We found an ABANDONED Home Site While Exploring our Land!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Let's go explore our land up in ND! There's a TON of history just on this small piece of land, you'll be surprised! We'll talk dirt moving plans, do some water witching, and even look at old tipi rings!
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In this episode, Derek finds an abandoned Home Site and gets it running again with some sandpaper and a little fresh gas.
And drives it 200 miles to the old home site!
Don't
forget the vice grip's and duct tape too.. maybe sum sandwitches also.
No no, old gas from the 80's. Don't be so damn wasteful!!
It was gas from a snowblower that hasn't run since 1965 and Bentleys found Grandpa plyers. Give him some credit, he makes it work.
Don't forget the cold snacks.
That old school find water wizardry has always and I mean ALWAYS fascinated this old feller EVERY single 3rd time
My dad taught me how to do it when I was young. I make a lot of money on the side Well Witching for people with this method... Never fails.
@@markkeller1778 I’m the same but use a slightly different method for finding depth. We use a silver pocket watch on a chain, stand and hold out directly above source and watch will start to spin to the point it’s horizontal then repeat and count rotations till horizontal and that’s how far down you have to dig. Hope that all makes sense, I was amazed the first time I seen this as a young lad.
I forget what kind of wood you use but you take a Y shaped branch hold certain way and BAM, water source, I've done it and swear by it, truly wild
Yep, hard to believe but it worked on my Grandfathers property, my uncles property and mine.
East Coast GS, my dad taught me and he used a Willow branch in the shape of a Y, put your thumbs on the end hold it parallel to the ground start walking and when the tail of the Y points down that's where the Vein of water is! Works like a charm. To tell the depth he used a piece of straight Willow about 5ft long, put the small end in the ground so the bigger end was over the Vein of water, it would 'bob' up and down for each foot of depth, then it would go horizontal a few times and start bobbing again, damnest thing I ever saw! But it always worked, he probably witched 200+ Wells and only missed 2 times. I can use the Y stick to find the water but haven't been successful at getting the depth, it's been 30 years or more since I have tried, I should try again.
The boys may find some really cool artifacts and arrowheads around those teepee circles! Looks like a lot of rich family history in that area. Looking forward to watching the progress on this beautiful property.
Please leave the teepee rings alone. The indigenous peoples in the area will appreciate the sensitivity.
Love all your shows...grew up tinkering with anything that could be built. Stopped for years.....Back to building and restoring bikes. Making something considered to most as junk something special again. I enjoy all your dry humor. Nice job! Thanks for all your posts. Jesse
Man that's an incredible view, and the history is cool too. To think a hundred years or so maybe more, there was a family living out there where the nearest town was probably a days horse ride away.
Crazy right?
Horses appreciate vehicles at least as much as Humans, prolly more!
I keep seeing the Windows Start Screen with that Blue sky and rolling hills
@@n84434 damn if you ain't on the mark lmao
@@aspalovin They definitely earned their retirement
I remember them teaching us witching for water in school here. Also grew up with alot of old farmers that could find water faster than any computer can nowadays. Pretty awesome seeing your boy being able to do it too
I always knew how to use dowsing rods to find water and electrical, but i never knew about the depth finding procedure with the washer attached. Amazing !
Explains a lot about the US education system.
Clearly becoming one of my favorite channels. What a gorgeous piece of land.
Thank you
This sweet family , so sweet , beautiful, where can you go watch clean TV , Family , 66 years young , Like the Walton’s love this family , God and Family . God Bless you All
More then ever I want to know more about the family history. Sounds like they have been in the area for a long time.
Absolutely yes please, maybe an episode on your family history?
My sisters truly believe they are sophisticated. But, I live it when my dad takes us to the place where he grew up. I dog my sisters hard about their hillbilly ancestry. Then I refer to them as Becky and Milly and they want to cry. Lol
IMHO, from Switzerland.. Came to Michigan in ~1872
A guy might wanna go way back into the vault say 800 years ago
How amazing just being on your family's land is so neat. I'm glad that you are taking us along with you on your adventures in developing your property
You may want to invest in a metal detector to scan over the old homestead location to see if you find any keepers? People were known to bury their money and valuables in the old west in fear of marauders.
That would make an awesome vidja. Derek would probably find a buried steam tractor and get the damn thing runnin!
@@aspalovin probably just a bunch of barbed wire lol joking, that would be cool to watch.
I follow metal detecting channels.
You must not have detected on a farm before.
Your detector goes off every few inches because it found a nail, or a piece of fence... junk really.
I was thinking the same thing. Found an old house plot on some family land a few years back found and old lever rifle and revolver my pawpaw told me it was where he dads dad grew up. Pretty cool pieces of history i dug up. Glad i didnt listen to people telling me id be wasting time
Isn't that a Mercury? Lol 🤣🤣
I appreciate your different persona here; each channel has a slightly different Derek. Bravo.
Really awesome to see a family piece of land stayin’ in the family
Pretty sure there’s no property tax in ND. As it should be
Derek this is a great opportunity to buy and do a first start on some heavy machinery i.e. a Dozer and Loader and do your own landscape for the channel 😉👍
Amazing seeing the amount of history in that little piece of land just from keeping it in the family and passing it down. My family were farmers for 150 years but never on the same land as 3 times that I know of they sold the farm for building land and then moved a bit further out as the city expanded. My Uncle sold up just a couple years back and they're building a whole bunch of 'luxury family housing' on that little piece of land and he was the last to sell up so I guess I'm not from a farming family any more. I learned to drive stick on my Uncle's back field and spent a ton of summers working on the property when my Dad rented some land off my uncle to run his business out of but the whole lot's gone now save a couple of glasshouses that look to still be standing on the old Google maps.
Derek hi. You are so lucky to have that homestead property in ND. Here in NJ that would have been bought up by greedy developers and turned into townhouses or strip malls.I plan on getting out and getting a piece of land at some point soon.Good luck with your new un -car project!
That’s awesome, congratulations to you and your family on the new place enjoy it looks like you got ample supply of underwater aquifers and probably a bunch of springs underneath your laying there and everything very cool.
Have you thought about going off grid with the power supply, solar panels and things of that nature. If so and you haven’t come across his channel I highly recommend you watching red poppy ranch he has a very good set up an off grid power supply and he’s got hooked up to a big garage his house his whole family lives in it anyways have a good night
Wow what a neat bit of land thanks for sharing it with us Derek
That flat piece of silver metal you had, Eveready. That’s an old flashlight, looks like it was ran over and flattened.
Beat me to it, I had one or two back in the day.
Yup, beat me too it as well! My great grandpa had those all over the shop/house/shed/well house. They sure don't build them like that anymore that's for sure!
As soon as a feller said "Eveready" a guy remembered an old TV advert here in the UK with a slogan "Everready power to the people" - I was a young'un back then and memory is hazy but I figure I remember the TV advert was for Eveready batteries, which would have gone along with Eveready flashlights.
In fact I just found the advert a guy remembered : th-cam.com/video/btRRHvcXuhw/w-d-xo.html
Yup. Standard gear with our 70's/80's camping gear. Had either a red or yellow lens surround and the battries liked to leak in them for some reason? Had more than one full of rust and exploded, foamy battrie powder in 'em!
In the old days when homesteaders came from Europe, the horse stable was often connected directly to one end of the house. This is similar to how homes today have attached garages. This can explain why the house footprint seems to be too large. You can identify the house usually by finding hearth stones. There should also be remnants of the chimney there, but if the house was bulldozed, evidence of the chimney is likely to be gone, although the hearthstones may remain if the rest of the foundation is there. Hearth stones may not be along the wall, but located inside the walls at the center of the house so that rooms on all sides could keep heated in the winter.
"Divining rods" are cool. I used them to locate utilities for many years. I can tell you how wide a trench is and how wide the pipe is in the trench. Lots of fun. That's a beautiful area. Looking forward to your progress. Good luck.
In a controlled test, Divining rods have the exact same percentage as chance!
Those methods of testing with wire and washers was amazing...😃
I've done the witching sticks before to find water. Basically locates disturbed soil. Never seen the washer trick to measure depth though. Really cool
great bit of land guys with the best view ive seen in a very long time it looks awesome
Makes you homesick for a time and place you weren't born in
Yeah but don't miss the Blackfoot coming up over that hill on the only day you ever walked down to the spring without your rifle.
I think we are looking on the brighter side if things, illnesses where more common, and the medicine to treat them was rare. The reason they appeal to us now is that compared to what life is for more humans now, it is free of the modern stresses. You may stress about work and your commute and impressing your boss for that bonus, while back then you worried for your livestock, the weather, your crops, and your family's health. The risks where more, and the stresses made you appreciate life more. Nowadays the stresses aren't worth what we are given for them. Money doesn't mean shit if life sucks when you have it
Hey Derek and the family, really cool to hear your brother mention the New Town water plant. I’m a truck driver and I haul lime to them pretty often. Now when I see the dirt/clay, I’ll know it came from your property. Neat! Take care guys. Hope to meet you out there some day!
Great Plan!!! Excited to see the Progress!!!! Great Video!!!
That Stanley Cenex truck is sweet. Probably one of the best Cenex's in the country.
The pliers look like a CeeTee brand. Not sure if they’re still around but they sure were a popular brand back in the day.
Definitely Cee Tee i still carry a pair everyday and yes i can still get them from my local parts store which is good because i have planted plenty over the years.
I won a trip to the Marlboro ranch 10 years ago in the crazy mountains in Montana. Man there is a whole lot of nothing out that way, it’s perfect. That lake looks awesome. Them boys could ride jet ski on that thing. Them bolders would be good fish attractors.
Suggest metal detecting the old house site. Guarantee you’ll dig up relics, old tools, coinage, household relics. It will give you a view into your past.
I love car revivals as much as I love homestead revivals. Seeing your ranch reminds me of the one I worked on in the Nebraska Sandhills. Beautiful country and I can’t wait to see your progress
I wonder what Delta Burke is doing today.
Will See you! THANKS!
Derek awesome building site. I'm only a hop skip and a jump away in wadena MN . if you ever need a hand or wanna see what vehicles I have and know about. Chevrolet and international trucks..
In the beginning of the video around the 3:05 mark, when they were driving up to the top of the hill to turn around, that is damn near heaven on earth, with that old winding dirt road and fluffy balls of cotton in the sky, it just doesn't get much better than that as far as I'm concerned! I hope you and the family enjoy it for a long long time Derek. A guys gettin a little jealous, I gotta admit.
Interesting video and beautiful location. Thanks for sharing.
Drink a metric ton of Coors Light and you can find water anywhere. Or drink a few pints of Guinness and make your own! Blown away by the sheer amount of land your family owns Derek. Probably fit a whole Guinness brewery in there with room to spare! Great video, thank you.
I can imagine wild buffalo heard all over those green lush fields looks great 👍
Great video for us city boys.
Loved the video, yes please show more videos of your land
Beautiful place. I do the house near that swale with the great view of the lake, put on the tree side. At any rate, pretty neat.
Cheers Mate,
Richard
Utah
Sweet, that's beautiful. The boys will have an awesome time running the property. This a dream that some don't have, but I do wish you and your the best.
That mini truck seems like something Puddin's Fab Shop might enjoy
When a guy is finally too popular and has to point out that trespassing will results in legal beat-a$$ing lol I love this new expansion of content, good man
It's nice you have a happy place. A cold desolate happy place.
Congratulapulations!!! Good looking land , trees are cool tooo , they give out some kinda stuffs we need to 🫁 breathe.lol keep it in the fam , God bless you Mr. D
Wow!!! Just learned something... The water finding and depth technique... Awesome!
This should lead to many interesting, entertaining videos. I look forward to seeing what you do with this and your family.
Please please please do a video or 5 on that courier 🥰🥰🥰. I absolutely love those trucks!!!
Nice piece of property with a great view.
My lineage the Wysocki Clan is from Minto ND.
Still pretty prominent through that area.
Those teepee circles are amazing!
That shiney/chrome peace of metal that little man found looked like and old flash light case like them old chrome flashlights
Congratulations! When so much of your life you show the public, it will be so nice for you and your family to go to that space and just "be". No TH-cam editing, no TH-cam. Just build a fire pit and watch the sun go down. Perfect!
That door latch piece I think confirms the house was burned somehow..my guess.
I can’t wait to see the old Mobile Home he restores
Beautiful property Derek!
Damn little house on the prairie. awesome piece of land
That shiny item your son found at 12:44 appears to be the squished body of a flashlight.
That is a prime spot for metal detecting. Was it 1925 or 1929 when they had the vicious tornado out break in ND flattened alotta homes and farms. Allegedly happened in the middle of the night. I don't know about living on wide open ground like that. Seems like an invitation to a free ride on a tornado.
That water stick is crazy. Never seen that before. A guy is amazed.
I could have caves n stuff under there!!! That property is amazing ❤
You should consider building an Earthship house there. You might even be able to spend the winters up there then. Too damn cold for me though.
Boy Howdy, Where I'm at, reaching between those rocks... the whole family will have Poison Ivy next week. Good for you holding on to that family land!
The dowsing and Native American history was amazing. Maybe someday you can share how you ended up in Minnesota and didn't stay in ND. (Unless you have and I missed it)
Beautiful land man! I wish my family had been farmers and settled on some land.
The ever ready item looked like a flattened lantern battery.
Spend the $50 bucks on a good ol' post puller. It will do it way easier than your tractor. Takes a little muscle, but you will struggle to no end trying to do it with your tractor.
Hello from Paris 🇫🇷! I’ve found Vice Grip Lodge at last… YIPPEE!!
Hippy move to Teenesseee mes amis♥️
Hey Derek, That thing at 12:45 - 12:58 that you said you didn't know what it was looks like an old Metal Flashlight that has just been flattened over time LoL
Seems to me a guy is scopin' out a safe area for the family for the upcoming unrest.. smart man!
Put Jr in that old bobcat thing. Have him look for treasures while rearranging the rocks.
I used to own some property in Oklahoma, my house was made from reclaimed wood during world war 1, it was kool, I loved living out there.
Could you go metal detecting on that property by the old barn foundation I bet you’d find some old stuff
On our old farm he had a gigantic rock pile. As we cleaned up the fields each year from the rocks after plowing, they were added to the rock pile. But this farmer may have done was to build stone fences with the stones or put them into the foundation.
The old rock Foundation could have been the original house and then the cement Foundation behind it could have been an add-on to the original old house cement block by the well was probably for holding an old hit-and-miss style engine with a water pump attached to it and or for a generator for electricity
Any animals holes make a great way to survey what’s under the ground. Acts like a bore hole and they deposit the waste right next to the hole for you.
That side by side is givin a fellers subwoofer a workout….LOL
Please, revive the Courier. And save it for one of the boy's first car. Really, only 2 people can fit in the cab, less distractions. Safe to be a first time car.
Y’all should put y’all’s trailer on top of the old foundation looking out over the poisonous pond.
Love VGG and VGL! Great view but make sure you build your house high enough in case of flooding!
Look like endless amounts of work
That flat shiny piece looks like and old metal everyready flashlight.
I can find almost anything underground but no idea how to do depth
I use to witch for buried pipes for the city of Toronto I could find all the pipes but we would have “TONE “ to know which was which. Sewer , water. ,gas ,hydro, telephone. Ect.
Back round 13 min was a smashed Eveready Flashlight your boy found, looks like ta me.
That is so beautiful
Love it, looking forward to more exploration video, I love exploring! Subscribed.
You know that you can witch pipes that are underground also, I have done it, my father showed me how to do it, as well as water with a forked willow branch,and tig wire works great for witching the way y'all did it. Never saw the washer trick though.
It's amazing how much Shtuff we've forgotten about or everyday stuff our grandparents and parents knew about and didn't have the time or it was "secret"stuff ,magic. I don't know.
I'd like to try that washer trick here in the Mojave desert, as I am tired of hauling H2O,..
God bless you and your loved ones
stay safe and happy
Godspeed
I love your dreams and goals for you and your family :)
I like it. You needed something to do . It will be fun!
That's exactly where I put my cabin is in that same spot that's a piece of History right there from back in the old days when your ancestors used to roam that land I reckon generations of generations it's beautiful man that is a beautiful piece of property that's just beautiful and that's God's country that's where somewheres where you could go to ease and clear your mind go down there to the old Pond with the boys put your dock out there so the wife can go and chill and watch you both all you guys fish and you know put a little boat out there and run around and have some fun that is something very beautiful that would be a dream I would love to do for my family you know how his Fellers are what we do for our families man but hats off to you and your family
I like your dream dude make sure you pursue that! I'm sure the kids will love it! You better get a boat or some jet skis or something 🤪
I love the Ford Courier 😍
Would really love to check out your area there in nort Dakota..
Woah.. vice grip lodge??? I like
I want that Ford Couier !!!!!
when the ad plays then I can yap yap on here. lol
Beautiful land. I thought y'all were moving south though.
That thing with eveready on it was probably a smashed old flashlight.