I started life in the late '40s living in a four-room tarpaper shack ... I can still remember a hand pump like that right outside our front door ... well, it was the only door, actually. Those were NOT the days ... I predict the day will come when you have a bright, shiny tractor with a grapple on it! heh-heh :-) And Miss Rebekah has the sweetest sense of humor and the sweetest laugh. You are a blessed man, Mr. Evan ...
Rebecca and Evan; Just found you by recommendation From Pete and Hillary of Just a few Acres Farm. Will follow you now also. Thank you for your videos. John in Missouri Valley Iowa
Suggestion: Work on some merchandise - T-shirts, caps, mugs, cups, hats, towels,, key chains - with your Country View Acres Logo and some pictures of your cute baby animals. Merch sells good and are good money spinners. Helps meet some of your expenses.
Idea: With so many dead trees, you can hire a heavy duty wood chipper for a day and make your own wood chips needed to cover the pig sty, walk paths, orchards etc
Old mate had a 5 acre hobby farm full of weeds. He was quoted thousands to clear the weeds. My father suggested goats so he bought a few goats & we built a pen for them as this could be moved. He increased his farm to 15 acres & added more goats. Eventually the weeds were gone as a hippy woman milked his goats to make cheese & goats milk. He had a sideline business for 15 years until he sold up.
This is one of the biggest challenges for rural America. Billions of tons of garbage just rotting in piles on farms like yours. Keep up the good work, and hopefully inspire others.
O boy, I found a video I hadn’t seen.You guys have made such a big difference in that place. It doesn’t look like the same place. I will be glad when you can just set back and rest for a while. God bless ,love ya
Nice job. We purchased a 10 acre farm here in South Dakota. House and barn build in 1928. We are remodeling the house, cleaning up the bard, put up a horse fence, a chicken yard, and a big garden. Fruit orchard going in next year
Ah the finds that you seeing on your property! Having youth and physical health on your side is a plus, don’t over do things but keep fit. Thanks for sharing with us.
I cleaned out my Dads place in New Mexico,biggest pain was getting rid of over fifty tires some buried in dirt.The metal didn't pay more than gas money.
Wow, good job on the clean up, 40 years ago we bought an abandoned 40 ac farm, it had a log cabin that we sold and the guy reassembled, it looked great when he completed the project, Also found a sorghum mill, two or three buggy’s just left to rot down, As you, untold metal, fence lines buried in the ground, most times my bush hog found the wire, but, We finally got it cleaned up and built our home, We have enjoyed living in the country for the last 40 years, Good luck with your project,
Your place is looking amazing! Clearing up property like your you and your wife are doing is what my wife and I injoy! Great job you two! Thanks for sharing!
A little trick I have learned over the years is to put a 4x4 on the floor of the trailer and tie a rope on each end and lay the rope on the floor of the tralier and pull the whole load off into a pile with the tractor or tie the rope to a tree and pull the forward.
I use that trick a lot when getting brush and tree limbs back off the trailer. Put the biggest and longest branch on the bottom and stack everything on top. Works great.
Maybe so . Depending how far the scrap yard is . The fellow seems to think it's profitable to drive out to the farm and pick it up and take it to the scrap yard . So who really knows . There's a lot of heavy scrap there .
The guy that taking the metal, is picking it up on his way home from work. And he is piling up on his property till metal prices go up. And I am glad to have it taken away.
Good for him . Waiting for scrap prices to go up . Sometimes it's easier to let someone else make a few bucks and do all the work . Just found your channel a month ago . Love watching your vids .
we have 31 acres that we bought over the years a bit at a time, and we are still working on it. Ours is both making pasture and restoring an oak savanna. No old stuff anywhere but a lot of work. It must be bizarre having all that stuff everywhere! Tires are real bad as they hold water and create a breading ground for mosquitoes -- our neighbor has a few of them in their woods. Have you ever looked online for old aerial photos? Most areas have them, and you may be able to see the place as it once was.
Yeah, I have found a couple old aerial photos of how the farm looked years ago. It was a hog farm. There was no pond, just all hog lots, farm houses and big gardens. The old bank barn as painted white. It has changed a lot since then.
My great uncle in Maryland has some property like that. My buddy was there for days scrapping stuff from the woods this summer and we aren't done. Plus vehicles in the woods and a huge old barn place has been there since before the civil
Wow lot of work. Be careful not to let metals scratch y’all. Take it easy haha. I did read all the comments. Good idea to conc pad for greenhouse or something else
It's way too late to comment now, but for your information, that 2-inch, thick walled, "drill" pipe is worth more that just scrape. Some pieces may have worn drill holes in the side from the drilling inside, but the overall quality is still there. Here in the Central Valley of California, that pipe is used for fencing around Horse, Cattle and other animal properties.Some install the pipe by using the connection threaded hubbs, and some people cut them off and weld the pipes end to end. Other pieces are cut to length for the upright posts. Makes a very strong fence. I wish I had that pipe for my five acres. Art in CA
The issues I have with my acreage pretty well parallel those you find yourself dealing with. I used to flush cut the unwanted trees off at ground level now i leave a couple of feet of stumpage so i can wrap a chain around them and pull them out with “Old Stumpy” my JD 5020.
Dude, I wish i could find a stash of pipe like that on my place, LOL. Looks like it may be drill stem pipe. Great to make good cattle gates for corrals, but you really have to have a good support post because the gate is very heavy. An antique collector would probably love that old well pump.
The person who saved those pipes is rolling over in their grave. Those pipes last forever. Your "metal man" is loving you! Motivates me to make use of all the stuff I am saving, cuz some wipper snapper will toss it in the blink of an eye. Lol.
I actually called them posts a couple times in the video. I figured they were saved to my fence braces. But I dont want to mess with them. Not sure how much life is left in them.
better old rubbish than new rubbish.It's amazing how plastic took over in the 60's. On our old farm, there was a midden for the household rubbish and all you can find is crockery and old pipes and medicine bottles. A modern homestead would have lots of plastic around .
You have come a long way with the property since you started vlogging. I've been watching for a long time your progress and hard work. In a real early blog did you tell us that's your grandfather had history with the property? Thanks again for sharing the Old Farms coming back to life again...
Yes, my great great grandfather owned the property from around 1925 to 1946. My grandfather's name was George Washington Clemens, and was said to look like Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens was Mark Twains real last name. We don't know if they were related.
Very good job! I have a couple of areas on my place that has what looks like old tractor implements that are half buried in the ground that I need to get out. That's been low on my priority list at the moment. Still cutting down trees and clearing land. Once we have power and water I can so so much more.
That's the most fun. It's like archeology, but old not ancient. If i was your neighbor i would to it for whatever was to be found. Definately nothing usable but old plows and other implements make a nice addition to a garden somewhere in the farm.
The biggest asset to a man is a good woman willing to help and get her hands dirty. Together they can do anything. Plus they help keep you warm at night.😉
You are the second person to suggest a greenhouse. Actually those pads will be inside of a pasture area in the future. So I was think of feeding hay and placing a water trough on them. They would make good high traffic areas for livestock.
I have never understood the " let's live in country so we can trash the place" mentality. Have seen places with junk cars parked everywhere. What did they think..." I will park this non working Chevy in the yard...maybe it will grow a new one.." I just don't understand. Good job, and the scrap metal man LOVES YOU😃
Step 1: install temporary electric fence around property. Step 2: hire five hundred goats and let them eat Step 3: dig a massive hole for a fire pit to burn brush and anything else. Step 4: with everything exposed thanks to the goats begin cleaning
You found a gold mine in all those pipes ! don't throw them away that is building material man ! especially the larger pipe pieces... and those old transmition pieces and gears save that stuff man ! you can build your saw mill from just the scrap on the farm man ! .....
Medal is money in bank! Watch the gas prices. When gas prices are high its time to take some metal to the scrap yard! You just gave that guy that hauled away HUGE amount of money. $1000s and $1000s of money!
I can't believe you aren't hauling off that scrap metal yourself. When we bought our big farm we cleaned it up and sold over $5000 worth of scrap metal.
I saw my father in laws receipts from when he sold the metal he hauled off. It barely paid for his fuel to haul it. The guy who is now taking my scrap metal is just piling on his property waiting for scrap prices to go up. It is not worth my time to mess with it. I am happy to give it away.
There is an art to scrapping also as you have to know how the yard you are hauling to wants it processed as you get a different price for I beams then you do for roof tin and they want both processed differently. Also the little things like soldered fittings on a copper pipe turn it into #2 copper and a few seconds with a pipe cutters gives you a length of #1 ($2.20/lb) and 2 sections with the solder as #2 ($2.03/lb). Someone that just hauls in a load for the first time has no clue what they are doing when they get there, How and where to unload or what to do after you unload so slow down the yard and get the workers mad at you so less helpful on maximizing the scrap values.
There is an art to scrapping also as you have to know how the yard you are hauling to wants it processed as you get a different price for I beams then you do for roof tin and they want both processed differently. Also the little things like soldered fittings on a copper pipe turn it into #2 copper and a few seconds with a pipe cutters gives you a length of #1 ($2.20/lb) and 2 sections with the solder as #2 ($2.03/lb). Someone that just hauls in a load for the first time has no clue what they are doing when they get there, How and where to unload or what to do after you unload so slow down the yard and get the workers mad at you so less helpful on maximizing the scrap values.
I started life in the late '40s living in a four-room tarpaper shack ... I can still remember a hand pump like that right outside our front door ... well, it was the only door, actually. Those were NOT the days ...
I predict the day will come when you have a bright, shiny tractor with a grapple on it! heh-heh :-)
And Miss Rebekah has the sweetest sense of humor and the sweetest laugh. You are a blessed man, Mr. Evan ...
Rebecca and Evan; Just found you by recommendation From Pete and Hillary of Just a few Acres Farm. Will follow you now also. Thank you for your videos. John in Missouri Valley Iowa
There's all kinds of little farms sitting around like that all around South Eastern Illinois just begging to be cleaned up and utilized again 👍🐞🐝🦋
Good job helping to recycle the metal. I'm a recycler of cans in aluminum and copper. Helps planet and cleans up
Suggestion: Work on some merchandise - T-shirts, caps, mugs, cups, hats, towels,, key chains - with your Country View Acres Logo and some pictures of your cute baby animals. Merch sells good and are good money spinners. Helps meet some of your expenses.
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Idea: With so many dead trees, you can hire a heavy duty wood chipper for a day and make your own wood chips needed to cover the pig sty, walk paths, orchards etc
Dude! Thay looks like small drill pipe! Best fence post on God's green Earth!!
Old mate had a 5 acre hobby farm full of weeds. He was quoted thousands to clear the weeds. My father suggested goats so he bought a few goats & we built a pen for them as this could be moved. He increased his farm to 15 acres & added more goats. Eventually the weeds were gone as a hippy woman milked his goats to make cheese & goats milk. He had a sideline business for 15 years until he sold up.
This is one of the biggest challenges for rural America. Billions of tons of garbage just rotting in piles on farms like yours. Keep up the good work, and hopefully inspire others.
Love to see places being cleaned and cleared. Please continue with your efforts and posting.
O boy, I found a video I hadn’t seen.You guys have made such a big difference in that place. It doesn’t look like the same place. I will be glad when you can just set back and rest for a while. God bless ,love ya
Amazed at the amount of work you and your wife get done after working your full time jobs. Chasing your dreams and making them real.
MUCH agreed, Mr. Jay. They are daily meeting an incredible challenge.
Nice job. We purchased a 10 acre farm here in South Dakota. House and barn build in 1928. We are remodeling the house, cleaning up the bard, put up a horse fence, a chicken yard, and a big garden. Fruit orchard going in next year
I don't know why I'm watching this video but I'm glad it's appears. Thumbs up for the loyalty and hard working
Ah the finds that you seeing on your property! Having youth and physical health on your side is a plus, don’t over do things but keep fit. Thanks for sharing with us.
Enjoy watching your video
It is a good feeling to accomplish a goal and get your property cleaned up that much more. Thank you for taking us along.
Just came across your channel. I love to watch things get cleared and cleaned up it is so satisfying
I cleaned out my Dads place in New Mexico,biggest pain was getting rid of over fifty tires some buried in dirt.The metal didn't pay more than gas money.
Wow, good job on the clean up,
40 years ago we bought an abandoned 40 ac farm, it had a log cabin that we sold and the guy reassembled, it looked great when he completed the project,
Also found a sorghum mill, two or three buggy’s just left to rot down,
As you, untold metal, fence lines buried in the ground, most times my bush hog found the wire, but, We finally got it cleaned up and built our home,
We have enjoyed living in the country for the last 40 years,
Good luck with your project,
Rebecca, you and Evan get along very well. The history you have is a great glue for your continued life and marriage
Great job cleaning up and restoring the landscape!
Wow who ever got that scrap metal made a easy buck or two awesome video y'all
Sometimes theres not enough hours in the day. Thanks for sharing!
You worked hard that day.
Your place is looking amazing! Clearing up property like your you and your wife are doing is what my wife and I injoy! Great job you two! Thanks for sharing!
Makes you wonder about the people before you "who couldn't care less" about the land or what they left!
Nice job you two.
perfect pipes just what i been looking for to weld up a good fence an coral
Take a drink every time he says metal! Cool Place. Very cool project! Enjoy it! Looking forward to seeing your other videos.
You might need to go to the liquor store first and stock up. 😀👍
I know you feel good getting the scrap gone. The place is looking better with everything you do
You guys have done a ton of work in four years.
Nice job!!!!
A little trick I have learned over the years is to put a 4x4 on the floor of the trailer and tie a rope on each end and lay the rope on the floor of the tralier and pull the whole load off into a pile with the tractor or tie the rope to a tree and pull the forward.
I use that trick a lot when getting brush and tree limbs back off the trailer. Put the biggest and longest branch on the bottom and stack everything on top. Works great.
Looking good . I would have taken that metal to the scrap yard myself . Easy money .
It would have cost him more to.ha it than he would have gotten paid
Maybe so . Depending how far the scrap yard is . The fellow seems to think it's profitable to drive out to the farm and pick it up and take it to the scrap yard . So who really knows . There's a lot of heavy scrap there .
The guy that taking the metal, is picking it up on his way home from work. And he is piling up on his property till metal prices go up. And I am glad to have it taken away.
Good for him . Waiting for scrap prices to go up . Sometimes it's easier to let someone else make a few bucks and do all the work . Just found your channel a month ago . Love watching your vids .
we have 31 acres that we bought over the years a bit at a time, and we are still working on it. Ours is both making pasture and restoring an oak savanna. No old stuff anywhere but a lot of work. It must be bizarre having all that stuff everywhere! Tires are real bad as they hold water and create a breading ground for mosquitoes -- our neighbor has a few of them in their woods. Have you ever looked online for old aerial photos? Most areas have them, and you may be able to see the place as it once was.
Yeah, I have found a couple old aerial photos of how the farm looked years ago. It was a hog farm. There was no pond, just all hog lots, farm houses and big gardens. The old bank barn as painted white. It has changed a lot since then.
I absolutely love your videos and have learned a lot from you. Thank you
My great uncle in Maryland has some property like that. My buddy was there for days scrapping stuff from the woods this summer and we aren't done. Plus vehicles in the woods and a huge old barn place has been there since before the civil
It looks good , you should get a few goats,they would clean up the brush and you would have very little labor involved.
Those old steel pipes were what we used for irrigation before they invented PVC and Polythene pipes
Wow lot of work. Be careful not to let metals scratch y’all. Take it easy haha. I did read all the comments. Good idea to conc pad for greenhouse or something else
It's way too late to comment now, but for your information, that 2-inch, thick walled, "drill" pipe is worth more that just scrape. Some pieces may have worn drill holes in the side from the drilling inside, but the overall quality is still there. Here in the Central Valley of California, that pipe is used for fencing around Horse, Cattle and other animal properties.Some install the pipe by using the connection threaded hubbs, and some people cut them off and weld the pipes end to end. Other pieces are cut to length for the upright posts. Makes a very strong fence. I wish I had that pipe for my five acres. Art in CA
Bet that building was a snakepit! Time to learn to weld and turn them into fenceposts! Looks like you found an extra wellhouse!
The issues I have with my acreage pretty well parallel those you find yourself dealing with. I used to flush cut the unwanted trees off at ground level now i leave a couple of feet of stumpage so i can wrap a chain around them and pull them out with “Old Stumpy” my JD 5020.
Seeing you rip all those old metal sheds/shacks...you ever find critters or snakes in there? Love the channel, greetings from Germany!
I think all that pipe was well casing. It would make great posts and top rails for a low maintenance fence.
If it was not already rusted through.
Great to see the metal picked up from the ground. Wondering how much there still in the ground anywhere else
You guys will have a beautiful place when you get it cleaned up. Great progress.
Evan since u have possible metal in some trees mayb u should use a metal detector b4 u cut it down.
Nice
Keep up the good work
hello ,inflates tractor tires ! Very good job !!!
looking good. Keep up the hard work!
Dude, I wish i could find a stash of pipe like that on my place, LOL. Looks like it may be drill stem pipe. Great to make good cattle gates for corrals, but you really have to have a good support post because the gate is very heavy. An antique collector would probably love that old well pump.
The person who saved those pipes is rolling over in their grave. Those pipes last forever. Your "metal man" is loving you! Motivates me to make use of all the stuff I am saving, cuz some wipper snapper will toss it in the blink of an eye. Lol.
those pipes just screamed fence post :D but haven't seen them live it always look better on the camera :D
Hahaha I thought they screamed "Tetanus!" :D
I actually called them posts a couple times in the video. I figured they were saved to my fence braces. But I dont want to mess with them. Not sure how much life is left in them.
That was a Sears and Roebuck dutch roof storage building! Circa 1975!
Use the pipe as corner fence post.
I would like you to look at the Massey Ferguson tractor that has the #9 46 a full size tracker
better old rubbish than new rubbish.It's amazing how plastic took over in the 60's. On our old farm, there was a midden for the household rubbish and all you can find is crockery and old pipes and medicine bottles. A modern homestead would have lots of plastic around .
Those concrete pads would make great bases for a greenhouse 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I am not sure what to do with the concrete pads. I was thinking of feeding and watering livestock on them. Good for high traffic area.
i have seen those old pumps sell for quite a bit, even broken
You have come a long way with the property since you started vlogging. I've been watching for a long time your progress and hard work. In a real early blog did you tell us that's your grandfather had history with the property? Thanks again for sharing the Old Farms coming back to life again...
Yes, my great great grandfather owned the property from around 1925 to 1946. My grandfather's name was George Washington Clemens, and was said to look like Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens was Mark Twains real last name. We don't know if they were related.
Wow you have some great history that connects you to the land. Thanks for taking time out to respond.
Very good job! I have a couple of areas on my place that has what looks like old tractor implements that are half buried in the ground that I need to get out. That's been low on my priority list at the moment. Still cutting down trees and clearing land. Once we have power and water I can so so much more.
That's the most fun. It's like archeology, but old not ancient. If i was your neighbor i would to it for whatever was to be found. Definately nothing usable but old plows and other implements make a nice addition to a garden somewhere in the farm.
I would keep those pipes use for a nice corral or fence
stack and sort the metal you never know when you need it
Ok now that old water pump, you should use as a farm decoration
Ft he metal makes for great corner posts for pens
I am watching from Australia and all l can think about if that was here it would be full of snakes and red back spiders 😱😱
I was definitely checking for snakes.
The biggest asset to a woman is a man not afraid to work and can fix darn near anything.
The biggest asset to a man is a good woman willing to help and get her hands dirty. Together they can do anything. Plus they help keep you warm at night.😉
i would have been tickled to do it😁
I really can’t believe you scraped all that metal pipe, so many uses later?
Your local scrap yard will drop off and pick up a metal dumpster and pay you for all that scrap, seems like you’re giving away money. Thumbs up
you should to keep that hand pump.
What's the plan for the pads all that metal is on? A green house? Looking good.
You are the second person to suggest a greenhouse. Actually those pads will be inside of a pasture area in the future. So I was think of feeding hay and placing a water trough on them. They would make good high traffic areas for livestock.
@@CountryViewAcres they would stop a mud hole for sure.
I have never understood the " let's live in country so we can trash the place" mentality. Have seen places with junk cars parked everywhere. What did they think..." I will park this non working Chevy in the yard...maybe it will grow a new one.." I just don't understand. Good job, and the scrap metal man LOVES YOU😃
I think that metal pipe was well pipe. Too bad it was ruined.
That was a lot of junk, Wow.
Watch for yellow jackets. CM in Louisiana
STARTING A NEW FARM!! THAT DRILL PIPE MAKES GREAT FENCING.. HOPE YOUR SPLITTING THE MONEY WITH SCRAPE GUY?? HES MAKING GOOD ON YOU..
MrBIGNAWD - not really, scrap very low right now and then there's gas money
Water well pipe
Step 1: install temporary electric fence around property.
Step 2: hire five hundred goats and let them eat
Step 3: dig a massive hole for a fire pit to burn brush and anything else.
Step 4: with everything exposed thanks to the goats begin cleaning
I was looking at electric netting yesterday. May end up buying some for more flexibility.
@@CountryViewAcresyou could throw it around an area and put the pigs in there. In no time they will turn it to bare ground just like in their pen.
You found a gold mine in all those pipes ! don't throw them away that is building
material man ! especially the larger pipe pieces... and those old transmition pieces and gears save that stuff man ! you can build your saw mill from just the scrap on the farm man !
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Evan, how much did the scrap guy pay for all that metal. Or maybe you did it just to get the area cleaned up
I let him have it for free. I am glad for it to be gone.
You have a truck and trailer, how come you are not taking the metal in for the scrap payment yourself?
A Farmer who gets rid of metal??? You need to learn how to weld my friend...Keep up the good work...
city boys is a little clueless or just has too much money.
You may actually 'regret' letting the Piping go. That's some EXPENSIVE pipe that if it's not 'rusted' thru can be utilized elsewhere...
wow heaps of metal !! buy a plasma cutter and a welding post and start creating stuff !! this is no trash! one's man trash is another man treasure....
A plasma cutter and good welder would be nice.
Awesome. Setting goals and checking off
No snakes ?? 😬😬
No snakes, but I was looking for them.
use that pipe for fence posts ?
Those old pipes looked like a pile of cash
Great channel, I can’t see why you have to do the dirty work
Jon Wulf because you save money and get it done the way you want to!
I am just happy to clean up the property. And I am ensuring that it gets done.
Those metal pipes are from a windpump
Medal is money in bank! Watch the gas prices. When gas prices are high its time to take some metal to the scrap yard! You just gave that guy that hauled away HUGE amount of money. $1000s and $1000s of money!
I can't believe you aren't hauling off that scrap metal yourself. When we bought our big farm we cleaned it up and sold over $5000 worth of scrap metal.
I saw my father in laws receipts from when he sold the metal he hauled off. It barely paid for his fuel to haul it. The guy who is now taking my scrap metal is just piling on his property waiting for scrap prices to go up. It is not worth my time to mess with it. I am happy to give it away.
@@CountryViewAcres gotcha. I've got a huge pile I'm saving until prices go up.
There is an art to scrapping also as you have to know how the yard you are hauling to wants it processed as you get a different price for I beams then you do for roof tin and they want both processed differently. Also the little things like soldered fittings on a copper pipe turn it into #2 copper and a few seconds with a pipe cutters gives you a length of #1 ($2.20/lb) and 2 sections with the solder as #2 ($2.03/lb).
Someone that just hauls in a load for the first time has no clue what they are doing when they get there, How and where to unload or what to do after you unload so slow down the yard and get the workers mad at you so less helpful on maximizing the scrap values.
There is an art to scrapping also as you have to know how the yard you are hauling to wants it processed as you get a different price for I beams then you do for roof tin and they want both processed differently. Also the little things like soldered fittings on a copper pipe turn it into #2 copper and a few seconds with a pipe cutters gives you a length of #1 ($2.20/lb) and 2 sections with the solder as #2 ($2.03/lb).
Someone that just hauls in a load for the first time has no clue what they are doing when they get there, How and where to unload or what to do after you unload so slow down the yard and get the workers mad at you so less helpful on maximizing the scrap values.
@@TheUserid82 correct...know what they want before you build your load and shop around for the best prices for each category.
He's a homewrecker I mean building wrecker and dangerous around metal LOL.
Yeah, I cringed when he gabbed that chainsaw.
Any guess as to total scrap value
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horrible, how some people manage their property!
other people would like to get a piece of land,
and those who have,
make trash places out of it!
The price if srap metal is real low right and has been for while