I remember when I was a kid in the 1960's that we would go to the Indy 500 track every year for the first day of qualifications. They had a building that was a long row of outhouse "holes". I hated to have to use them but there was no other choice! The track has come a long way. I never had seen another outhouse other than that one!
Of all the video's that I have watched of your work Alex (Mow It Wells), this by far has to be the most Impressive one. I rate this as 100% on the Excellent Scale. You impress me every time I watch your video's
Finally convinced my great-grandfather to put a bathroom in his house when I was about 10. That would be 1970-71. Before that, the outhouse or, at night, the chamber pot. He lived in Onalaska, Texas.
I watch but rarely ever comment.When you found that out house, you reminded me of my childhood. I am sixty seven years old and have lived in many houses that only had an outhouse, including in maine with ten feet of snow on the ground, but my grandmother's house up until the eighties, and I'd say late eighties had an outhouse, and it's still there on the property. The problem was, she lived on top of the mountain, and my great-grandmother lived there before her. They also had a chamber pot that you used at night and then emptied in the morning. Outhouses are wonderful to find, and if you ever find a privy and get a chance to dig it, because what happens is they throw everything they don't want anymore inside it, do fill the hole in. You would be amazed what ends up in there. Also, as soon as you picked up that bottle and I seen just the color I knew it was an rc cola, and I said, oh my gosh, you would never guess how many of them i've seen underneath my grandmother's sink. She would go to the store and buy enough for the entire month and it was a lot. Thanks for the memories.
Great job! Very 1:21:14 well done in the jungle. You've cut so much down. It's going to take quite a while to go around and pick it all up now. Oh, I see you brought along a helper. Smart thinking!
I think when that property was first graded, they hit rock! Aren't you near Chattanooga? That's the first thing I thought about😊 You are brave taking on that kind of terrain too! Hope you stay safe and spot wasp and other stingy things before they get you!🤗❤
The outhouses were late 19th, early 20th century. Eleanor Roosevelt developed the ones with ventilation and flooring. The crescent moon was on the door of the ladies and the sun was on the men’s. My relatives had them when I was young
that Mow It Well is an Outhouse, we had one right up into 1967. I grew up with an outhouse and we were afraid to use the school washrooms, (when we started school), because we had never seen anything like flushing toilets.
I love you young'uns Mr. Blue Eyes! Most of us older people know and used out houses. so fun to watch younger people ''discover'' antiques! What a great clean-up you've done!
WOW looks to me, you needed a chipper for this one. You do such a great job. People help this hard working man out... SUBSCRIBE, LIKE 😊 I'm sure the dog even was greatful on this one.🐶🐶🐶🐾🐾
Yes that is an outhouse or a dunny as we would say in Australia. I am pretty sure that it would be a 'long drop' which is just a very deep pit that collected the waste and allowed it to continually break down and return to the earth.
Alec, sharpened that chainsaw up... she's dull!! You need extra hands on this jurassic Park adventure!! Lots of limb debris to tackle. Wow, it's amazing how much land you uncovered by removing brush and leaves... what a mess you've cleared.
The family I lived with had a summer farm we worked every summer and the only facility was an outhouse. It was a two seater.?? I never used it with anyone else. I just turned 79 this month. That is quit a find.😍😍
That one was a real marathon, and it gave you quite a workout. I was thinking perhaps the pile of rocks might be from the original house that the outhouse belonged too. Who knows? A mystery?
Such hard labor clearing this jungle all with hand held tools when others are using monstrous mulching riding machines! May God protect and give you strength 👌👍😀🙏❤️
My grandmother had one when I was a child in the 50's and my husband's uncle still had one in the early 70's! Many "Off-Gridders" have outhouses still today!
Me too... I remember how dark and cold it was to go out in the middle of the night. That's why we kept a pot under the bed for emergencies. Believe me , though we had the pot, we were not encouraged to use that instead of going out to the outhouse.
Yes a outhouse. My dad was a zinc miner and we lived in a company housing. That's one thing you never forget! (Yep he owed his soul to the company store) There is a guy on TH-cam that goes the places where the had outhouses and digs them . Because they also used them for Trash. He finds old Bottles, tea pots , dishes , pots and pans etc. His site is ----Below the Plains.----- Mostly late 1800's and early 1900's . Just a little outhouse history things I didn't know until I came across it.
It was in the mid-1950s as a kid that we used an outhouse at my grandparents in South Texas. My Dad put inside plumbing/bathroom in the late 1950s for them. Before that had to haul water with a bucket to the house from the cistern. Fortunately, never visited in the winter. Many an occasion had to help my uncle move the outhouse to another location after he had dug a new hole in the ground that the outhouse was placed over. Then just covered up the 'old' hole with the dirt from the new hole. Used many a old catalog for toilet paper. Ouch!
I am 69-years-old. I grew up on a farm in Ohio. We had indoor plumbing, but we also had an outhouse. I think the family that had the farm before us would have their farm workers use the outhouse rather than using the family's TINY bathroom. Since our workers were always friends of my sisters and I, we even invited them inside to eat with us. I did use the outhouse a few times, when I was worried if I went inside I'd have to do some (ugh) housework!
You're right it's an outhouse. I remember having to use one at my grandparents house . We used to read the Sears catalog in there. There was no light so you left the door opened. If It's real and not for yard decoration it has a hole underneath it. It used to be in the chicken yard. Good find and yes I'm old 73.
Wow, how cool was that? Other channels uncover sidewalks but you find buildings 🤣🤣 I’m going to hazard a guess that the coffee can was for scooping lye. They would use it to help decompose and keep the smell down if I recall correctly. Anyways, there would be a bucket of lye alongside the seat. 🤷♀️ well done, Sir….impressive and motivating as always 😊#uncoverhiddentoilets
We have pictures of my Grandfather next to large mounds of rocks in 1881 and they were close to the family cemetery and were used to make headstones to have something to use for the funeral until a marker could be carved! Once used and replaced they were pounded to bits!
Nothing wrong with a good outhouse. I use my to store rakes, shovels and other garden tools. You could have really used a forestry mulcher on this one. That's a lot of trees! Thanks for the video!
I was born in the 60's and also lived beside an amish family. We played there plenty times as a kid and yes they had an outhouse that we used many times. They had a 2 seater LOL!!!
My grandparents had an outhouse in their backyard. My sis remembers when they got their first indoor plumbing. YES that’s an outhouse. People used to throw all kinds of things down the hole. There are people who LOOK for outhouses and search for treasures.
Our neighbor was an elderly man who had no indoor plumbing. This was back in the sixties and early seventies. I used his outhouse all the time. I think they finally tore it down when he moved to a nursing home and the house was rebuilt
For many years, homeowners could still have outhouses in their yards until county officials said it wasn't sanitary. Then homeowners were required to hook into the county sewer systems. That is why you will see older homes with bathrooms built on the side as added editions. According to Wikipedia, the company changed from bottles to cans in 1959. So that bottle is probably older than 1959.
LOL.... Yep, that's an old outhouse. We had one at the first house I lived in for almost 6 years... which was 66 years ago. Very happy when we moved to a new house with a real bathroom!
Yes, that's an outhouse. My grandparents were still using their outhouse when my father started high school in 1960. It was still intact when I was a child in the early 80s but bot in use.
Definitely a privy (outhouse). There’s a chap called Tom Askjem with a channel called ‘Below the Plains.’ He excavates old outhouses to retrieve old bottles, plates, etc. He would know how old that bottle is.
It’s for sure an outhouse. I used one growing up in East Tennessee. They went out of use in the sixties, for the most part. That RC bottle looks to be from 1961.
Definitely need to sharpen that chain. Outhouses are still a thing at hunting camps, etc. where plumbing isn't available. I know a lot of people that still have them and are still building them.
They was good back in the 60s and is still being used like the one ur cleaning up around here in Oklahoma...But not so good during the winter times...lol
FANTASTIC 👏👏👏 in Australia we called it a Dunny ( out house ). Great length youtube video. Good to see it's not edge and mow video. Can I ask why many American videos don't have the interaction with owners and public? Anyway by far an outstanding video. ❤🇦🇺🌳
My Grandma Brock lived in Crossville Tennessee and she had an outhouse before the County laid sewer mains on her road. We used to have stayovers at her house in the summer. If I had to go and it was dark I would wake up my little sister to go with me. We had a flashlight to see the path to the outhouse and it was always scary to me. Right across the dirt road that she lived on was a large cementary which was scary too. And yes sometimes we had a "chamber pot" that we used if it was raining or really cold.
Even if you did put in a bathroom in the farmhouse, the outhouse was still used when doing chores because of the boot dirt from feed lots or chicken coop etc would require the boots to come off to come inside. The outhouse was still important.
I remember when I was a kid in the 1960's that we would go to the Indy 500 track every year for the first day of qualifications. They had a building that was a long row of outhouse "holes". I hated to have to use them but there was no other choice! The track has come a long way. I never had seen another outhouse other than that one!
You two did an amazing job 👏! It was a jungle .
For all who remember the 60’s, Alex wasn’t even born then. 😉 ❤
What a transformation. You’re the best ever at jungle cleanups. From 🇦🇺🌺🇺🇸
Yes, born in 1960 and used an outhouse in the Country of Okla.
Of all the video's that I have watched of your work Alex (Mow It Wells), this by far has to be the most Impressive one. I rate this as 100% on the Excellent Scale. You impress me every time I watch your video's
Thank you! 😊
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Nice clean up.
Finally convinced my great-grandfather to put a bathroom in his house when I was about 10. That would be 1970-71. Before that, the outhouse or, at night, the chamber pot. He lived in Onalaska, Texas.
Great job God will bless you
I watch but rarely ever comment.When you found that out house, you reminded me of my childhood. I am sixty seven years old and have lived in many houses that only had an outhouse, including in maine with ten feet of snow on the ground, but my grandmother's house up until the eighties, and I'd say late eighties had an outhouse, and it's still there on the property. The problem was, she lived on top of the mountain, and my great-grandmother lived there before her. They also had a chamber pot that you used at night and then emptied in the morning. Outhouses are wonderful to find, and if you ever find a privy and get a chance to dig it, because what happens is they throw everything they don't want anymore inside it, do fill the hole in. You would be amazed what ends up in there. Also, as soon as you picked up that bottle and I seen just the color I knew it was an rc cola, and I said, oh my gosh, you would never guess how many of them i've seen underneath my grandmother's sink. She would go to the store and buy enough for the entire month and it was a lot. Thanks for the memories.
@@Crazy-bout-a-mercury that’s awesome. I’m glad it brought back some memories for you. Thank you for watching!
Great job! Very 1:21:14 well done in the jungle. You've cut so much down. It's going to take quite a while to go around and pick it all up now. Oh, I see you brought along a helper. Smart thinking!
I think when that property was first graded, they hit rock! Aren't you near Chattanooga? That's the first thing I thought about😊 You are brave taking on that kind of terrain too! Hope you stay safe and spot wasp and other stingy things before they get you!🤗❤
The outhouses were late 19th, early 20th century. Eleanor Roosevelt developed the ones with ventilation and flooring. The crescent moon was on the door of the ladies and the sun was on the men’s. My relatives had them when I was young
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Great job! That was a lot of work!! ❤❤❤
that Mow It Well is an Outhouse, we had one right up into 1967. I grew up with an outhouse and we were afraid to use the school washrooms, (when we started school), because we had never seen anything like flushing toilets.
I love you young'uns Mr. Blue Eyes! Most of us older people know and used out houses. so fun to watch younger people ''discover'' antiques! What a great clean-up you've done!
Outhouses never went out of style. When you got to go you got to go 😅
WOW looks to me, you needed a chipper for this one. You do such a great job.
People help this hard working man out... SUBSCRIBE, LIKE 😊
I'm sure the dog even was greatful on this one.🐶🐶🐶🐾🐾
Wow 😳😅
Seriously
I can say i bet the owner
Feels better and will hold her
Head up again that her home
Looks amazing 😍
Great job 👍
Yes that is an outhouse or a dunny as we would say in Australia. I am pretty sure that it would be a 'long drop' which is just a very deep pit that collected the waste and allowed it to continually break down and return to the earth.
Alec, sharpened that chainsaw up... she's dull!! You need extra hands on this jurassic Park adventure!! Lots of limb debris to tackle. Wow, it's amazing how much land you uncovered by removing brush and leaves... what a mess you've cleared.
I know I was screaming at him it's so dule.
Good job you a and worker
@@danajhasalvegas5819 I went through so many chains. I had to use what I had left. Thanks for watching!
The family I lived with had a summer farm we worked every summer and the only facility was an outhouse. It was a two seater.?? I never used it with anyone else. I just turned 79 this month. That is quit a find.😍😍
Awesome job. Thanks for cleaning this yard.
Wow!!!! ❤Nicely done…..
Yes.. of course it is an outhouse.. !!! hahaha The bottle is a keeper for sure..
Very hard work but fantastic result👍👌
That one was a real marathon, and it gave you quite a workout. I was thinking perhaps the pile of rocks might be from the original house that the outhouse belonged too. Who knows? A mystery?
That a outhouse... I am 83 and we still use one in 1960. I lived in Idaho on a farm... that RC bottle is worth some money
That was like cutting down Sherwood Forest!! An outstanding job !
Awesome transformation
Such hard labor clearing this jungle all with hand held tools when others are using monstrous mulching riding machines! May God protect and give you strength 👌👍😀🙏❤️
Always an awesome job! I love watching your videos and the service you do for the community!
Epic transformation…amazing work on the volunteer vegetation.
🎉One of the best I've seen🎉
I remember this - it’s a good one! Great work!
From UK England what a good job you have both done. Worked in unison all the way it looks amazing. 😊 bless you both ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My grandmother had one when I was a child in the 50's and my husband's uncle still had one in the early 70's! Many "Off-Gridders" have outhouses still today!
Me too... I remember how dark and cold it was to go out in the middle of the night. That's why we kept a pot under the bed for emergencies. Believe me , though we had the pot, we were not encouraged to use that instead of going out to the outhouse.
Thanks for sharing Alex!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙋🏼✌🏻✌🏻💯💯💯
Yes a outhouse. My dad was a zinc miner and we lived in a company housing. That's one thing you never forget! (Yep he owed his soul to the company store) There is a guy on TH-cam that goes the places where the had outhouses and digs them . Because they also used them for Trash. He finds old Bottles, tea pots , dishes , pots and pans etc. His site is ----Below the Plains.----- Mostly late 1800's and early 1900's . Just a little outhouse history things I didn't know until I came across it.
Up to the 80s. Out house's were used. An some people still use. You did a fantastic job.
What an awesome transformation! I’m curious about the rocks myself.
Fantastic job, you men are great
Workers
You’re done thousands value work in this yard. Wow!
It was in the mid-1950s as a kid that we used an outhouse at my grandparents in South Texas. My Dad put inside plumbing/bathroom in the late 1950s for them. Before that had to haul water with a bucket to the house from the cistern. Fortunately, never visited in the winter. Many an occasion had to help my uncle move the outhouse to another location after he had dug a new hole in the ground that the outhouse was placed over. Then just covered up the 'old' hole with the dirt from the new hole. Used many a old catalog for toilet paper. Ouch!
I am 69-years-old. I grew up on a farm in Ohio. We had indoor plumbing, but we also had an outhouse. I think the family that had the farm before us would have their farm workers use the outhouse rather than using the family's TINY bathroom. Since our workers were always friends of my sisters and I, we even invited them inside to eat with us.
I did use the outhouse a few times, when I was worried if I went inside I'd have to do some (ugh) housework!
You're right it's an outhouse. I remember having to use one at my grandparents house . We used to read the Sears catalog in there. There was no light so you left the door opened. If It's real and not for yard decoration it has a hole underneath it. It used to be in the chicken yard. Good find and yes I'm old 73.
Awesome job Alec❤
Wow, how cool was that? Other channels uncover sidewalks but you find buildings 🤣🤣 I’m going to hazard a guess that the coffee can was for scooping lye. They would use it to help decompose and keep the smell down if I recall correctly. Anyways, there would be a bucket of lye alongside the seat. 🤷♀️ well done, Sir….impressive and motivating as always 😊#uncoverhiddentoilets
Definitely an outhouse. I just turned 54 but I was potty trained in an outhouse as we didn’t have an indoor toilet.
It was very overgrown, you did a fantastic job. Thank you. God bless❤
We have pictures of my Grandfather next to large mounds of rocks in 1881 and they were close to the family cemetery and were used to make headstones to have something to use for the funeral until a marker could be carved! Once used and replaced they were pounded to bits!
I’ve used outhouses before when I was little. My great grandparents had one.
Yes! That’s definitely a Outhouse. I remember when I was a child around 5yrs old in the 60’s.
Very nice find A very old ROYAL CROWN Bottle too..😂😂
That was a lot of trees. Excellent work.
Nothing wrong with a good outhouse. I use my to store rakes, shovels and other garden tools. You could have really used a forestry mulcher on this one. That's a lot of trees! Thanks for the video!
The RC Cola bottle is an antique bottle probably worth some money. We used an out house up to the late 60s.
I'm so glad you discovered the little building. You might need it on that big a job.😅
I remember my grandparents had an outhouse and that was 1945. My pawpaw said, "you don't that business in the house!" LOL
Yes sir darling. That s what that is.
That bottle style was started in 1956. Saw one for sale for $9.72 on ebay.
Awesome transformation Alex !
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I can remember my mom saying 3 rooms and a path. Lol
I was born in the 60's and also lived beside an amish family. We played there plenty times as a kid and yes they had an outhouse that we used many times. They had a 2 seater LOL!!!
We had a 2 seater outhouse also....lol.
My grandparents had an outhouse in their backyard. My sis remembers when they got their first indoor plumbing. YES that’s an outhouse. People used to throw all kinds of things down the hole. There are people who LOOK for outhouses and search for treasures.
And yes we all used it if the indoor bathroom was busy. You just had to watch for spiders and snakes.
My grandmothers house had an outhouse up until the early 70’s. But there is still places in Canada that still has outhouses.
Yes, that is an outhouse..never out of style....depending on where you live.
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I remember this video! Awesome transformation.
Our neighbor was an elderly man who had no indoor plumbing. This was back in the sixties and early seventies. I used his outhouse all the time. I think they finally tore it down when he moved to a nursing home and the house was rebuilt
For many years, homeowners could still have outhouses in their yards until county officials said it wasn't sanitary. Then homeowners were required to hook into the county sewer systems. That is why you will see older homes with bathrooms built on the side as added editions. According to Wikipedia, the company changed from bottles to cans in 1959. So that bottle is probably older than 1959.
It's probably outhouse i used in the 60s. Great job. God bless you.
Great job! It looks amazing ❤
LOL.... Yep, that's an old outhouse. We had one at the first house I lived in for almost 6 years... which was 66 years ago. Very happy when we moved to a new house with a real bathroom!
Its an out house,alright.grew up using one as a youngster. Many times,my next ,door neighbors up north,still have a 4 hole one in use ,as we speek!
Out door loo we had one we used in australia in 1950s
Yes, that's an outhouse. My grandparents were still using their outhouse when my father started high school in 1960. It was still intact when I was a child in the early 80s but bot in use.
That bottle could be worth some money, we had one growing up
Definitely a privy (outhouse). There’s a chap called Tom Askjem with a channel called ‘Below the Plains.’ He excavates old outhouses to retrieve old bottles, plates, etc. He would know how old that bottle is.
Thanks
Thank you! You are awesome!
It’s for sure an outhouse. I used one growing up in East Tennessee. They went out of use in the sixties, for the most part. That RC bottle looks to be from 1961.
Really enjoy watching you. I was hoping for new content but I’ve seen a shorter version of this one earlier this year on your other channel.
Outstanding 😊
Man you a beast on the. Tree weeds and bushes.
Definitely need to sharpen that chain. Outhouses are still a thing at hunting camps, etc. where plumbing isn't available. I know a lot of people that still have them and are still building them.
They was good back in the 60s and is still being used like the one ur cleaning up around here in Oklahoma...But not so good during the winter times...lol
FANTASTIC 👏👏👏 in Australia we called it a Dunny ( out house ). Great length youtube video. Good to see it's not edge and mow video. Can I ask why many American videos don't have the interaction with owners and public? Anyway by far an outstanding video. ❤🇦🇺🌳
I knew Yankees were weird, but you getting that excited to look at someone else's crap. That's taking it to a whole new level! 😂😂
My Grandma Brock lived in Crossville Tennessee and she had an outhouse before the County laid sewer mains on her road. We used to have stayovers at her house in the summer. If I had to go and it was dark I would wake up my little sister to go with me. We had a flashlight to see the path to the outhouse and it was always scary to me. Right across the dirt road that she lived on was a large cementary which was scary too. And yes sometimes we had a "chamber pot" that we used if it was raining or really cold.
that pile of blocks you were asking about look to me like the remains of a block wall.
As an Australian I can confirm that is a backyard dunny.
That's a out house we have one back in the days. ❤😮😅
It is a outhouse!! There are some still use in the Mt's!🙃🙃🙃
A really nice clean up
Anyone one else remember an R C an A Moon Pie.. when I was just a little girl they were popular.
Your right..that is and outhouse..my uncle and aunt use to have one of those in there back yard.
Had used granmothers outhouse in 1962 before she got plumbing in Arkansas
The1940’s in some areas my grandparents had one in there 29 palms spring desert home
I was around 5 when we got a toilet. I'm 72 now. Yes that was a outhouse.
thanks for helping that young lady God is watching
Those rocks ,as you call them, could be gravestones. From what i saw of them they looked carved. So check them out.
Even if you did put in a bathroom in the farmhouse, the outhouse was still used when doing chores because of the boot dirt from feed lots or chicken coop
etc would require the boots to come off to come inside. The outhouse was still important.