide a good and comfortable living for folks....... What do you all do during the Winter months?

Just curious.........

[chargerman69]

No the farm income woodet keep us going all year do to our size of the farm, back in the day a 50 acre dairy farm wood be more then you need but know you just can't do it. I drive small truck with a 20ft trailer hualing steel and my father worked for GM for 30 years and drive truck before work now he just drives semi truck cause when you have to wait 6 mouths to a year before you sell your crops for alright dallor these days you wood not be able to live for the year. If you had the right amount of land and not alot of costs you can live the year with out side jobs.

[Silver R/T]

Nothing like living in country, no noisy neighbors or Jehowah's witnesses knocking on your door.

[70 sublime]

Nothing like living in country, no noisy neighbors or Jehowah's witnesses knocking on your door.

O they still knock on farm doors too (but we have a big black Lab dog so they do not try so hard:) )

[chargerman69]

I could not live anywhere else but in the county, Neighbors are great but for two that sadly are part family. Nobody likes him or his kid cause he's a volunter cop so he thinks he owns the street after last year when his mother gave him a farm, (he's one of the brothers i talked about before), he let his son and wife build up the front of it and build a house that just happins to be just bigger then the rest of the neighbors houses so he thinks there better then the rest of us, they put a pile of dirt 6ft high and a fence across the back of my place cause he's farm runs behide me, the father did that cause he thought he could build a barn the same size of are lot across the back so we wood want to sell and move but the town put a stop to it. I live half a mile down the road from the family farm,

The jehowahs withnesses once and awhile come around till most of are neighors have dogs now so they stopped trying

[hawkeye]

Kudos to you and your dad for keeping the buildings up.  Many times once the cattle are gone, the buildings are let go.  It really breaks my heart to see some of these big, beautiful barns falling in on themselves.

[TUFCAT]

I agree, the place looks very well kept. 

[chargerman69]

Thanks takes time and money to keep large barns standing. Yes does happin all over my area, you see lots of the old dairy farms were the big old barns are lift to rot over last 40 years. I will post pictures soon of some of them.