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[RD414]

Hate to throw anything out here also. My boys call me a hoarder. Dad was a cattle guy on a bunch of poor pasture and we never had any money for anything. Boys have followed my footsteps whether they like it or not. Bought a farm with excellent old wooden bins that they did not want. Put them on farm group site and they were all picked up and repurposed in a couple of days. Now have an old hip roofed barn that probably needs $20000 spent on it. Will be good for pretty well nothing. Floor was poured in 1926. Almost pulled the trigger on tearing it down a few times over the years but then had an old guy show up that remembered playing in the loft not long after it was built, sure glad it was here that day

[farmaholic]

RD414. There is a wide grey area between hoarding and "salvaging".

[foragefarmer]

Old farm buildings are the link of the generations that have past. I often look at them and memories of years gone by will reappear taking me back as if I was reliving the moment.

Times were simpler, when grandparents were around still helping on the farm supervising as we shoveled and unloaded grain into those wooden bins. Chasing cows to the barn to be milk or brought in on cold nights.

You tear those buildings down and many memories of the past go with them.They serve as a reminder of where your character was built.

[Braveheart]

Plus memories, the old buildings are great for barn swallow nests.

I've seen several old wood bins converted to saunas. Partition, steel wood stove covered in field stones and voila, a fantastic sauna.

[blackpowder]

Nostalgia. Seems to be history with the stress filtered out.
The memories of youth are such.