Old Yard Sites

[blackpowder]

What amazes me is how many steel rings can still hook on your openers. Harness rings or those drag chain rings that closed over seed rows? I dunno but they must have been patching harness constantly?

[bucket]

I think old yards remind me of what was....no value for an extra two acres to clean up at a good cost and may never repay the cost if you end up catching a flat or wrecked tire or combine....it never ceases to amaze me what floats up....


The people move on ....we had a relative of the original homestead where we live today visit last summer.....the elder had lived in our house....a 1917 Eaton home....

It was nice to get a note from her saying the farm she grew up at was in good hands....

[farmaholic]

bucket, it has nothing to do with gaining an acre of land here. The one didn't have to go and wasn't an inconvenience at all. But it had an old shed in which we were storing an M16 Studebaker in it that some assholes thought made a good target to shoot at. Without the wooden bins being used anymore and in a state of repair in which I didn't want to invest a nickel.... the logical thing to do was get rid of it. In both cases a portion of the yards had already been cleaned up.... what was left of the other yard was only a large wooden bin that was hell to get grain out of in the middle of cultivated land...once again, it was logical that it had to go, an obstacle in the field, there are enough of them with the sloughs. The good thing was either ever really had any shelterbelts.... all four of the ones that I can remember!

Now there is no reason for anyone to be snooping around those spots.... there's nothing there, unless there's some amateur paleontologists who want to dig up old yard sites looking for pioneering artifacts.

[bucket]

Yes good point the thieves that think old yards are theirs....

My mom and dad caught a guy with his kid going thru an old house once....he got a slap on the hands and the cops told my parents it wasn't wise to approach the thief because you never know what they are carrying.....


If I drove into the city and helped myself I would be in jail.

[Blaithin]

I dabble in photography and absolutely love old yards. Sometimes I see neat trinkets but for the most part I'm looking up not down. Although I really enjoy the ones with newspaper as insulation.

There was an incredibly unique - to my mind - old red brick house south of me. I did one round of photos with it and then it was torn down! They left the big barn up but for some reason the house went.

Not comfortable going on people's land without permission so unless I know the farmer (rare in the area I'm in now) I'm usually just limited to sites close enough to shoot from the road. But still... they just give a different sort of feeling to photos.

[sawfly1]

cleaned up quite a few , thru the years. that is where all the good dirt is. and fence lines .
some of it is in manitoba too. i am sure .
for yards all that is left around here are the tough ones to clean up.
down to the monster rock piles too.

it is odd , you can go to some areas , and still see a lot of old yards. NE of north battleford , kinda nice.
but around here , we are into the bleak , hutterite look.
cleaned up a lot old yard's as they were a real pain.
we should almost list the names/. as soon there will be no sign they ever existed
Caldwell
Godwin
Fleming
Sproule
Lachner
Ryan
Gerein
and a few i forgot .
at least we think about what they must have gone thru

[farmaholic]

I hope these pics post right side up...they're for you Blaithin

[farmaholic]

[farmaholic]

Damn it!

[farmaholic]

What's been cleaned up...