Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Saving The Past... Again... Look What We Found!!

It's an age old story these days.... this place is about to see it's last days on this earth.... it is scheduled to be bull dozed in.... so my son called another junking emergency today. My husband and I made our way over to the place to see what could be salvaged....

This is the original house to the farmstead, there is another newer two story square house on this acreage also, it too will be getting torn down. The house in the background is a two room house, no bathroom or running water.....

The lone birdbath in the yard, which will be coming home with me......

Here I am peeking into the door of the old house....

Here is what I saw... lots of stuff everywhere....

some cool old table legs....

There was a little loft so I volunteered my husbands services to see what was up there, no varmints, just some old fruit crates....

This is the back of the house, it is in a little bit of disrepair but we did find some treasures there...

Next building, a cute shaped old chicken coop. You always find some great things in these....

Galvanized chicken nester, check out the tiny little wooden chicken feeder, wouldn't that be cute with some flowers growing in it....

Chicken waterer lids, gotta have those!

Nice old oval washtub, which I found in the little wash house shed.....

We decided to take a walk in the grove, looked like there were a few things scattered over the years throughout the trees, and we were right! Look at these nice old cream cans. They are shorter and fatter, cute size......

Windmill blades, always LOVE, LOVE those!!

Next was the the old grease house shed, I sent the husband in here first too. Found some things we wanted .....

And some we didn't.... we left this one alone.....

Probably sat on that shelf for 60 years, earlier we found a calender hanging in the old house, it was dated 1957......

We found Harry Baker's wood tote, made many moons ago, saved and will end up in someones house as a cool little wood tote......

The old wells were covered with these old cast iron lids, love those, but darn are they heavy!

A water pump..........by the well.....

This one brought tears to my eyes, this was the cupola off the old barn, he was a little bit damaged beyond saving......

Found this in the grove on the ground......

Next building..... the BIG old red chicken house!!

Peek! Another nice old galvanized chicken nester and.......

a calf bucket, love these, they have a hook so you can hang them on a fence, gotta get that.....

A Warner chicken nester.... in the same building~

Now this was a little harder to get to but when I spotted the super duper coolest crinkely wire, I had to have it.....

This is an old chicken cage but as you can see it has a BIG old tree laying on the top of it... not to worry......

When you have connections with a handy little skid loader to move that tree for you......

and wala, it's been removed from my project!!!! We did have to spend another hour disassembling it to get to the cool wire panels, but we got them!

A bunch of old oil cans, look at the great old graphics.......

Now here are few photos of our load, one of the loads......

Another view, check out those cool old wire screens and the seed sorting screens......

A double wash tub and several wagons, trikes and bikes, all good for something, wheels, metal seats, and more....

Here is the BIG load, all going to the scrap iron.

We went to the mini mart when we got loaded for something to eat, time had went by so fast that it was already 3 p.m., which also happens to be coffee time for the area men, as we were listening to them gossip one of the guys asked his friend, "Hey, Jerry is that your truck full of garbage.", he said no my truck is around the corner, that isn't my garbage." The hubby and I just looked at each other and started to laugh. What are they talking about, this is some of the greatest junk ever, oh well, better they don't know how good of junk it really is, more for me!~~~

Cammie(:

19 comments:

  1. Oh... how much fun! I may have to have one of those chicken nests to go with the incubator!!! Wish us luck this weekend so I have more money to spend with you!
    Laurie :)

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  2. Great finds!! I love those chicken feeders!! And that wooden chicken feeder would make a great coffee table!!!! I love it!
    Congrats on your haul!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  3. What great pickers you are! I hope you also saved all that garden fencing in your first photo; I love that stuff!

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  4. Oh Dear Lord...nothing like that in NC ever happening! So... I will just drool over the computer screen and your JUNK for a while longer! Hugs, Janna

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  5. I got chills just looking at the first few pics. My heart sank when I saw the chicken nesters. If it wasn't me finding it Im glad it's you. Enjoy your fab treasures!!

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  6. WOW!!! That is all I can say...a big, fat, jealous WOW!!!

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  7. Can't wait to hear all of your ideas for these treasures! Nothing better than picking through an old farmstead. Would love to have that chicken feeder!

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  8. Sometimes I dream of finding the motherlode of awesome...That's amazing, I would'nt know where to look first...woot woot for you...

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  9. What a great picking spot you found. I'm crying over that cupola too. And those guys and their junk comment. Little do they know.

    Margo

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  10. Loved this post! You found so many great things! I'm itching to go hunting for some great finds...

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  11. Wow, love it all! What a fun picking place. So many treasures.
    ~Heidi

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  12. Lucky you! The pick'ins are slim here in Fl.

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  13. Yeah,that's the great thing about the small town country life, there is tons of junk to be found~!

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  14. What a treasure trove -- especially all the chicken things! My girls could have a great tricked-out coop with some of those finds. It's sad to think that all of that was part of a vibrant farm at one time and now it's all gone. What a good thing that you rescued some of it!

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  15. Oh GORGEOUS Girl I loved LOVED L-O-V-E-D this post....How I WISH I could have been there with you guys to walk back in time over this property....WOW....I'm just GOBSMAKED....

    THANK YOU for sharing these Treasures & for SAVING them for future generations....You my Friend are indeed a 'Keeper Of the Past'....!!

    Cheers from Oz,
    Tamarah :o)

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