I remember my father marveling at those blue silos since they were the price back then of a few dozen pickup trucks. Our barn had two concrete and iron band silos and would fit about 150 head but only half was dairy the other half for calves etc. Cleaners were ladder-type chain. My folks were forced out of dairy because they were not big enough alone for the milk haulers to make a special trip as most other farms had already left the area as suburbia encroached and property taxes went up, "not a crop we could grow could pay just the property taxes".
Dad's setup came up in 1975, we always had DeLaval and these I see in this old barn are the same we had. This old barn is way better setup than anything we could find in our area during the 70s and part of the 80s, in southern-quebec. My dad always told me that his uncle in upstate NewYork was 25yrs ahead of whatever we could find at any Quebec ag-dealers parking lot. The more you show these old barns, the more I see dad did not lie about his uncle's farm.
What a neat barn. The first farm I worked on as a kid had an Allied hay vayor. It was a skeleton frame vayor much like what you can buy today. The barn was a big bank barn with three big hay mouws, two thrashing floors and two granaries. The one end of the barn, the vayor went up vertically. Then it went from there down at a 45 ° angel between two small silos to the wagon. It sure made filling that barn full a lot easier than trying to fill with a hay elevator. We actually filled it part way with the elevator so the bales weren't pounding down on the barn floor.
Thank you for the tour of the barn Wes. It brings back so many memories of my Great Uncle's farm. He had 2 big barns like that. Orginally they were both for milking but later on he turned one into a calving barn for his old hereford beef cattle. Sadly a year after he passed on, his grandson sold the place to a Dutch farmer and that guy bulldozed the whole farm down so he could grow crop there. All the beautiful well kept barns and sheds plus his log house all gone just to gain 2 acres of crop land. There used to be beautiful paths through the bush to the river and those are gone too. There isn't a tree left on that property anymore.
Thanks for the tour, and bringing back memories of our neighbors farm. They had a huge in ground pool, if all us kids wanted to swim, we either stacked straw or hay in the mow, if you were lucky you got to go swap wagons for a bit, of get out and unload wagons on the ground. I definitely miss it. Those old time farmers taught us kids a lot, I know that I still use as well.
I’m glad as a kid I grew up on a farm. Barn next to me was build In 1877 with a beautiful farm house. Down the road is the (new) farm the inside looked just like this
Here in PA you will see people dismantling the barn structure and sell the barn wood. May I add, for quite a bit of money too! For myself, I hate to see old wood that is still solid and good go to a burn pile. You are 100% correct that when a roof starts to fail, the rest of the building won't take long before it's destroyed. 👍👍👍
That's the same cleaner I have. Made by JW Hance Mfg. Company for Sears. The silo that used to be at what was Stanislawsky's came out of Round Valley, too.
We had a radio antenna mounted on top of our 80’ harvestore for the local vet office before the era of cellular phones. It got hit by lightning, and the found bits and pieces of it out by the road, over 150’ yards away.
I a gree thanks for the memories as Bob Hope would say it looks like a vacuum pump system Do you remember putting a cheese 🧀 cloth over a can and it would suck the milk from the can to the tank the vacuum system was a real treat to the old way hay thank you for the memory lane did you also have the seamen tank
My parents have a freezer from the 1960 in thier basement that is a frigidaire. It also says gm. It still works. There is probably a chicken in the bottom from the 1980's
The mold and silage rot that the bottom unloading system in those blue silos mixed in and hid within the good feed caused a lot of health issues among many herds.
My dad built 2 harvestore silos, made nice feed but they cost the same as buying 100 acres , be like spending 2 million on feed storage for a small farm today
It’s wild to me that before all this social media bs and internet growing up on a dairy farm I had heard that term up here in western Canada. That Harvestore silos were tombstones on a farm. Continent wide term I guess.
The only reason they got the nickname blue tombstone was the farmer was a bad manager. The 80s didn't help farmers at all by then they had to much dept and that didn't work in the 80s here. Plenty of them still running here in Wisconsin!
The 80s were hard on lots of farms but the silo is not the reason they went bankrupt! No matter if it's a blue silo or concrete one or green red or orange paint tractors if you were a bad manager you didn't make it long! Plenty of harvestors still being used here in this part of the country along with concrete ones!
Defiinitely save that barn, great big expensive barn...it's easy to save a barn...fix the roof first...foundation and side walls are in good strong condition. fix roof, then fix and brace-sandwich roof and floor trusses...and add patching in on floor.
What did the JD and NH things hanging from the ceiling actually do? I tried researching the word you were calling it but couldnt find anything. Probably spelling it wrong. Would love to know
It moves hay from the end of the barn to the middle of the barn there is diverters that will kick the bale off in the spot you want it to as you fill the barn
(mow) elevator. Your outside elevator brought the little square bales of hay or straw up to that one in the peak of the barn the mow elevator them moved the bales in farther then dropped them off to wherever you set the plow at. That way you could fill the barn with hay from one location!
One of the local 'organic gardeners' might have scraped it all out of there. My grandmother used to collect up the piles under the swallow nests in the wagon house and add it to her compost pile. But she was growing tomatoes and cucumbers, not the plants these guys are.
Damn it, opened up u-tube ready to enjoy a onelonelyfarmer's video and right next to Wes's video was a Transparent try on - See-through video. Ohhhhh, the Agoney in deciding which one to watch first. 😖........................Well, after Very, Very careful consideration I'm watching Wes first. Besides, those Transparent try on - See-through videos are ONLY for "Professional Presenting the Practicality and Aesthetics of clothing" and NOT for sexual gratification..............Right??? 🤷♂
It is everywhere unless you want to milk 1000+ cows, when you get down to it the big 1000+ cow farm are not sustainable my no means and don't do much for the local community like the old 40 to 90 cow farms we use to have!
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Every old Dairy barn is worth saving my opinion .
Wow Wes, it's like a trip down memory lane circa 1972! The old glass lines, the stanchions, the cowculator! 👍👍
Nothing beats listening old time history on old dairy Farms
I remember my father marveling at those blue silos since they were the price back then of a few dozen pickup trucks. Our barn had two concrete and iron band silos and would fit about 150 head but only half was dairy the other half for calves etc. Cleaners were ladder-type chain. My folks were forced out of dairy because they were not big enough alone for the milk haulers to make a special trip as most other farms had already left the area as suburbia encroached and property taxes went up, "not a crop we could grow could pay just the property taxes".
Dad's setup came up in 1975, we always had DeLaval and these I see in this old barn are the same we had. This old barn is way better setup than anything we could find in our area during the 70s and part of the 80s, in southern-quebec.
My dad always told me that his uncle in upstate NewYork was 25yrs ahead of whatever we could find at any Quebec ag-dealers parking lot. The more you show these old barns, the more I see dad did not lie about his uncle's farm.
As a dairyman I love seeing old barns
What a neat barn. The first farm I worked on as a kid had an Allied hay vayor. It was a skeleton frame vayor much like what you can buy today. The barn was a big bank barn with three big hay mouws, two thrashing floors and two granaries. The one end of the barn, the vayor went up vertically. Then it went from there down at a 45 ° angel between two small silos to the wagon. It sure made filling that barn full a lot easier than trying to fill with a hay elevator. We actually filled it part way with the elevator so the bales weren't pounding down on the barn floor.
Thank you for the tour of the barn Wes. It brings back so many memories of my Great Uncle's farm. He had 2 big barns like that. Orginally they were both for milking but later on he turned one into a calving barn for his old hereford beef cattle. Sadly a year after he passed on, his grandson sold the place to a Dutch farmer and that guy bulldozed the whole farm down so he could grow crop there. All the beautiful well kept barns and sheds plus his log house all gone just to gain 2 acres of crop land. There used to be beautiful paths through the bush to the river and those are gone too. There isn't a tree left on that property anymore.
As a kid i worked on a small Dairy in M D . Milking barn was exactly like this one.Good memories!!!
Thanks for the tour, and bringing back memories of our neighbors farm. They had a huge in ground pool, if all us kids wanted to swim, we either stacked straw or hay in the mow, if you were lucky you got to go swap wagons for a bit, of get out and unload wagons on the ground. I definitely miss it. Those old time farmers taught us kids a lot, I know that I still use as well.
I’m glad as a kid I grew up on a farm. Barn next to me was build In 1877 with a beautiful farm house. Down the road is the (new) farm the inside looked just like this
Thinking about the 1,000s of hours spent working in that building. Thanks for taking us back.
Here in PA you will see people dismantling the barn structure and sell the barn wood. May I add, for quite a bit of money too! For myself, I hate to see old wood that is still solid and good go to a burn pile. You are 100% correct that when a roof starts to fail, the rest of the building won't take long before it's destroyed. 👍👍👍
Love the Barn tours & History Wes.
Thanks. Mike M.
Keep up with the good work love watching you on TH-cam
If the barn was repaired, just think of all the storage space that could be available.
Thanks Wes. 👍😊
Very sad the ways things have gone in farming !
I would restore definitely get the roof done that be a perfect barn for me
Thanks for the tour sod buster I clean many of them at my uncles farm in Minnesota and run the milk machine.
Your humor is on point, always puts a smile on my face!
“Back in its hay day” ? 😂
@@Greg_Gatsbyyou are replying to a bot. 😂
I love those old barns.
Thanks lonely farmer realy enjoyed your informative tour. Your cauches to not over romantisise the farming past because you lived it.
Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for video Wes! That's a cool barn and you have a lot of knowledge to share.
G day from Ontario. Interesting video. Looked like a nice barn at 1 time Ths
Thanks for the educating video!!!!!
Great back in time story 👍🏻🇺🇲
great video, always a good time when you go exploring
Very interesting Wes , thanks for the history lesson. Shame the old barns are going by the way side. Love the old barns.
Nice barn . Tin on roof was always an answer . Thousands of barns would still be standing.
Farmer across the street from us had that elevator. It was great. Just flip the diverter and stack.
It’s sad to see all these old barns going to waist,same here in Vermont,all the small diaries are gone or going
My dad had a blue silo exactly like that on his dairy back in 70s here in Australia 🇦🇺.
Pretty cool, I'll take a tour with you anytime
Great video
Historical state of art technology for it's time.
That's the same cleaner I have. Made by JW Hance Mfg. Company for Sears. The silo that used to be at what was Stanislawsky's came out of Round Valley, too.
We had one on the farm…it was called a fanning mill for cleaning grain.
The little fanning mill looks like it still works. I have a clipper 1b that I use to clean corn that I burn for home house heating.
Did a 6 months in a 100 cow barn in Wisconsin 1982 winter, interesting times
im old so .. love the dairy barn!! ... loved to milk in there! .. for me its like a day back!!
Cool old barn... I don't think we any of that feedingtech here on Europe in 50's, at least not in my country.
Love your videos. You're a treasure
That is a neat big old barn.
We had a radio antenna mounted on top of our 80’ harvestore for the local vet office before the era of cellular phones. It got hit by lightning, and the found bits and pieces of it out by the road, over 150’ yards away.
Pretty neat old barn.
Sorry utube put on the wrong comment for the video i am watching but the barn tour was very cool!
That barn is actually in surprisingly good shape. I've seen working dairy farms recently in worse shape than that, other than the super old milkline.
I a gree thanks for the memories as Bob Hope would say it looks like a vacuum pump system Do you remember putting a cheese 🧀 cloth over a can and it would suck the milk from the can to the tank the vacuum system was a real treat to the old way hay thank you for the memory lane did you also have the seamen tank
Nice video….Thanks
If he would fix the roof and replace some wood it might be fine
Yeah we had an open silo we had to climate and shovel silage down by hand for for 105 cows beef cows cold in the winter time thanks from Gary
Good video.
Cool old barns there
My parents have a freezer from the 1960 in thier basement that is a frigidaire. It also says gm. It still works. There is probably a chicken in the bottom from the 1980's
Wes did you know JD even made a silo unloader also!
U should do a tour of your old dairy barn again
Would love to see a tour of your grandparents 50 cow barn
Cool video 👍
Used t figure $1000 per foot back in the day for the Harvestore silos back in the day.
Did you have to put a few tears up so when the bails fell off that they wouldn’t break that’s the way we did it sure made mawing a whole lot easier
The mold and silage rot that the bottom unloading system in those blue silos mixed in and hid within the good feed caused a lot of health issues among many herds.
it's not the fall that hurts it's the sudden stop at the end
can you show us the old abanded farm again that is falling down ?
The little cereal cleaning unit was called a Winnowing machine in the uk.
The vacuum pulse solenoids and the glass milk line look like all Delaval stuff.
Could have been. Our glass line was for serge
I like to see when you empty truck that is cool!
I believe that's called a fanning mill for cleaning seed if it has a fan
Is this the same barn you did a video on a number of years ago? Its holding up decent despite its neglect
should put some power to those fans see if they still work :)
My dad built 2 harvestore silos, made nice feed but they cost the same as buying 100 acres , be like spending 2 million on feed storage for a small farm today
It’s wild to me that before all this social media bs and internet growing up on a dairy farm I had heard that term up here in western Canada. That Harvestore silos were tombstones on a farm. Continent wide term I guess.
The only reason they got the nickname blue tombstone was the farmer was a bad manager. The 80s didn't help farmers at all by then they had to much dept and that didn't work in the 80s here. Plenty of them still running here in Wisconsin!
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The blue tombstone is right. My uncle put one in back in the late 60's. By the mid 80's he was bankrupt. Doubt if that thing ever got paid off.
The 80s were hard on lots of farms but the silo is not the reason they went bankrupt! No matter if it's a blue silo or concrete one or green red or orange paint tractors if you were a bad manager you didn't make it long! Plenty of harvestors still being used here in this part of the country along with concrete ones!
@@bryanginder5903 50k in 1960's money was a hell of a chunk of money now 50k won't even buy a farm truck.
Did that barn have a patz gutter cleaner in it by chance
Defiinitely save that barn, great big expensive barn...it's easy to save a barn...fix the roof first...foundation and side walls are in good strong condition. fix roof, then fix and brace-sandwich roof and floor trusses...and add patching in on floor.
Fanning mill
What did the JD and NH things hanging from the ceiling actually do? I tried researching the word you were calling it but couldnt find anything. Probably spelling it wrong. Would love to know
It moves hay from the end of the barn to the middle of the barn there is diverters that will kick the bale off in the spot you want it to as you fill the barn
@onelonleyfarmer thank you sir for the history lesson and teaching an cit'idiot something new
Sad.... really
How do you spell what he was calling that JD "moual" elevator? Trying to research and find out what the dang thing did hanging from the ceiling
@@shawndinterman2219 MOW elevator.
(mow) elevator. Your outside elevator brought the little square bales of hay or straw up to that one in the peak of the barn the mow elevator them moved the bales in farther then dropped them off to wherever you set the plow at. That way you could fill the barn with hay from one location!
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The wood is old and worth slot to woodworkers
Where’s all the bird shit 🤷♂️ the barn swallows have covered the floor in my old dairy barn 🤦♂️
One of the local 'organic gardeners' might have scraped it all out of there. My grandmother used to collect up the piles under the swallow nests in the wagon house and add it to her compost pile. But she was growing tomatoes and cucumbers, not the plants these guys are.
Make “ok so” great again!!!!
interesting
I be didn’t know jd sold now elevators
Back when men were men, when they filled that mow.
Damn it, opened up u-tube ready to enjoy a onelonelyfarmer's video and right next to Wes's video was a Transparent try on - See-through video. Ohhhhh, the Agoney in deciding which one to watch first. 😖........................Well, after Very, Very careful consideration I'm watching Wes first.
Besides, those Transparent try on - See-through videos are ONLY for "Professional Presenting the Practicality and Aesthetics of clothing" and NOT for sexual gratification..............Right??? 🤷♂
Mad that you can’t make a living from 100 cows in North America.
Dairy farming is dieing in new jersey fast
It is everywhere unless you want to milk 1000+ cows, when you get down to it the big 1000+ cow farm are not sustainable my no means and don't do much for the local community like the old 40 to 90 cow farms we use to have!
and every where else unfortunately
Old barns are just useless nowadays you can't get any machinery in them and the cost to renovate them would not be cheap or practical
So that's what's wrong with you. Lol