We Bought An ABANDONED HOMESTEAD!

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today's video and it's a big one my

family and I have purchased an abandoned

Homestead and as you could see it's got

stuff it includes everything that's left

here with the exception of a couple

small things it's got an old barn out

sheds buildings couple Wells a septic a

pond well two ponds looks like and even

a house that was under construction and

never finished and today we're going to

start by exploring the old barn

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here so I know what you're

thinking why why why' you do that cuz

clearly you're not busy enough well

a it's

beautiful uh B they don't make any more

of land that's this is this is it you

know and then r or four subsection b um

Rusty Acres got kicked out when we put

the equipment Barn up and uh I've got

Vehicles sitting out in hayfields and

that is not productive and we can get

more hay here as well so this will

actually produce income as far as hey

goes we can move a bunch of vehicles

over here and uh you never know for the

future we're just trying to plan for our

kids and whatever else so that's kind of

the reason why and we got this place I

mean

I feel terrible for the folks that were

in a position to have to sell it but we

got a Pennies on a dollar they had an

American Dream young couple started

building a home and I don't know if it

was the economy crash a while back or

what it was but they were never able to

finish it so we're just grateful to have

the opportunity to pick it up the kids

are just running wild right now but uh

let's go dig through this barn and see

what we got what do you guys think so

far a lot of Co treasure a lot of cool

treasure so we don't know exactly when

this particular Homestead or it was a

farm at one point went in uh we do know

that this area was unincorporated in

1888 and that uh the the purchase paper

work showed no septic on site which

started in 1975 for record so somewhere

between 1888 and

1975 based on the barn and some of the

out buildings we're thinking definitely

like 20s 20s to 40s and there should be

two We Believe two home sites on here

that we're going to eventually try to

find and then the third is a new

building location but obviously we got a

Ford tractor let's start here this

thing's awesome so this was included

it's a 9N you can tell by the

exhaust and also the serial number we

can dig into that later sometime it's

been 12vt converted no idea if this runs

it's been sitting here for years years

and years and years look at the dirt on

the

tire it's got a 3point mower on

it I don't know old battery was

disconnected that would usually means

they probably ran right probably if

they're unhooking the battery but we'll

try to get this going at some point oh

look at the tires yeah they're pretty

rough she's been out in the sun

for long time long long time

but this will be pretty cool to do a

will it run or something and we just put

it straight to work I guess

this for the front of them pushing

equipment so or trailers like if they

had a manure spreader or you know like a

even a hay rake or something like that

you can hook on the front and then more

easily uh drive it around that way got

it but that's pretty cool oh let's see

if it has the Sherman high low

it

does no way so this is extremely rare so

this is a high low range selector so in

addition to your fourspeed

here you actually have a high low so

it's an 8-speed which is great for um

pulling hay equipment or blades or

anything like that you get a lot more

range selection that is really really

cool

pretty excited about

that clutch doesn't feel very clutches

anyway we've lost two children

already everything on this property is

included with the exception of One

lawnmower and some trusses for a

house and there's a lot of stuff let's

start over here what have we got over

here is that all plywood under

there watch the Badger holes yeah is it

really IA believe so that's probably a

grand in

plywood oh it's sheetrock oh it's a

whole pallet of

sheetrock bathroom remodel coming in hot

we got some

tin I

mean I'm assuming this was all stuff he

was hoarding for the house right I would

guess so yeah there's a lot of I mean if

you look around there's doors and all

kinds of things yeah so we can use a lot

I mean this Barn we're standing under

needs uh tremendous amount of work as

well we got to decide if we're going to

try to keep this thing and we can see

out the other side maybe I'll let's

start with an outside walk around so you

can understand even where we're standing

but this view is just incredible really

really nice so let the one side here

this would have been the

peak and then we think the corner of

this whole structure fell

down over

here cuz there would have been

another Peak coming out and this whole

wall Bentley's already looking at

this you thinking for little grip garage

yeah oh it's got a CER those are pretty

good yeah it's probably doable

going to have to hot wire hot wire a lot

of stuff but that' be cool if you got

this running we need motors out here

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today's video let's get back to

exploring lots more tin I think it's all

different

colors we'll have to go through

and inventory a lot of this this

property hasn't had anybody out here in

years we got a blade three-point

blade pH

that's a couple hundred bucks right

there looks completely

usable and then old Foundation look at

these walls and this is why I'm saying

I'm thinking late 1800s early

1900s if you accidentally back like

riding L more into this this is all

coming down oh 100% yeah like if I kick

this this is fall fact be very careful

not to walk there maybe this old style

tin seeing some better days so we got to

decide if we should try to patch this

thing up or push it over or what we're

going to do old

door look at a

lock so

cool I don't know why they put all these

blocks right there probably kept

swinging open oh maybe it did have

electric but look at these old porcelain

insulators that's very very very

old some sort of Loft I'm sure it was a

hay

loft there's the steps Brad I'm going to

say let's not go up those yeah

yeah more

tin I mean if this is handful of

pieces why couldn't a

guy there's two two right

there you know do we T the

side or start repairing the roof try to

put some stuff under here look like this

was the old door Place new one oh yeah

by the hinges homemade

handles oh double door yeah horse door

you flipped the top open for the hores

had a window up

here I don't know if at one point it had

some sort of sighting on it based on all

the

boards but she's old I wish I could put

a specific date on this here's another

insulator USA wired

insulator another one

here I don't know the size of them we

should you know what we should do is get

a tape measure and wheel this off so we

can figure out the size of the barn oh

we have that one as a house yeah I'm

curious other people might be curious so

anyway that's the exterior of the barn

here bunch of Olden

Barnwood we'll keep going through the

inside here's some more vinyl

sighting these are like uh you know what

these are for this is for um decks oh

the rails the the side rails for decks

there's a bunch of them here that looks

like good there's a bundle over there

good trailer missing a tire the tire

I mean we can get one of those a tractor

supply boom we got a

trailer I saw look at that old wheel oh

that's to like it's connected oh we got

a

bathtub bathroom remodel even getting

better oh this one might leak a little

just a tiny bit look at the old pick oh

yeah there's so much stuff battery

that's five bucks you can turn them in

now it's really

cool some

doors it looks like these two match no

they don't are shovels what your shovels

my

shovels I don't think this Barn was ever

scooped I mean that's

probably at least a foot higher than it

should be how do you we're standing on

probably 3 ft of manure and dirt so all

this needs scooped out which we're going

to do I'd like to clean all this up so

we got to start thinking do we put some

of the tractors in here are all the

tractors the small tractors we've got

you know Alice and M's and ends and

stuff like that this would be a good

spot to hide all of our tires as well

which are sitting outside right now but

I think First St we just be getting

everything

out and then scooping it getting the

heights right figuring out where the

actual walls are

and kind of go from there should also

hit it with the loader a couple times

see if it's going to stay up you know

what I

mean boom

$2 so this one does not go with this one

stays with the current or the previous

owner I guess husar I can understand why

that's a nice machine seems like brand

new we got an Ackle weed eater I

guarantee this would fire right up you

think so yeah well that's good we need

it 17 and a half horsepower a bird just

flew out of the hood did you see that

yeah look at EG in there what probably

shouldn't po oh there

is

okay I don't want to oh yeah I don't

want to move the nest look at this

another wheed eater oh it's a

saw oh this is cool look at this

mower Green Craft holy cow see pull her

rope see if it turns over

oh that so stuck oh she's locked

up oh wait oh there she

goes oh it went I don't think there's

any oil or

anything leaf blower another leaf blower

you got some whole bunch of deck stuff

again some sort of fold out ramp these

you probably

use oh I bet these are for all their

mowers oh

that Mak sense yeah whole bunch of

junks going to be a lot of cleaning

boys lot of cleaning that's like a fast

food counter see what I'm saying like

there'd be a till here yeah does it say

anything on the front welcome to berries

Burgers oh it says crispy crispy crispy

light I don't I can't read crispy says

crispy

something great tasting Shing on the

crispy light I have no idea never heard

of

it but see if we take this wall

out cleaned all you could put a car or

two yeah two cars right here oh

spreader see if it

turns yep that's

good got a nice

gate wonder where that

went these are a little little

loose

there's some of the ridge wiring

cloth maybe one of you electricians can

chime in there is so much wood in here

oo might have a ground fault with that

plugin there is no power on this

property oh it's a pluging yeah right

now look at all this wood yeah oh

jeez well it's dirt yeah careful it'll

uh

cave in so this is back when

2x4s were actually

2x4s good old solid Lumber lots and lots

and lots of

lumber if we widen this

up made it a little bit more secure we

can hide the mowers in here maybe you

know what I mean like a little side

garage i p that's cool

yeah Brad you probably want to metal

detect out here huh yeah I should have

brought the metal

detector next time look at this window

this

is pull that piece of tan off so it

doesn't get busted please it's not

cracked at all

careful thank you son this is beautiful

and all the glass is still in it that's

probably worth few hundred bucks

at

wow Jessica and Bailey are down by one

of the ponds right now

what oh yeah didn't even see that

Murray it's Christmas

Story yeah it's not hooked to

anything so this I bet this was the

original oh no it couldn't have been the

outside wall cuz that's the

peak but for whatever reason that's

where they put the put the Box there's

another really cool old door let's go

back around the other side

again every time I look I see new

stuff so this door is really cool too

and all the glass is still in

it Jessica didn't you want a door like

this just to hang for poofy stuff or is

that a

window another

old careful

Brad what is it uh something for school

musket or something a what ground doog

probably well let's let's just put it

put it

down all

right this wall was

definitely built different than let me

get back this

wall I don't know if they just kept

adding oh it does look like this is

another addition see how the rafter is

on this side of the initial

one oh it just broke off in my

hand so this would have been the edge of

the original building so I would assume

that the whole building had that kind of

shiplap sighting and then this was an

addition which probably explains the

concrete this would have

been much later but then this is

weird so I'm just confused I guess

there's really no other evidence that

they had any of this sighting on the

building anywhere else house you guys

seen any of

that I think this was the original

house that probably got torn

down yeah this is that bears board

sighting

stuff or flooring this thing would light

up so

easily we don't have time for it today

but we believe based on a foundation

wall and a well that there's

two previous homes here if that makes

sense and now there's a third but this

might be out of one of those we went

back as far as we could on Google Earth

and historic photos and all that stuff

and we're not

seeing anything that would help us out

unfortunately so we've been talking to a

lot of local people trying to figure out

the history um we do have one connection

that we're going to be working with um

cuz it' be cool to to recognize it talk

about it you know this was someone's

first home second home or maybe it's

been in the family for a Aaj jillion

years it's hard to say so they obviously

had

chickens and uh ran horses here at one

point look how thick these are it's

beefy love this Old

Timber another window on this

side probably a really good

looking Barn back in the day we have

fire ants everywhere boys so be

careful how many pieces are

here just one oh wow there's two I think

yeah

two you know what we're going to have to

do Jess

is inventory all the the tin just kind

of see how much you have of each color

and what footage cuz we can potentially

you know do something at least with the

roof or something some Big Blocks like

Limestone

blocks I don't know if there was ever a

door on this thing oh cut her a little

short yeah see instead of scooping this

out they just kept

adding

barriers what's in there yeah there's so

many pits like that around here more uh

Corner caps green ones there's so much

tin I wonder what brand this thing

is I really don't know it's a big one

though wait it right here oh it just say

wood hey there's a four-way or something

under that

tarp that's 20

bucks

nice some wording on it but it's just

really hard to read it says Woods it's a

Woods that's yeah that's the

brand yeah Woods is a great brand big

old

thing surpris this little Ford

R it's got an aftermarket Fender and one

regular you could tell by the

script and this one

doesn't it's got a Ferguson

3point anyway I don't want to nerd out

on this we'll come back to this guy at

some point oh and it's got the

PTO $3,400 that ain't nothing for

this Brad's out throwing stuff in the

what you found like one of the ponds cow

bones or something cow bones I I think

that's what they are I don't know not to

touch them but oh my gosh that goes yeah

kids will be kids well I've got to get

back to the house Jessica's got me

packed up I'm headed out of state again

for another vice grip

garage Revival I was home for 17 minutes

so here we are but thank you guys for

watching and we're going to keep you

updated I think next time we'll go

through the out buildings or something

we've got a house to explore just more

of the general grounds and tree roads

we've got a septic to find

Wells we're probably going to burn off

all of this and uh convert it to hay and

then we got to move vehicles I mean

there's there is a lot of work to do a

lot of Sweat Equity but we we believe it

was the right decision and um we're

excited we're very excited gives us Room

to Grow gives the kids room to grow too

absolutely they're already asking can I

bring the motorcycle over well we got to

load them up and blah blah but anyway

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