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(:
Again, we are out rescuing junk from a fate that none of us want to think about, the scrap iron pile, or a burn pile. Check out the pile of great drawer fronts with little cast iron pulls on them. Does anyone have any great ideas for these jewels?
This is the house that is on this property. After visiting with the owner of this old beauty, he informed me that the house use to be an old drug store in a nearby town in the beginning of its life, it was then moved to this farm where it has been every since. But as all old things, it is slated to be burned down, so we are trying to salvage anything we can find before its fateful day.
Interesting huh? These are the steps to the basement of the house, it's a wide staircase for fast exits in case of unexpected residents.....
The inside has boxes of stuff and all kinds of things to discover.....
So, as we find things I will post photos of them so you can share my rescue experience with me. Have you rescued anything lately that was meeting an uncertain fate? Stay posted for pics of our finds!
